Margaret Oswald

Experience

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  McMaster University

  May 2014 - Dec 2015

  Teaching Assistant

  Prepared and presented physics tutorial sessions to students to enhance the understanding of difficult concepts.

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  SWI Systemware Innovation Corporation

  Jul 2016 - Apr 2017

  Provided project coordination on several projects of various size and scope. Coordination was performed through executing weekly financial and project status reports, delivering weekly schedule updates, managing project spends, and monitoring required contractual changes and updates. Additionally, time was spent meeting with customers to ensure project needs were met, and team members were on track to successfully complete their responsibilities. (Acquired by Alithya) Provided engineering consulting services by composing technical documents, generating business proposals, and interacting with customers to determine deliverable requirements and needs.

  • Project Coordinator

    Oct 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Technical Consultant

    Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
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  Alithya

  Apr 2017 - Jun 2021

  Directed multi-million dollar agile software development project, yielding cost savings of 10% and delivering on time.Identified and avoided $100k+ in scope creep by developing change request forms to facilitate rapid responses and communicating change status weekly.Coached clients on risk management strategies, mitigating $50k in potential overspends.Established a corporate wide Indigenous Relations Program, leading a cross functional team to drive social responsibility commitments. Collaborated weekly with department managers to identify resource requirements and manage dependencies across projects. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Jan 2018 - Jun 2021

  • Project Coordinator

    Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
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  Flexiti

  Jun 2021 - Jun 2024

  Led a program of four projects, including presenting key risks, issues and decisions to the executive level steering committee.Facilitated stakeholder interviews at project kick off to collect initial risks and dependencies, and set communication expectations. Managed three external vendors in parallel ensuring adherence to budget, schedule and technical requirements. Onboarded a major national client by leading internal and client teams throughout project planning and execution.Leveraged the scrum working model to execute projects with complex software and business requirements.Communicated actively on project status, including actionable proposals to drive decision making and issue resolution.

  • Senior Project Manager

    Mar 2023 - Jun 2024

  • Project Manager

    Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
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  Momentum Financial Services Group

  Jun 2024 - now

  Sr. Project Manager