ANTOINE ATALLAH
Blainville,Quebec
Summary
Federal public programs advisor with experience in public project management, grants, process improvement, and client experience. Skills in business analysis and cross-functional coordination. Excellent technical communication and results-oriented.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Advisor
Infrastructure Canada
01.2025 - Current
- Company Overview: Government of Canada, Montreal
- Ensure reporting for the ATF and ZETF programs in collaboration with beneficiaries.
- Analyze financial and management documents, including cash flows, progress, annual, and final project reports.
- Review grant and contribution claims using checklists to ensure compliance with funding agreements.
- Manage project amendment requests and ensure their administrative and strategic follow-up.
- Serve as primary point of contact with beneficiaries, including Indigenous communities, throughout project implementation.
- Design and implement Excel tracking tools for managing the team's project portfolio.
- Administratively close projects once all grant and contribution funds are disbursed and deliverables received.
- Optimize and standardize business processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and speed of claims processing, while contributing to continuous improvement and recommending best practices in program management; draft procedures to facilitate knowledge transfer.
- Government of Canada, Montreal
Program Advisor
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
07.2024 - 12.2025
- Company Overview: Government of Canada, Gatineau
- Transition to a strategic coordination role in internal services.
- Participate in setting up a Project Management Office (PMO) within our directorate, responsible for project control and monitoring.
- Project management: drafting investment proposals, cost estimates, timelines, and requirements documentation to ensure clarity of objectives, WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) drafting.
- Organize planning meetings with stakeholders and actively support teams.
- Identify needs for building a project portfolio dashboard (Excel, Power BI).
- Optimize the client onboarding process for project management.
- Create a SharePoint information page to present team services.
- Set up a contact database on SharePoint to facilitate communication.
- Design visual documents to simplify operational and organizational aspects for senior executives (governance structure, use-case diagrams, project team org chart, WBS, business context diagrams).
- Government of Canada, Gatineau
Program Officer
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
05.2022 - 07.2024
- Company Overview: Government of Canada, Gatineau
- Develop and manage investment proposals, including cost analysis, budget forecasts, and operational impacts.
- Coordinate multi-department projects by planning schedules, resources, and priorities to meet objectives.
- Set up dashboards to track performance indicators and adjust action plans as needed.
- Lead project initiation phase including business case drafting, cost estimates, and deliverables identification using WBS.
- Conduct requirement gathering workshops with stakeholders (e.g., technical teams, managers, internal partners) and document them in a project management system (PMIS).
- Document functional requirements for digital solutions in collaboration with technical teams.
- Government of Canada, Gatineau
Education
Certificate in Operational Excellence Management -
HEC Montréal
Montreal, QC12.2025
Certificate in Business Systems Analysis -
Université Laval
Québec12.2023
Bachelor of Business Administration - Entrepreneurship and SME Management, Project Management
Université Laval
Québec12.2022
Skills
- BPMN 20 modeling
- WBS drafting
- Decision-making deliverables creation
- Business process mapping
- Planning
- Coordination
- Management
- Agile methods
- Structuring
- Stakeholder management
- KPI analysis
- Project progress tracking
- Process optimization
- Continuous improvement principles
- Professional communication
- Visual document production
- Simplifying technical concepts
- Microsoft 365
- SharePoint
- Visio
- MindManager
- Power BI
- SAS Visual Analytics
- Office administration
- Standard operating procedures
- Strategic planning
Languages
French
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Native or Bilingual
Certification
- Forrester Certification - Mastering Customer Experience, 11/01/22, Mastering essential skills to design outstanding customer experiences, focusing on in-depth data analysis and using technology to enhance overall customer experience evaluation.
- ESDC Certification - Change Management Practitioner, 10/01/23, Certified by ESDC (equivalent to PROSCI) to support and facilitate organizational change, actively engaged in performance improvement and departmental objectives.
- SAS Visual Analytics 1 for SAS Viya: Basics, SAS Institute, 03/01/24, Certification on the fundamentals of data visualization and analysis with SAS Viya: data loading, visual exploration, report creation, and interactive dashboards.
Knowledge And Skills
BPMN 2.0 modeling, WBS drafting, Creation of decision-making deliverables (diagrams, organization charts, matrices), Business process mapping, Planning, coordination, and management (including agile methods), Structuring (traditional and agile), Stakeholder management, WBS drafting, KPI analysis, Project progress tracking, Ability to assess, document, and optimize business processes, Application of continuous improvement principles to enhance operational efficiency and internal consistency, Ability to produce clear, structured visual documents for various audiences, Strong skills in simplifying technical and operational concepts, both written and verbal, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Visio, MindManager, Power BI (basic), SAS Visual Analytics (basic), 10/10, 8/10, 8/10
Timeline
Program Advisor
Infrastructure Canada
01.2025 - Current
Program Advisor
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
07.2024 - 12.2025
Program Officer
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
05.2022 - 07.2024
Certificate in Operational Excellence Management -
HEC Montréal
Certificate in Business Systems Analysis -
Université Laval
Bachelor of Business Administration - Entrepreneurship and SME Management, Project Management
Université Laval
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