- E-Mail: jdurand@machine-talk.com
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Professional Experience
Vice President, Engineering / Chief Information Officer
- Manage all aspects of the design, development, implementation and
support for a commercialized Web-Based Enterprise Level Mission
Critical software application suite. Define and design third party
integrated features and applications. Ensure the success of customer
implementations from pre-sales to post-sales cycles. Responsible for all
aspects of, software engineering, professional services, customer
support and product management. As Executive he lead Operational
Procedures and Standards and provide guidance and direction in market
requirements and penetration strategies. Responsible for the company’s
IT division, its infrastructure, services and budgeting.
- Key Results:
- Design cutting edge architecture for a new web-based/Internet
independent product line for 911 emergency medical response based on JAVA,
Oracle and BPEL technologies; - Designed and implemented new “Agile” development and design
processes, restructured engineering division to support Agile
development, and hired new team of JAVA and Oracle engineers; - Recovered and stabilized the products from total failure brought forth by
previous engineering team – application had been down for 4 days when
I came on-board; - Created and launched new web-based advanced OLAP/ Decision
Support products; - Redesigned the products to increase the addressable markets by over
2000%; - Decreased operational and maintenance cost on a per transaction basis
by more than 35%; - Transformed a 100% hostile customer base into a 100% set of reference
accounts.
2000 – 2001 SeminarSource – San Diego, Ca
Vice President, Engineering/CIO/CTO
- Manage all aspects of the design, development, implementation and
support for a commercialized Web-Services Broker designed to virtually
aggregate multiple third party providers of stovepipe applications to
create dynamic best-of-breed integrated product suites. Defined a new
business model for the company. Restructured the entire company to
meet challenges of new business model. Responsible for the company’s
IT division.
- Key Results:
- Restructured the Engineering division to support the “Agile”
development of a new suite of JAVA, XML, SOAP, and Oracle based product lines
which was deployed as a web-based self serve model in less than 12 months; - Inverted the company’s profit/loss from spending 4.5 times more for
COGS then revenue generation into a 65% net margin infrastructure; - Designed, developed and implemented the first web-based platform to
combine a web service broker with a common data element aggregator
to create a rich and cohesive environment where users can seamlessly
use multiple stovepipe applications while the applications share common
data. - Created business alliances with stovepipe software vendors and
integrated them within the new platform in less than 12 months.
1999 – 2000 Solutions Media, Inc. – San Diego, Ca
Vice President, Engineering/CIO/CTO
- Manage all aspects of the design, development, implementation and
support for the first completely web based record label with over 3000
artists. Created a dynamic foundation for a high-end multimedia
experience used in more than 100 large-scale web service providers.
Responsible for the company’s IT infrastructure, services, and budgets.
- Key Results:
- Designed from scratch the Software Engineering division and hired
35 engineers to develop a JAVA, PHP, XML, and Oracle based “engine” to
dynamically publish rich multimedia content as a web-services broker. - Developed and deployed the first Internet music subscription model.
- Successfully passed pre-IPO audit conducted by the No.1 underwriter in
the US and raised the setting of the initial strike price by ten folds; - Personally negotiated and secured a $5,000,000.00 contract with the
CEO of Maytag corp. to leverage this new technology as their core
Business-to-Business engine; - Co-branded the engine to become the “music” portal for over 100 web
service providers including: Road Runner, Cox and NetTaxi to name a
few. - Expanded products and services by enhancing the “engine” to support
other industries such as sports and racing.
1998 - 1999 Resource Consultants, Inc. – San Diego, Ca
Operations Center Manager/CIO
- Develop a new company division to sell technology solutions to the
company’s existing government related customer base and expand these
services to new commercial customers. Design division and hire
engineering staff. Responsible for the Division’s P&L. Create detailed
responses to RFPs and RFQs. Negotiate and acquire contracts.
Responsible for Project management of all contracts.
- Key Results:
- Successfully secured contracts with 80% of existing customer base
- Created the highest yielding margins in the company whose average net
was 6% by yielding 35% to 45% net profits; - Expanded to new commercial markets and secured software
development contracts with Prosoft, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and
more.
1994 – 1998 CMStat Corporation. – San Diego, Ca
Vice President Engineering/Corporate CIO to VSE
- Manage all aspects of the design, development, deployment and
integration of a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product line for
Configuration Management and Supply Chain Management. Create
detailed responses to RFPs and RFQs. Create Proof-of-Concepts for
customers. Design and build interfaces with legacy systems. Unify
Customers’ systems, vendors, products and information by the design of
automated and human interaction process flows and procedures.
Project management for all contracts. Responsible for the company’s IT,
Engineering, Customer Services and Professional Services including all
staff and budgets. Served as CIO for VSE the flagship company.
- Key Results:
- Increased customer base from 4 to 54 by changing the sales
model to include proof-of-concepts based on Agile multiple release engineering; - Integrated systems and created real time visibility and control of “as-
designed”, “as-built”, and “as-maintained” configuration for the design,
development, supply chain management, and servicing of:
- F-22 aircraft across 6 states for Lockheed-Martin – received
personal achievement award from L-M; - AAAV – Advanced Armed Amphibious Vehicle for General
Dynamics; - B-2 Bomber for Boeing;
- Entire NATO fleet across 16 European countries;
- DDG and FFG class ships for Bath Iron Works;
- Bradley tanks for United Defense;
- Global Hawk for Northrop Grumman;
- Designed the Supply Change Management and Configuration Change
Management environment which tied Nortel’s and GTE Supply Chains
and supported $8Billion worth of transactions on an annual basis –
Received personal awards from both GTE and Nortel. - Expanded the company’s addressable markets to telecommunications,
component manufacturing, and product servicing industries.
1992 – 1994 Unisys – Montreal, QC
Senior Business Automation Analyst
- Manage all aspects of the design, development, and commercialization of
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products line. Technical
lead for Configuration Management and Supply Chain Management in
support of the Canadian Frigates Fleet and the Canadian Fleet of
Search and Rescue Helicopters. Create detailed responses to RFPs
and RFQs. Responsible for Eastern Canada’s IT and Software
Engineering divisions including all staff and budgets.
- Key Results:
- Successfully deployed Configuration Management and Supply
Chain Management systems and processes in response to government contractual
requirements; - Designed and developed the First Identity Management System with
Automated Fingerprint Identification (AFIS) which is still used across the
US DMVs, several US police forces and the United Kingdom’s Social
Welfare services.
1982 – 1990 Shell Canada Products Limited – Montreal, QC
Engineering Administrator, Quebec & Maritimes
- Manage up to 33 engineers in the construction and maintenance of all
retail gas stations, aviation plants, and storage facilities across Quebec
and the Maritime provinces. Responsible for enforcing corporate
standards and preserving unified image. Directly responsible of an $80
Million dollar annual budget. Recruitment and immersion of new
Engineers.
- Key Results:
- Successfully increased geographical scope of responsibility to
include the Maritime provinces due to demonstrated performance; - Received the National Engineering division award 4 years in a row and
once the International Engineering Award; - Never exceeded budgets while always delivering above expectations;
- Rated employee of the year across the nation twice.
Academics
- Marsan Institute – Montreal QC
BS Software Design & Engineering
Accreditation
Certificate of security inquest - NATO level II (secret)
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