Imad Rais

Strategic Advisor & Project Leader | Talent Acquisition Expert (IT & Biotech) | Agile Coach ​As a Strategic Advisor and Project Leader, I specialize in driving innovative solutions within the Biotechnology and Diagnostics sectors. I bridge the gap between high-level strategy and operational excellence, ensuring that complex projects move from vision to reality. ​What I bring to the table: • ​Strategic Talent Acquisition: I lead the recruitment of top-tier scientific and technical talent, building high-performing teams tailored for innovation. • ​Agile Project Leadership: Certified in PMI-ACP® and Scrum (PSM™), I implement Agile methodologies to streamline project lifecycles and enhance delivery speed. • ​Business Development & Ecosystem Growth: I spearhead international partnerships and develop end-to-end services, including genomic equipment distribution and certified e-learning platforms. • ​Global Presence: I represent organizations at major international congresses and trade fairs, building strategic bridges between Canada, Algeria, Africa, and the Middle East. ​Technical Expertise: • ​Frameworks: Agile, Scrum, ITSM, ITIL 4™. • ​Systems: ServiceNow, Advanced ATS, E-learning Platforms. • ​Specialties: IT, Finance, Biotech, Genomic Diagnostics, Scientific Recruitment, Cross-border Partnerships. ​I am committed to advancing global science and fostering international collaboration. Let’s connect to discuss how we can drive your next strategic project forward.

YOUR IT PARTNER! FX supports companies in their digital transformation journey by analyzing their business needs and delivering the technological foundations on which they must be built to perform in the digital era. We are the largest Canadian player to have certifications and formal partnerships with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and ServiceNow. Four market-leading cloud platforms that are strategic in the digital transformation of companies. We aspire to create value for the Canadian economy and position ourselves as an employer of choice for IT talent.

*Manage the full staffing cycle, job posting, hiring interviews, onboarding of new hires, coaching & training. *Knowledge of the SDLC ,IT project management operations, Agile and hybrid project management *Offer full Support for our valued clients to fill vacancies using different channels and multiple strategies to find the right candidates for the right positions. *Deploiment of recruting strategy following Scrum & Agile methodology . Using tools and plateformes such as Greenhouse, Bullhorn, Daxtra, Toleo Linkedin Recruiter, Indeed, Boolean research. *Participate in multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder meetings to promote group synergy and ensure the advancement of various IT projects. *Foster communication and collaboration in teams and teams of teams, *Implement the Agile approach in projects, programs and organizations, *Facilitate internal and external training on one or more themes (Agile Methods, The role of Product Owner / Product Manager, Agile framing, Agility at scale, etc.) *Take part in Agile transformations, Acting Scrum Master and PMI-ACP ( Agile Coach Practionner ).Help organizations as they make the shift to Agile or seek to improve their existing Agile capabilities, Be a player in transformation, at team, management and organizational level, *Deployment of targeted recruitment strategies, team management & coaching. *Fulfill the hiring mandates from different clients. *Advanced experience in Recruiting, Banking, Digital transformation; Digital Marketing; promotion of agency services to business leaders in the region to obtain mandates and sign agreements. *Manage the entire staffing process for various Senior IT positions. *Prepare follow-up presentations for the various ongoing IT & Hr initiatives, *Autonomy, Versatility, proven professional successe and ability to work in a dynamic and demanding environment in constant change.

The Corporation de services du Barreau du Québec is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to exclusively offer products and services to the 28,000 lawyers registered on the Roll of the Order, including: ✔️The management of Juricarrière.com , the legal employment site; Member hiring service, managing the full staffing cycle. ✔️Support for members of the Bar; their family and employees to subscribe to the Fonds de placement du Barreau du Québec; Full support, ranging from lead generation, playing the role of Brand Ambassador to Ensure the acquisition of new customers; Kyc, Production of financial plan, Analysis of needs, Facilitating information meetings, Certified REC (Representative in collective savings) ✔️Damage & persons inssurance; ✔️Animation of information workshops at the Montreal courthouse and at the Annual Lawyers' Conferences. ✔️Innovate, excel and solve blockers & remove impediments in an Agile/Scrum framework in order to achieve the objectives in the diffèrent projects. ✔️Attend daily Scrum meetings and actively participate in reducing service delays and managing priorities. (Daily/Review/Retrospective) ✔️Update of Back logs and monitoring of Excel tables. ✔️Prepare reports to management. ✔️Prepare, plan and animate presentations to solve blockers and improve the overall performance of our services. (Sharing good practices) ✔️Active participation in infrastructure management (eg telephony, supply, IT, messaging)

✔️Web design, intégration of BI solutions and marketing stratégies to increase sales, assuming a strategic role of facilitator in a multidisciplinary team. ✔️Implement agile solutions (SCRUM - Lean Kanban), Manage the daily scrum and sprints throught the project life cycle. ✔️Inspire a multidisciplinary team in daily tasks and during special projects in a high performance context. ✔️ Ensure organic and synergistic communication between the different departments. ✔️Stimulate social cohesion as well as the development of healthy relationships in the team. ✔️ Participation in the collection of technical needs and support for platform users. ✔️Hand's on Intervention for Web Design Support (Wordpress, Shopify, Html, Eliminator Plug-in Configuration, Sales Channels, Web Hosting, payment processing solutions. ✔️Ensure an Agile management of the Backlog with Jira/Confluence ✔️ Creation of themes according to the client's choice, collection of needs. ✔️ The transformation of customers' business needs into extremely faithful visual concepts: Maps, models, storyboards, themes etc. ✔️Ensure an agile project management methodology framework is implemented. ✔️Support to coordinate a marketing campaigns, cost optimization, results analysis. Community management and e-commerce coordination, ✔️Optimization of marketing campaign on several platforms including Google Ads, Facebook Pixels, Ebay store. ✔️Advice service in product sourcing and monitoring of market trends. ✔️Creation of video content, advertising adapted for several platforms. ✔️A comprehensive understanding of consumer needs and strategy building expertise winning business for start-ups.

•Provide world-class advisory service to the bank's clients and handle their requests with rigor, diligence and in compliance with compliance rules. •Take ownership of complex problem-analysis assignments, answer any transaction request and recommend efficient solutions to acheive our customers financial objectives. •Knowledge of public markets trades/instrument lifecycle (OTC and listed derivatives, equity, fixed income, mutual funds) •Experience with Bloomberg suites solutions (AIM, Terminal, B-PIPE, MARS, TSADF, API’s, Data feed) • Training and active participation in the training of new employees. • Participation in the integration and reception of new employees. • Ensure the achievement of the objectives set by the company in terms of quality, service and sales. • Offer comprehensive financial planning to the clients of the national bank. • Project management for the development of new business relationships and credit referencing. • Managing advisor performance and teaching various solicitation methods to gain greater market share. • Monitoring of compliance and rules of practice.

-Planifier, organiser, diriger, contrôler et évaluer les activités du service aux particuliers et entreprises. -Administrer les comptes de prêts personnels ou commerciaux et les comptes de prêts aux grandes entreprises; -Conseiller les clients sur le choix des services financiers commerciaux et personnels correspondant à leurs besoins; -Examiner et analyser les demandes de prêts et de crédit, les garanties offertes et faire des recommandations; -Approuver ou refuser les demandes de crédit en conformité aux limites autorisées et établir la limite de crédit et le calendrier de remboursement; -Veiller au recouvrement des comptes en souffrance ou non payés; -Veiller à ce que les politiques et procédures relatives au crédit soient appliquées conformément aux lignes directrices établies et selon les lois applicables en matière de financement; -Préparer des rapports de crédit et de prêts; -Embaucher le personnel et identifier les besoins en matière de formation.

✔️Entrepreneurial mission approached with great agility of mind in order to help as many Canadians as possible achieve their financial goals. ✔️ Client wealth management and advice to improve asset management. Financial advice and production of financial plan using Naviplan. ✔️ Ongoing collaboration with tax experts, chartered accountants, insurance and mortgage brokers to meet all the client's financial needs. ✔️Financial planning and production of technical reports. ✔️Business development and advertising campaign management. ✔️ Coaching & training of new hires ✔️ Participate in seminars and lunch & learn to present the services of IG Wealth Management and recruit new Advisors ✔️Work in an Agile project management framework;

✔️Analysis of business processes and issuance of recommendations for improvement of procedures. To ensure a common strategy and increased synergy for national development teams. ✔️Provide solid capabilities such as elicitation, analytical, interpersonal, communicational, presentational and administration skills throughout the project life cycle and among business units. *Dealing with stakeholders to gather functional and technical requirements, as well as working with developers and quality assurance in environments and performing all BA functions and duties. ✔️Create Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), Data Mapping, Visualisation, Project Charters, Stakeholder Analysis Documents, ✔️ Performance management of agents prospecting campaigns to meet Quebec business leaders in order to convince them to assess their communication needs and help them adopt Telus solutions to improve their process. ✔️Training of new recruits and weekly performance monitoring. ✔️Participate in the onboarding of new employees and act as the first point of contact and offer support to employees for all IT related issues. ✔️Process support requests from start to finish. Provide high quality employee support to the user community. ✔️Facilitate the maintenance of computer systems, software applications, telephony, mobile devices and network infrastructure. ✔️Coordinate and implement equipment upgrades and replacements as required. Record all IT support activities in the integrated service management system. ✔️Maintain accurate records of company assets (eg, desktops, laptops, smartphones, etc.). Ensure compliance and implementation of Telus standards. ✔️Work with Telus IT department, hardware or software vendors and Telus Procurement department. to exchange solutions and ideas with the local team and IT staff in other locations. Provide regular status reports to the manager. ✔️Award of excellence received; selected by colleagues.

✔️Identifies customer needs and initiates referrals to BMO colleagues. ✔️Supports customer requests for banking services, including handling transactions and supporting customers who walk into the branch. ✔️Welcomes customers and meets their banking service and transactional needs with seamless execution. ✔️Offers advice and guidance on available digital and self-serve options with the goal of making it easy, simple, and fast to bank with BMO. ✔️Supports operational activities (e.g. inventory management, escalated service requests, following up on customer applications, filing, opening and closing activities). ✔️Manages, loads, and reconciles cash transactions between treasury and various branch units (e.g. CRU). ✔️Executes routine tasks (e.g. service requests, transactions, queries, etc.) within relevant service level agreements. ✔️Acts as a key member of a collaborative and versatile branch and market team. Probes to understand customer personal banking and credit card needs and integrates marketing promotions and programs into customer conversations to provide strategic advice. ✔️Organizes work information to ensure accuracy and completeness. ✔️Takes the initiative to find creative approaches that make each customer’s experience feel personal. ✔️Looks for ways to contribute to the ongoing improvement of the overall branch customer experience. Contributes to business results and the overall experience delivered in the branch. ✔️Follows through on risk and compliance processes and policies to ensure we safeguard our customers’ assets, maintain their privacy, and act in their best interest. ✔️Keeps current with the wider financial services marketplace, the legal and regulatory environment, and our commitment to uphold the highest ethical requirements of our industry. ✔️Maintains current knowledge of personal banking and credit card industries, practices, and trends and integrates into customer conversations.