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Ariana Derakhshan

IT Project Manager | M365 Adoption & Deployment

€650/day
Paris 18e Arrondissement, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Ariana

🚀 IT Project Manager | Microsoft 365 Deployment & Adoption | Change Management

Above all, I am a people-oriented and relationship-driven professional. I enjoy making projects as engaging as they are effective by adding a touch of humor (and a dash of dynamism 💡). My goal? To drive progress with clarity and enthusiasm by uniting teams around IT transformations.

✨ My Expertise:
✅ Project Management & IT Governance: Steering in a large corporate IT department environment (CAC 40), committee management, budget management, roadmapping, deliverable tracking.
✅ Change Management & M365 Adoption: Deployment strategy, training, L2/L3 support, production of educational content (guides, videos, webinars).
✅ Expert-level Microsoft 365: SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Power Automate, Live Events, Planner… to optimize collaboration & productivity (AI, Microsoft Copilot included).
✅ Webinars & Live Events: From conception to technical framing (OBS Studio, internal & external encoders), speaker coaching, setup, and coordination.

🎯 My Key Asset: My soft skills. Dynamic, team-building, and solution-oriented, I help teams successfully navigate digital transformations.

Want to discuss your needs? Contact me, let's chat! 😊
  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris 18e Arrondissement (up to 50km)

Experience

  • La Caisse Centrale de Réassurance
    M365 Adoption Change Strategist
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    November 2024 - February 2025 (3 months)
    Paris, France
    Context: Scoping Study & Microsoft 365 Usage Deployment Strategy
    As part of a digital transformation project, I conducted a scoping study to structure a functional deployment roadmap for Microsoft 365 collaborative tools.

    🔍 Phase 1 - Usage Diagnosis & Analysis

    Mapping of current usage and pain points through interviews and field surveys (summary report).
    Identification of business needs regarding collaboration, document management, and productivity.
    🚀 Phase 2 - Adoption Strategy Definition

    Prioritization of Microsoft 365 use cases based on business objectives.
    Development of a structured approach to optimize adoption and maximize the added value of M365 tools.
    📌 Phase 3 - Roadmap Construction & Strategic Steering

    Definition of implementation scenarios and breakdown into a functional roadmap.
    Phasing of deployment and arbitration of priorities (development of the deployment plan and key milestones).
    Presentation and recommendations to stakeholders, including a presentation to the Executive Committee (CoDir).
    💡 Impact: A clear roadmap aligned with business objectives, enabling structured deployment and optimized adoption of Microsoft 365.
    Microsoft Office Microsoft Copilot Microsoft 365 Microsoft Excel IT Project Management Roadmap Business Analysis Case Study
  • Iliad / FREE
    M365 Deployment Project Manager
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    December 2023 - November 2024 (1 year)
    Paris, France
    Workplace Migration to Microsoft 365 – Steering, Coordination & Governance
    As part of the group's digital transformation, I managed the strategic and operational steering of the migration of the work environment to Microsoft 365 for 13,000 employees in France.

    📌 Project Management & IT Governance

    Agile-like project management, definition of project committee structure and management of governance bodies.
    Development and tracking of the schedule, budget, and performance indicators (KPIs).
    Production of project deliverables: migration tracking, roadmaps, reporting, and strategic presentations.
    🔧 Deployment & Team Coordination

    Coordination of technical and functional teams, stakeholder alignment.
    Drafting of specifications and scoping of business needs.
    Expression of needs and definition of workflows on Power Apps & Company Portal.
    Development of a Migration Runbook to structure and secure the entire transition process.
    📩 Exchange Online Migration & IT Interoperability

    Scoping and steering of the email migration to Exchange Online.
    Management of interoperability between HRIS, Active Directory, and Azure Active Directory.
    💡 Impact: A smooth and secure transition to Microsoft 365, ensuring a modern, optimized, and collaborative work environment while maintaining good governance and post-migration operational monitoring.
    Exchange Online Data Migration Change Management Support Microsoft 365 Microsoft Copilot IT Project Management Roadmap
  • Société Générale
    IT Project Manager M365
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2023 - November 2024 (1 year and 10 months)
    Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
    Infrastructure & IT Migration Project Management
    As part of the Digital Workplace environment modernization, I supported the transition from Jive to Microsoft 365 and managed IT infrastructure & migration projects within the Digital Workplace Services Infrastructure department.

    📌 Project Management & IT Governance

    Agile methodology project management, governance and committee management, budget tracking.
    Management of steering committees and stakeholder reporting.
    🔧 Decommissioning & Migration

    Decommissioning of Jive and migration to an optimized Microsoft 365 environment.
    Management of SharePoint Online indexing project within the group's search engine.
    Awareness of Cloud issues (1st generation vs. 2nd generation, private vs. public cloud).
    📊 Deployment & Automation

    Multi-tenant Power BI Service deployment project management.
    Automation project management: optimization of IT processes to improve performance and scalability.
    💡 Impact: A modernized Digital Workplace environment, a secure migration to Microsoft 365, and infrastructure optimization facilitating data search, governance, and exploitation.
    IT Project Management Digital Project Management Budget Management

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Education

  • Master's Degree
    Audencia
    2018

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