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Simon Boisvert

Gatineau,QC
Simon Boisvert

Summary

Adept Product Owner with a proven track record at OXARO Inc., enhancing product lifecycle management and stakeholder collaboration. Leveraged technical acumen in DevOps tools and business analysis to streamline and enhance workplace practices, achieving significant agile framework optimizations. Expertise in analytics and process improvement, demonstrating a strong blend of technical and business skills. Dynamic individual with hands-on experience in IT and talent for navigating challenges. Brings strong problem-solving skills and proactive approach to new tasks. Known for adaptability, creativity, and results-oriented mindset. Committed to making meaningful contributions and advancing organizational goals. Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.

Overview

13
years of professional experience

Work History

OXARO Inc.

Product Owner
04.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Oversee entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch, and lead product planning, roadmap development, and development prioritization
  • Communicate with various stakeholders, including developers, designers, executives, and customers, to gather requirements, feedback, and align on product vision
  • Propose best Agile framework for project tailored to customer's needs such as Scrum or Kanban. Lead and facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
  • Collaborate and design alongside developers and proficient with DevOps technology and tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Azure DevOps, etc.
  • Create dashboards and analytic reports by leveraging customer's favored data and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Looker, AWS QuickSight, etc.
  • Deliver strong outcomes by continuously adapting to changing priorities and requirements in a dynamic product environment

Bell

Consulting Business Analyst
05.2022 - 04.2023

Job overview

  • Represented the end user as product owner of the My Warehouse Software agile team
  • Collaborated and gathered requirements from multiple business stakeholders
  • Managed team backlog continuously and effectively by adapting to latest priorities
  • Created and documented user stories and defects in JIRA
  • Coordinated custom software enhancement releases
  • Documented product guides and technical details in Confluence (internal wiki)
  • Acted as scrum master on rotation during sprints
  • Coached team members on Agile best practices as a certified SAFE PM/PO
  • Improved existing provisioning workflows by adopting monthly reviews of processes to help identify new gaps early and implementing improvements in a timely fashion

Brookfield Renewable

Innovation & Technology Strategy Analyst
09.2021 - 05.2022

Job overview

  • Researched and assessed emerging technologies, tools, and vendors to advise executives and drive innovation
  • Managed and administered self-serve provisioning workflows for various user groups to access key applications
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to enable business outcomes across operating businesses by introducing new innovative technologies and practices
  • Aligned innovation investments with corporate strategy, focusing on operational excellence and digital transformation
  • Helped to increase agility through vendor and partner innovation capabilities
  • Acted as the liaison between Brookfield Renewable's corporate and operational business units, technology teams, and vendors.
  • Communicated and collaborated with decision-makers, system owners, and end users to analyze information needs and functional requirements
  • Developed and presented detailed business cases to business and IT/OT senior management
  • Researched, assessed and validated various technology solutions from various providers in order to document gap analysis with recommendations
  • Researched, evaluated and enabled new technologies and ideas to determine their potential to grow the various businesses
  • Created executive level reports consumable by non-IT resources
  • Worked on enterprise-scale deliverables identified by innovation architects

Brookfield Renewable

Business Analyst, Strategic Initiatives
10.2019 - 09.2021

Job overview

  • Provided market research on vendors, tools, and platforms for new systems and did full vendor assessments to identify best fit for company's needs
  • Proactively identified areas for improvement regarding the incumbent financial reporting applications
  • Communicated and collaborated with business system owners and end users to analyze information needs and functional requirements
  • Gathered and evaluated business requirements and prepared associated documentation and configuration specifications
  • Acted as the liaison between finance,operational business units, technology teams and vendors

Brookfield Renewable

Business Analyst, Enterprise Architecture
07.2019 - 10.2019

Job overview

  • Provided outcome-driven guidance and advice to business and IT leaders on technology investments and execution decisions
  • Developed target-state actionable recommendations in IT and energy operational technologies (OT), leveraging cloud computing
  • Participated and facilitated the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards
  • Identified the organizational impact (on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the enterprise technology architecture
  • Collaborated with business constituents and staff in various IT and OT functional areas and geographies to develop technology architectural patterns that enabled, improved and drove business capabilities
  • Defined Cloud operations best practices for savings and efficient management
  • Worked closely with other architects and team members to leverage cloud capabilities end-to-end
  • Identified and supported opportunities for energy operations (OT) and IT joint initiatives in the areas of field service, Internet of Things (IoT), and in general any business processes spanning on-premise systems and external SaaS and IaaS
  • Designed, documented, and updated project solution architecture with business portfolio peers

Brookfield Renewable

Application Support Specialist
04.2018 - 10.2019

Job overview

  • Provided ongoing technical support for the company’s business finance applications
  • Followed documented procedures to resolve incidents and requests
  • Recorded, analyzed, and resolved service calls using the incident management tool
  • Ensured security processing for access to business applications
  • Participated in periodic queue management role with follow-ups on application registers and alerts
  • Performed debugging and implemented corrective measures against data integrity problems
  • Created, updated, and executed SQL scripts
  • Documented and enhanced existing internal processes
  • Innovated by proposing and implementing new ideas and processes to facilitate operations

Brookfield Renewable

Application Support Specialist
09.2017 - 04.2018

Job overview

  • Provided ongoing technical support for the company’s business finance applications
  • Followed documented procedures to resolve incidents and requests
  • Recorded, analyzed, and resolved service calls using the incident management tool
  • Ensured security processing for access to business applications
  • Participated in periodic queue management role with follow-ups on application registers and alerts
  • Performed debugging and implemented corrective measures against data integrity problems
  • Created, updated, and executed SQL scripts
  • Documented and enhanced existing internal processes
  • Innovated by proposing and implementing new ideas and processes to facilitate operations

Brookfield Renewable

System Operations Specialist
05.2017 - 09.2017

Job overview

  • Supported, configured, and maintained IFS ERP system by troubleshooting and resolving complex incidents, and developing new features and reports
  • Analyzed and revised existing system logic difficulties and gaps and documented as necessary
  • Provided third tier support for the company’s business applications, including periodic on-call support

Brookfield Renewable

Application Support Specialist
01.2017 - 05.2017

Job overview

- Provided ongoing technical support for the company’s business finance applications
- Followed documented procedures to resolve incidents and requests
- Recorded, analyzed, and resolved service calls using the incident management tool
- Ensured security processing for access to business applications
- Participated in periodic queue management role with follow-ups on application registers and alerts
- Performed debugging and implemented corrective measures against data integrity problems
- Created, updated, and executed SQL scripts

Canada Border Services Agency

Junior Programmer
05.2016 - 08.2016

Job overview

  • Developed software (Java)
  • Provided quality assurance through unit testing (JUnit)
  • Troubleshooted and resolved coding issues
  • Prepared software related documentation

Immigration and Citizenship Canada

IT Asset Manager
06.2015 - 09.2015

Job overview

  • Organized and managed IT asset inventory
  • Verified, tested and refurbished IT assets
  • Coordinated and handled delivery of IT assets to various work sites and end users

Option Femmes Emploi

IT Technician
05.2014 - 08.2014

Job overview

  • Provided ongoing technical support to end users
  • Troubleshooted and resolve various hardware and software issues
  • Organized and managed IT equipment inventory

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Student
01.2014 - 04.2014

Job overview

  • Managed and administerd database (Oracle)
  • Reported on technical instrumentation testing
  • Developed macros in Visual Basic for Microsoft Excel and Word
  • Presented project status updates
  • Coordinated information and data transfer between business partners

Canada Revenue Agency

IT Support Technician
01.2013 - 05.2013

Job overview

  • Helped realize the OS migration of Windows XP to Windows 7.
  • Provided ongoing technical support to end users.
  • Troubleshooted and resolved various hardware and software problems.
  • Organized and managed IT equipment inventory.

Canada Revenue Agency

IT Support Technician
06.2012 - 08.2012

Job overview

  • Provided ongoing technical support to end users.
  • Troubleshooted and resolved various hardware and software problems.
  • Organized and managed IT equipment inventory.
  • Acquired experience as a public servant of the federal government.

Education

Université Du Québec En Outaouais
Gatineau, QC

Bachelor of Science from Information Technology
12-2018

University Overview

Cegep De L'Outaouais
Gatineau, QC

Diploma of College Studies from IT Networking
12-2013

University Overview

Skills

  • Business and technical acumen specialized in IT
  • Project and backlog management
  • Analysis and process improvement
  • Communication, presentation, and training
  • Leadership and decision making
  • Creation and maintenance of documentation

Languages

French
Advanced (C1)
English
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

Product Owner
OXARO Inc.
04.2023 - Current
Consulting Business Analyst
Bell
05.2022 - 04.2023
Innovation & Technology Strategy Analyst
Brookfield Renewable
09.2021 - 05.2022
Business Analyst, Strategic Initiatives
Brookfield Renewable
10.2019 - 09.2021
Business Analyst, Enterprise Architecture
Brookfield Renewable
07.2019 - 10.2019
Application Support Specialist
Brookfield Renewable
04.2018 - 10.2019
Application Support Specialist
Brookfield Renewable
09.2017 - 04.2018
System Operations Specialist
Brookfield Renewable
05.2017 - 09.2017
Application Support Specialist
Brookfield Renewable
01.2017 - 05.2017
Junior Programmer
Canada Border Services Agency
05.2016 - 08.2016
IT Asset Manager
Immigration and Citizenship Canada
06.2015 - 09.2015
IT Technician
Option Femmes Emploi
05.2014 - 08.2014
Student
Pratt & Whitney Canada
01.2014 - 04.2014
IT Support Technician
Canada Revenue Agency
01.2013 - 05.2013
IT Support Technician
Canada Revenue Agency
06.2012 - 08.2012
Université Du Québec En Outaouais
Bachelor of Science from Information Technology
Cegep De L'Outaouais
Diploma of College Studies from IT Networking
Simon Boisvert