François Bourdeau

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Achievements: - Increased professional services division revenue by 40% - Raised professional testing software licensing revenue by 30% - Organised and sold-out Professional Testing thought leadership session in Washington D.C. - Responsible for 148% annual growth in Training division licensing revenue. Day-to-day responsibilities included: - proposal writing - software demos - contract negotiations - pre and post sales service - growth of development and consulting services

Currently working in a pre-sales role within the Dynamics AX ERP practice. This role is a combination of Solution Architect, Business Analyst and Project Manager. -Initial client requirements gathering. -Business process discovery. -Initial demo setup [Data, Environment(s), Integration, Scripts]. -Delivery of ERP demo's [AX 2012 + Exchange & SharePoint integration].

Previous Projects: (May 2009 – August 2010) Worked as a Functional Consultant on a MS Dynamics AX 2009 ERP implementation project (Multi-site, Multi-currency & Multi Language) for a Oil & Gas Manufacturing Co. (Focus on Production & Shop Floor Modules - external payroll integration). Competed two phase project, Phase 1 January 2010 (US Operations). Phase 2 July 2010 (Ca

Worked as the lead internal Infrastructure and Business Applications contact. -Reported directly to IT Manager. Managed VM's, Blades and SAN's and worked with external contractors to maintain stable & secure environment. Managed numerous internal live & development applications [i.e. SAP & Maximo] -Key responsibility was keeping external vendors (Developers & DBA's) and contractors on-track with their contracts and deliverables.

Worked with local and national infrastructure teams to provide maximum availability of key business tools. Key responsibilities were managing & maintaining: -Windows DC’s -Adtaking Servers (Sybase DB) -Nortel Symposium Web Servers -Citrix Server -Dynamics SQL Server (Great Plains 8.0) -Backup Exec (9.2 & 10) and NetBackup (6.0) Managed IT Capex Budget. Liaison with vendors for all HW & SW needs (Accounting, Production, Sales & Call Center)