Jean-Philippe Jacquet

– Founded Casoft International (France) to provide software engineering services for EDULOG, leader in the USA for their School Transportation Management SaaS system, coordinating a fully remote team (13 employees). Proceeding with cessation of activities now. – Process Leadership: Established QA/testing teams and automated CI/CD and test automation frameworks for France and U.S. teams, improving product quality and time-to-market. – Cloud Migration: Supported the design and rollout of AWS-based microservices, ensuring scalability and cost-efficiency. – Compliance: Actively contributed to achieving SOC 2 compliance using SecureFrame, strengthening data security and governance.

– Managed SaaS implementation projects for Fieldglass's cloud-based Vendor Management System (VMS), with launches in Sydney and Melbourne in particular. – Client Engagement: Delivered solutions for global enterprises (Coca-Cola, American Express, Toll Group) to optimize contingent workforce management. – Mentorship: Coached junior project managers and contributed to continuous improvement initiatives. – Analytics: Developed expertise in Business Intelligence tools for workforce analytics.

– Portfolio management of large-scale CSR-based projects (e.g., a $5.5 million land management system for Origin Energy), integrating GIS, ERP, and mobile applications, with a focus on client account and relationships management. – Project support and guidance, in collaboration with client project managers to ensure consistency and timely delivery. – Team development: Building, managing, and leading a team of 30 people, focusing on collaboration, mentoring, process standardization, and proactive planning. – Quality assurance: Leading the implementation of HP Quality Center, nightly builds, and automated testing to reduce defects and improve reliability. – Client relations: Facilitating workshops and maintaining close communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. Participation in pre-sales activities.

– Project Rescue: Selected to rescue the VET Purchasing System replacement program, which was at risk of termination. Delivered the first project (managing grants), which secured program continuation for a period. – Stakeholder Alignment: Improved communication with political and business stakeholders, clarifying scope and expectations. – Process Simplification: Streamlined data migration and business processes, saving 1 FTE/year in operational costs. – Methodology: Applied PRINCE2 and Agile hybrids to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

– Mining Products – MineScape and MineMarket - May 2008 to Mar 2009: Collaborated with the Development Managers of MineScape and MineMarket in managing up to 5 projects concurrently with budgets from $100'000 to $2 million, undertaking C#.Net technology and TFS. Liaised with Product Manager and Consultants all around the world. Managed the outsourcing of some C#.Net developments with vendor in Bali Indonesia. Trained 40 staff with UML concepts. – Mincom ERP – Ellipse – Mar 2006 to May 2008: Lead up to 40 people and up to 4 projects concurrently mainly based around the redevelopment of the Ellipse ERP user interface using J2EE technology. Budgets were from $300'000 to $3 million. Presented progress to Board of Directors once a month. Reported on projects Earned Value. Managed the outsourcing of some Cobol developments vendor in Bali Indonesia, and the outsourcing of some Java developments with vendor in India. Performed staff performance reviews, setting objectives and organising training for 12 employees. Hired Developers. Obtained Australian Defence security clearance to Restricted level.

Awarded and recognised for delivering the intranet and content management system, undertaking J2EE technology, surpassing schedule, cost and quality expectations. The team consisted of 9 developers, project duration was 6 months. Managed relationships with internal Customer on the business side.

Worked for E-Health Research Centre, joint-venture with CSIRO and Queensland Government - http://aehrc.com/ – Defined and documented the software architecture of the Health Data Integration (HDI) solution using SOA, UML and RUP approaches. The software was undertaking Java, web-services, WASP & XML.

Elicited and documented the requirements, including Business Process Management (BPM), for a project aimed at re-engineering the existing Help Desk and Service Management application, using agile methodology Feature-Driven Development (FDD), UML and BEA WebLogic. – Developed a prototype using BEA WebLogic BPM and J2EE technology. – Defined and presented application concepts and design to users and Program Managers

Worked for Enodia - Altran Group. – Selected as a Consultant Project Manager RUP to perform a complete risk analysis on project behind schedule and with a high-risk profile. Documented mitigation action plan. Plan was approved without alteration. – Volunteered as a Consultant Project Manager RUP to rescue project behind schedule due to people issues and resolved conflict situations. Managed communications channels so that 30 x IT professionals were protected from political issues. The outcome was a 100% increase in productivity of the team, measured with number of use cases implemented.

Worked for Lysis, now part of the Kudelski Group, and managed and delivered several projects concurrently in the domain of interactive television. – Developed a component library in Java.

– Participated in definition and development of embedded software for a biological organism detection automaton and a laboratory support application, involving Molecular Biology. Conducted interviews with laboratory employees, as end users for the laboratory support application. Organised and participated in workshops with the marketing department and key people, in order to define the user and system requirements. – Organised project planning, tracking and reporting. Estimated total effort. Lead 4 developers. Designed distributed & software component based architecture. Participated to development and tests of software components: computation engine with DNA string comparison. Applied medical quality standards & processes (ISO9001, CMMI, FDA). – Technology: C++/Java, JBuilder, Corba, XML and Spring.

Contributed to the development of a UML modelling tool with a strong code generation component in C++. – Was also sent on-site as a Consultant.

Developed an application to build Computer Generated Images (CGI), using Radiosity and Ray Tracing algorithms, for Architecture illumination projects, in C++.