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What are you most passionate about?

Building a solid sustainable team, and coaching it to achieve perfection

Posted @ 04:37PM, January 22, 2007 by Jack Vrins | Permalink
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Work history

Principal

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How would you describe your time at Vrins Inc. - Principal, Co...?

Multi-industry/multi-disciplinary Senior Manager with 20 years of broad-based management consulting experiences in IT Management and Strategic Planning complemented with a solid background in Finance/Accounting and a working knowledge of international business.

Core Strengths

IT
Management and Strategy
-15 years experience in IT Management and IT Governance including: Full Cycle Program/Project Management, Business/Process Engineering, Change and Risk Management, Quality Assurance, and UAT. Working knowledge of hardware/software Architecture, and MIS security.

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

-Directed up to 60 in direct/matrixed staff, and including all functional aspects including business case, planning and scheduling, costing and budget, scope control, change/risk control, and resource hiring, leveling, and on boarding.

-Expert 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.

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

-Highly skilled in positioning IT as a strategic value-add partner in addition to being a delivery partner.

-Demonstrated success in partnering with business units in exploring alternative strategies and solutions to design enterprise/cross organizational applications, and to bring projects in on time and on budget.

Finance & Operations
-Formulation of internal productivity strategies through Business Transformation and Process Re-Engineering, Risk Management, Change Control, Mergers & Acquisitions, Start-up & Turnaround.

-Positions held: CFO and COO, Non-Profit Board Member, Accounting Manager, and Sr. Financial Analyst.

International
-Business/Government exposure to the Netherlands, and Executive Cultural Consulting for international executives

-Bi-lingual - fluent in Dutch, conversational in French/German.
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ernst & young January 1987 to January 1989
Supervisory Senior Consultant

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Mergers & Acquisition Feasibility Studies, Asset Acquisition Due Diligence, Asset Restructuring
Federal Reserve Bank January 1984 to January 1987
Sr. Financial Analyst

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How would you describe your time at Federal Reserve Bank?

Mergers & Acquisitions failing Banks, Savings & Loans, Asset/Liability Re-structuring, Compliance

Education

university of san francisco September 1982 to January 1985
MBA

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university of california September 1979 to June 1982
BA

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