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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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

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).

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