Nicolas Evrard

Working as a freelancer with following expertise: - Portfolio, Program and Project management: methods and tools - IT Project Management - PMO experience - Business analyst, Test Manager

Project Manager - Project Management and Collaboration Tool Replacement: - Identify a suitable solution to replace the current Project Management and Collaboration tools by conducting a RFP. The solution has to map several use cases, be highly secured and ensure strong data privacy. - Rationalise the tool usage in order to reduce license costs. Negotiate the overall project budget as well as the recurrent costs. - Deploy the new solutions, conduct the change management

Project Manager in charge of two major projects within the LDC Data Center Service Line: * Upgrade the Legacy components (Operating system, Databases, Citrix) of applications stored in the Datacenter. About 150 applications to be upgraded. * Implement an Enterprise Scheduler (Opcon). Migrate 200 applications into the Global Enterprise Scheduler.

PPM Upgrade project: Business analyst, testing leader and trainer. As part of the project team: - define the needs of the new project management tool. - prepare test cases and execute test cases with key users - maintain requirements and deviations backlog - provide expertise on the Planisware system - prepare and conduct the training: 350 persons trained (in English, German and French) - coach the users after system deployment: best practice, tips and tricks, update figures, ...

Working on assessing a new PPM tool (requirement collection, POC, evaluating providers, ...) Supporting current PPM tools (MSProject, Clarity, Jira)

PPM Upgrade Project: Business analyst and Planisware expert As part of the project team: - define business processes with business representatives (BPMN approach) - provide Planisware and PPM expertise to the technical project team

IT Project Manager and PPM Consultant: > IT Project Manager: - coordinate with projects teams in order to have the software implemented with respect to reasonable price and timing. Challenge the contracting teams. - organise user acceptance testing - coordinate deployement > PPM Consultant: - define the needs of evolutions with business teams and produce specifications - prepare user test cases - provide project management expertise - provide tool expertise > Involved in various projects: - PPM Tool evolutions: lifecycle management of the tool. - PPM Tool upgrades: functional and technical, evaluate business impacts and business value - offshoring support: empower an offshore team based in India - technical Upgrades: new operating system for servers, new database software version, migration to new generation datacenter

PPM Upgrade project: trainer As trainer for the PPM Upgrade project: - prepare training content: slides, database, exercises - conduct training (Germany, France, USA, Brazil)