Leila Chami

Current

• BI Manager at AbitibiBowater
• BI Manager at Bowater

Past

• BI Manager at Lafarge Cement
• BI Team Leader at Lafarge Cement
• Project leader/Business Analyst at GIRO

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Education

• Project Management Institute
• Université du Québec à Montréal
• Université de Montréal - HEC Montréal

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Leila Chami’s Summary

An Information System professional backed with formal qualifications and a career characterized by delivered results, and progressive advancement. A leader with a balanced-mix of business knowledge, technical competence and resource management skills needed to build strong working relationships, gain credibility at all levels of the organizations and deliver agreed upon requirements.Very pragmatic, very strong analytical skills, with particular experience and expertise in Business Intelligence and data warehousing.

Leila Chami’s Specialties:

Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI), IT Project Management.

Leila Chami’s Experience

• BI Manager

  AbitibiBowater

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)

  January 2008 — Present (2 years )

• BI Manager

  Bowater

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

• BI Manager

  Lafarge Cement

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Building Materials industry)

  July 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 5 months)

  Responsible for managing BI projects and Cement BI operations, participated in developing BI strategic planning and vision as well as projects prioritization, BI tool evaluation and selection, feasibility studies, Participated with projects teams in BI solutions analysis and design.

• BI Team Leader

  Lafarge Cement

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Building Materials industry)

  November 2000 — June 2005 (4 years 8 months)

  North American responsibility for all enhancements, operational support and projects associated with Cement Business Intelligence. Key liaison role with business users and other IT teams. Duties strategic analysis and design as well as employee performance reviews, career development and work assignment.

• Project leader/Business Analyst

  GIRO

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1998 — September 2000 (2 years 9 months)

  Responsible for managing implementation of the software packages, Key liaison role with business users and other development teams. Duties included communication with the users, analysis, design, tasks coordination,...

Leila Chami’s Education

• Project Management Institute

  PMP , Project Management , 2007 — 2007

• Université du Québec à Montréal

  Bachelor in Information Technology , Management Information Systems , 1996 — 1999

• Université de Montréal - HEC Montréal

  Graduate Diploma in Management , Management

Additional Information

Leila Chami’s Groups:

•    Business Intelligence Professionals
•    Lafarge North America Alumni

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