Your Tech Transformation Partner
JF Dupuis Transformation Partners
Every software company's challenges are unique—and they're compounded by the language barriers between engineers, executives, and investors. Balancing technology strategy, implementation realities, and investor goals is tricky. You need a partner who speaks all three languages. Talk to us, we have three decades of experience turning transition challenges into competitive advantages.
Every software company's challenges are unique like a fingerprint — and they're compounded by the language barriers between engineers, executives, and investors. Focused Boutique consulting cuts through the noise.
Our Way of Working
The Translation Problem
Technical teams speak in sprints and architecture. Investors speak in IRR and exit timelines. Executives speak in market share and revenue.
You need a partner who speaks all three languages fluently.
When technical roadblocks get lost in translation, transformations stall. Investors lose confidence and opportunities slip away.
How We Work
Discovery: What's keeping stakeholders up at night? (It's usually different answers.)
Assessment: Deep organizational and technical strategy analysis to identify what's really blocking progress.
Translation: Actionable roadmap that engineers, executives, and investors all understand and buy into.
Execution: Hands-on implementation, Fractional Executive, or ongoing advisory support—whatever your situation requires.
Common Scenarios
AI Augmentation and strategy - internal staff can be reluctant to make such deep changes to a company, we help bridge that transition.
Pre-Sale Preparation Getting your house in order for due diligence. Addressing technical debt, organizational gaps, and strategic positioning before investors look under the hood.
Investor Relations Translating technical roadblocks into business context. Helping boards understand what's realistic, what's at risk, and what resources are actually needed.
Post-Merger Integration Aligning acquired technical teams with parent company strategy. Managing the cultural and operational friction that kills most mergers.
Turnaround Situations When technical debt meets business reality. Restructuring teams, refocusing roadmaps, and rebuilding stakeholder confidence.
Market Strategy Pivots Repositioning your technology and team for new market opportunities without losing operational stability.
Scaling Challenges Whether growing rapidly or rightsizing strategically, ensuring your organizational structure supports the transition.
For Investors and Boards
✓ Clear, jargon-free assessment of technical strategy and execution capability; how to get the most from your team.
✓ Risk identification before it becomes a deal-killer.
✓ Realistic timelines and resource requirements.
✓ Unbiased perspective not influenced by internal situations
For the Exectutives
✓ Honest assessment of what's blocking your transformation
✓ Actionable plan that doesn't require you to become a developer
✓ Partner who can execute or advise, depending on what you need
For Technical Teams
✓ A leader who understands the actual constraints you face on a daily basis with your tech and teams
✓ Someone who translates needs into language that gets budget approval
✓ Strategic guidance on tech debt, architecture decisions, where to get best advantage of AI, investment prioritization, and team structure
Three Decades of Turning Tech Challenges Into Competitive Advantages
I've spent 30 years in the software industry—not as an observer, but in the trenches making transformations work.
PayByPhone: Aligning Strategy, Sales, and Technology for Acquisition
PayByPhone faced two critical challenges: misalignment between software development, strategic goals, and sales strategy—and the need to position the company for acquisition.
I rebuilt the strategic framework to align all three functions, implemented a full cycle salesforce system, implemented proactive market segmentation and analysis, and transformed the company into an attractive acquisition target. The result: successful sale to Volkswagen Financial Services, who subsequently recruited me to replicate this transformation in Germany.
Experience:
Volkswagen Financial Services AG
• Berlin Digital Hub: Scaling Digital Delivery at 10x Cost Efficiency
VW Financial Services needed their Berlin digital hub to produce customer journeys at scale with dramatically improved cost-effectiveness. I implemented a new strategic approach and procurement model that reduced cost-per-journey by an order of magnitude—10x or more—while improving quality, component re-use and increasing output.
• Porto Application Center: Building a Strategic Tech Hub from Zero to 120
The Berlin success led the board ask me to co-found a new technology center designed for sustained cost advantage. I co-founded the Porto Application Center in Portugal, developed the strategic plan, and with my co-head, scaled the operation from two people to over 120 active staff in less than 24 months. We met and exceeded all targets. Porto tech hub is now a core component of VW Financial Services' global digital strategy.
The Active Network: Integrating 30+ Disconnected Applications
The company had acquired multiple software products over years of growth, creating a fragmented ecosystem that frustrated customers and limited scalability. I created an initiative to consolidate these 30+ separate applications into a unified multi-tier platform called ActiveWorks. This integration became central to the company's IPO strategy and positioned them for sustainable growth, and many of the components we defined in early 2000 are still high value assets today.
What I’ve learned
Every software company thinks their problems are unique. They're right.
But the patterns repeat: technical teams and business leadership speaking different languages, investor timelines clashing with engineering reality, organizational structures that worked at 50 people failing at 100.
I've seen transformations succeed and fail. The difference isn't usually the technology—it's alignment, frank assessment, and someone who can translate between the stakeholders and drives robust dialogue.
Partner Benefits
Unbiased Perspective: I don't have internal politics to navigate or sacred cows to protect.
Fluent in Three Languages: Engineering constraints, business strategy, and investor expectations—I speak all three.
Hands-On When Needed: Not just strategy decks. I can roll up my sleeves and execute.
Advisory When Appropriate: Sometimes you need a steady hand on the tiller, not someone taking the wheel.
Book a Consultation Now:
Schedule a 30-minute introductory call. We'll discuss your situation, and I'll give you my honest assessment of whether I can help.