Jean Georges Perrin

Jean-Georges Perrin (born 1971) is an IT serial-entrepreneur from Alsace, France. He was 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.

Jean Georges Perrin
Jean-Georges Perrin at IOD (IBM Information On Demand Conference, now IBM Think) in 2013
Born
Jean-Georges Perrin

(1971-10-05) 5 October 1971
Strasbourg, France
NationalityFrench
Other namesjgp
Alma materESIG (Strasbourg), IUT Robert Schuman (Strasbourg)
OccupationSoftware Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur, Business man
Years active1995–present
Awards
  • IBM Champion (2009-2020)
Websitehttp://www.jgp.ai

IIUG and IBM

Perrin was elected at the Board of Directors of IIUG in 2002.[1] Perrin has been the first French citizen to become an IBM Champion in 2009,[2] along with Jean-Marc Blaise.[3] In January 2020, his IBM Champion title was renewed for the 12th consecutive time.[4][5][6][7]

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,[8] later acquired by ISION.[9] 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,[10] GreenIvory America closed a little later. In 2015, Perrin joined 2CRSI Corporation as Chief Operations Officer (COO).,[11][12] Since 2016, Perrin is consulting in software engineering, big data, and Apache Spark.[13] He recently published Spark in Action, second edition covering data engineering with Spark and Java, Python, and Scala through Manning, the foreword was written by IBM’s Rob D. Thomas.[14] [15]

Publications and conferences

Perrin has contributed to the defunct DB2 Magazine, to The Futurist magazine[16] co-author with Elizabeth D. Leone. Perrin co-authored with Frederic Collet-Hahn a book on the C programming language in August 1992,[17][18] while a student at the now-Université de Strasbourg. More recently, he authored two ebooks on Informix.[19][20]

Perrin participates in numerous conferences[21] and lectures at various schools and universities, including the Université de Strasbourg. Lately, he spoke at Spark Summit.[22]

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.[23][24][8]

References
  1. "Profiling Jean Georges Perrin, IIUG Board Member". 2002-11-02. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  2. "Jean Georges Perrin (jgp)". 2014-06-05. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  3. "Jean-Marc BLAISE (jmblaise)". 2014-06-05. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  4. "2014 IBM Champions for Information Management". 2014-06-16. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  5. "Introducing the 2017 IBM Champions for Analytics!". 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  6. "2018 IBM Champions - Championing Digital Transformation". 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  7. "IBM Champions unlock the power of IBM". 2020-01-29. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  8. "Jean-Georges Perrin à l'heure transatlantique" (PDF). 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  9. "PANDEMONIUM IS 80%-ACQUIRED BY ISION INTERNET". 2000-03-23. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  10. "Présentation de la société GREENIVORY". 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  11. "2CRSI Expands to North America; Perrin Named COO". 2015-05-29. Archived from the original on 2016-03-20. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  12. "French server firm picks Chapel Hill for new North American HQ". 2015-05-29. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  13. "Oplo's team". Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  14. "Apache Spark with Java". 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  15. "Spark in Action, second edition". 2020-05-15. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  16. "Bad Mood Is History: A Scenario". 2013-09-01. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  17. "Publications". 2014-06-05. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  18. "Profile de Frédéric Collet-Hahn". 2014-06-05. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  19. "Informix 12.10 on Mac 10.12 with a dash of Java 8: The Tale of the Apple, the Coffee, and a Great Database". 2017-04-22. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  20. "Development Tools in 2006: any Room for a 4GL-style Language?: An independent study by Jean Georges Perrin, IIUG Board Member". December 2006. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  21. "Conference". 2014-06-05. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  22. "Speaker: Jean-Georges Perrin". 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  23. "Soixante entrepreneurs qui font la région NR.29. Jean Georges Perrin à l'heure transatlantique". 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  24. "Pour nos 60 ans : 60 portraits d'Alsaciens connus". 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
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