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Samuel Beaulieu

Quebec

Summary

Strategic and committed IT leader specializing in managing multidisciplinary teams, digital transformation, and cybersecurity. Expert in coaching, talent development, and fostering a positive corporate culture. I combine strategic vision with operational rigor to lead complex projects, ensure deliverable quality, and promote sustainable innovation within organizations.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

IT Manager Security

Ubisoft
05.2024 - Current
  • Develops and manages the team’s annual budget, ensuring strict monitoring and adherence to financial constraints.
  • Plans human resource needs and recruits talent necessary to meet team objectives.
  • Leads a multidisciplinary team, fostering a healthy, motivating work environment focused on skill development.
  • Oversees project planning, prioritization, and delivery, ensuring deadlines and quality standards are met.
  • Establishes performance indicators and standards (SLA, response times, deliverable quality).
  • Plays a key role in promoting corporate culture within the department by encouraging engagement, cross-team collaboration, and sharing best practices.
  • Provides targeted coaching to team leads and junior managers to strengthen their management, leadership, and decision-making skills.

Team Lead Ubisoft Cloud

Ubisoft
06.2021 - 04.2024
  • Coordinates and plans daily development activities to ensure smooth execution.
  • Collaborates closely with developers, product managers, and architects to define priorities, build roadmaps, and deliver planned initiatives.
  • Provides guidance, support, and mentorship to team members to foster technical and professional growth.
  • Implements Agile best practices to optimize productivity, transparency, and adaptability.
  • Coordinates efforts with partner teams to contribute to achieving the organization’s strategic objectives.
  • Manages a team responsible for both development and operation (DevOps), organizing on-call rotations fairly and efficiently.

Scrum Master

Ubisoft
12.2020 - 06.2021
  • Implements Scrum framework within the Cloud team, structuring sprints and workload to maintain team motivation while meeting productivity goals.
  • Acts as a coach for team members to facilitate issue resolution and conflict management.
  • Facilitates Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Retrospective) and ensures necessary follow-ups for effectiveness.
  • Supports Product Owners in preparing and facilitating Sprint Reviews.
  • Assists Product Owners in backlog management to ensure clarity, relevance, and alignment with the development team’s capacity.

Product Specialist

Ubisoft
08.2019 - 12.2020
  • Serves as a liaison between new partners and the Cloud team to facilitate onboarding to the Ubisoft Cloud platform.
  • Provides technological guidance to partners, proposing tailored solutions to meet their specific needs.
  • Actively supports partners by filling technical information gaps to ensure successful platform adoption.
  • Meets with partners facing challenges to defuse critical situations and coordinate necessary assistance.
  • Documents partner requirements clearly and systematically to ensure team visibility and proper consideration.

DevOps Cloud Administrateur

Ubisoft
10.2013 - 12.2020
  • Participates in deploying and managing systems for the Ubisoft Cloud platform (OpenStack, Ansible, Prometheus, MariaDB, Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Contributes to IT infrastructure standardization and harmonization efforts.
  • Provides technical support to partners through a ticketing system, ensuring efficient and responsive issue resolution.
  • Develops and maintains internal tools to enhance platform support and automation.
  • Produces and maintains “cloud-ready” images for Windows and Linux environments.
  • Automates operational processes including maintenance, deployment, and analysis.
  • Provides 24/7 technical support for critical operations.

IT Technician

AFI Expertise
07.2006 - 10.2013
  • Manages the entire IT infrastructure for classrooms and corporate environments.
  • Provides technical support to clients and employees, both internal and external.
  • Designs network architectures to meet operational needs.
  • Conducts continuous technology watch to recommend and implement scalable solutions.
  • Oversees IT management for multiple geographic sites (Quebec, Montreal, Lévis), both on-site and remotely.
  • Plans IT-related expenditures aligned with business needs.
  • Coordinates room bookings and manages technical setups for training rooms across different sites.

Education

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) -

Scrum.org
06-2021

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) -

Scrum.org
12-2020

MCT: Microsoft certified Teacher -

Microsoft
12-2012

Microsoft Certification - - GPO, Active Directory, SCCM, SharePoint, Exchange

Microsoft
01-2008

VMware Certified Professional -

VMWare
01-2010

Professional Studies Diploma in Computer Support -

Saint-Exupéry
01-2007

Skills

  • Methodologies (Agile Scrum, Agile Kanban, DevOps practices)
  • Technologies & Tools (Windows, Docker, Prometheus, Ansible, Git)
  • Core Competencies (Strong communication, problem-solving mindset, autonomy and ownership, team leadership and coaching)

Timeline

IT Manager Security

Ubisoft
05.2024 - Current

Team Lead Ubisoft Cloud

Ubisoft
06.2021 - 04.2024

Scrum Master

Ubisoft
12.2020 - 06.2021

Product Specialist

Ubisoft
08.2019 - 12.2020

DevOps Cloud Administrateur

Ubisoft
10.2013 - 12.2020

IT Technician

AFI Expertise
07.2006 - 10.2013

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) -

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) -

Scrum.org

MCT: Microsoft certified Teacher -

Microsoft

Microsoft Certification - - GPO, Active Directory, SCCM, SharePoint, Exchange

Microsoft

VMware Certified Professional -

VMWare

Professional Studies Diploma in Computer Support -

Saint-Exupéry

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