Digital Back Office Coordinator / Coordonnateur Back Office Numérique
Managing and coordinating the digital back office for Nissan worldwide in preparation for a new platform launch (PACE) and managing the Digital Leads Platform as both product and project owner
Methodologies / Méthodologies
Prince2 and AGILE.
Program Manager / Directeur des Programme
Managing a new program to design, develop a new program (KINETIC)
Methodologies / Méthodologies
Prince2, ITIL, CMMI and AGILE.
Senior Project Manager / Chef de Projet Senior
Managing a group of J2EE software projects (Mobile apps (Android, iOS and Windows)) for one of Vivaki/Digitas customers.
Methodologies / Méthodologies
Prince2 and AGILE.
Managing a software migration project involving statistical tools from a Finland based company.
Methodologies / Méthodologies
Prince2 and AGILE.
Project Manager
Managing a CMS (GED) migration project from Documentum (J2EE) 5.2.5 to 6.7, for one of EURIWARES Partners.
Managing a CMS (GED / DMS) migration project from Documentum (J2EE) 5.3 to 6.5 sp3 using 4 Indian based (Mumbai) developers, 2 business analyst, DBA and Testers located in Paris. The application has a customer base of over 23,000 of which 90% of located across the globe. PM tasks including hiring said developers, BA’s, DBA’s, Testers and support engineers, plus organising user groups and steering committees. Designing the solution from both a technical coding stand point to a functional point of view. Using the Documentum modules to their fullest which included BPM, Workflow and rendition, as well as WDK and Webtop which are J2EE centric.
Managing a change of direction for the European Commission in Brussels in reference to content management, original CMS was Documentum but after consultations with other vendors Alfresco was chosen. Main tasks in this process were to analyse the current ECM apps, document them into four areas, front end, back office, Infrastructure and data sources. After the analysis was completed my task was then to write specifications detailing the previous functionality and then gather new requirement by holding user meetings with the business users and external clients. After the initial phases of the project were completed my role was changed to on-site Project manager and manage the migration of the two apps (EQF and Ploteus), the infrastructure and to instigate the users requirements.
Location for the first part was done remotely, but the Project management was done in house in Brussels. Tools used during this project were OpenUML Eclipse, MSOffice, MSProjects, MSVisio and other internal tools specified by the EC. Communication tools used for the remote part of the project Skype, Citrix and MSMessenger. Other tasks done during this project, time management of all internal and external resources (Main part of the application development was out sourced to a Greek company Intrasoft International), budget planning and leading user acceptance meetings. Negotiating contractual parts with both hardware and software suppliers. ITIL and Prince2 methodologies were used in this project.
Nov 2009 – Jan 2010 Thinkbank (Remote working: Project Manager Managing a migration project, during a short leave of absence of the Project manager for a Documentum 5.3 to a 6.5 application. Main tasks during this project were budget planning, time management of all external resources and leading remote meetings with end users and business representatives via SKYPE and MSMeetings. Amending the current plan to show infrastructural changes such as servers and DB's and to continue the negotiations for these. Prince2 methodologies were used in this project.
Managing a redevelopment of a Documentum 5.3 to a 6.5 application for SA JXP critical documents, Main responsibilities during the project was to keep the project within the plan, budget and general performing other office related tasks. Utilising Prince2 (S.i.m.p.l.e.), ITIL, MSProjects, SAP and other Office applications. Additional travel to other sites within the Sanofi Aventis and Sanofi Pasteur to host user meetings and gather future requirements both from an application standpoint and from an infrastructure point of view, these were then implemented once the steering committee had approved them. Applications used Skype, Visustin, Messenger, MSProjects, as the project was developed over three countries as such a precise resource schedule was made and adhered to.
Managing a redevelopment of an Documentum 6.5 application (the client and developers were located remotely, the main client was situated in New Jersey, whilst the developers, and myself were located in Canada and Europe) Main responsibilities during this project were to keep within the project plan, budget and most importantly the requirements. A majority of the meetings were held over the internet using Skype, Messenger and the clients own network through Citrix. Main methodology used within this project was Prince2 and eXtrem, Tools used Skype, Messenger, Citrix, MSProjects, OpenProj and other Office applications, As well as Visustin for an overview of code written by each of the developer. The developers were situated all over the world from Canada to China so a concise resource plan was developed which allowed for time differences and resource specialties. Negotiation of contracts for the Hardware was also within my remit as well as the scheduling of the installation once the contracts and payments were confirmed. Prince2 methodologies were used in this project.
Main task during this contract were to initiate a group of different project within the Archive and Imagining depart of FORTIS bank Belgium (incl Documentum and Business Objects; SAP, Hardware related tasks such as a concurrent BCP and DRP, both of which needed additional hardware and infrastructure assigned to them), all of the projects utilised the PRINCE2 and ITIL methodologies and as such were all documented as stated. My main tasks during this contract were to ensure that all the projects I was entrusted with ran on schedule.
Working with both internal and external vendors and suppliers on different projects.
The projects included outsourcing a department to southern India. Negotiating with the external company to make the external infrastructure matched the one in Fortis, this included contracts with external vendors such as Oracle, SAP, Documentum, (Centera) and Dell. Other projects included document retention and OCR, SEPA Fraud Detection via original partner (ABN AMRO), Credit and Debit Card payment processing work flows. Leading meetings, mentor internal staff, other general PM tasks including scheduling, budgeting and reporting as well as some development. MSProjects were used as a multitude of different projects were undertaken utilising most of the development staff within Fortis and outside agencies.