Simon Kreis, M.Sc.

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Senior Oracle HCM & Agentic AI Consultant · Montreal, QC, Canada

kreisconsulting.ca · linkedin.com/in/simonkreis · github.com/SimonKreis

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Profile

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM consultant and module lead building agentic AI inside the ERP. 9 years in enterprise IT, 5 in Oracle HCM (Deloitte, IBM): 4 end-to-end implementations for organizations of ~600 to 23,000 employees. Designed a multi-agent Oracle AI Agent Studio pipeline with RAG and guardrails. Certified in AI Agent Studio, Oracle Recruiting and Talent.

Skills

AI & agentic systems: Generative AI (LLMs) · AI agents & multi-agent design · Oracle AI Agent Studio · Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) · Conversational AI · Agent guardrails & testing · Prompt & context engineering · Agent harnesses · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Agentic coding (Claude Code) · LLM orchestration

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM: Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC) · Recruiting Booster · Talent Management · Core HR · Fusion Security · Fast Formula · Approvals/BPM · Visual Builder Studio · HDL · FBDI · Quarterly updates & Redwood · AMS

Data & integration: Python · SQL · TypeScript · HTML/CSS · REST/SOAP APIs · Microsoft Graph · Azure app registrations · CPaaS · Workflow automation · Power BI (PL-300) · OTBI · BI Publisher · Excel & VBA · Data conversion & migration · ETL · Data governance

Delivery methods: Solution design · Requirements & user stories · Acceptance criteria · SIT/UAT · Test automation (Playwright) · Defect triage · Go-live & hypercare · Agile/Scrum · Jira · Azure DevOps · Git & GitHub · BPMN

Soft skills: Module leadership · Stakeholder management · Workshop facilitation · Change management · Coaching & knowledge transfer

Languages: French (native) · English (fluent, C2)

Experience

IBM · Oracle HCM Consultant

Sep 2022 – Present

  • Across IBM mandates: Recruiting and Talent expertise and work-package estimates on 3–5 bids; contractual change requests scoped

Innergex Renewable Energy · HCM Modules Lead (AMS)

Aug 2026 – Present

Application Management Services on the live Oracle HCM estate.

Renewable-energy multinational, ~600 employees, 4 countries (Canada, US, France, Chile).

  • Incident resolution: HCM bugs across the full footprint, including Workforce Structures, Compensation, Learning; 2–4 tickets a day
  • Quarterly updates: owner for the client; release-notes impact analysis and testing
  • AI-assisted delivery: ticket triage, documentation, test scripts, data preparation

Chantier Davie Canada · Recruiting Booster & AI Agent Studio Module Lead

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 12 mo

Oracle Recruiting Cloud, Recruiting Booster and AI agents, end to end; go-live Jul 2026.

Defense-sector shipyard, Lévis, QC.

  • Agent pipeline: Oracle AI Agent Studio flow for candidate communications, rebuilt and extended; bilingual routing, custom fallback agents, RAG over 9 knowledge bases; designed, configured and tested end to end
  • Agent design: career and application advisor (role fit against the candidate’s CV, company Q&A, application follow-up); ~12 nodes and sub-agents; behavioral guardrails against reputational risk
  • Root-cause analysis: AI agent failure traced to blocked REST calls in network traffic; Oracle support escalation driven to vendor confirmation
  • Candidate messaging: SMS, email and WhatsApp channels for a ~1,200-hire ramp-up; API access via Azure permissions; Teams, Meta WhatsApp and Syniverse CPaaS over REST
  • Scope live: Recruiting, Recruiting Booster, OTBI recruiting reporting, recruiting integrations, security, Fast Formulas
  • Data conversion: recruiting conversion strategy for the cutover plan; HDL loads; data governance for the go-live
  • AI-assisted delivery: documentation, test scripts, HDL data preparation

Sépaq · Recruiting Module Lead & BI Developer

Nov 2023 – Aug 2025 · 22 mo

Oracle Recruiting Cloud, end to end: legacy replacement, go-live, support, Redwood activation.

Quebec Crown corporation, ~3,400 employees.

  • Reporting: ~5 OTBI dashboards for recruiting leadership (data models, custom SQL); BI Publisher offer letters on a generated XML data model; ETL and data quality for reporting
  • Configuration: Fast Formulas automating candidate-selection steps; approvals and BPM workflow; Visual Builder Studio candidate experience; branded HTML/CSS templates
  • Security: custom roles, data security policies, areas of responsibility
  • Quarterly updates: impact analysis, Redwood transition
  • Client & change management: workshops, stakeholder alignment, admin training, test coaching through configuration and testing

Innergex Renewable Energy · Recruiting Module Lead

Jan 2023 – Oct 2023 · 10 mo

Oracle Recruiting Cloud implementation, end to end through go-live.

Renewable-energy multinational, ~600 employees, 4 countries.

  • Module delivery: requirements workshops, configuration, bilingual career site; admin training, test coaching
  • Integrations: Teams, LinkedIn, DocuSign; client guided through Azure and Microsoft Graph app registrations

Sépaq · Conversion Lead

Sep 2022 – Jan 2023 · 5 mo

Core HR and Talent data conversion off legacy systems.

Quebec Crown corporation, ~3,400 employees.

  • Core HR and Talent records: HDL and FBDI loads, validation controls; Quebec Law 25 privacy, masked test data

Deloitte Canada · Oracle HCM Solution Designer

Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 · 16 mo

Federated Co-operatives Limited · Talent Management Support Implementer

Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 · 16 mo

Talent Management implementation, end to end.

Western Canadian wholesale and retail co-operative, 23,000 employees.

  • Goals, Performance, Talent Review, Succession: rating models, KPIs, workflows; 50+ user stories to testing

City of Grande Prairie · QA Analyst

Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 6 mo

SIT/UAT strategy for the Talent module.

Municipal government, Alberta; concurrent with the FCL mandate.

  • Test strategy: scenario design, SIT and regression execution, defect triage to resolution, quality governance

Government of Saskatchewan · Data Analyst

Sep 2021 – Nov 2021 · 3 mo

Payroll reconciliation through hypercare.

Provincial government; concurrent with the FCL mandate.

  • Payroll reconciliation: automated with Excel, SQL and VBA; application support after go-live

Azurdev · Product Manager

Aug 2020 – Jun 2021 · 11 mo

  • Go-to-market: market research, customer acquisition and UX testing for a CMS product

ARCHICONCEPT · Internal IT Consultant

Sep 2017 – Aug 2020 · 36 mo

  • In-house IT: servers, network, security, identity, backups; Microsoft 365 and remote-work transition

Projects

Certifications

Education

  • HEC Montréal · Graduate Microprogram in Business Analysis (IT) · 2020 – 2021
  • HEC Montréal · M.Sc. in Management, with thesis · 2017 – 2019
    Thesis in intercultural management: workplace integration of Indian IT professionals in Montreal.
  • Université de Montréal · B.Sc. in Sociology · 2015 – 2017
  • Université de Montréal · Major in Anthropology · 2013 – 2015