Jacques Giraud

Current

• Project Director, TS App Remediation & Rationalization at Intria
• Managing Partner at Concentrated Consulting

Past

• Partner at Disus Inc
• Principal at Concentrated Consulting
• Senior Consultant at Oracle Inc

• Manager, Technical Services at Disus Inc

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Jacques Giraud’s Summary

To leverage significant IT consulting and management experience with local, regional and offshore teams in North America and Asia. Interested in IT management, pre-sales, consulting or program management positions.

Jacques Giraud’s Specialties:

Sold and delivered consulting services, strategic and tactical uses of technology. business/IT management, program and risk management, business process improvement/redesign, business case analysis and presentation and solution development. Managed all aspects of consulting organization.

Jacques Giraud’s Experience

• Project Director, TS App Remediation & Rationalization

  Intria

  (Computer Software industry)

  2008 — Present (less than a year)

• Managing Partner

  Concentrated Consulting

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1993 — Present (15 years 10 months)

  Sold and delivered consulting services to a wide variety of clients, focusing primarily although not exclusively on strategic and tactical uses of technology. Managed all aspects of consulting organization.
  
  Accomplishments:
  
  • Successfully managed a $10,000,000 CAD conversion of an in-house trust system to an outsourced back office provider using local and regional teams for a Canadian chartered bank.
  
  • Managed a Microsoft-based development group consisting of 7 project managers and 35 technical staff while increasing gross margins from 15% to 42%.
  
  • Successfully managed a $5,000,000 USD Internet mutual fund supermarket development from Toronto with clients in Boston and San Francisco for a software development consultancy.
  
  • Acted at Chief Technical Officer for startup medical technology company. Responsible for product development, IT and sat on the board of directors.

• Partner

  Disus Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1991 — January 1993 (2 years 1 month)

  Purchased the consulting firm that I started my career with. Sold, implemented and delivered custom solution into telecommunications management, freight and logistics and traffic control industries. Implemented solutions in New Zealand and Australia for government and private sector carriers.

• Principal

  Concentrated Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1988 — 1991 (3 years)

  Created an independent consultancy providing niche software development and technical services based around VAX/VMS and Unix.

• Senior Consultant

  Oracle Inc

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1988 (less than a year)

  Responsible for design and implementation of an internal order processing system (precursor to Oracle Financials) as well as Oracle based consulting for clients in real estate, manufacturing and financial services

• Manager, Technical Services

  Disus Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1982 — 1987 (5 years)

  Recruited as a developer directly from university before degree completion and was promoted within 3 years to Manager, Technical Services. Interviewed and hired over 30 staff and managed 5 project managers. Acted as technical lead on 30 different projects, worked with the senior management team to run the overall business and set direction. Developed a CASE tool called Deft that was later sold to Sybase and renamed PowerDesigner.

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