Stéphane Couturier

 

Portfolio & Project Planning Manager

 

 

15+ years experience, English & French fluency

 

contact@stephanecouturier.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPERTISE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portfolio Management

Aligning investment & execution plans with the strategy: Decision-making processes based on resources & budget.

 

Project Management

Maximizing value creation: scope & risk management, schedule building, tracking and reporting. Project coordination in international, multi-cultural, and multi-functional environment. Adapted communication to stakeholders (sponsors, managers, teams).

 

 

 

 

 

Project scheduling: scope & risk management, schedule building, tracking and reporting.

 

 

Project coordination in international, multi-cultural, and multi-functional environment.

 

 

Communication to stakeholders (sponsors, managers, teams).

 

Information

Customer and project teams interface, business analysis, deployments and continuous improvement.

 

Systems

Project Management software and their customisation

 

Industrial

Offer Creation Projects (products, solutions, and services).

 

Management

Production, Logistics, Quality, Traceability, Hazardous goods management.

 

Businesses

Energy, construction, chemicals, aeronautics, micro-electronics, government.

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010 - today

Portfolio & Project Management Consultant

 Accenture

 

 

Mission : Portfolio & Project Schedule Manager

 

 Schneider Electric

 

 

Supporting the Program Director with the management of 30 offer creation projects and

related resources (350 engineers) liaising with other functions (finance, engineering, etc.)

Develop the Project schedule processes & tools (standard best practices, audit & coaching, capitalisation). Manage schedule resources (schedulers in Europe & India) and the scheduling community (project leaders). Provide project scheduling support (projects up to 7 years, 70 team members, 50M€ budget).

International coordination (Europe, USA, China, India): 25% travelling, 50 % conference call, 25% local.

Defined & deployed portfolio and project schedule processes and tools, including risk management.

Improved the Time to Market and schedule predictability.

2007 - 2010 Project Deployment Manager Air Liquide

For the CEA in Grenoble, deployment of a hazardous industrial gas storage and related logistics

Met contractual deadlines, internal costs targets and safety targets.

Delivered an integrated information system for daily management of the logistics.

For ST Microelectronics in Crolles & Rousset, deployment a traceability software platform for quality analysis and logistics of gases and liquid chemicals. Multiple customer centres and suppliers.

Delivered traceability and quality check of the entire flow of incoming products of the 3 targeted plants.

Met internal costs targets.

As an internal project, optimisation of the management of a hazardous gas storage centre.

Integrated the ERP SAP, reduced by 30% data input time, ensured compliance to hazardous goods regulation.

 

2005 - 2006

Project Scheduler

Air Liquide (industrial gases), Eurovia (construction)

 

2001 - 2004

Software Testing engineer

Scottish Qualification Authority (government, UK)

 

1997 - 2000

ERP project engineer

Air Liquide

 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010

-2013

Leadership in Project Management, Project Management Process, Lean Product Development, Agile - Schneider Electric

 

 

 

Communication, crisis management, Agile/SCRUM - PCO Innovation

 

2003

 

ISEB Certificate in Software Testing – British Computer Society

 

1997

- 2000

Industrial & Environmental Management (with a 3-year internship)

 

 

 

École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Saint-Étienne, France

 

1995

- 1997

Mechanical & Production engineer, IUT 1 of Grenoble

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER SKILLS

 

 

 

Languages:

French (native speaker), English (3 years working in United Kingdom + 4 years of international projects)

 

Computing:

Project Management (Sciforma PSNext, MS Project, IceScrum), ERP (SAP), CAD (AutoCAD, ProE), MSOffice

 

Hobbies:

Swimming (competition), mountain biking (tour organization), Mageia.org (computing association)