Cathy Hutchinson
Project Manager
Rigaud,QC
Summary
A manager for over seventeen years, I am PMP certified by the PMI (Project Management Institute). In September 2023, I began an MBA at ESG-UQAM business school. I specialize in the IT sector, so my expertise covers a wide range of IT skills, from infrastructure to cybersecurity, from agile or waterfall project management to human change management. To obtain a Project Management Director position where I can leverage my leadership skills, strategic thinking and project management expertise to drive organizational growth and success. Highly versatile, I can adapt quickly to new environments. I always find harmonious ways to combine both aspects: complex situations and diplomacy. With strong negotiation skills, I am able to harmonize the needs of the company and the professional development of the individuals I supervise. In this way, I optimize productivity and the overall functioning of the company. Accomplished Consultant drives organizational improvements through leveraging expertise in research and system enhancement. Well-versed in collaborating with employees and leaders to resolve control and procedural problems negatively affecting business operations. Dedicated to cost, process and resource optimization.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Strategic advisor
Ministry of Cybersecurity and Digital Affairs, MCN
01.2021 - Current
- Consolidation of Quebec government ITCs (365M project)
- Context: This project is aimed at digital transformation
- In this context, there are three targets in addition to the private government cloud, for which I'm responsible since this cloud contains the highly sensitive data of the Quebec government
- Responsibilities:
- Leads and oversees the delivery of projects across the portfolio under my responsibility with clear accountability and transparency between teams and business stakeholders;
- Validates and advises on the requirements, design, testing and implementation deliverables of the application projects under his/her responsibility;
- Determine resources and requirements with initiative and project delivery teams;
- Create and maintain risk register;
- Manage project budgets;
- Ensure project resourcing
- Plan human resource requirements and utilization;
- Implement the Scrum agile management method with agile ceremonies, retro/review/demo and planning for three-week iterations;
- Ensure compliance with current iteration objectives in terms of deliverables, schedule and follow-ups through daily scrum/delivery team meetings;
- Project progress/blocker reports;
- Follow-up at various hierarchical levels, such as steering committee, as well as coordination of various follow-up committees, such as management, technology governance, security or process committees;
- Communication plan as established in the change management strategy;
- Contract management of internal and external suppliers such as change requests;
- Evolve methodology, processes and tools for project controls within the organization at the PMO level;
- Responsible for the project management trainee program at the Master's level, participate in the staffing of these trainees;
- Trained more than twenty trainees over the past three years.
Programme and project manager
Desjardins
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Desjardins confidential project
- Context: The aim of this project was to implement even more robust operational security, following the data leak suffered for Desjardins in 2019
- We set up a partitioned environment to handle confidential data and with best practice in IAM
- Responsibilities :
- Coordinate activities and schedules within the framework of a security project related to Desjardins' operational security;
- Coordinate tactical and operational security teams in order to put into practice the governance developed with the various teams, e.g
- GIA, cyber defense, security architecture;
- Ensure compliance with the project management process in terms of deliverables, timelines and follow-ups;
- Follow-up and coordinate the progress of ongoing projects;
- Implement security governance for cloud platform including GIA, SIEM, data lake;
- Ensure compliance with the objectives of the current iteration in terms of deliverables, schedule and follow-up through daily scrum;
- Communication plan, as set out in the change management strategy;
- Project progress/blocker report to steering committee;
- Coordinate financial planning activities
Director
Softchoice
01.2016 - 01.2020
- Project(s): Management of a team of 16 IT professionals (annual portfolio of 26M)
- Project budget management;
- Initiate and coordinate business plan development processes (in collaboration with project managers);
- Establish and monitor project budgets in conjunction with the finance department;
- Ensure rigorous documentation and approvals in Salesforce ;
- Ensure project resourcing
- Plan human resources needs and utilization, creating a holistic view of controllers across all projects in the organization;
- Optimize hiring and staffing processes for IT resources and project managers;
- Recruit project control staff, including contractors;
- Evaluate personnel and oversee the development of their skills required for project implementation, in coordination with other managers;
- Develop the profession of project controller for the Corporation;
- Implement a PMO, to evolve the methodology, processes and tools for project controls within the organization;
- Optimize processes for planning, critical path tracking and visualization of major activities and milestones.
Real Term Energy
01.2015 - 01.2015
Project Manager
Dell Canada
01.2010 - 01.2015
- Multiple projects for Dell customers
- Responsibilities:
- Collaborate on project implementation, including preliminary analysis and development phases, while ensuring compliance with operational requirements;
- Set up a project management office (PMO) for Canada;
- Ensure compliance with the project management process in terms of deliverables, schedules and follow-up;
- Participate with managers and operations teams in change management;
- Lead cross-functional team meetings;
- Coordinate financial planning activities and schedules;
- Report project progress/blockers to steering committee;
- Coordinate with stakeholders;
- Create and maintain risk register.
HRG/ Pfizer
01.2007 - 01.2010
- Founded my own transport company at the age of
01.2002 - 01.2007
Education
MBA - management consulting
ESG-UQAM
2023
Bachelor of Science - Management
HEC Montréal
Montreal, QC12.2020
Professional diploma - travel
Stella Maris
2020
Skills
- Ability to negotiate effectively
- Problem-solving
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Leadership and professionalism
- Attention to detail
- Ability to manage complex situation
- Activities
- Interpersonal Communication
- Self Motivation
- Business Process Mapping
- Performance Improvement
- Strategic development
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Project Management
- Portfolio Management
- Project management expertise
- Problem-Solving
- Project Governance
- Organizational Change
Languages
English
Full Professional
French
Native or Bilingual
Certification
- PMP certification - [2017
Timeline
Strategic advisor
Ministry of Cybersecurity and Digital Affairs, MCN
01.2021 - Current
Programme and project manager
Desjardins
01.2020 - 01.2021
Director
Softchoice
01.2016 - 01.2020
Real Term Energy
01.2015 - 01.2015
Project Manager
Dell Canada
01.2010 - 01.2015
HRG/ Pfizer
01.2007 - 01.2010
01.2002 - 01.2007
MBA - management consulting
ESG-UQAM
Bachelor of Science - Management
HEC Montréal
Professional diploma - travel
Stella Maris
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