I'm
Mohamed Ayoub
Benjelloun .

A Digital Transformation Specialist | IT Program & Project Manager (PMP®).

Bilingual (English | French).
Based in Toronto (Ontario), Canada.

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Mohamed-Ayoub Benjelloun

Digital Transformation Specialist | IT Program & Project Manager (PMP®) | Leading Global Teams in Agile, DevOps, Cloud, Data & AI Transformations | Bilingual (English & French) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Digital Transformation Specialist with 16+ years of experience delivering complex, large-scale programs across North America, Europe, MEA, and the GCC. 10+ years leading and coaching distributed teams, driving Agile portfolio/program/project delivery, and enabling DevOps, Cloud, Data, and AI adoption. I help organizations move from ideas to shipped outcomes by aligning stakeholders, building clear delivery plans, and leading cross-functional teams to execute with speed and quality.

I’m often brought in when things are high-stakes: tight deadlines, multiple teams, unclear scope, or delivery that’s stuck. I bring structure, calm leadership, and strong communication while staying close to the technical reality (architecture, APIs, DevOps, data, and security) so decisions are practical and risks are managed early.

If you’re looking for someone who can own delivery end-to-end, accelerate execution, and keep everyone aligned (from executives to engineers), I’d love to connect. Please feel free to reach out and tell me what you’re building; I’ll respond quickly and suggest the next best step.

I'm Billingual (English, French). Based in Toronto (Ontario), Canada. Download CV (PDF)

Digital Transformation Specialist

Oct 2025 - Present

Helping organizations deliver complex, high-impact initiatives from strategy to execution. I support leaders and delivery teams across portfolio, program, and project levels, bringing hands-on expertise in Agile ways of working, delivery governance, and DevOps/Cloud enablement to improve speed, alignment, and measurable outcomes in distributed environments.

Contractor

Service Line Manager

Mar 2019 - Sep 2025

Built and steered IBM’s digital-consulting practice, matching emerging tech trends with high-performing, multidisciplinary talent.

IBM

IT Program & Project Manager

Mar 2019 - Sep 2025

Delivered multi-million-dollar transformation programs for IBM clients worldwide, directing cross-functional teams of up to 150 FTEs under Agile (Scrum, SAFe), Waterfall, and Hybrid models. Combined strategic leadership, technical depth, and delivery discipline to ensure measurable business outcomes.

IBM

IT Program & Project Manager

Sep 2016 - Feb 2019

Directed five concurrent mobile / web initiatives for France’s national postal service, blending Agile Scrum delivery with PMBOK / EVMS governance.

ATOS

Team Leader / Scrum Master

Sep 2014 - Aug 2016

Led cross-border development teams delivering large-scale web and data platforms for European institutional clients, including ENTSOG (Belgium) and Malakoff-Humanis (France). Combined technical leadership, full-stack development, and data engineering to build scalable, high-availability solutions.

CGI

Full-Stack Developer / Business Analyst

Mar 2011 - Aug 2014

Delivered enterprise and custom web platforms for Morocco’s renewable energy, government, and private sectors. Combined solution architecture, full-stack development, and UI/UX design to deliver performant, scalable, and compliant digital solutions.

NEOM

Full-Stack Developer / Business Analyst

Oct 2009 - Feb 2011

Delivered and supported high-traffic web properties for clients such as SOREAD 2M TV (Morocco), Yves Rocher (France), Groupama (France) and Hermès (France).

SMILE

Project Management Professional (PMP®)

2025

PMI

IBM Quantum Conversations

2025

IBM

IBM Agile Achiever

2023

IBM

IBM Agile Advocate

2023

IBM

Machine Learning with Sound

2019

IBM

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

2019

IBM

IBM Agile Explorer

2019

IBM

DevOps Master

2018

EXIN

Prince2 Foundation Certificate

2017

AXELOS

ITIL Foundation Certificate

2017

AXELOS

Certified Integrator in Agile Service Projects (CI-ASP)

2017

EXIN

Agile Scrum Master

2016

EXIN

Banking

5 Years

Insurance

3 Years

FinTech

1 year

E-Invoicing Regulations

1 year

Standards: UBL2.1, EN16931, RSA, X.509.

Personal Information Regulations

5 years

Laws: PA, PIPEDA, Law25, GDRP, GDRP-UK, Law08-09.

Gas Transportation

2 years

Wind Farms

3 years

Electric Vehicles

1 year

Public Sector

8 years

Countries: Canada, France, Morocco, Belgium

Agriculture

2 years

Postal Services

3 years

E-Commerce

5 years

Audio-Visual & Medias

4 years

Portfolio Management

Program Management

Project Management

Product Management

Change Management

Agile Coaching

Enterprise Design Thinking

Talent Acquisition

People Management

Technology Intelligence

Solution Architecture

Cloud

DevOps

Programming

Databases

APIs

Digital Strategy

Market Analysis

Audio-Video Production & Technology

Multimedia Processing

Photography

Programming

Bash, C, C++, Python, PHP, Javascript, Typescript, Django, Symfony, Zend, eZPublish, Drupal, WordPress, NodeJS, React, Flutter, NextJS, Sencha, EmberJS, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, LESS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, REST, SOAP, microservices, monolith, DRF, Postman, SoapUI, Apache JMeter, Locust, XML, JSON, UBL2.1, EN16931, RSA, X.509,

Data

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, SolR,

Cloud

GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure, RedHat OpenShift,

DevOps

Git, GitLab, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Apache2, Nginx, Gunicorn,

AV

Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Audition, LogicPro, Avid Media Composer, ProTools, Sibelius, ffmpeg, mido, python-rtmidi, pretty-midi, music21, fluidsynth,

Tools

JIRA/JQL, Trello, Confluence, Azure DevOps, PowerBI, MS Project, Mural, Figma

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrotechnology and Automation

Université Hassan I – Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Settat

Credential evaluated by WES (World Education Services) and found comparable to a Canadian bachelor’s degree (4 years).

2005 - 2009

English

Fluent

French

Fluent

Arabic

Fluent

Testimonials

Mohamed Ayoub Benjelloun was a key leader in the implementation of Atos’s application maintenance and enhancement project for La Poste. He proved to be determined and innovative. As the manager of a large team, he played an active role in the project’s success, notably by upskilling his colleagues in a challenging context and under tight deadlines. To top it off, Ayoub is a constructive colleague and a pleasure to work with.
Benoit Chailley / Head of Digital Factory @Eviden

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Use Case	Launching a Digital Consulting Practice from scratch.
Client	IBM CIC
Provider	IBM
Location	Morocco
Context	In 2019, IBM CIC Morocco’s delivery organization had two service lines (SAP and Data & Analytics). I was mandated to create a third one from scratch: iX & Digital Strategy, to address the growing demand for digital product delivery, experience design, and cloud-native engineering across IBM’s global client base. I defined the local positioning and operating model, then built and led a multidisciplinary team of ~30 (engineering, DevOps, UI/UX, QA, delivery/Agile roles), with a strong focus on quality, repeatability, and alignment with IBM standards. Beyond delivery leadership, I acted as the bridge between market demand and execution: partnering with sales/procurement/leadership on RFPs, SoWs, estimates, quotes, market analyses and PoCs, while continuously upskilling the team through OKR-based learning paths and Agile/DevOps enablement (CI/CD, cloud-native practices). This approach connected Morocco-based talent to worldwide IBM programs and supported enterprise clients across multiple geographies, including Air Canada, ExxonMobil, SAAQ, BP, BNP Paribas, Yara, DarkMatter, OCP, UM6P, Attijariwafa Bank, the Ministry of Health, and IBM P-Tech.
Size	+30 FTE
Start date	2019-03-19 12:00
End date	2025-09-16 12:00
Duration	80 Months
Role	Service Line Manager
Responsibilities	• Business Development & Contracting: Partnered with sales, procurement and leadership teams to craft RFP responses, draft SoWs, prepare client Quotes, contribute to Contracts redactions, shape Market Analyses, provide delivery Effort Estimations and build Proofs of Concept, ensuring alignment between delivery capabilities, client expectations, and IBM standards. • Strategic Workforce Leadership: Recruited and managed Frontend, Developers, Full-Stack, Mobile and DevOps engineers, UI/UX designers, QA testers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Agile Coaches and Business Analysts, scaling a full-stack delivery team from the ground up. • Technology Intelligence & Road-mapping: Conducted continuous market scanning to align service offerings and skill portfolios with evolving digital-strategy demand. • Talent Development: Crafted individual learning paths tied to quarterly OKRs, boosting capability maturity and billable utilization. • Agile & DevOps Enablement: Coached teams on Agile, CI/CD, and cloud-native best practices, driving delivery excellence and a culture of continuous improvement. • Key Clients: Air Canada (Canada), ExxonMobil (Canada), SAAQ (Canada), British Petroleum (United-Kingdom), BNP Paribas (France), Yara (Norway), DarkMatter Group (UAE), OCP Group (Morocco), UM6P (Morocco), Attijari Wafa Bank (Morocco), Ministry of Health (Morocco), IBM P-Tech (Morocco & South Africa).
Achievements	Built and steered IBM’s digital-consulting practice, matching emerging tech trends with high-performing, multidisciplinary talent.
Technologies	Python/Django, Java/Springboot, React, Flutter, Next.js, Swift, Kotlin, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Nginx, Gunicorn, Tomcat, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, IBM Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Redhat Openshift, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind, JavaScript, and IBM WatsonX.AI.
Methodologies	IBM Agile, Enterprise Design Thinking, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, PMBoK, EVMS.

Launching a Digital Consulting Practice from scratch.

Use Case	Continuously re-skilling a dynamic pool of available resources.
Client	IBM CIC
Provider	IBM
Location	Morocco
Context	I was tasked by IBM to actively manage the “bench” population—resources coming off assignments—so they wouldn’t remain idle while waiting for their next onboarding. To solve this, I founded and led the Phoenix Initiative, a structured internal program that turned bench time into a measurable investment: resources were coached and reskilled into new roles and technologies while contributing to the delivery of real internal products and resolving recurring pain points across teams. I built the program’s operating model end-to-end (vision, team structure, ceremonies, processes, and tooling), implemented a KPI/reporting layer to track progress and risks, and mentored 50+ participants through hands-on product development. I also drove JIRA adoption as a single source of truth for execution and reporting, and contributed to solution design and architecture reviews across a modern stack (backend, frontend, mobile, data, and cloud), ensuring the initiative could scale and run autonomously over time.
Size	+50 FTE
Start date	2024-01-01 12:00
End date	2024-12-31 12:00
Duration	12 Months
Role	Agile Program Manager
Responsibilities	• Program Design & Leadership: Established the initiative’s vision, teams, roles, ceremonies, processes, and tooling, ensuring long-term autonomy and scalability. • KPI & Reporting Framework: Defined performance indicators and reporting layers to track risks, gaps, and activity, giving initiative members actionable insights. • Coaching & Knowledge Sharing: Mentored 50+ resources, promoted collaboration, and built a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. • JIRA Champion: Accelerated adoption of JIRA as the program’s “Single Source of Truth,” unifying tracking and reporting across diverse roles. • Solution Design & Architecture: Contributed to products solution designs and conducted architecture reviews leveraging: Python/Django, Java/Springboot, React, Flutter, Next.js, Swift, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Nginx, Gunicorn, Tomcat, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, IBM Cloud, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind, JavaScript, and IBM WatsonX.AI.
Achievements	Founded and led Phoenix Initiative, an internal program created to coach, upskill, and reskill the dynamic IBM pool of available resources by engaging them in internal product development and pain-point resolution, enabling teams to experiment with new roles and gain maturity in career transitions.
Technologies	Python/Django, Java/Springboot, React, Flutter, Next.js, Swift, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Nginx, Gunicorn, Tomcat, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, IBM Cloud, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind, JavaScript, and IBM WatsonX.AI.
Methodologies	IBM Agile, Enterprise Design Thinking, Scrum, Kanban, PMBoK, EVMS.

Continuously re-skilling a dynamic pool of available resources.

Use Case	Unifying divergeant processes, methodologies & tools across a large program.
Client	British Petroleum
Provider	IBM
Location	United-Kingdom
Context	After acquiring Chargemaster Ltd. in 2018 (a leading EV charging solutions provider), bp launched the Pulsevision program to build and run the digital products used by customers and operations teams to order, use, monitor, and maintain EV charging services. In 2022, IBM supported the program’s scale-up by harmonizing ways of working—processes, roles, tools, ceremonies, and reporting—across 150+ FTE as the product portfolio and delivery footprint continued to expand.
Size	+150 FTE
Start date	2022-01-01 12:00
End date	2023-12-31 12:00
Duration	24 Months
Role	Lean Portfolio Management Consultant
Responsibilities	• Standardized Ways of Working: Audited existing processes and consolidated roles, ceremonies, documentation, and tooling into a single, program-wide framework. • KPI & Governance Framework: Defined efficiency and compliance metrics; implemented a dashboard-driven reporting cadence that surfaced team performance and risk early. • Azure DevOps Champion: Built role-based dashboards and project-to-portfolio roadmaps, accelerating adoption of Azure DevOps as the program’s single source of truth. Led data migration sub-project from multiple tools (including JIRA, AirTable, PowerBI and MS Excel) to Azure DevOps. • Architecture & Templates: Produced high-level product designs and reusable project templates to speed new-initiative kickoff and maintain design consistency. • Change Management: Mediated conflicts, mitigated resistance, and coached 150+ stakeholders (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, PMO, UX, QA, and Support) on the new Ways of Working. • Sustainable Handover: Delivered comprehensive training and documentation, then transitioned ownership of the new framework to internal leaders for long-term scalability.
Achievements	Drove an end-to-end Portfolio transformation for bp’s multi-team pulsevision initiative, unifying delivery practices, processes, roles, technologies and tooling across on- and offshore functions.
Methodologies	IBM Agile, Enterprise Design Thinking, Scrum, Kanban, PMBoK, EVMS.

Unifying divergeant processes, methodologies & tools across a large program.

Use Case	Optimizing teams capacities across a large program.
Client	SAAQ
Provider	IBM
Location	Quebec
Context	SAAQ is a Crown corporation mandated by the province of Quebec to register vehicles and drivers, and to ensure their activity within the province. IBM is being in charge since 2017 of building and maintaining the company apps over an SAP ecosystem by providing and managing over 100 offshore resources dispatched over 5 different locations.
Size	120
Duration	12 Months
Role	Resources Manager
Responsibilities	• Capacity & Workforce Planning: Balanced staffing levels across 110+ engineers, analysts, and QA specialists, ensuring each Agile squad met velocity and SLA targets. • End-to-End Talent Operations: Oversaw onboarding, offboarding, and interview pipelines; partnered with IBM partners to secure critical skills and back-fill gaps. • Governance & Risk Mitigation: Represented resourcing in steering committees, forecasted skill shortages, and executed mitigation plans to prevent delivery delays. • Skill-Matrix Management: Tracked team competencies, redeployed talent based on project demand, and advised on upskilling to match evolving SAP roadmap needs. • Productivity Analytics: Monitored utilization, leave, and overtime data to maintain consistent throughput while protecting team well-being and margins.
Achievements	Directed workforce planning and performance management for a 10-team (110+ FTE), on-/offshore SAP delivery organization supporting SAAQ.
Technologies	SAP

Optimizing teams capacities across a large program.

Use Case	Migrating a legacy Infrastructure to Cloud.
Client	Attijari Wafa Bank
Provider	IBM
Location	Morocco
Context	The "Cloud Consultancy" program delivered by IBM was the foundation of the new AWB digital strategy aiming to deliver a better value to its end users within a quicker time to market. IBM delivered during this mission the new AWB "Target Operation Model", "Governance functions", "Reference Architecture" and "Solution Design" documents, escorted the customer infrastructure migration to its new "RedHat OpenShift Private Cloud" instance, and made sure the necessary knowledge was inducted to its new organization through adequate learning modules. IBM also assisted AWB during this period to successfully roll out their new roadmap and enhance their internal KPIs.
Size	15
Duration	12 Months
Role	IT Project Manager
Responsibilities	• Business Development & Contracting: Partnered with sales, procurement and leadership teams to craft RFP responses, draft Statements of Work (SoWs), prepare client quotes, contribute to contract redactions, and provide delivery effort estimations, ensuring alignment between delivery capabilities, client expectations, and IBM standards. • Program Leadership: Directed 18 cross-functional engineers, architects, and testers under Agile Scrum; managed scope, schedule, and P&L for a US $1 M engagement. • Strategic Architecture: Produced the Target Operating Model, governance functions, reference architecture, and solution design that underpin the new cloud platform. • Seamless Migration: Orchestrated phased application moves to OpenShift and stood up all dev, test, and prod environments with zero critical-path downtime. • Run-Readiness: Developed runbooks, delivered hands-on training, and executed knowledge-transfer plans to ensure smooth handover to bank operations. • Stakeholder Alignment: Maintained executive steering-committee buy-in through transparent reporting and proactive risk mitigation—achieving on-time, on-budget go-live. • Solution Design & Architecture: Contributed to product solution designs and conducted architecture reviews leveraging Java/Springboot, Openshift, Ansible, ArgoCD, Git, Oracle, Redis, Kafka, React, Swift, Kotlin and IBM WatsonX.AI.
Achievements	Led the end-to-end migration of the bank’s core applications to a private RedHat OpenShift cloud, delivering a modern operating model and governance framework.

Migrating a legacy Infrastructure to Cloud.

Use Case	Responding urgently to a worldwide health crisis.
Client	Ministry of Health (Morocco)
Provider	IBM
Location	Morocco
Context	Led a multidisciplinary volunteer team to design and deliver digital solutions enabling the Ministry of Health to communicate critical COVID-19 information and services to Moroccan citizens.
Duration	10 Months
Role	IT Project Manager
Responsibilities	• Crisis Response Leadership: Coordinated developers, designers, and healthcare professionals under tight timelines to address urgent public health needs. • Digital Communication Platform: Directed the development of a web solution and an AI chatbot that centralized COVID-19 updates, prevention guidelines, and emergency contacts, ensuring accessible and reliable information nationwide. • Agile Delivery: Introduced lightweight agile practices to manage rapid requirement changes and ensure continuous delivery of high-impact features. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Bridged the gap between medical experts and technical contributors, translating public health requirements into functional digital solutions. • Scalable Impact: Enabled the Ministry of Health to provide clear, trusted, and timely communication at scale during the pandemic’s critical early stages. • Solution Design & Architecture: Contributed to product solution designs and conducted architecture reviews leveraging Java/Springboot, React, Swift, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Gunicorn, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, IBM Cloud, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and IBM WatsonX.AI.
Achievements	Led a multidisciplinary volunteer team to design and deliver digital solutions enabling the Ministry of Health to communicate critical COVID-19 information and services to Moroccan citizens.
Technologies	Java/Springboot, React, Swift, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Gunicorn, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, IBM Cloud, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and IBM WatsonX.AI.
Methodologies	Agile Scrum, DevOps

Responding urgently to a worldwide health crisis.

Use Case	Delivering innovation through industry-focused AI.
Client	OCP Group
Provider	IBM
Location	Morocco
Context	The "Agriculture Local Market" program is an OCP Digital Transformation initiative helping Moroccan Farmers to increase their agricultural yields and revenues by digitizing the farming stakeholders business processes (Laboratories, Agronomists, Fertilizer Distributors, ...) and allowing them to interact in an effective way. Technologies such as WatsonX.AI, Weather Company APIs, Android/Kotlin, iOS/Swift, Microservices, Rest APIs, Symfony, Angular, Microsoft Azure, were used to deliver the 6 program applications and achieve OCP business goals.
Size	60 FTE
Duration	12 Months
Role	IT Project Manager
Responsibilities	• Business Development & Contracting: Partnered with sales, procurement, and leadership teams to craft RFP responses, draft Statements of Work (SoWs), prepare client quotes, contribute to contract redactions, and provide delivery effort estimations, ensuring alignment between delivery capabilities, client expectations, and corporate standards. • End-to-End Portfolio Leadership: Managed scope, schedule, and a $2M yearly budget across three Scrum workstreams; directed 50+ cross- functional engineers, developers, data scientists, data engineers, data analysts, testers, business analysts, and Scrum Masters. • Agile Governance: Integrated Scrum execution with PMBOK and EVMS controls to maintain cost and schedule variance within plan while meeting quality gates. • Stakeholder Alignment: Chaired executive steering committees to unify goals and risk posture across OCP business units and external partners. • DevOps Industrialization: Introduced CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code, accelerating release cycles and improving deployment reliability. • Solution Design & Architecture: Led product solution designs and conducted architecture reviews, ensuring the robustness and scalability of a modern technology stack including Microsoft Azure (cloud), Azure Pipelines (CI/CD), Python/Django (REST APIs), PostgreSQL (DBMS), Azure Data Factory (ETL), Azure Databricks with Delta Lake (data warehousing), WatsonX.AI (AI components), The Weather Company APIs and satellite imagery (data sources), Kafka (message queuing), Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Grafana (monitoring and observability), Android/Kotlin, iOS/Swift, React (frontends), and Tableau (data visualization). • Operational Handover: Transitioned RUN support to OCP internal teams, delivering knowledge transfer, KPI/KRI reporting, and a continuous improvement roadmap.
Achievements	Oversaw OCP’s digital farming transformation program, delivering six mobile and web applications that connected laboratories, researchers, agronomists, and fertilizer distributors to boost Moroccan farmers’ yields and revenue.
Technologies	Microsoft Azure (cloud), Azure Pipelines (CI/CD), Python/Django (REST APIs), PostgreSQL (DBMS), Azure Data Factory (ETL), Azure Databricks with Delta Lake (data warehousing), WatsonX.AI (AI components), The Weather Company APIs and satellite imagery (data sources), Kafka (message queuing), Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Grafana (monitoring and observability), Android/Kotlin, iOS/Swift, React (frontends), and Tableau (data visualization).

Delivering innovation through industry-focused AI.

Use Case	Market Assessment for Launching a New Data Center Activity with a Data Sovereignty Focus
Client	OCP Group
Provider	IBM
Location	Morocco
Context	IBM conducted this market analysis to assess the needs, constraints, and outlook of the Moroccan and broader African market for colocation/cloud services and data sovereignty, and to support OCP in launching its new data center activity. The analysis aimed to help stakeholders understand the key internal and external factors shaping this emerging market, so they could define the right positioning and offerings to best serve Moroccan and African companies.
Duration	12 Months
Role	Market Analyst
Responsibilities	• Scope & Methodology: Defined C-suite research objectives and KPIs; built the interview guide and data-collection framework. • Pan-African Market Mapping: Profiled target countries, quantified addressable demand, and benchmarked incumbent and emerging competitors. • Regulatory & Standards Review: Assessed national and international compliance requirements to de-risk go-to-market plans. • Executive Insight Gathering: Scheduled and conducted senior-level (CTO, CEO, CIO, CFO) interviews, aggregating qualitative and quantitative findings. • Strategic Analysis: Synthesized D.R.O.C (Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities and Challenges) to articulate the business case for investment. • Board-Level Deliverable: Authored the final market-analysis report and recommendations adopted by OCP leadership to steer datacenter design and commercialization.
Achievements	Translated pan-African demand, competitive benchmarking, and regulatory constraints into an actionable business case adopted by OCP leadership to steer datacenter design and commercialization.
Technologies	public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PssS, Openshift, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, VMWare, KVM, Kubernetes, SAN, NAS, object storage, IAM, SSO, HSM, KMS, VLANm VRF, WAF, DDos, SOC, SIEM, ...
Methodologies	Primary/secondary market research; TAM/SAM/SOM sizing; competitive benchmarking; regulatory/compliance assessment (data sovereignty); exec interviews + synthesis; D.R.O.C + SWOT/PESTEL; business case & GTM framing

Market Assessment for Launching a New Data Center Activity with a Data Sovereignty Focus

Use Case	An Incremental program transition approach: from N to 1 vendor, 0 to 60 FTE, legacy to cloud, waterfall to Agile/DevOps.
Client	LA POSTE
Provider	ATOS
Location	Morocco
Context	As part of the “MESSI V2” contract (2016), LAPOATE (France’s main postal services organization) engaged ATOS to develop and maintain its mobile and web applications while delivering several large-scale transformation workstreams. The scope included Red Hat OpenShift cloud migrations, transitioning services from multiple vendors to Atos, Agile adoption and coaching, change management, and DevOps implementation (deployment pipeline industrialization and automated testing). The program operated under tight SLAs with a strong focus on service continuity, including ongoing monitoring, controlled releases, and operational rigor to ensure stability, performance, and reliable delivery.
Size	60 FTE
Budget	< 5 MM USD / Year
Start date	2016-09-01 12:00
End date	2019-02-18 12:00
Duration	30 Months
Role	IT Program Manager
Responsibilities	• Portfolio & P&L Ownership: Managed €3 M annual revenue and 60+ offshore engineers across five multi-disciplinary squads. • Business Development & Contracting: Partnered with sales, procurement and leadership teams to craft RFP responses, draft Statements of Work (SoWs), prepare client quotes, contribute to contract redactions, and provide delivery effort estimations, ensuring alignment between delivery capabilities, client expectations, and ATOS standards. • Integrated Governance: Controlled scope, schedule, quality, and risk via Scrum ceremonies, PMBOK processes, and EVMS cost tracking. • Executive Steering: Established and chaired stakeholder committees, aligning goals, milestones, and risk posture across La Poste business and IT units. • Resource & Vendor Management: Recruited, developed, and performance-managed talent; oversaw procurement and vendor transitions. • Agile Coaching: Coached +50 stakeholders (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Engineers, UX, QA, Infra, Security) on Agile values, roles, and ceremonies; Audited existing processes and consolidated roles, ceremonies, documentation, and tooling into a single, program-wide framework. unified metrics and tooling; and embedded continuous improvement practices that enhanced team velocity, collaboration, and delivery predictability and performances. • DevOps Industrialization: Implemented CI/CD pipelines, OpenShift cloud migration standards, and automated testing, improving release cadence and SLA compliance. • Operational Excellence: Monitored KPI/KRI/KPA/KRA dashboards and led maintenance streams to meet aggressive uptime and support targets.
Achievements	Directed five concurrent mobile / web initiatives for France’s national postal service, blending Agile Scrum delivery with PMBOK / EVMS governance.
Technologies	PHP, Symfony, Android/Kotlin, iOS/Swift, Drupal, MemCached, SolR, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, REST API, Nginx, SSL, Bash, Linux, VMWare, OpenShift, Git, Jenkins, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, React.
Methodologies	PMBoK, EVMS, Agile Scrum, Hybrid.

An Incremental program transition approach: from N to 1 vendor, 0 to 60 FTE, legacy to cloud, waterfall to Agile/DevOps.

Use Case	Service Continuity Management: Structuring/Automating a monitoring activity, responding to tight SLAs, enhancing root causes analyses and reducing incidents response time.
Client	LAPOSTE
Provider	ATOS
Location	France
Context	As part of the “MESSI V2” contract (2016), LAPOATE (France’s main postal services organization) engaged ATOS to develop and maintain its mobile and web applications while delivering several large-scale transformation workstreams. The scope included Red Hat OpenShift cloud migrations, transitioning services from multiple vendors to Atos, Agile adoption and coaching, change management, and DevOps implementation (deployment pipeline industrialization and automated testing). The program operated under tight SLAs with a strong focus on service continuity, including ongoing monitoring, controlled releases, and operational rigor to ensure stability, performance, and reliable delivery.
Size	60 FTE
Start date	2016-09-01 12:00
End date	2019-02-18 12:00
Duration	30 Months
Role	IT Program Manager
Methodologies	ITIL, PMBoK, EVMS, Agile Scrum, Hybrid.

Service Continuity Management: Structuring/Automating a monitoring activity, responding to tight SLAs, enhancing root causes analyses and reducing incidents response time.

Use Case	implementing a sensitive data legal framework (GDRP) over a large program.
Client	LAPOSTE
Provider	ATOS
Location	France
Size	60 FTE
Start date	2016-09-01 12:00
End date	2019-02-18 12:00
Duration	30 Months
Role	IT Program Manager

implementing a sensitive data legal framework (GDRP) over a large program.

Use Case	Malakoff humanis
Client	Malakoff-Humanis
Provider	CGI (ex Umanis)
Location	France
Responsibilities	Delivered and supported a Drupal-based web solution providing business-critical services and content management for stakeholders • Solution Development: Developed features and maintained a scalable PHP/Drupal application, ensuring compliance with evolving business requirements. • Database & Performance: Designed and optimized PostgreSQL schemas, improving query efficiency and data integrity. • Integration & APIs: Built and integrated SOAP APIs to enable secure data exchange with client systems. • Maintenance & Support: Provided long-term application support, issue resolution, and iterative enhancements. • Technologies: PHP, Drupal, MemCached, SolR, PostgreSQL, SOAP API, Nginx, SSL, Bash, Linux, Git, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, JQuery.

Use Case	ENTSOG
Client	ENTSOG
Provider	CGI
Location	Belgium
Context	"Transparency " is a platform targeting the compliance of the European gas transmission system with the European Council regulations by sharing gas data with European citizens through an intuitive and real time interface: https://transparency.entsog.eu/
Size	12 FTE
Role	Team Leader / Scrum Master
Responsibilities	Developed and maintained a data-intensive web platform for the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG), enabling transparent publication of gas transmission data across member states. • Solution Development: Built core modules using PHP and Symfony REST APIs, EmberJS frontend, MySQL as RDBS and MongoDB as a noSQL DBMS, synchronized through multiple frequencies CRONs ensuring high responsiveness and scalability. • Data Management: Implemented complex data pipelines and ETL flows using SQL Server, integrating heterogeneous sources (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, CSV, XLS, JSON, XML, …). • Integration & APIs: Designed and consumed REST APIs to exchange data with internal and external systems, ensuring interoperability across European stakeholders. • System Reliability: Configured and optimized Nginx for high-availability deployments, handling load balancing, large-scale queries and traffic from multiple operators. • Technologies: PHP, Symfony, REST API, SQL Server, MSSQL, PowerBI, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CSV, XLS, JSON, XML, Nginx, SSL, Bash, Linux, Git, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, EmberJS, JavaScript.

Use Case	Nareva
Client	Nareva
Provider	Neom
Location	Morocco
Context	The "Modèle Energétique" platform is targeting the compliance of the private wind farms built in Morocco with the local law “13-09” by allowing them through an intuitive and real time interface to monitor the energy they produce and estimate the loss of power engaged during planned or unplanned downturns.
Role	Full-Stack Developer

Use Case	TAREC
Client	TAREC
Provider	NEOM
Context	The "Modèle Energétique" platform is targeting the compliance of the private wind farms built in Morocco with the local law “13-09” by allowing them through an intuitive and real time interface to monitor the energy they produce and estimate the loss of power engaged during planned or unplanned downturns.
Role	Full-Stack Developer
Responsibilities	Designed and delivered a real-time wind-farm monitoring portal enabling operators to comply with Morocco’s Law 13-09 energy-reporting requirements and calculate wind turbines cut down costs in MAD based on temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and maintenance durations within each farm. • Full-Stack Development: Built and maintained Linux/Nginx web services in PHP/Symfony with JavaScript front-ends and Pythons scripts; implemented REST APIs and data-persistence in MySQL. • Modern UI/UX & QA: Produced responsive interfaces with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and SASS; instituted GIT version control and PHPUnit test automation. • Solution Architecture & Advisory: Conducted tech-watch and feasibility studies, translated business needs into detailed specs, costings, and project plans. • Stakeholder Engagement: Contributed to steering committees, aligning energy-sector stakeholders on regulatory milestones and product roadmaps. • Team Coordination: Led day-to-day development activities, recruiting, mentoring, and performance-reviewing team members to ensure on-time, quality releases. • Technologies: PHP, Symfony, SASS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, D3.js, MySQL, MemCached, Nginx, Git, SSL, Bash, VMWare, Linux.

TAREC

Use Case SOREAD 2M
Client SOREAD 2M
Provider SMILE
Location Morocco
Role Full-Stack Developer

SOREAD 2M
Use Case GROUPAMA
Client GROUPAMA
Provider SMILE
Location France
Role Full-Stack Developer

GROUPAMA
Use Case YVES ROCHER
Client YVES ROCHER
Provider SMILE
Location France
Role Full-Stack Developer

YVES ROCHER

Use Case	SOREAD 2M
Client	SOREAD 2M
Provider	SMILE
Location	Morocco
Role	Full-Stack Developer

Use Case	GROUPAMA
Client	GROUPAMA
Provider	SMILE
Location	France
Role	Full-Stack Developer

Use Case	YVES ROCHER
Client	YVES ROCHER
Provider	SMILE
Location	France
Role	Full-Stack Developer

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I'm Mohamed Ayoub Benjelloun .

A Digital Transformation Specialist | IT Program & Project Manager (PMP®). Bilingual (English | French). Based in Toronto (Ontario), Canada.

About Me

Mohamed-Ayoub Benjelloun

Digital Transformation Specialist | IT Program & Project Manager (PMP®) | Leading Global Teams in Agile, DevOps, Cloud, Data & AI Transformations | Bilingual (English & French) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Digital Transformation Specialist

Oct 2025 - Present

Contractor

Service Line Manager

Mar 2019 - Sep 2025

IBM

IT Program & Project Manager

Mar 2019 - Sep 2025

IBM

IT Program & Project Manager

Sep 2016 - Feb 2019

ATOS

Team Leader / Scrum Master

Sep 2014 - Aug 2016

CGI

Full-Stack Developer / Business Analyst

Mar 2011 - Aug 2014

NEOM

Full-Stack Developer / Business Analyst

Oct 2009 - Feb 2011

SMILE

Project Management Professional (PMP®)

2025

PMI

IBM Quantum Conversations

2025

IBM

IBM Agile Achiever

2023

IBM

IBM Agile Advocate

2023

IBM

Machine Learning with Sound

2019

IBM

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

2019

IBM

IBM Agile Explorer

2019

IBM

DevOps Master

2018

EXIN

Prince2 Foundation Certificate

2017

AXELOS

ITIL Foundation Certificate

2017

AXELOS

Certified Integrator in Agile Service Projects (CI-ASP)

2017

EXIN

Agile Scrum Master

2016

EXIN

Banking

5 Years

Insurance

3 Years

FinTech

1 year

E-Invoicing Regulations

1 year

Personal Information Regulations

5 years

Gas Transportation

2 years

Wind Farms

3 years

Electric Vehicles

1 year

Public Sector

8 years

I'm
Mohamed Ayoub
Benjelloun .

A Digital Transformation Specialist | IT Program & Project Manager (PMP®).

Bilingual (English | French).
Based in Toronto (Ontario), Canada.