Strategic sourcing and continuous improvement
Market analysis, RFQ/RFP process management, negotiation, and supplier relationships — the foundation of the role, still active.
Achievements
What I've actually delivered.
Not a list of keywords — real problems, the approach taken, and what came out of it, including when it wasn't perfect.
Before Canam
Sogesco — operations & leadership
Nov. 2023 — present
Canam — sourcing & digital transformation
Current positioning
Operations & digital transformation manager
Strategic sourcing first, then internal digital solutions.
🏗️ Canam Ponts — 2023 to 2026
Official title: Advisor - Strategic Sourcing & Digital Solutions
The official title covers strategic sourcing. The real scope of responsibilities expanded to designing and building cross-department digital solutions — described below.
My role at Canam has two sides that coexist: strategic sourcing and continuous improvement from day one, and building digital solutions for real operational problems — neither at the expense of the other.
🏆 Main case study — Multi-department digital platform
- Problem
- Seven distinct functions — production, quality, planning, estimating, finance, procurement, field operations — worked with scattered data and tools, with no common platform to share information.
- Context
- Each department had its own needs and its own data history, with no one owning the cross-department view.
- Approach
- Analyzed each department's needs and identified common pain points — information access, automation, visibility — rather than a top-down imposed solution.
- Decision
- Design a common internal platform rather than adding a system per department, to avoid duplication and provide common access governance. The alternatives formally evaluated before this decision are not documented.
- Solution
- Internal services and shared dashboards across the seven functions, with role-based structured access.
- Technology
- Governance
- Role-based access control (OAuth/RBAC) built into the design, not added afterward. An associated RAG solution applies the same principle: authorization before retrieval — see below.
- Result
- A functional internal platform covering seven functions — not a full ERP, a set of shared services and dashboards. No adoption or time-savings metric was formally measured.
Other achievements
End-to-end automation of MTR analysis
Mill test reports (MTRs) received by email from steel manufacturing mills were reviewed manually. I designed a solution that automates collection, supplier identification, chemical composition data extraction, compliance rule checks, and alert generation.
🔍 A working solution, built solo. After I left, it wasn't picked up by the organization — the code still lives in my personal GitHub. A lesson I now apply everywhere: a solution's longevity depends as much on documentation and knowledge transfer as on technical quality.
Machine capacity and planning solution
Turned equipment capacity and availability data into a usable base for operations planning.
RAG solution with authorization before retrieval
Contextual access to internal knowledge on the platform, built on one non-negotiable principle: access control is enforced before content is retrieved, not after — so a model can never return information the user isn't authorized to see.
Flow overview
MTR
RAG
Multi-department platform
Operational discipline before technology.
🚌 Autobus Québec Métro / Sogesco School Transport — 2018 to 2023
Official title: Senior Director - Quebec Branches
Before Canam: multi-site leadership, team management, maintenance, health & safety, field communication — the foundation everything since has built on.
Operational continuity and preventive maintenance
Operational management through COVID-19 (continuity, rapid adaptation, communication under uncertainty) and structuring preventive maintenance planning by vehicle/period.
Field communication and pragmatic digital transformation
Set up SMS communication with drivers and new employee communication channels — solving a real need first, adding technology second.
Health & safety and field improvements
Identified and fixed risks observed on site — pit, staircase, electrical connections, connectors.
Driver experience, recognition, and retention
Improved recruitment (including referral hiring), seating, a recognition program, and an attendance bonus.
Commercial standardization and infrastructure
Standardized charter trip rates and improved infrastructure/parking for operational capacity.
Designing and shipping a product end-to-end, alone.
🚀 FlowSOP — own product, solo founder
Digital standard operating procedure (SOP) and field execution software, designed, built, and launched solo — since September 2025.
FlowSOP — own product, solo founder
Business problem: subcontractor task progress had no real-time visibility from the office. FlowSOP replaces paper checklists with guided mobile procedures with photo proof, real-time tracking, audit-ready reports, and offline support in limited-connectivity conditions.
See the YouTube channel →
Making cross-department information actually accessible.
🧩 FlowSOP Nexus — separate project, actively in development
A prototype multi-department platform — information access, document management, and email automation — deployed on Google Cloud Run. A separate project from FlowSOP, still in development.
A note
Some achievements above don't carry a quantified metric (time, cost, precision) — because none was formally measured, not because I'd rather leave it out. I'd rather give an honest qualitative result than an invented percentage.
Next step
Let's talk about your business problem.
Describe the current situation — a real operational problem is enough to start.