Jack Vrins

Jack Vrins

IT Executive - IT Consultant

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Sr. IT Manager at Vrins Inc. S-Corp (Self-employed)
Past
  • Board Member at Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
  • Supervisory Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young LLC
  • Sr. Financial Analyst at Federal Reserve Bank/Federal Home Loan Bank
  • Accounting Manager at Morgan Equipment Company
Education
  • University of San Francisco
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Hogeschool Antwerpen
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Jack Vrins’s Summary

Enterprise Senior Manager Information Technology/Strategic Management

Multi-industry/multi-disciplinary Senior Manager with a broad-based track record in IT Management, IT Strategy, and IT Management Consulting; complemented with a solid background in Finance/Accounting, and a working knowledge of international business.

IT Management & Strategy

- 15 years experience in Full Cycle Program/Project Management including IT Process Engineering, Change Management, Risk/Issue Management, Quality Assurance, and UAT.

- Solid working knowledge of hardware/software architecture, and information security.

- Positions held: CIO, Program Director, Program Manager, Sr. Project Manager, and Sr. Testing Manager.

- Managed/participated in medium to large cross enterprise projects ranging from the simple to the highly complex, $500K to $400MM in size, and involving legacy, client-server, e-commerce, and web technologies.

- Solid people manager with a demonstrated success in- and a passion-for building quality project teams.

- Solid skill set in leading multiple cross-organizational teams (direct/matrixed), including: scheduling (WBS), hiring, leveling, and on boarding.

- Highly skilled in positioning IT as a strategic value-add partner in addition to being a delivery partner, with a demonstrated success in opening the lines of communication between IT and business units in exploring alternative strategies and solutions to design and build cross organizational applications.

- Solid understanding of structured IT Governance, Quality Assurance, and Project Management methodologies such as PMI (PMBOK), Waterfall, SDLC, ADM (Accenture), and RUP as well as JAD and RAD development methodologies.


Education
MBA – Finance, University of San Francisco,
BA – Business/Economics, University of California

Details at http://www.vrinsconsulting.net

Jack Vrins’s Specialties:

-Information Technology, IT Management, Application Development, Governance
-Strategic Planning, Integration business and IT Strategies,
-Finance & Operations, Former CFO- Accounting/P&L, Budgeting, Forecasting
-International, Business/Government exposure to the Netherlands - fluent in Dutch, conversational in French/German

Please visit www.vrinsconsulting.net


Jack Vrins’s Experience

  • Sr. IT Manager

    Vrins Inc. S-Corp (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    January 1989Present (19 years 5 months)

    Management Consultant with multi-industry/multi-disciplinary consulting experiences in IT Management, Strategic Planning, Finance, and Operations

    Consulting Projects ranged from simple to highly complex, $500K to $400MM in size, up to 60 in direct/matrixed staff, and with a great variety of organizational structures and industries. See details at www.vrinsconsulting.net

  • Board Member

    Haight Ashbury Free Clinics

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20002002 (2 years)

  • Supervisory Senior Consultant

    Ernst & Young LLC

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

    January 1987January 1989 (2 years 1 month)

    Mergers & Acquisitions feasibility studies, Acquisition Due Diligence, Asset Restructuring, LBO Analysis

  • Sr. Financial Analyst

    Federal Reserve Bank/Federal Home Loan Bank

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

    January 1984January 1987 (3 years 1 month)

    Financial Analyst - Supervision & Regulation Department
    Mergers & Acquisitions failing financial institutions, turn-around and asset re-structuring, regulatory compliance and financial analysis

  • Accounting Manager

    Morgan Equipment Company

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Mining & Metals industry)

    January 1982January 1984 (2 years 1 month)

    Closing all monthly ledger, preparation monthly financial statement, budgeting and forecasting


Jack Vrins’s Education

  • University of San Francisco

    MBA, Corporate Finance, 19821985

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

    BA, Business/Economics, 19781982

    Activities and Societies:
    Vice President - Omicron Delta Epsilon - Economics Honor Society
    Resident Assistant - San Rafael Dorms
  • Hogeschool Antwerpen

    19731975


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