jacob "jack" vrins

Multi disciplined executive with an extensive corporate and management consulting track record in Business and Information Technology. Business/IT liaison with a solid track record formulating strategic IT solutions for business challenges. Experienced strategist who has assisted Fortune 500, non-profit, and start-up clients during times of transition with business re-engineering, operational governance, and/or interim management

Business Senior Manager (Finance/Operations) and Business Architect with a 10 year background in starting up new initiatives, re-engineering existing operations, and turning around troubled business units and projects.

  • Business Architect with extensive experience in re-engineering the business operations for Fortune 500, start-up, and non-profit clients during times of transition or in response to technology innovations • Financial Manager with solid experience in financial re-structuring and financial turn-around.
  • Strategic Planner with expertise in long range planning and forecasting, product and service concept introduction and development, and business case/business plan preparation

IT Senior Manager with a 15 year background in IT Strategy, IT portfolio/project management, IT governance, and PMO start-up and development.

  • Program/project Manager who successfully implemented large strategic IT initiatives within complex Fortune 500 organizations involving managing large cross organizational matrixed teams, re-engineering of business processes, and integrating of architecturally diverse hardware and software
  • Governance expert who formulated and institutionalized enterprise IT and PMO Governance, methodologies, policies, and processes
  • Infrastructure generalist with a solid working knowledge of Technical, and Domain Architecture

education & personal

  • MBA – Finance, University of San Francisco
  • BA – Business Economics | Macro Economics, University of California – Santa Barbara
  • Comfortable public speaker, author of strategic plans, policies/procedures, white papers, and studies
  • Bi-lingual Dutch | English
    Intermediate French (speak, read, write), Basic German (speak, read)