Nationality French Name Jean Perrin | Awards IBM Champion Years active 1995–present | |
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Full Name Jean-Georges Perrin Born 5 October 1971 (age 52) ( 1971-10-05 ) Strasbourg, France Alma mater ESIG (Strasbourg), IUT Robert Schuman (Strasbourg) Occupation Software Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur, Business man | ||
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Jean Georges Perrin (born 1971) is an IT serial-entrepreneur from Alsace, France. He is the longest standing elected board member of IIUG after Stuart Litel, the first non-US citizen elected to this board, and the first French IBM Champion.
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- Jean georges perrin iod 2011 v1
- IIUG and IBM
- Career
- Publications and conferences
- Other recognitions
- References
IIUG and IBM
Perrin was elected at the Board of Directors of IIUG in 2002. Perrin has been the first French citizen to become an IBM Champion in 2009, along with Jean-Marc Blaise. In February 2017, his IBM Champion title was renewed.
Career
Perrin is an IT software engineer, lecturer, and serial entrepreneur. In 1995, he took part in the creation of Pandemonium, one of France’s first commercial ISP to be located outside of the Paris area, later acquired by ISION. In 2002, he co-founded Awoma, an ISV specialized in making Java development easier. In 2006, he founded GreenIvory, a pioneer in Content Marketing tools. GreenIvory France and GreenIvory Luxembourg closed in January 2014, GreenIvory America closed a little later. In 2015, Perrin joined 2CRSI Corporation as Chief Operations Officer (COO)., Since 2016, Perrin is consulting in software engineering, big data, and Apache Spark.
Publications and conferences
Perrin has contributed to the defunct DB2 Magazine, to The Futurist magazine co-author with Elizabeth D. Leone. Perrin co-authored with Frederic Collet-Hahn a book on the C programming language in August 1992, while a student at the now-Université de Strasbourg. More recently, he authored 2 books on Informix.,
Perrin participates in numerous conferences and lectures at various schools and universities, including the Université de Strasbourg. Lately, he spoke at Spark Summit.
Other recognitions
In 2012, Perrin was selected as one of 60 Alsatian entrepreneurs whose profiles were published in the Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of ADIRA, an agency that supports business in Alsace.