Walid Zaim

Strategic coaching for executives and organizational transformation, combining individual sessions, group workshops, and leadership development programs. Additionally, providing guidance to companies in the digital transformation of their organizations and cultures: Individual coaching sessions for executives. Group workshops focused on leadership and strategic management. Advisory in defining and implementing organizational strategies. Customized leadership development programs. Integration of innovative methodologies to promote personal and professional growth.

As a Freelance Consultant, managing a team of 10 TPMs, cross-managing 200+ resources Develop and own the x-commerce replatforming program execution strategy taking into consideration engineering and product management: Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact Create documentation requirements, gather and ensure design requirements are met. Also encourage engineering teams to create documentation artifacts as a priority Apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for projects based on experiences with a number of agile and blended approaches, as well effectively coordinating the implementations across teams using very different approaches Assist in the planning, documentation, and communication of big picture ideas with leaders at Decathlon Responsible for managing the program / project backlog and conducting Scrum and Agile ceremonies for your project teams Customer relationship including discovering the true requirements’ underlying feature requests and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions Responsible for the organization, promotion, and implementation of effective programmatic initiatives to help development teams deliver better service Product: Retail · X-Commerce · X-Commerce life cycle Skills: Business Transformation · Programme Delivery · Scrum · IT Strategy · Transition Management · Cross-functional Team Leadership · Strategic Leadership

As a Freelance Consultant, managing a team of 6 Engineering Managers: Utilized an Agile SCRUM approach, to manage cross functionality, strategy and execution of Mobility Solution products throughout their lifecycle, ensuring business relevance, continuous improvement and support. Development of annual roadmap strategy and budget planning with core product teams and business owners Assessed value, developed epics, and prioritized features and user stories to ensure work focuses on tasks that provide maximum value and are aligned with business strategy and goals Developed, monitor and evaluate processes and KPIs in order to improve the customer experience and internal reporting Lead face-to-face, remote or mixed location Agile teams to clarify scope, refinement of backlogs and user stories by gaining alignment around features or product strategy. Design 3rd party/product integration strategies and aspects of business requirements Identifies the communication and relationship needs of stakeholder groups. Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables. Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding. Facilitates business decision-making processes. Captures and disseminates technical and business information. Product: Mobility Solutions · Retail · MaaS · Invoicing · Telematics Skills: Business Transformation · Programme Delivery · Scrum · IT Strategy · Transition Management · Cross-functional Team Leadership · Strategic Leadership

As a Freelance Consultant, managing a team of 5 Engineering Managers: Identify, track, and remove impediments to project success Product: Retail · Product Catalog · PIMS · Referencing Processes Facilitate the creation of a well-defined product backlog with the product team and maintain Project Plans Manage Sprint and Release planning or development cycle, as defined by team Work with offshore development teams to tightly integrate them into their project work streams Prepare upfront estimates of time and resource utilization, and update over the course of the project Facilitate change control and risk mitigation Analyze risk and mitigation accordingly, including contingency plans and initiating corrective action Works closely with the Quality Assurance personnel

Define and maintain standards for project management within the organization, Structure the portfolio of projects in dedicated common tools, promote and train the organization to the use of these tools Measure projects through a set of key indicators such as strategic compliance, scope, schedule, difficulty, budgets, benefits and priority Monitor and report active projects and portfolio from beginning phase to completion Support and consultative role on project management Promote innovation and new ideas through the organization in particular related to digital strategy Present to the board projects and ideas for decision making : go/no go, cancellation, priority, budget Provide regular follow-up and communication to the organization Direct management of some projects Consultancy and marketing watch for new trends, business model, technologies Product: Mobility Solutions · Retail · Mid-Term-Rental Solutions · SAP

As an International Program Manager at Alten RHA, I am currently working on the creation and transformation of new product at Arval - BNP Group In this respect my responsibilities are to understand, within the new Business Model, what needs are at stakes and what functional and technical answers are to be provided in order for this new product to be efficient and profitable within a challenging deadline: - Workshops and Business needs collection - Designing Business Cases and Business Processes AS IS through other products - Designing Business Cases and Business Processes TO BE within the new product - Functional and Technical specification requirements - Design the supporting IS platform - Deliver and configurate a new Business Application through a Scrum methodology I am responsible for the solution's deployment over France, Spain and UK. In this respect I manage an international and intercultural team of Business Analysts and Developers in order to deliver, through a Prince2 methodology, Business Processes and an application to suport each country's Business Model

As an IT Project Manager, I am responsible for the successful outcome in terms of Time, Cost & Scope etc. for both technical and functional projects. Working on the organization's infrastructure, I manage projects related to Production, Network or Office & Mobility. Working on the organizations' application portfolio, I manage projects related to SAP, Data Flows or Processes.

Cream is an Information Technology consulting firm based in Brussels with a proven experience in combining Efficient IT Delivery, Motivating Culture and Continuous Business Process Improvement – what we call Enterprise Agility. Cream organizes multidisciplinary teams to carry innovative projects (problem solving, business efficiency improvement, new product development...) through unstable and complex environment contexts. Cream delivers it services to industry leaders and innovative start-ups in Finance, Utilities, Telecom, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Postal & Transport. Services: - Enterprise Architecture - Service & Project Management - Software Delivery - Business Intelligence - Integration - Business Process Improvement - Quality Assurance - Governance - Project Office

Lumnex provides a Smart Public Lighting Management Solution to customers in France, UK & Morocco. After many years of IT outsourcing to India, Lumnex decided to transfer its applications and knowledge back to France and started a series of projects aiming at this new strategy. Thanks to my former experiences as PMO assistant, I was able to put assume responsibilities in these respects : - Roles & responsibilities definition - Project planning with MS Project - Meetings preparation, animation and analysis - Project Control & Reporting - Phase Gates approval, - Test Plans, - Meetings, - Reports, Forecasts

Bloom Township is a state community driven association that provides courteous, caring and individual service to the city residents while at all times assisting with their special needs and being adaptable to changing circumstances as they rise. The service is aimed at residents with no affordable social security services and is widely sponsored in exchange for frequent demographic reports. Functional Analyst: - Review Scope and Evaluate Business requirements, Technical Requirements & Specifications - Business Process Model & Analysis, Data Flow Diagrams, Use Cases, ERD, UML, Prototypes, Validation - Assisting developers, planning and performing Unit Testing (Scrum methodology) PMO - Project statement, analysis & forecast - Roles & responsibilities definition - Project Planning with MS Project - Lead a team of eight through the database sub-system development (Supervise, evaluate, manage, lead) - Meetings preparation, animation and analysis - Project Control & Reporting - Phase Gates approval, - Test Plans, - Meetings, - Reports, Forecasts Technologies and tools: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Access, MS Excel, VBA

Metercom designs and commercializes smart metering and power supply solutions to its customers worldwide. Its transnational structure allows the French company to develop is products in India, produce them in China and distribute them in France, Morocco, Brazil, Bahrain etc. Project Planning Officer - General administrative duties (i.e. filing, answering phones, etc.) - Planning & Human Resources Management – Managing Project Team, communication etc. - Assisting the Project Management in the R&D development - Project Planning (MS Project – Gantt Diagram), follow up and evaluation - Project deadlines evaluation, reporting, phase gates approval - Meetings preparation, animation and analysis - Intercultural analysis, adaptation and consulting