
Khalil MESSAOUD
Senior Project Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Engagement Manager and certified IT Project Professional with 9+ years of experience in Software Asset Management, Cloud Services, and Oracle EBS. Successfully managed complex projects at Crayon, Capgemini, and IBM, driving efficiency improvements and ensuring adherence to scope, budget, and timeline. Combining technical expertise (PMP, PSM II, PRINCE2) with business intelligence skills to deliver optimized solutions and measurable cost savings.
Work experience
Crayon
Jun 2021 - Dec 2024
3 years 7 months
Engagement Manager
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
2 years
Information Technology Project Manager
Jun 2021 - Jul 2023
2 years 2 months
• Drive Software Asset Management & Cloud Services projects in collaboration with our customer and internal consultants/sales and customer success managers • Manage the budget for projects, timelines, capacity planning, quality of the deliverables, and effective communication with all stakeholders • Oversee local resource management and provisional planning • Ensure we deliver on the requirements specified in signed proposals and agreements • Coordinate with other internal teams to register and maintain information in our ERP Dynamics CRM • Manage requests from internal and external stakeholders (technical and non-technical), as well as team members for specific IT Software & Cloud Analytics / Cloud Services • Provide periodic software usage analysis and reports outlining use, efficiencies/optimizations, and possible cost saving
Consulting Project Manager
Capgemini
Nov 2017 - May 2021
3 years 7 months
Région de Paris, France
• Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline. • Develop comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals and coordinate various managers and technical personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation. • Monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables. • Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements. • Analyse economics of project plans and provide actionable feedback relating to cost benefit and return-on-investment standards. • Review proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes. • Oversee acquisition of resources and materials as needed before and during projects by talking with customers, team members, managers, and in-house accountants and negotiating price and payment agreements with vendors.
Scrum Master /Tech Lead
IBM
May 2017 - Oct 2017
6 months
Région de Paris, France
• Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices • Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction • Lead the scrum and development teams in self-organization • Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments • Help the scrum and development teams to identify and fill in blanks in the Agile framework • Resolve conflicts and issues that occur • Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity • Support the product owner and provide education where needed
Consultant Oracle EBS
Sopra Steria
Dec 2015 - May 2017
1 year 6 months
Région de Paris, France
• Process design, system configuration, testing, development specification and end user training for Oracle EBS Applications • Develop and coach an effective user and super-user community • Analyse complex work processes for improvement opportunities • Anticipate key business issues, and implement comprehensive recommendations • Participate in the design a high-quality application architecture that meets organization’s business requirements • Provide analysis, problem resolution and improvement plan for in-scope client applications supported • Create/Review Functional Designs, Test Plans and Configuration plans for in-scope client applications supported
BI Pre-sales Consultant
Oracle
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
8 months
Région de Málaga, Espagne
• Work closely in conjunction with the Sales team, and focus on technical aspects of the solution to clearly communicate and sell the value of Oracle solutions • Provide and present product demonstrations including advanced product features and benefits specific to customer requirements, • Assist the sales team in identifying sales opportunities, • Build and deliver custom demonstrations and proof of concepts, • Develop a vast understanding and awareness of customers’ technical architecture, • Translate business needs from various sectors into clear technical needs and interpret advanced technology / data science issues in an accessible language, • Provide assistance in the distribution of new product information, application workshops and solution strategies for the sales team, • Work with the potential customers to help plan, scope, develop and deploy Oracle BI solution
Business intelligence consultant
Telnet
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
7 months
Tunis, Tunisia
• Investigating business systems, taking a holistic view of the situation, including organisation structure and governance, key stakeholder needs and staffing issues as well as current processes and IT systems • Collecting requirements through standard techniques like document analysis, interviews, focus groups, workshops, customer journey and other process mapping and design thinking. • Documenting business requirements using appropriate documentation standards. • Working collaboratively internally and with partners to deliver chosen solutions. • Working closely with clients, gathering requirements, and translating them. • Ingesting data from a variety of corporate data sources and performing required transformations in Power BI query editor • Working with clients to manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT) processes and fixing any defects identified. • Publishing reports via the Power BI service, managing them through distribution of apps and monitoring usage/data refreshes/security access. • Shaping an approach for governance and deployment of Power BI in mid-size organisations, including advising on licensing, distribution/sharing, training and support
Scrum master /Tech Lead
ESPRIT
Sep 2013 - Oct 2014
1 year 2 months
Tunis, Tunisia
• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team. • Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals. • Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard. • Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible. • Analysing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements. • Keeping up to date with industry trends and developments. • Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required. • Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
Sharepoint Developer
Viamobile
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
3 months
Tunis, Tunisia
Set up a server a file server with the following functionality - User management based on their profiles with different rights for each profile (Executive, Project Manager, Engineer...) Each user can belong to one or more unit All units will have to be replicated for each of three companie
Education
Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
Executive MSC
2019 - 2020
1 year 1 month
Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies - ESPRIT
Diplôme d'ingénieur
2010 - 2015
5 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Microsoft Certified : Azure Administrator Associate
Issued: May 2023
Oracle Database SQL Certified Associate
Issued: Feb 2021
Professional Scrum Master II
Issued: Jan 2021
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Issued: Jan 2021
PRINCE2® Practitioner Certificate in Project Management
Issued: Sep 2020
ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Issued: Sep 2020
Professional Scrum Product Owner I
Issued: Aug 2020
Professional Scrum Master I
Issued: Aug 2020
PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management
Issued: Aug 2020
Google Fundamentals of digital marketing
Issued: Jun 2020
Google Analytics Individual Qualification
Issued: Jun 2020
Certification Cisco Certified Network Associate 3
Issued: Apr 2013
Certification Cisco Certified Network Associate 2
Issued: Mar 2013
Certification Cisco Certified Network Associate 1
Issued: Feb 2013