Cecile Auret
Chef de projet, Consultant, SQLI
Focused, analytical, result oriented project manager with over 13 years of experience in the IT industry.
Highlights:
- Handle multi-responsibilities in parallel. Excellent organization skills. Natural coordinator.
- Gain respect from others through dependability, listening and participative leadership.
- Excellent analytical skills enabling to understand and solve problems quickly.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills. Fluently bilingual – English and French.
- Decision maker when empowered, accept and respect other’s leadership.
- Flexible and trained to adapt quickly to new environments, changing situations and shifting priorities.
- Attention to details and concern for quality, even under tight deadlines.
- Collaborative team player who maintains a positive/can do attitude, take initiatives, goal minded.
- Hard worker and motivated individual.
Skills:
- Manage clients, prepare project plans, manage scope and facilitate communication through clear/regular project statuses.
- Manage several projects in parallel.
- Manage multidisciplinary teams. Coach, guide and mentor.
- Practice staffing, evaluating, recruiting, financial management and invoicing.
- Fluent in system development life cycle, for integration and customization projects, system maintenance and new systems implementation.
- Facilitate meetings at many levels: clients, developers, managers.Write proposals, conduct presentations.
- Conduct requirements analysis; write feasibility studies and functional specifications.
- Proficient with Quality Assurance, from testing strategies and plans definition to execution, documentation of results, tracking, reporting and prioritization of defects.
- Understand technical aspects of software development.
130 contacts2005 - 2007Major Australian telecommunications company offering a wide variety of communications products and services for the home, commercial and corporate markets. The company had more than 46,000 employees in 2005.
Hired to manage the implementation of custom billing solutions for government and large business clients as well as to bring more experience to the team.
Summary of roles and achievements:
- Project Manager, in charge of the implementation and roll-out of projects while establishing new processes within the team of project managers.
- Managed 4 different complex billing projects in parallel.
- Worked on projects that deviate from the standard product roll-out and which necessitate a deeper understanding of the software development lifecycle and the technical aspects of software development.
- On one project, delivered a working solution to operations in 8 months after 4 project managers failed to deliver over 16 months.
- Prepared a Microsoft Project schedule template for the team to cover typical projects.
- Rolled out a standard folder structure throughout all projects to encourage communication between project managers and foster a similar methodology.