Vice President
Computing Infrastructures and Security Group
Forrester Research, Inc.
Jean-Pierre is a vice president in Forrester’s Computing Infrastructures and Security group. His focus is on the performance and capacity management of the IT and Web infrastructure.
Jean-Pierre has more than 35 years of experience in the development and integration of a number of technologies. His background is in the development of real-time systems, both in the industrial automation area (nuclear power plants) and in the development of network protocols and distributed systems architectures. Jean-Pierre has designed and developed very large distributed infrastructures for the government and banking industry in France, Scandinavia, and the US.
Jean-Pierre came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, Jean-Pierre was director of capacity planning at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston. He has also held a senior consulting position with Onsett International, as well as different system development, marketing, and sales positions at Bull Information Systems in the US and France. Jean-Pierre received an M.S. in computer science from École Supérieure d’Électricité in Paris.