Citizenship:  Canadian

Languages:  fluently bilingual in French and English

1997- 2000        INRS-TELECOM                              Montreal, Quebec

Master in Electrical Engineering -   Networks Telecommunication

1990 - 1993       ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE            Montreal, Quebec

Master in Applied Sciences – Applied Mathematics and operations management

·              Experience in projects/program management and decision support analysis

·              Extended experience with crew scheduling, workforce and logistics management

·              Extended experience with:

o        A structured software development lifecycle methodology

o        Identifying and documenting user requirements using current analysis tools and methods

o        Effectively communicating user requirements to both business and technical audiences Developing and documenting a conceptual design using current tools and methods

o        Evaluating, selecting and implementing software packages, custom development of multi-user systems, system testing, data conversion and user testing

o         High level programming languages such as C/C++, JAVA, SQL

o        Using or working on ORACLE, UNIX, Windows, Linux, SAS, CPLEX, LINDO

o        Working knowledge of Solaris OS, multithreading, networking, OSPF, IRGP, Frame Relay, ATM, network topology technology and Internet Protocol (IP)

·              Team player, versatile, quick learner and strong ability to leverage expertise through sharing lessons learned, documenting processes and actively participating in team briefs

·             Accountability for completing assignments, meeting commitments and deadlines.

1999-2001-Workforce and logistics planner 

Employer: MDSI (Mobile Data Solution Inc.)   Richmond, BC Canada                                       

Realizations under minimum or no supervision

·         Analyzed, developed and broke down multidisciplinary projects into manageable tasks, highlighting critical tasks, time line as well as required resources

·         Carried out decision support analysis on workforce management projects

·         Studied, modeled and programmed complex project components, including functional analysis and investigation, high-level design, low-level design and implementation.

·         Interacted with customers and product management team to define the scope and time line and critical paths of projects.

·         Researched and understood marketing requirements for products, new technologies and development tools.

1997-2000- Network research Assistant – Signaling and routing

Employer:  INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) Montreal, QC Canada                                       

Realizations under the supervision of the research director

n     Successfully Designed and developed a new approach for packet signalling and routing over large-scale network, as a prototype that reduced delays by:

1.       Making use of network Management protocols, including OSI and OSPF

2.       Participating in the core network dimensioning and switching research

3.       Conducting a capacity and routing planning as well as the network topology optimization

·         Coded and debugged associated programs using C language on remote Unix Platform.

1994-1997- Decision Analyst - Planification and Statistics

Employer:  BMI  (Bunyar Malenfant Int.)           Montreal, QC Canada                                       

Realizations under BMI Vice President

·         Initiated, defined and developed the Decision Support and analysis component of the company (identifying and installing associated software and human resources)

·         In a leading role, contributed to the definition and the design of the company’s operations research projects which lead to receiving a grant from “ Society of Industrial Development  (SDI)” and from the “Centre de Recherche Industriel du Quebec (CRIQ)”

·         Analyzed, developed and broke down multidisciplinary projects into manageable tasks, highlighting critical tasks, time line as well as required resources

·         Modeled incoming traffic of customer and conducted data extraction, conversion analysis, data quality analysis, data manipulation and reporting efficiency

·         Elaborated, an adapted SAS forecasting models for time series of traffic, transactions and sales for different points of services, and produced standard, ad hoc reports and queries utilizing the data stored in those applications

 1993-1994  Operations research Analyst

Employer: GERAD (Groupe d’Etude et de Recherche en Analyse des Decisions.)   Montreal, PQ Canada                                   

Realizations under the supervision of the research manager

·         Modeled a pickup and delivery problem for USPS (US Postal Services) as generalized travel salesman problem

·         Designed and modeled programs for a student’s transportation problem under time and capacity constraints using columns generation techniques.

·         Detail designed, coded and documented the associated programs in C on Unix.

·         Created and maintained a medium-scale relational database for the testing purpose from a different database system

1992-1993   Decison support analyst

Employer:  GERAD (Groupe d’Etude et de Recherche en Analyse des Decisions.)   Montreal, PQ Canada                                       

Realizations under the supervision of the research director

·         Analyzed and modeled transportation network planning and crew scheduling projects

·         Designed, developed, coded and documented programs relative to every model

·         Developed and produced analytical rapports with clear graphical illustrations of solutions at the end of each project

·         Conducted functional and organic analyses for programmed models.

2001– Present     Consultant    

Self-Employed in Network management and Network Routing Research

n     Successfully upgraded the network signalling and routing approach first implemented in my master thesis:

1.       Researched and studied network Management protocols, including OSI, OSPF, IRGP, PNII, ATM, SONET

2.       Performed the network topology optimization and developed a centralized routing network engine.

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