About Steven
- High quality in managing various deliverables
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Proven competence in managing meeting minutes
- A mindset oriented towards Risk Management and Compliance
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English
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Spanish
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Experience
- Desjardins (Services de financement Hypothécaire Desjardins)SENIOR PROJECT MANAGERBANKING AND INSURANCEApril 2024 - Today (2 years and 1 month)Montréal, CanadaBanking project manager, I oversee the implementation of financial insights solutions (Personetics) for members, on the mobile application (personal services). High-visibility project with strong customer impact.• Capable of planning, coordinating, organizing, directing, controlling, and evaluating the activities and deliverables of a project for the implementation of new systems or evolutions.• Ability to monitor the progress of activities and deliverables; prepare standardized reports on progress and required adjustments; manage monthly reporting and manage interactions with all internal and external project stakeholders.• Capable of maintaining project documentation, including imputation codes, to accurately forecast resource and expertise needs for project completion.• Responsible for deploying change management plans. • Collaborate with various contributors and deliverable managers to meet business objectives and benefit realization within budget and schedule.• Ensure the availability of material, human, and financial resources to meet agreed-upon business objectives.• Responsible for the management, monitoring, and communication of the roadmap and budget. Define and maintain governance.• Take charge of identifying and addressing project issues or risks.• Responsible for project reporting and status updates to the sponsor or other decision-making bodies. Collaborate in the management of internal and external suppliers. Major projects
- Desjardins (Services de financement Hypothécaire Desjardins)PROJECT MANAGER SCRUM MASTER SERVICE NOWBANKING AND INSURANCEOctober 2021 - April 2024 (2 years and 6 months)Montréal, Canada• SERVICE NOW Project Manager (built / run) Responsible for planning, coordinating squads, overall project organization, controlling, and evaluating activities and deliverables for projects implementing new features or evolutions of the ServiceNow application.• Project Typology 2021 / 2022 / 2023◦ +30 Projects completed and delivered as planned.◦ 7 to 8 projects managed simultaneously.◦ Average project duration: 4 months of development.• Responsible for deploying and adhering to Agile (Scrum) best practices in Service Now application development projects.◦ Ensure the maintenance of the agility level throughout all project phases.◦ Coaching on Agile practice:◦ Behavior in an Agile project (DEV / PO);◦ Expectations and responsibilities according to the type of agile ceremony (DEV/PO);◦ Assistance with analysis and breakdown of stories (DEV / PO).◦ Monitor team effort and project progress.◦ Manage unforeseen issues and blockers.◦ Responsible for alignment with cross-functional teams and key players.◦ Generate various statistics and track metrics:◦ Sprint progress; iteration board and remaining story points; Burn down chart; DoD; budget/story point consumption, etc.• Planning, ceremonies, and documentation◦ Product backlog and sprint management:◦ Coaching on estimations/time tracking (DEV):◦ Coaching on Backlog prioritization (PO).◦ Manage and use Scrum and Kanban Jira boards.◦ Manage documentation with Confluence.• Management and facilitation of Agile ceremonies.◦ Kick-off meetings and facilitation.◦ Facilitate workshops and Sprint 0 refinement.◦ Organize and participate in Daily Scrums.◦ Manage and facilitate sprint planning.◦ Manage/facilitate sprint reviews.◦ Manage/facilitate sprint retrospective sessions.
- GROUPE ST-HUBERTIT PROJECT MANAGER – BUSINESS ANALYSTRESTAURANTS AND FOOD SERVICEJuly 2020 - October 2021 (1 year and 3 months)Laval, QC, Canada• IT Project Manager: Responsible for planning, coordinating squads, overall project organization, controlling, and evaluating activities and deliverables for POS (Point of Sale) system modernization projects and ensuring daily updates of new products; meals and pricing.• Business Analyst◦ Understand the business context and the impact of projects or evolutions on organizational processes.◦ Collaborate in defining business objectives, identify and analyze different business solutions.◦ Analyze stakeholder needs, costs, benefits, risks, constraints, and business opportunities to be considered in the scope and execution of projects.◦ Support the business sector during solution deployment.◦ Contribute to strategy definition and change management activities.◦ Analyze, investigate, and resolve problems/bugs (XML log analysis).Major projects:• Payment Solution: Decommissioning of Desjardins/Paysafe payment solutions for 125 points of sale and 2000 terminals and online payment:◦ Large-scale CAPEX project.◦ Duration: 6 months. Ensure version upgrades for 125 points of sale and align versions (standalone / on-premise system).• POS User Interface Redesign: Major modification of the user interface and print management for 12 business units – 200 users to improve point-of-sale efficiency.◦ Project Manager and deployment lead.◦ Planning; scoping; resource management and workload planning; Agile work mode.◦ Facilitation of agile ceremonies.◦ Business Analyst.◦ Duration: 4 months analysis phase; 2 months development phase; and 2 months deployment phase.
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Education
- Certificat en gestion de projet Préparation à la certification PMPHEC Montréal2016Certificat en gestion de projet Préparation à la certification PMP
- CertificationPSM12023Certification