Samir TOUAF

- Leading highly skilled teams (12 staff) from multiple ministries and branches
- Ensuring the successful completion of all project phases from analysis to implementation
- Develop the project charter and the Integrated Project plan and seek directors’ approvals
- Created and maintaining Project Schedule on Microsoft Project
- Holding weekly status meetings and preparing and distributing meeting minutes
- Resolve complex issues and managing interdependencies across related projects;
- Monitoring and coordinating project schedules, milestones and deliverables
- Practicing project management standards, tools, techniques and methodologies for the project
- Ensure that all projects are being completed within established timelines, budgets, and quality standards;
- Manage risks, quality, and continuous improvement for the development, implementation, and support of complex IT business applications.
- Adjusted project schedules and resources as necessary to meet project objectives
- Provided a bi-weekly and monthly reporting (scorecards) to Execution Management Committee and ITEC
- Provided written feedback on performance to all project team members at the conclusion of each project
- Developed and maintaining an excellent relationship with the clients / stakeholders
- Providing leadership, support, help and guidance to team members
- Managing project resources
- Coordinating with other ministries and branches
- Tracking project’s performance by comparing baseline with actual progress

- Oversaw various IT projects for Mercedes-Benz France’s own retails and dealers to optimize their Information Systems (ERP, CO-FI-CO, DMS Autoline),
- Analyzing Mercedes-Benz Database Models (MS Sql Server 2005, MS Access, MS Excel Sheets, Raw Data) in order to plug in Business Intelligence Solution,
- Cost Estimation of the selected Business Intelligence Solution,
- Lead project team to manage Mercedes-Benz’s distribution system for used and new cars (passengers cars, commercials vehicles and industrial vehicles) reaching over 2000 retailers,
- Managed complex IT systems
- Client-facing responsibilities included supporting different departments (Passengers car direction, commercials vehicles direction, Business projects) helping them with strategy, systems integration delivery, administering and managing critical business processes and services.
- Consulted with team representatives from various departments and organizations,
- Project reviews and presentations,
- Estimated project activities, resources, and defined deliverables,
- Developed detailed project plans, scheduled work assignments, and monitored progress. .
- Reviewed and approved all project deliverables to ensure conformity with the specifications and quality requirements.
- Lead cross-functional process improvement teams meetings.
- Provided written feedback on performance to all project team members at the conclusion of each project.

Oversaw the data collection, data storage, and information management of various countries’ data (from international suppliers REXEL group) to increase data deployment speed.

- Performed needs analyses, functional and technical specifications.
- Oversaw the design of the application using UML (MS Vision) to manage Rexel’s international inventory
- Oversaw the development and the deployment of the data warehousing business solution (Cognos)
- Lead a team to deliver corporate reporting business solutions
- Developed detailed project plans, scheduled work assignments, and monitored team progress.
- Developed various project performance indicators i.e.: Corporate dashboard, reporting and scorecard solutions
- Oversaw the development and test of software applications using (C#, .NET)
- Modified and updated the ODS, data warehouse, staging database under Oracle 11g.
- Provided written feedback on performance to project team members.

Provided user-friendly software applications to the packaging industry (beverage & food, pharmaceutical and every-day consumer products) in order to reduce unplanned downtime, increase line efficiency, track quality, reduce losses and assess performance.

- Performed needs analyses, functional and technical specifications.
- Oversaw the design of the application using UML (MS Visio) to manage Rexel’s international inventory
- Oversaw the development and the deployment of the data warehousing business solution (Cognos)
- Lead a team to deliver corporate reporting business solutions
- Developed detailed project plans, scheduled work assignments, and monitored team progress.
- Developed various project performance indicators i.e.: Corporate dashboard, reporting and scorecard solutions
- Oversaw the development and the system integration testing of the software applications using (C#, .NET)
- Modified and updated the ODS, data warehouse, staging database under Oracle 11g.
- Provided written feedback on performance to project team members.

I not only led this project, but designed a system solution to detect and diagnose errors – now used across Europe. The MAGIC project aims at different diagnostic methods to setup a distributed diagnostic system, and at making the proper choice with respect to the industrial process.

- Performed business needs analysis, functional and technical specifications.
- Ensure project deliverables meet metallurgical client’s business requirements.
- Adjusted project schedules and resources as necessary to meet project objectives.
- Designed architecture (UML model) and tools to detect and diagnose errors in complex systems and distributed systems that provide decision makers (Data Mining) with direct access to the needed information to consider informed decisions, increase accountability, improve productivity, manage risks, cut costs and target resources.
- Developed the application using J2EE, Oracle 8i, hibernates, Tomcat, JSP, Struts, web logic.
- Provided written feedback on performance to all project team members at the conclusion of each project.

- Performed software and hardware needs analysis for a dynamic distributed system (dedicated to search information on Internet).
- Documented client requirements.
- Developed and implemented the distributed system using PostgreSQL,
- Developed a complex platform integrating several technologies J2EE (RMI, Socket, Applet, Swing)