ProfesSional experiences

Head of Methods and Projects

Management of a team of 10 people (POs, project managers, technical-functional consultants) in France and Belgium at an ERP editor in the training sector ~ €5.5 yearly TO

• Audit of ongoing projects

• Definition of a project management methodology for projects over €600k, training of project managers, and support for its implementation

• Forecasting and financial tracking - +8% revenue compared to target

• Monitoring and support of team members (professional interviews, annual reviews, tracking their training plans)

• Coaching of project managers

• Project staffing management with the implementation of a dedicated committee

• Recruitment

• Collaboration with R&D teams and support for tracking product developments integrated into the publisher's roadmap or specific requests

• Leadership of ERP integration projects and support for project teams

• Implementation of a new project documentation management system

• Establishment of expert consultant exchange meetings

• Client relationship and dispute management

• Billing follow-up

• Creation of a Premium support offer (RUN)

• Participation in pre-sales; cost estimation, responses to RFPs, presentations

• Preparation of contracts and Project Quality Plans

PLM Project Manager

Management of Windchill integration projects for major industrial clients

• Planning, definition of quality assurance plans, management of development teams and solution and functional architects

• Development of continuous improvement: DevOps, Agility

• Drafting of commercial proposals, contract renewals, participation in RFP responses

• Preparation and facilitation of project and steering committees

• Financial management of the fixed-price contract (margin increasing within 2 semesters)

• Billing management

• Project staffing management (including nearshore) and recruitment

Service Center Manager

Management of a Service Center for the banking sector – Application Maintenance (TMA) of a database portfolio (>1000 databases – 7 technologies) – €1.6 million in annual revenue

• Management of a team of 9 DBAs (Database Administrators)

• On-call management, scheduling, backlog management...

• Planning, estimation, and follow-up of project requests (creation, modification, deletion of databases)

• Incident and problem management

• Client relationship management

• Monitoring of contractual commitments and SLAs

• Billing and financial tracking

• Business development: needs qualification, preparation of commercial offers

• +140% increase in project revenue and 15% increase in maintenance operations (MCO) within 1 year

IT Project Manager

Management of web and mobile application development projects, SaaS integration, and data visualization for the aerospace sector (>10 medium and complex projects)

• Planning, coordination, and costs monitoring

• Support for architecture definition

• Participation in GDPR and security analysis

• Assistance in implementing technical interfaces

• Monitoring of developments and configurations

• Conducting functional and regression tests

• Quality tracking

• Preparation and facilitation of steering committee meetings

Consulting

Advisory mission for the "Legal" department of a major aerospace client

• Conduct of an audit on the "Legal & Compliance" scope

• Assessment of the solutions utilized: analysis of functional coverage, architectures, mapping of key elements (volumes, access, constraints, security, etc.)

• Development of scenarios and working assumptions

• Formulation of a Design Thinking proposal to reimagine the department's application ecosystem.

Scrum Master

Scrum Master for a SAFe Cybersecurity program (>300 people)

• Support and coaching of the team in applying Agile and SAFe principles

• Facilitation of SAFe events and meetings

• Implementation of VersionOne

• Synchronization and coordination with Scrum Masters from 7 other teams

Project direction Support

Management of a project portfolio (€1.5 million in annual revenue)

• Financial monitoring

• Tracking of consultant activities (performance reviews, career follow-ups)

• Preparation of commercial proposals

IT PMO

Project Management Officer for various development and Mainframe system update projects

• Management of waterfall projects (V-model)

• Preparation of quality milestones

• Implementation of dashboards to monitor development progress and requirement coverage

Quality Consultant

Consultant for the quality bundle of the A350

• Management of A350 program documentation

• Improvements to validation and tracking processes for engineering documentation in compliance with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations

• Preparation of documentation reviews by DOA/POA experts (best practices for aircraft design and manufacturing)

• Definition of KPIs, preparation of Change Control Board meetings

• Conducting training sessions

• Automation of dashboards related to safety issues detected in aircraft in service

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Alexia
MEILHAN