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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Direct project management initiatives from conceptualization through development, implementation and management of innovative software solutions and expert services for public transportation.
• Ownership of the project objectives, scope and identify stakeholders while ensuring proactive communication with stakeholders.
• Create, manage and prioritize tickets for client incidents.
• Manage the project budget and schedule (deliverables, milestones, supplier’s responsibilities).
• Monitor and control the project (specifications, costs, billing, schedule, quality).
• Identify and assess risks; propose solutions to avoid or reduce their impacts.

Kirkland, Quebec, Canada

• Responsible for aligning and leading an international multi-site team to support all sites in Safran Cabin to successfully meet milestones.
• Successfully developed common processes, procedures, and best practices to reduce time and cost.
• Coordinated and managed the work of the highly skilled engineers to successfully achieve product certification objectives.
• Supported development of new capabilities and validated methodologies within the team.
• Actively worked with the engineering disciplines to ensure that modeling and simulation is utilized to support product development and risk reduction activities to meet performance requirements.
• Forecasted, managed, and maintained costs. Monitored schedules and team resources to meet business objectives and goals.

Kirkland, Quebec, Canada

• Managing the Research and Technology department and led Engineering support for continuous improvement and cost reduction. Involved in business unit innovation.
• Managed Research and Technologies projects to align roadmaps for business unit innovations.
• Led and collaborated in projects to reduce engineering costs, hours and material cost.
• Led Six Sigma Green Belt project resulting in a cost reduction of $45 000 in engineering design hours.
• Key player in Green Belt project aimed at reducing material waste leading to direct savings of $125000.
• Ensured product reliability by creating and implementing engineering processes and monitor adherence to those processes to deliver a high-quality product.

Kirkland, Quebec, Canada

• Managed the Certification Department for the business jet interiors division. Led a team of 20+ M&P, Flammability and Stress analysts to ensure compliance to TCCA/FAA/EASA regulations.
• Managed work schedules, linking resources to tasks and achieving milestones.
• Assessed risks and managed change following engineering changes.
• Utilized key performance indicators (KPIs) daily to expose issues or obstacles to instantly to rectify them.
• Appointed as Zodiac Aerospace’s Technical Expert in Certification.
• Technical support for problem solving and root cause analysis with Lean tools.

Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, Canada

• Ensured design and certification compliance to meet Transport Canada and FAA regulations.
• Successfully coordinated a cross-functional team to meet certification requirements.
• Responsible for product certification including schedule management, testing and issuing test reports.
• Assisted weights and stress teams in the planning and execution of reports towards certification.

Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, Canada

• Designed interiors for Challenger 604 business jets.
• Coordinated with production and support team to problem solve engineering issues.
• Responsible for design improvement.