Nicolas - Business Analyst ENOVIA

CGI Corporation, Canada
ALM Release Manager – Since December 2014
> Activity detail
 Create, maintain and forward plan the release windows and cycles across a portfolio
 Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
 Measure and monitor progress the release deployment
 Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates
 Communicate commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
 Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations
 Conduct release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and business Go/No-Go reviews
 Produce deployment, run books and implementation plans
 Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities
 Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
 Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.
 Develops scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms
 Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
 Maintains a release repository according to the ITIL Process (CMDB, DSL …)
 Manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists
 Researches new software development and configuration management methodologies and technologies and analyzes their application to current configuration management needs

Bell Helicopter, Canada and United States
PLM System Analyst & Release Manager - January 2014 – December 2014
> Activity detail
 Analyze business and user needs in a IT/PLM/SAP/ Engineering landscape
 Document requirements, and develop execution plans to implement solutions in the Dassault Systèmes ENOVIA V6 environment (development / support /training)
 Develop and share data modeling and data mapping process with developers, (IN/OFF shore)
 Prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment: diagnostic, research, absorb and retain information quickly in a wide range of technical issues
 Take initiative and ownership of projects/action/backlog
 Develop and maintain system landscapes and architecture through programs and ongoing roadmaps with our US teams (ENOVIA IT systems migration, Interfaces with CAD environment + ERP environment + Legacy systems)
 Release Manager : Lead US and Offshore team during the deployment on ENOVIA (around 10 people full time), Testing Build Package, Delivery the package on platform and schedule server’s outages.

PSA Peugeot Citroen, France
PLM Industrial Process & Solution Architecture – December 2012 – January 2014
> Activity detail
 Create overall it solution designs for processes groups by respecting the Dassault PLM strategy
 Analyze business requirements and help customers to form future process scenarios
 Prepare, attend and lead workshops, and presentations with the goal of defining an actionable specification
 Extract and interpret uses cases and prepare business process modeling, sequence diagrams, UATs
 Support business readiness and change management activities prior to go-live
 Transmit requirements of Business Unit to dev. teams by writing instructions related to product development
 Interact with system architects and developers to ensure the system is properly implemented
 Prototype the required configuration to enable desired functionality and validate storyboard documents
 Participate in the analysis of the value chain processes and apply concepts of continuous improvement
 Define methodologies and functional solutions related to the management of organizational change
 Proactively communicate and collaborate within the Global PLM Team
=> This role leads 2 PLM industrial process consultants, 1 software developer on site and 3 offshore people

Processia Solutions, Canada --- PLM Consultant --- September 2011 - September 2012
During this year I worked for 3 customers worldwide: NETL, AREVA TA, Inergy Automotive
 National Energy Technology Laboratory, Canada --- PLM Consultant
> Activity detail (remote project)
 Analyze the customer’s needs for an upgrade from ENOVIA V6R2010 to ENOVIA V6R2012x
 Explain functional specifications and prepare test cases
 Write technical specifications

 INERGY AUTOMOTIVE, Canada--- PLM Consultant
> Activity detail (remote project)
 Collection of customer needs and writing of functional specifications
 Technical environment analysis to perform a migration from old PLM system to ENOVIA
 Methodology reflection for the submission of documentary deliverables
 Tests in ENOVIA V6R2011x for two points: email notifications and integration of the Microsoft Office API
 Training Sessions on CATIA V5R20 regarding FT&A workbenches

 AREVA TA, Canada --- PLM Consultant
> Activity detail (remote project)
 Perform administration regarding ENOVIA V6 business models with business/matrix/MQL tool
 Collect customer needs by analyzing the technical environment and customer’s IT architecture to achieve the migration between Matrix One 10.8 and ENOVIA V6 V6R2012x (PLM systems)
 Customize ENOVIA V6 application: scripting in MQL/TCL and development in JSP/JAVA
 Write specifications for the functional analysis for the migration’s project
 Develop and execute test scripts, document outcomes, and perform analyze/fix bugs
 Do functional testing on ENOVIA V6R2011x and V6R2012x in a lot of applicative features

Spotsound LTD, France, UK, Canada --- Owner & Business Developer --- Since January 2010
> Activity detail
 Ecommerce platform development / deployment: 309 % revenue increase and 1900 customers online
 Team, partners, suppliers, publishers management
 Account investments & business development
 Project management: planning and control services: Deals & QA tool, Mobile Apps, ERP/CRM integration
 Social strategy management: 100 kUsers
 Budget: 250 k€ of revenues just for France in 2014 – 2014: 54 k£ for UK (first year of exploitation)

Internships during studies: June 2008 to July 2011
AIRBUS SAS, FRANCE --- PLM Consultant
> Activity detail
 Develop a special auto-deployment program for DELMIA V5 (DPE/DPM) to deploy faster and automatically DPE and DPM in a complex aircraft organization: technical specifications, development, testing, deliveries
 Network analysis under DPM: test Airbus plant network to understand the lag between all working stations: tools installation, methodology, technical report, meeting, decisions
 Integration of a self-developed search engine (algorithm definition and specification redaction) for the Airbus internal FAQ to index the search

Dassault Systèmes, FRANCE --- PLM Consultant
> Activity detail
 DELMIA V6 supply chain tool development (SFC and LCM workbenches)
 Logical algorithms definition and elaboration
 Functional and technical specifications redaction
 3D demonstrator with DELMIA V6 programming, 3D creation with CATIA Live Shape, 3DXML generation

Hydro Quebec, CANADA --- CAD Consultant
> Activity detail
 BOM generation under CATIA V5R18
 ENOVIA SMARTEAM environment management
 Problems solution when migration from R16 to R18 occurs