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Houda Kafi Cherrat

IT PROJECT MANAGER, BUSINESS ANALYST, TRANSFORMATION EXPERT

€1,200/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Houda

Senior IT Manager with 19 years of experience in digital transformation, business analysis management, and scaled agile. Specializing in the railway, logistics, energy, and public services sectors. Pragmatic, results-oriented, with a focus on collaboration and adaptability.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Arabic

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • SNCF TRANSILIEN / DSI
    PROGRAM MANAGER (RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER)
    TRANSPORTATION
    October 2024 - July 2025 (10 months)
    Paris, France
    Managed the SAFe Train for railway production – 100 people (Investment Budget €77M)
    • Planning and preparation of the Program Increment (PI) – 50 projects.
    • Monitored project progress within the program.
    • Organized PI Planning events.
    • Synchronized inter-programs with another Passenger Information Train.
    • Onboarding, continuous improvement, problem-solving assistance.
    • Managed the Validation and Project Instance (IVEP) portfolio, animated the strategic roadmap.
    • Tailored SAFe transformation, optimized with Lean, for the Transilien program. 🛠 Environment: SAFe
    SAFe Gestion de projet
  • CMA-CGM / Digital Factory
    DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION EXPERT
    TRANSPORTATION
    September 2021 - September 2024 (3 years)
    Marseille, France
    Quality & transformation consulting for the e-commerce platform – 10 Experts (€1.5M/year)
    • Stakeholder in the Service and Expertise Center for CMA-CGM in conjunction with Infosys India.
    • Advisor and diagnostician for transformation project strategies: Agile at Scale (Spotify model - Tribes, Squads) Time To Market (TTM) transformation, continuous integration and deployment CI/CD, Move To Cloud, Git Flow, RPA Camunda.
    • Audit of non-regression automated tests: KPI, strategy review, quantitative and qualitative synthesis, management reporting, and action plan.
    • Monitored and reviewed quality for releases and tribes (practices, evidence).
    • Implemented a BI solution and produced KPI indicators.
    • Targeted redesign of quality processes with a 360° performance-oriented vision. 🛠 Environment: Agile at Scale Spotify, Move to Cloud AWS, JIRA, Confluence, AIO All In One, HP ALM, Jenkins, Cucumber, Java Eclipse IDE, Infosys Framework, Gitlab, Qlik Sense, .NET, Drupal.
  • LA POSTE / SERVICE COURRIER COLIS
    PORTFOLIO MANAGER
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    October 2017 - January 2021 (3 years and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    Cross-functional management of a Business Analysis project portfolio in a SAFe environment, for the industrialization of digital customer journeys and B2C/B2B marketing services (Colissimo Pro, Recygo, VSMP, Douane 21…) – 10 people managed (€1M/year)
    • Project management and coordination (5 projects in parallel):
    ◦ Project portfolio management, planning, milestone tracking, and priority arbitration.
    ◦ Coordination of multidisciplinary teams (Business Analysis, Development, UX/UI, Marketing, Business Units, etc.)
    ◦ Implementation and optimization of management processes, KPI indicators, and PI quality metrics.
    ◦ Operational management: staffing, skills management, workload planning, coaching.
    ◦ Project governance: Steering Committees, Project Monitoring Committees, PO/Program Synchronization, GO/NOGO decisions, Daily Stand-ups, Communities of Practice.
    • Scoping & functional support:
    ◦ Requirements gathering and formalization, facilitation of scoping workshops.
    ◦ Support for Directors, PMs, and POs in defining Epics/Features and business cases.
    ◦ Involvement in pre-sales, tender responses, and presentations.
    • Design, validation, and deployment:
    ◦ Definition of testing strategy, matrix test plans, scenarios, and test cases.
    ◦ Test execution, defect management, coordination of validation campaigns.
    • Post-deployment preparation and support: training materials, demos, support.
    ◦ Conducting PI reviews, retrospectives, lessons learned, post-mortems, and knowledge capitalization. 🛠 Environment: JIRA, Confluence, Kanban, Zephyr, Xray, Postman, Swagger, JSON, Jenkins, Basecamp.

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Education

  • PSPO Product Owner
    2019
    PSPO Product Owner
  • ISTQB Test Manager
    ISTQB Foundation
    2013
    ISTQB Test Manager

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