FRANCOIS LEONARD

Experience

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  Greenability

  Sept 2012 - Dec 2012

  Analyste

  Greenability Ltd is a service provider of renewable energy heating & cooling solutions in South Africa. Having matured from a unipersonal company to a large SME, Greenability aspired for a better organizational structure, standard procedures and an improvement of overall efficiency.• Requirement gathering• Workshop set-up • Identify and analyse key improvement opportunities based on work & commercial processes, financial analysis, SWOT analyse…• Redefine the company’s strategy• Re-engineer & Standardize processes • Reorganize company structure to align with strategy • Adapt marketing approach with new segmentation, positioning and targeting • Develop a 3 years Business Plan to adjust to rapidly changing environment • Implement a planning tool to better manage scarce resources.• Present to top managementThe re-engineered processes and tools were successfully implemented and resulted in substancial improvement of the company’s performances.Environment: MS Excel, SWOT, PESTEL, Porter’s 5 forces, Value Chain Analysis, Aris Show less

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  DAPESCO

  Sept 2013 - Mar 2014

  Junior Project Lead

  Dapesco is an energy optimization consulting firm. Its business model is to collect, gather and analyse energy consumption data in order to monitor and optimize the use of energy for its customers.Bpost, through its division of Environment & Energy Management desired to implement an energy monitoring solution for all its sorting offices in Belgium. Project Management Officer & Project Manager• Project resource management• Budget allocation • Stakeholder Management• Organize Workshops • Challenge engineers and technical staff on workload estimations• Assign workorders• Data quality assurance• Report to top management Show less

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  Cream Consulting

  Jul 2014 - Sept 2018

  Associate Consultant

  • 2016 - 2018 : Associate Consultant• 2015 - 2016 : Consultant• 2014 - 2015 : Junior ConsultantI have worked as a consultant from 2014 until 2018 for Cream Consulting. In 2016, I became the first Associate of my company thanks to my leadership, my management skills and my motivation.

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  BNP Paribas Fortis

  Sept 2014 - Sept 2016

  The project Special Protection Funds’ goal was to achieve compliance to an European Directive on guarantee of deposits. The bank needed to calculate eligible deposits for each client to and to communicate it was guaranteed on all channels (apps, online channels, branches, etc) via multiple means (contracts, statements, annexes).• Delivered full compliance on all channels even before the law even passed• Slashed by 25% project cost thanks to complete understanding of legal requirements• Reduce almost completely business risk via pertinent test strategy and detailed completion Show less BNP Paribas Fortis was first-to-market to launch an offer of packages of accounts and related services for individuals ranging from debit/credit cards, account insurance, specific operations, etc. • Avoided management crisis through negotiating skills and positive leadership• Integrated Agile and SCRUM with Prince2 to gain operational flexibility while coordinating with other project teams• Delivered on time by applying crunching techniques and focusing on most value-bringing requirements Show less

  • Project Coordinator

    Jun 2015 - Sept 2016

  • Functional Business Analyst

    Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

  • Functional Business Analyst

    Sept 2014 - Dec 2014
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  SPF Intérieur - FOD Binnenlandse Zaken

  Sept 2016 - Sept 2017

  Functional Business Analyst

  The goal of the Passenger Name Records project at the Home affairs office (IBZ) in Belgium is to collect PNR & API data from the transportation sector and compare them to evaluation criteria from competent authorities.• Detailed pragmatic business requirements validated by complex stakeholder network• Achieved agile transformation of project team through efficient communication • Avoided frequent communication pitfalls by leading goal-based meetings with consistant follow-up

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  Semlex

  Oct 2017 - Aug 2018

  Project Management Consultant

  Semlex is a typical entrepreneurial company with operational and cultural difficulties due to fast growth. Cream’s mission was to help Semlex release their new software and implement necessary change to maximize its potential. • Improved drastically overall efficiency by implementing Agile thinking and SCRUM methodology • Delivered new authentication software on scope and on time• Increased employees motivation by changing organizational structure from entrepreneurial to project oriented• Enabled management to adapt to change by setting up information streams at strategic and operational levels Show less

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  SWDE

  Nov 2017 - Aug 2018

  Project Manager

  The Société Wallone Des Eaux (SWDE) is a utility intercommunal that produce and distribute water in Wallonia. The SWDE uses SAP for all aspects of their business from inventory to finance.• Slashed by 20% maintenance costs by integrating MRS planification module from SAP • Delivered detailed business requirements for new Solution Management software under heavy time pressure• Optimised Funds Management by desactivating FI-FM module to pave the way for SAP Hana

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  Playsoft

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

  Project Manager Scrum Master

  Playsoft is a SME mobile company based in Poland where I worked as a Scrum Master on multiple projects at once. I was also the change manager to improve several key process within the company such as recruitement, career growth, evaluation, etc.• Applied Lean Methodology for IT teams to reduce waste and maximize team output - 2x more than conventional teams• Develop new processes to track clients' satisfaction and reacted proactively to ensure high satisfaction through long development processes• Implemented structural changes within the company to create personalized career path with an evaluation program that boosted retention by 10% Show less

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  Product Madness 📱🎮

  Sept 2021 - now

  Project Director

  Product Madness is an international large mobile gaming company based in London. Product Madness focus on creating and publishing high revenue games based on chance.• Delivered on time and on budget multiple projects with budget of +$10 million• Lead an international team of 60+ people from the US, UK, Portugal, Poland and Ukraine to work efficiently together through multiple time zones• Implement change management to maximize efficiency in a very large organization by ensuring high quality outputs and focusing on just-in-time production systems Show less