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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

- Spearhead the strategic vision and execution of DevOps initiatives, facilitating seamless collaboration between development and operations teams to drive product delivery efficiency. Supported Database Administration, Networking, and Security teams, achieving significant milestones.- Lead the product roadmap definition, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.- Champion Agile methodologies, orchestrating sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives to optimize team productivity and delivery velocity.- Drive cross-functional collaboration among product managers, engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to prioritize and deliver high-impact features and enhancements.- Secured a cost-free approach for backing up the Azure solution, enhancing security without increasing expenses.- Implemented a multicloud network enabling traffic flow between AWS, OCI, and Azure- Migrated Confluence DB to new postgres solution saving costs, and right-sized Oracle DB, reducing operating costs by $100K annually.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

- Organize new feature development and maintenance work for Acumatica Payroll area in a distributed team of product managers, business analysts, quality assurance engineers, software architects and developers, technical writers and support engineers- Manage 2 business analysts- Implement the transition from a Scrum to a Kanban style of management that led to decrease of missed SLA by 100%- Reduce the time to develop specifications by 25%- Approve new features and product changes with all the interested parties: business product managers, partners, customers- Analyze backward compatibility of the new features- Provide assistance in design and development of test scenarios and test cases from business requirements and specifications- Provide assistance in bug fixing and support request processing- Take part in the new team members mentoring and education- Carry out product demonstration sessions and trainings- Conduct hiring interview for Business Analyst and Program Manager positions

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

- Manage 4 Quality Assurance engineers- Implement a way to track test coverage through a requirement traceability matrix- Increase test coverage from 30% to over 60%- Review functional specifications and propose adjustments to ensure quality standards are met- Identify and set appropriate quality standards and parameters for products- Coordinate Product Testing Processes to ensure that products meet the required specifications for quality, function, and reliability prior to delivery- Identify and analyze issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommend and facilitate solutions to these issues

Montreal, Canada Area

- Functionally design an entire Payroll software by myself- Work closely with end users to analyze, define, model, and document systems requirements through the creation of more than 30 complex specifications- Identify project milestones, phases, and elements, and keep team within timeline and budget by owning the Agile process- Create end-user documentation (e.g., user guides, process flow charts, training materials) that helped reduce support volume by 10%- Partner with business and technical teams in providing overall direction for the technology development components of projects from initiation through to delivery

Montreal, Canada Area

- Successfully implement HRMS solution for Recruitment and Performance management in 3 large organizations (over 1000 employees each) on time and on budget- Lead multiple design sessions at client site to gather the necessary information to configure the new system and manage to reduce by 20% the process time- Improve users acceptance of the new system with meetings to validate the new configuration (change management, knowledge transfer and focus group)- Develop, monitor and communicate risk management reporting to director leadership- Report project status regularly through emails and weekly meetings; formally tracked problems and issues to closure- Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements

Région De Montréal, Canada

DFuse's mission is to create the best connection between university talents and employers.- Create a working prototype (MVP) in less than 4 months by overseeing the technical delivery team- Work directly with more than a 100 end users to capture and analyze challenges to their workflow- Translate stakeholder requirements into different tangible deliverables by creating dynamic mock-ups for the entire platform- Support an Agile Software Development process, working in conjunction with end users / stakeholders and technical delivery team- Drive and own backlog grooming and management, prioritize the iteration and drive acceptance testing and delivery of iteration- Take responsibility for the development of ongoing enhancements, create and prioritize user stories with the agile team

Master'S Degree, International Business, 3.89/4.3

Activities and Societies: Team Lead in the Club de Consultation en Management de HEC montreal (2015) Consultant in the Club de.

Master'S Degree, Strategic Management

Activities and Societies: Honor Class

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration