Profile of Farah Leon BSc. PMP, Executive MBA

An Accomplished leader with an unique combination of Academic Knowledge and Industry Experience with a Passion for Helping teams

grow, find efficiency and stay competitive

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Education

Most Recent Work of Farah Leon TD Bank:

• Project/Program Leadership: Hybrid Agile and Waterfall Methodology, New PDLC methodology, Cross-functional team management.

• Team Leadership: Vendor Management, Cross-functional team management, decision making and problem solving.

• Vendor Leadership:

Mitsubishi/Hitachi Heavy Industry - Management Consulting firm Value-Infinity(http://www.value-infinity.com/ourteam.html):• After Sales Department Establishment Journey: Global program roll out for Manufacturing Client, solution definition,

communication plan, business case, modelling

• Plant Assessment and Transformation Journey: After Merger Initiative for Manufacturing Client with a Specific focus on project management cost measurement and reporting.

• Team Development: On-boarding, Knowledge transfer, Skills transfer, Recruitment, process improvement

• Technology: SAP and Llamasoft Implementation oversight.

• PMO: PM best practice and process engineering.

• Vendor: Vendor delivery oversight.

Executive MBA student with Richard Ivey School of Business: (http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/emba/)

Major Global Manufacturing Company: Learning program development (PM, Management), PMO Advisory, SME in Program management, performance management advisory.

Major Oil and Gas Company: PMO Advisory, SME in Program management, Communication plan for a multiyear value chain transformation program, technology alignment roadmap.

Major Healthcare/ Pharmaceuticals Company: Worked as a manager to implement 22 projects, increased operational efficiency, strengthened vendor relationships and turned offshore teams into high performing entities. Provided strategic roadmap to senior leadership on Information systems domain.

Major Corporate Training: Created brand new curriculum to train industry professionals in Data Analysis.

Major Technology Company: As a senior data analyst consulted sales and marketing team in leveraging data to bring profit and close deals. Consulted on marketing campaign, channel development program, partner development program enhancement and reporting.

Major Technology Company: As a project coordinator and senior data analyst created Business requirements documents, test plans, coordinated efforts, conducted weekly status meetings with team and stakeholders for the migration of Consolidated marketing database from a web-based solution to a SQL based solution (budget of 2.5 million). This was a joint project of the whole of America’s. Collaborated with a highly complex team consisting of representatives of various business teams within Microsoft and two vendor companies based out of USA and Brazil. Mentored and trained technical staff within and across departments on the new platform.

Major Financial Services Company: Worked as a catalyst to install IT steering committee from scratch. Led extensive process implementation and change management across organization for ISO17799 compliance

Major Financial Services Company: Worked as a project leader , lead the development of a real-time inventory and reporting system acting as the business analyst and project manager that saved manual work by 70%. Bridged between internal and external client’s such as 407ETR, American Express, BMO, Direct Energy, Canadian Tire to make sure IT processes in various organization are being mapped to the internal system.

Profile of Farah Leon BSc. PMP, Executive MBA

Industry Finance, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas. Technology, Healthcare / Pharmaceutical Higher Education, Not-for-profit, Corporate Training Functional Project/Program Management Principles, Change

Management, Stakeholder Management, Team work Strategic planning/ Roadmap creation, Operations

optimization Adult Training and curriculum planning Offshore or near shore model success, vendor

management, relationship building Technical Functional Requirements Gathering, Large IT projects

implementation, IT Alignment advisory

Expertise:

Farah has a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) – University of Toronto, Canada and holds Project Management Professional Certificate by Project Management Institute and is a recent graduate of the highly prestigious Executive MBA program from Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University. Her recent work involves value addition on business transformation initiatives in major Global manufacturing giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and oil and gas client - Husky. In the past she served high profile clients such as Microsoft(Wunderman Agency), in technology solution implementation as a consultant and as a member of the management team with companies such as VitalAire, and MJR Capital. Farah heads GTA Project Managers Untied Group and provides mentoring and coaching to project management professionals. Farah is an expert in global team engagement (Japan, Australia, Morocco, US, Brazil, India, Srilanka, Bangladesh and Philippines).

Background:

Selected Experience:

Farah Leon Info graph – Skills, Experience, Education, Languages

Example of Work (actual artefact in the appendix)

Project Budgeting: Project Status Report:

Project Financials:

Example of Work (actual artefact in the appendix)

PMO Advisory: Project Management Advisory:

Portfolio Management: Project Management:

Example of Work (actual artefact in the appendix)

Extracurricular Activity

Founder and Organizer, Jan 2013 – Present,

GTA Project Managers United, Toronto, ONAccomplishment: • Create a collaborated and inspirational

platform by hosting social events to create a community of project managers in greater Toronto area to learn from and support each other.

• Mentor project managers to navigate through challenges in their professional life as well as job search.

• Grew the group from 0 to 290 in 3 years. • Enlist 3 other industry professionals as co-

organizers.

Current Recommendations

Farah,

I want to thank you for your outstanding work on the Sharepoint TeamRoom migration project. Your personality, knowledge, project management and people skills definitely helped to move this project forward and made it a success!I really enjoyed working with you Farah.

Thank you!From: Marek Celejewski

Past Recommendations

Appendix

Infograph of Farah Leon BSc. PMP

Infograph of Farah Leon BSc. PMP

Infograph of Farah Leon BSc. PMP

Actual Work Artefact –PMO Advisory

Actual Work Artefact –RACI Matrix Critique

Actual Work Artefact – Stakeholder Communication Plan

Actual Work Artefact –Portfolio Management

Actual Work Artefact –Portfolio Management

Actual Work Artefact –Project Management

Past Projects Managed (Projects Roster)

Example of Work

Program/Project Lifecycle Example of Actual Work

Initiation – business case, feasibility study, project charter, project team, project office, phase review.

1. Vitalaire Work\DWH PHASE 2\Phase 2 Project Charter DWH.doc

Planning – Project plan, resource plan, financial plan, quality plan, risk plan, acceptance plan, communication plan, procurement plan, supplier contract (tender process, SOW, RFI, RFP, Supplier Contract, phase review

1. Vitalaire Work\eDiagnostics\Project eDiagnostics National Rollout 09_26_11.mpp ( Or in PDF)

2. Vitalaire Work\eDiagnostics\eDiagnostics__Budget_vs._Actual_Status_2011-04-28.xls

Execution- Deliverables, monitor and control (time, cost, quality, risk, issue, procurement, communication, acceptance management)

1. Vitalaire Work\eDiagnostics\E-Diagnostics Status update oct 3 2011.xls

Closure – project closure, project completion. 1. Vitalaire Work\DWH PHASE 2\VitalAire DWBI RoadMap Presentation\Reporting Roadmap - Executive Presentation-Sept11-Part1\Reporting Roadmap - Executive Presentation-Sept11-Part1.ppt

Program Management 1. Vitalaire Work\Projects\IT_Projects_Portfolio_ITSC_2011-09-20.xls2. Slide 173. Slide 184. Vitalaire Work\Budget 2012\Capex 2011.xls

International Teams Worked With

Hobby - Travelling