Julie Lepage, Cpa-Ca, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Lead a team of 16 employees including Product Managers, Program managers and Product Designers. Responsable of the entire product portfolio of the company including hardware, automation and software.

Montréal, Québec, Canada

• Directly supervise all members of the Product/R&D team, including hiring, training, discipline, retention and dismissal of the individuals who compose it.- Team of 22 people made up of developers, product owner and product designer- Full cycle recruiting to hire 9 employees in 2022 • Ensure the overall performance of the Product team to deliver the epics while respecting our quality and productivity standards• Define, implement and maintain development processes in collaboration with the team - Test Automation Pyramid - Release management process - Product development process• Budget process management for the Product/R&D team• Produce monthly, quarterly and annual reports alongside the Product team• Collaborate with other divisions and departments to achieve organizational goals and objectives• Initiator and contributor of the new company intranet (Happeo) - To encourage knowledge sharing - To facilitate onboarding of new employees• Proposing and writing new HR politics for the company such as vacation, sick days, training, etc.

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Région De Montréal, Canada

• Lead pre-launch operations including: defining quality standard for the services, resources planning, mitigating operational risks• Task management and project schedule• Business plan strategy and writing • Recommendations for smart growth following analysis of financial statement and cashflow

Montreal, Canada Area

Development of innovative new video games and entertainment experiences using the technology of virtual reality and augmented reality on mobile and PCs.• Lead all activities of the virtual reality video game studio of 30 employees including: - Portfolio of projects on consoles and mobiles - Human resources: recruitment, immigration, insurance, wages, company policies, training - IT, legal, tax credits and general administration of the office• Designing, delivering and managing effective change management initiatives for organizational changes impacting all employees

Montreal, Canada Area

Responsible for the catalog of games of the company including the acquisition strategy of licensing and producing games for in-flight entertainment systems.• Complete reengineering on game billing and royalty payments as to improve operational efficiency and data integrity - Designing and monitoring implementation of an invoicing assistance module in the production software. - Production time for royalty reports decreased from 40 to 8 hours per month• Integration of the games catalog and harmonization of production processes following the acquisition of a competitor in Mumbai• Launch of a new brand image including a new art direction and promotional material better suited for the needs of the sales team

Montreal, Canada Area

Development of video games on consoles through all production steps (initial concept to launch) Games published: Far Cry 3: 350 employees / 2 years / Sales of 5 million copies Assassin’s Creed 2: 200 employees / 2 years / Sales of 10 million copies Your Shape Fitness Evolved 1 (DLC's) and 2Worked on:- Shape Up (XboxOne Kinect) - Assassin's Creed 3 (Wii U) - Casual DS Game (cancelled)• Define vision and project scope with the development team and the executive management • Work directly with developers to ensure timelines are realistic and deliverables are scoped to allow for confident delivery of the highest possible quality within the time allotted• Track milestones and deliverables to make sure the product achieves its goals and manage the risks• Prepare statements of work, features sign off documentation and governance structure to establish best practices and enforce quality• Managing multidisciplinary and multi-site work teams- Far Cry 3 - Simultaneously supervising 6 multidisciplinary production teams in Montreal (Gameplay, AI, UI, Sounds, Connectivity) and Shanghai (wildlife) - Managed directly 8 project managers and leads and indirectly 75 employees- Assassin’s Creed 2 - Simultaneously supervising 3 multidisciplinary production teams in Montreal (Characters, Crowd life and Gameplay animations)• Estimating production costs and managing budgets - Managing budget including resources and external costs - Analyzing profitability thresholds and the gaming market. - Proposing business strategies to the Executive Producer in order to improve efficiency and reduce project costs - Negotiating contracts with suppliers and consultants• Responsible for recruiting, interviewing and hiring new members of teams under my supervision and evaluating employee performance annually• Present weekly updates, production status and clear vision to all stakeholders

Montreal, Canada Area

Responsible for mobile game development through all production stages and porting games to different cell phone models.Published games as Producer :- Shrek The Third - Catz- Petz• Porting team - Responsible of the work planning and deliverables for 30 programmers in charge of the porting of all our games on the different cell phone BREW models  Completely re-engineering work method for porting games to BREW cell phones in order to improve programmers’ efficiency and shorten submission deadlines by better analyzing the risk of bugs in different versions

Montreal, Canada Area

Diagnosis, process improvement and benchmarking - Performing organizational and operational diagnoses of the finance department. Proposing recommendations to improve finance department effectiveness and proper functioning in organizations.Sarbanes-Oxley Act/Bill 198- Documenting significant financial processes controls in organizations.

Montreal, Canada Area

Supervising a team of three people with a mandate to record Cirque du Soleil inc. accounting transactions in SAP and assisting company managers during the annual budgetary exercise.- Re-engineering payroll entries that included 5 different SAP companies with one payroll register.- Developing and implementing a corporate file to help analyze discrepancies between various inter-company transactions (approximately 50 SAP companies using different currencies).

Montreal, Canada Area

Junior and senior auditor for small and medium size companies

Specialized Graduate Diploma, Professional Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration

Certificate, Leadership Organisationnel

Graduate Certificate, International Business