
Andria Rakotoarimanana
Senior Project Manager | Agile & Risk Management
Salary / Daily rate
Antibes, France
Mobility: Antibes, 06560 Valbonne
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Certified SAFe® Product Owner/Project Manager with 15+ years delivering complex tech projects at Amadeus and global companies. Proven expertise in agile methodologies, risk mitigation, and leading cross-functional teams across web/mobile development. I transform client requirements into successful deliveries while minimizing risks and driving continuous improvement.
Work experience
Project Manager
Amadeus
Jun 2024 - Present
2 years 5 months
Sophia-Antipolis
• Successful Implementation Cloud/Security/Hybrid workplace technologies to enhance project deliveries. • Developing and maintaining project documentation including Project Management Plan, Status Reports, and Risk/Issues/Actions Repository. • Maintaining Stakeholder relationships with Steering Committee and leading Project Status, Meetings to ensure alignment and progress. • Successfully minimized project exposure and risk through proactive risk management strategies.
Technical Project Manager
Builder.ai
Jan 2023 - May 2024
1 year 5 months
13700 Marignane, France
- Working with product managers finalising user stories from clients requirements. - Leading cross-functional development of web and mobile applications on new Projects from requirement through delivery - Delivering, supporting software and services in sync with launch timelines and communicate regularly with the leadership on status, schedule, risks and change control - Recognising and mitigating risk in the agreed delivery to the customer, managing and communicating any concerns to minimise impact. - Identifying delivery process improvements and sharing with team members and leadership to drive continuous improvement across the Delivery Organisation. • Scheduling, planning and executing agile ceremonies with differnet teams of developers and QA worldwide. • Integrating and building a cohesion with different teams of developers and QAs • Whenever required, leading Internal and external demos after each sprint
Web Dev Project Manager
Quantificare
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 7 months
13700 Marignane, France
- Reporting Directly to the CTO, and working closely with him in order to slowly integrate CI/CD workflow for the Webdev Team. - Creating team spaces and a knowledge base space on Confluence for better communication between the teams and the different company's departments. - Managing projects, priorities and planning sprint on JIRA, and on Gitlab too - Working closely with managers to help getting closer to a more agile approach with project processes. - Planning and running release presentation to Stakeholders. - Organising and planning release for the web and mobile applications. - Running Team Appraisals, and making sure the developers and QAs have everything they need in order to do their daily tasks.
Product Owner at DSI Pole Emploi
Capgemini
Sep 2020 - May 2021
9 months
Aix-en-Provence, France
All duties and responsabilities of an agile Product Owner, such as: - setting up and prioritising the stories within a SCRUM Team - taking the lead for required cermonies - End of Sprint Demo - Responsabilities of reducing the list of incidents through ServiceNow - Collaborating closely with all the actors within the Agile Train, PM, SM, RTE, etc... All that while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the stories and Features planned during the PI Planning. On top of these responsabilities, I also did a knowledge sharing on Sharepoint within the Department so that they could have projects and Teams Workspaces which will facilitate their existing communications.
Altran
Aug 2018 - May 2020
1 year 10 months
Nice Area, France
Projetct Management Officer for AMADEUS
Feb 2019 - May 2020
1 year 4 months
Nice Area, France
Project Management Officer Role for transversal projects within the Amadeus Organisation. I worked as part of four different department during my time as a PMO ♦ One that does the consolidation of Budget for the Transversal Projects within a few areas of Development and research. I had to find a way to simplify the Budget Monitoring of about 32 divisions with their projects. Build a Framework to ease the communication between 3 different Level of Budget Actors. ♦ The other one focused on delivering Airline Marketing Insight Products. I helped in building an automated Budget Monitoring Framework ♦ The Pentest Campaign for all Applications and OBE. With an MSP Project file, I planned and coordinate the Pentest designed to happen sometimes with external companies. Coordination and follow are vital to the different Teams in the company. ♦ And within the Software Migration Team, I had to dive into an existing process, and simplify it with new automated build KPIs and new Meeting Agendas.
Technical Lead as part of Neural Network and AI Research Project for Altran
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
1 month
Sophia-Antipolis
1 month between 2 missions/contracts, I contributed with Developers to move forward with the machine learning and Neural Network tasks and modules. This was only for a short time, so I gathered as much as I could to build a good working relationship with the team at the time.
Senior Application Support Engineer/ Technical Account Manager for AMADEUS
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
5 months
Nice Area, France
In charge of the project related to the Engineers’ tools affected by a re-organisation within the Department. Also when needed as an Application Support Developer on Atlassian Tools : BitBucket-Confluence-Jira-HipChat, Application documentation and development contribution, Python Automated Application Development. Achievements: • Understood all the different tools and objectives of the automatisation within the Department • Have built an automated Application using a new language Python • Contributing to Support team and able to solve issues within the first 2 weeks • Contributed to the documentation of a new application built in Java • Helped creating a Staging environment for pre-release reducing post Release bugs • Helped organized and schedule updates on Tools affected by a Re_organisation change Technical background: • Atlassian • CI/CD Pipeline • JIRA • Confluence • Bitbucket • Git, Agile
Application Support Developer Team Lead
Dunelm
Mar 2014 - Jul 2018
4 years 5 months
London, UK
--- Objectives: ♦ Manage Service Excellence – service reviews both internal and business ♦ Build customer relationships with key business stakeholders and maintain a level of communication that suits their needs. ♦ Manage the release management process. ♦ Manage the QA's ♦ Knowledge transfer - no single knowledge owner ♦ Manage the problem management process. ♦ Proactive Service management --- Achievements: ♦ Picked up all main applications quite fast and I was promoted team lead after 6 months. ♦ Leading a team of 8 people, developers and QA, aged from junior to senior developer. ♦ Reaching targets twice this year for the reductions of the number of incidents ♦ Helped Creating a process following the Agile methodology for the Application support team ♦ Helped creating a Staging environment for pre-release reducing post Release bugs ♦ Transferred Knowledge via SharePoint, writing Run Books ♦ Holding Handover Meeting, Training Team members whenever necessary ♦ Holding Service Review presentation for Team achievement and Problem analysis --- Technical background: ♦ PHP Symfony 2, MYSQL, Linux Commands ♦ Scrum Master ♦ Full life cycle development through Agile Scrum ♦ Redis Cache ♦ Coding Standards ♦ Bitbucket ♦ Git, Agile ♦ GTM, HTML, CSS
Lead Senior PHP Developer
Lenstore.co.uk
Feb 2012 - Mar 2014
2 years 2 months
London, UK
Develop feature enhancements to the website. --- Objectives: ♦ Developed the live stock system on the website, directly feeding from the internal application with daily stock updated ♦ Created the functionality to allow the same day delivery and collection service for London ♦ Created a CRM part for the opticians to get in touch with returning customers on the back end of the website. --- Achievements: ♦ The product page had a real estimation delivery for London ♦ Contributed to the success of one of the top 10 fastest growing company in UK in 2012 ♦ Creativity meetings, auditing requirements, following prototypes development, consulting, establish contacts with suppliers, … --- Technical background: ♦ Full Stack LAMP Developer ♦ Full Life Cycle Project ♦ Brief taking ♦ Customer facing project ♦ Different Payment gateway integration ♦ Coding Standards ♦ Tortoise SVN ♦ Google Tag Manager (GTM) ♦ Backend and frontend programming
Part-time Mobile Beautician Group Session
Andria
Mar 2005 - Dec 2011
6 years 10 months
Widemouth Bay, Bude EX23, UK
Product study and presentations - Facials - Eye treatments - Total Relaxing Facial - Collengen Facial Week-End Pampering Session
Lead Web Application ASP PHP Coldfusion Programmer
Arkom Creative Technology
Aug 2008 - Jan 2011
2 years 6 months
Sheffield, UK
Build and Maintain website applications --- Objectives: ♦ Building Bespoke website for the company’s customers ♦ Maintaining existing applications and adding new functionalities when required ♦ Converting Mock up into CSS and HTML then adding back-end functionality in ASP ♦ Release the site on Rackspace hosting environment and present finished products to customers --- Achievements: ♦ Average of 5 sites projects per year from Arkom varying from website brochure to Government applications sites and customer based E-commerce ♦ Learnt new language on the Job, I did not know neither ASP nor ColdFusion --- Technical background: ♦ Full Stack LAMP Developer ♦ Javascript ♦ Full Life Cycle Project ♦ Brief taking ♦ Customer facing project ♦ HTML, CSS
Mid PHP developer
WXGMedia
Jun 2006 - Dec 2006
7 months
Sheffield, UK
--- Objectives: ♦ Building Bespoke website for the company’s customers ♦ Maintaining existing applications and adding new functionalities when required ♦ Converting Mock up into CSS and HTML then adding back-end functionality in PHP ♦ Release the site on Rackspace hosting environment and present finished products to customers --- Achievements: ♦ Average of 5 sites projects per year from Arkom varying from website brochure to Government applications sites and customer based E-commerce ♦ Learnt new language on the Job, I did not know neither ASP nor ColdFusion --- Technical background: ♦ Full Stack LAMP Developer ♦ Javascript ♦ Customer facing project ♦ HTML, CSS
Education
Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
Master of Computer Applications - MCA
2000 - 2002
3 years
Sheffield Hallam University
BEng Hons 2.2
1999 - 2000
2 years
Licenses & certifications
Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
Issued: Jun 2020