Benoit Mercier_
Professional Services Manager. I started my career at Present over 20 years ago as a C++ developer, developing point- of-sale solutions. Since then, I’ve been implicated in many, many projects of varying nature, touching notably the AS/400 technology. I was in charge of all “special missions”, anything that was considered complex. After having worked as project manager and a brief stint in solutions sales, I took over the management of our professional services, which I have been doing for that last 12 or so years. A perfectionist, my focus is to continuously improve our processes in order to deliver high quality services in the most efficient way. Other than IT, I studied in robotics and I’ve always had a passion for industrial automation, electronics as well as home automation.
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