Simon Bonaventure, M.Sc. Email & Phone Number

Rosemère, Qc, Ca

I am lucky enough to have made it to the second half of my second career already. Circumstances given me the opportunity to take a break since August 2024. I am reconnecting to my Product Manager Self and leveling up my skills around Gen AI.I am open to to Product Manager or Cheof of Staff opportunoities in technology where i can leverage my extensive experience to manage data and software products as an Individual Contributor. I bring 10 years of experience in Marklet Research (Quants and Qual), statistical modeling and exerpiement designs, user stories and backlog management, requierments gathering & priotisation models, user documentation. Most importantly, im a very good storyteller and at formalizing abstract ideas (the famous zero to one -phase).

• Teach personalized Krav Maga training programs for high-performing individuals to enhance their self-defense skills and decision making under stress.• Leveraged GenAI technology to optimize business workflows and enhance training efficiency.• Successfully grew the business from zero to one building strong partnerships with established complimentary businesses and community leaders

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Reporting to the head of Engineering, I Move things across the finish line as a team of teams. I build a work system around speed, quality, roi and standardization. The mandate was to bring transparence on delivery and improve coordination.Realization Won 2 consecutive Shaker award for being a leading change agent (peer nominated)Mentor scrum masters to use gen ai in the tpm workflows(dotted line)Surface a 12 months roadmap for the Flow initiative, a groundbreaking SaaS product. Put in place a weekly newsflash reporting structure using gen ai (reduced meeting time by 20%in the tpm team)Single handedly managed 13 work streams and managed 17 dependencies Responsibilities-Drive complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical projects in service of our team’s mission of expanding our consumer product suite and platform capabilities-Coordinate across many information security teams, engineering teams and non-engineering stakeholders through the full project lifecycle to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company-Understand information security frameworks, technical implementation at the architecture level and propose security/technical alternatives, ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be effective, and develop domain and technical knowledge-Work closely with our leads and partners in Security, Product, Engineering, Design, Infrastructure (Cloud Native), Operations and Analytics to map out strategies and roadmaps-Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to upper management and project stakeholders, and engage the project teams to achieve goals-Neurodivergence advocacy and ERG leadership.

New York, Ny, Us

Reporting to the VP of TPM, own the programmatic enablement, executions and maturation of Portfolios for the shared services at mongo db (Global IT, Internal Data Platform, Robotic Process Automation, Integrations/APIs). 8 direct reports. Security Champion.Awards: - techops mvp fy24Q3- gen ai hackathon fy24q2, winner for best ROI- extreme ownership award Fy23q1Responsibilities-Successfully leverage deep experience and knowledge of engineering and product development workflows to set an innovative strategy for programs owned by reporting TPMs-Model rigorous strategic and tactical thinking and execution in crisps document to foster alignement across stakeholders with competing interests-Coach a team of TPMs, inspiring challenges for high performers and guiding high potential growth team members who need more support - advocate for and nurture their career growth-Cultivate a collaborative atmosphere that promotes learning, creativity, and invention-Anticipate and remove with a sense of urgency obstacles that slow down or prevent TPM and product teams from delivering on goals-Build alignment across cross-functional leaders by fostering strategic partnerships to drive business goals forward-Be a trusted strategic partner for executive management to ensure program success-Capably facilitate engineering discussions leveraging technical aptitude and analytical skills to summarize complex trade-offs, extract priorities and next steps, streamlining team decision making

Sherbrooke, Québec, Ca

I own the teaching experience of a graduate course in data engineering (GIS-806) and ensure teaching objectives are met by developing content, evaluations and projects. Accomplishments-Added the notion of cloud solutions in data integration in the must have for studentsResponsibilities-Own GIS-806, the most technical and applied class of the graduate program in business intelligence.-Creates technical exercices and workshops for students to learn about data integration principles and concepts.-Teach the open source mentality so students understand that there is a right tool for the right job-Craft exams, technical exams and quizzes to support teaching objectives of the program and the course.-Revise teaching material to make sure it remains up to date with latest technological and methodological advances in the field.

Town Of Mount-Royal, Qc, Ca

Reporting to the senior director of AI & Engineering, own the day to day engineering activities of the program, shipping innovative solutions leveraging AI and Cloud Solutions to solve retail problems with quality, speed & ROI.Accomplishments-Scale the program from 1 engineers to 12 software engineers in 15 months-Deliver a full retail suscription solutions leveraging AI capabilities in 6 months.-Deliver a Custom Mobile App to support sales operations in 3 months (~3500 WAU)-Deliver a Uber like feature incentivizing stores to compete to fulfill ecom orders in 3 months (SFS). It reduced time to ship by 30% in stores using the solutionResponsibilities-Responsible to scope, deliver and scale complex end to end entreprise solutions & cross functional initiatives -Ensure program consistently deliver value and provide regular health check and updates to management -Digest complex information and communicate distilled requirements to technical and non technical audiences-Assist with business case development by developing preliminary complexity estimates, release plans and resource estimates.-Juggle multiple stakeholders and competing priorities & make appropriate tradeoff to reach the goal-Oversee all steps of the software dev lifecycle (SDLC) and ensure quality at all steps-Make sure the team continuously become better at planning and delivering quality software without hampering progress or autonomy of technical players-Facilitate collaboration with other cross-functional teams to achieve the company strategic goals and maintain a high quality execution-Identify dependencies and risks and proactively tackle them through collaboration with other cross functional engineering teams and business units

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Reporting to the director of software engineering, I own all data products to support sales, advertisers data performance and the internal data science data platform.Accomplishments-Build and scale the team to 15 engineers (2 squads - R&D and KLO)-Reduce the OPEX expenditure of the portfolio from 40% to less than 10% in 10 months-Deliver on full suite of dev tools to make every business units accountable and autonomous for the tracking of corporate KPIs-Become the agile ambassador for the IT departmentResponsibilities-Manage the day to day activity of 2 squads relating to data infrastructure and productization (12 software engineers)-Qualitatively scope new data infrastructure and reporting products feature to continuously deliver value to YP customer;-Understand business strategy and technical contraints in order to evaluate the feasibility and ROI of potential solutions and their features; -Ensure products metrics and KPI are tracked in order to asses product health and validate business case and assumptions;-Acts as a coach to other product owners and program managers in order to generalize SCRUM across IT and business units-Identify cross functional risks and dependencies and make sure they are proactively managed so the release plan is smoothly executed-Ensure the quality of delivered software from requirements gathering to the delivery in production environment.-Coordinate cross functional initiatives regarding data unification and the creation of a single source of truth for all analytics reporting in the organisation leveraging open source technology-Normalize data collection across business units to reduce the cost of operating the data platform

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Reporting to the sebior director of digital analytics, I own the digital analytics team roadmap and improve the ROI of our activities by developing the service offering and out measuring impact.Accomplishment-Implement kanban excution and regular prioritization session to make sure the team does the right thing at the right time-Restructure the data layer for more than 17 different YP properties in order to reduce transaction costs in data integrationResponsibilities-Own and deliver the digital analytics team roadmap;-Manage the team day to day priorities and impediments;-Scope advanced analytics projects and ensure their execution by the team in due time-Understand business strategy and translate it into actionable research questions and methodologies-Identify internal and external data source and design data pipeline to extract, transform and load the data in analytics environment

Reporting to the Vice President of Research, I Own the La Presse + account and make sure the various qualitative and quantitative research projects are delivered on time and on budget.Accomplishment• Increase profit margin of 360 Profile products by 60% by automating report generation• Support the La Presse+ product development with research from prototyping to go to market• Moderated over 500 hours of semi-structured interviews and focus groups over 22 monthsResponsibilities• Provide resource estimates and preliminary budgets to support the pricing of research projects• Translate client needs into research questions, methodologies and data collection instruments• Distil complex ideas into succinct insights and impactful storytelling for research questions• Subject matter expert for advanced statistical modeling in social science

Montréal, Québec, Ca

Working for dr Chebat and support research actives for the Lab. -Review existing research and find gaps;-Suggest research questions and design;-Conduct advanced statistical modeling;-Contribute to academic paper writing process;-Coordinate research seminars.

I had various management position in the hotel & restaurant industries before I Pivoted to IT. My favourite were sous chefs in a French Restaurant and Maitre D for the largest hotel staff agency in Montreal.Accomplishment-Ride to Conquer (2010 & 2012) : Manage 25 waiters and 10 barmans for the ride to conquer fundraising.-Grand Prix de Montreal (2007-2009) : Maître D for the food and beverage staff for the VIP lounges on the Paddock-Weddings & Corporate events : Maître'D and sous chefs for 250+ person servings though Montreal's largest placement agency, production DBBG. Manage kitchen and service execution.-Night Audit : I was night auditor in a Montreal hotel in 2005. Iw as resposible to write daily trasactions to the books and reconcile the POS with the Hotel Management Software.Role and Responsibilities-Ensure the spotless execution of events creating memories for our clients-Do business development to sign new contract in corporate cafeterias-Go on site and gather feedback from clients to ensure staff meets expectations-Plan requisition for Location company to support various type of events-Gather time sheets from directs and ensure they get paid

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

-Draft project proposals as indicated by owners;-Suggest marketing events concepts to promote clients' brands/messages;-Execute events (brand ambassador);-Gather secondary data about youth market & consumption trends.

Executive Education Course, Developing And Managing A Successful Technology Strategy

D.B.A. (Part Time - Uncompleted), Sociotechinal Systems And Cognitive Maturation

Msc., Marketing & Behavioural Decision Making

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology Major

Civilian Instructor, Krav Maga