1. 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
2. Industry
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/)
3. 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:
4. Farah Leon Info graph – Skills, Experience, Education, Languages
5. Example of Work (actual artefact in the appendix)
Project Budgeting: Project Status Report:
Project Financials:
6. Example of Work (actual artefact in the appendix)
PMO Advisory: Project Management Advisory:
8. Extracurricular Activity
Founder and Organizer, Jan 2013 – Present,
GTA Project Managers United, Toronto, ON
Accomplishment:
• 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.
9. 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
