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Steven David

SENIOR IT PROJECT MANAGER

€600/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Steven

Bilingual (French/English) project manager experienced in banking and management software implementation. Passionate about agility, I lead my projects with rigor, seriousness, and always effectively. I enjoy being at the heart of the action to bring value to clients.

Capable of managing both large-scale projects within a program and human-sized projects. My banking experience combined with PMP practice ensures:

  • High quality in managing various deliverables
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Proven competence in managing meeting minutes
  • A mindset oriented towards Risk Management and Compliance

20 rich years in IT with various roles allowing me to offer a very complete experience to my future partners: business analyst; tester; scrum master; pre-sales consultant; project manager.

I have had the opportunity to develop my skills on several systems: ERP; CRM; P2P; S2P; Ticketing; Invoice Dematerialization; PAYROLL/HRIS. This guarantees rapid operational readiness.

Open to full-time and part-time mandates; anywhere in Europe and North America.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Conversational

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Desjardins (Services de financement Hypothécaire Desjardins)
    SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    April 2024 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
    Montréal, Canada
    Banking 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 NOW
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    October 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-HUBERT
    IT PROJECT MANAGER – BUSINESS ANALYST
    RESTAURANTS AND FOOD SERVICE
    July 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 PMP
    HEC Montréal
    2016
    Certificat en gestion de projet Préparation à la certification PMP
  • Certification
    PSM1
    2023
    Certification

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