Arnaud Blanchet

- Lead a team of 60 professionals responsible for delivering large-scale software development, IT infrastructure and business transformation projects using agile/product and waterfall methodologies. - Responsible for the organization’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) practice and projects. - Lead the Enterprise Architecture team and practice. - Responsible for digital strategy, the planning and maintenance of IT roadmaps and the technology strategy. - Lead the team responsible for IT short and long-term capital planning and budget follow-up. Lead the design and the implementation of a new operating model for IT delivery based on a product management approach.

- Lead a team of 120 technical professionals supporting the organization's IT applications and delivering large-scale software development projects. - Executive sponsor for several large and complex IT projects such as S/4Hana, Oracle Cloud, Field Service Management solution and Integration platform (Mulesoft) implementations. - Responsible for the implementation of DevOps culture and tools. - Key player in the implementation of the SAFe methodology. - Responsible for the data and AI strategy and its implementation.

- Practice lead for ServiceNow ITBM. - Responsible for customer acquisition and P/L. - Pre-sale solution consultant responsible for understanding customer's needs and designing the best solution to fulfill them. - Manage delivery teams in the practice to ensure projects are delivered on scope, budget, quality and to the customer's satisfaction.

- Lead a team of 400 project managers, project control officers, business analysts, scrum masters, functional analysts, architects and developers that are responsible for the delivery of software development and IT infrastructure deployment projects. - Responsible for the delivery of a project portfolio of 100M$ annually. - Key contributor to BRP’s digital transformation. - Key contributor to one of the largest SAP implementation in North America. - Redesign and deploy portfolio, program, project management and business analysis processes aligned with best practices in each field to support the delivery of a large project portfolio.

- Lead a team of project managers and scrum masters in that are responsible for the delivery of software development and IT infrastructure deployment projects. - Key contributor to the agile transformation of the development and support team (team of developers) which will introduce the SCRUM and SAFe methodologies. - Responsible for the delivery of a program of approximately (+-) 300 projects a year which deliver value through new functionalities in IS and operational efficiencies to 4 business units. - Key contributor to the capacity planning and resource allocation of a team of 100+ software developers. - Responsible for the standardization and improvement of the project management methodologies used by the PMO and the development and support teams. - Coach and mentor to the project managers in the PMO team.

- Lead a team of project managers in the delivery of customer facing and internal projects and programs. - Lead a project management maturity assessment of the organization, make recommendations and implement changes consistent with best practices in the field. - Optimization of project delivery and project governance processes for waterfall and agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. - Implementation and management of financial governance process ensuring profitability targets of projects and programs are met. - Conception, implementation and management of company's continuous improvement program. - Capacity planning and resources assignment. - Team member mentorship and coaching.

-Oversee international network and IT hardware infrastructure optimization and modernization program. -Partner with senior management and IT teams to build long term strategy for the organization’s collaboration tools and technologies and manage its execution. -Capital planning, investment opportunity assessment, justification and benefit management. -Manage multi-million dollar program and project budgets. -Present program and project statuses to Executive VP led national steering committees. -Participate in PMO’s project management practice enhancements and mentor junior project managers.

-Senior Project Manager on various types of IT related projects such as: Core network upgrade, application design and delivery, telephony systems for call centers and deployment of telecommunication infrastructure. -Program management: Manage multiple dependent projects simultaneously and prioritize their delivery based on the company’s strategic objectives and the availability of financial and human resources. -Managed multi-million dollar program and project budgets. -Produced all deliverable of a project and program life cycle as detailed by the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge for Project and Program Management. -Presented program and project statuses to Executive VP led national steering committees -Managed the introduction of salesforce.com® to an entire line of business requiring several integration between legacy systems and the Cloud based tool. -Managed core WAN network upgrades between 7 national facilities and LAN equipment modernization in 5 locations. -Oversaw IP telephony platform introduction and migration in 5 call centers. -Recipient of award for excellent performance in Q3 and Q4 2015.

-Project Manager on various types of projects such as: internal process changes and optimization, continuous improvement, new product introduction, application design, development and deployment, deployment of telecommunication infrastructure. -Assessed risks and implemented mitigation measures. -Assessed stakeholders and designed stakeholder management strategy. -Created project charter, project plan, project management plan and perform the control and monitoring of projects. -Planed and delivered a project consisting of the migration of IT infrastructure of a call center with a budget of $ 4 million. -Planed and delivered project consisting of upgrading computer and telephony equipment for internal employees with a budget of $ 2.5 million. -Plan and delivered a project consisting of setting up a professional accreditation program with a budget of $ 400k. -Planed and delivered a project consisting of new product launches such as LTE, managed network solutions for SMB and data storage solutions in cloud computing -Recipient of an award for excellent performance in September 2012 and April 2013

- Manage projects to demonstrate compliance of deployed technical solutions with functional specifications. - Follow-up on network problems related to mobile data and international roaming during their entire life cycle to ensure their resolution (End-to-end Incident Management) - Support custom wireless data transmission solutions for enterprise customers (VPN, GPS, CUG, SIPA) - Excellent understanding of most common wireline and wireless network protocols and technologies - Specialist of International Roaming Accomplishments: - Plan and execute fifty UAT projects (User Acceptance Testing) to ensure the functioning of international roaming (wireless clients) with newly configured bilateral partners

- Supervise staff of 20 customer service representatives daily - Evaluate the performance of customer service representatives - Support customer service representatives in their career development and the achievement of corporate performance objectives

Specialization in data science and artificial intelligence (AI)

Master of Science in Financial Engineering (MSc Finance) Heavy emphasis on Data modelling and AI algorithms

Executive MBA (EMBA)

Master of Project Management (MGP)

Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.). Specialization in Operations Management