Eric Paquin Email & Phone Number

County Kildare, Ireland

Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ie

In my role as a Senior Innovation Management Associate, I specialise in facilitating workshops and training using design thinking practices to drive innovation in product development, digital transformation, and AI use cases. I work closely with cross-functional teams to implement new strategies and practices that strengthen the organisation's innovation capabilities.

Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ie

As an AI Consultant, I specialise in developing and delivering tailored AI training and workshops. My focus is on exploring practical applications of AI within organisations, helping them unlock innovation and drive business value.

Dublin, Leinster, Ie

In my role as a Part-time Lecturer and Practicum Coordinator at DCU Business School, I collaborate with industry partners to provide students with real-world experience in tackling business challenges. By developing tailored strategies and conducting in-depth research, I ensure our students deliver actionable results, bridging the gap between academia and industry.

Dublin, Ie

Co-Founder. Developing a platform to guide you through the complexities of crypto investments, ensuring you're equipped to make informed decisions every step of the way. We can help you navigate the future of finance with confidence and insight.

Dublin, Ie

- Develop the Design Thinking curriculum for UCD Professional Academy.- Delivery of the curriculum (12 weeks / 3 hours/week) - Assessment of existing programmes and associated administrative tasks.

Miami, Florida, Us

- Coordinate the MIT Professional Education Blended CTO program- Provide participants with detailed instructions about what needs to be delivered and when around the Certificate project. (“Impact project”)- Organize and lead one-hour webinars right after each program to introduce the faculty from the next program, explaining participants where they are in their learning journey - Organize and lead one-hour office hours with participants where they will present each deliverable from the Certificate project. - Provide groups with feedback and evaluation of the Certificate project- Observer: Generative AI for Digital Transformation

Killorglin, Kerry, Ie

(Maternity Cover)As an innovation manager, I will contribute to designing and implementing effective innovation processes, helping our people to rapidly deliver new solutions solving market needs. I will also be managing the total innovation journey from ideation to customer needs discovery, assumption-busting to prototyping, business modelling to co-creation with partners.As part of my role, I will:- Lead innovation initiatives and activities by championing the validation of next generation products and services through a deep understanding and experience in ideation methodologies, rapid prototyping, design sprints and agile product management.- Lead the running of our exciting FINTECHNEXT program, our multi-million euro, four-year collaborative research initiative with UCC and Science Foundation Ireland.- Identify, establish and maintain a diverse portfolio of innovation partners ranging from existing customers, academic, government, competitors, and other ecosystem partners.- Design and develop structures, processes, business models and techniques in order to deliver regular co-creation opportunities and support Fexco Business Units across the globe in their learning pathways for innovation.- Define opportunities for growth to enable the creation and/or execution of a robust innovation pipeline.- Provide expertise, support on use of methods and tools, evolve the innovation tool kit in-line with industry and academic best and next practice.

GoEPIC works in partnership with enterprises big and small to analyze, implement or improve custom innovation processes and business strategies. I keep a focus on education to coach clients to sustain and iterate these models on their own.I help organisations blend strategic and creative thinking to solve their business problems, align their mission and develop new growth strategies. I bring a fresh perspective to explore new ideas and solutions.Services offered:- New Business development workshops (Navigating the Lean Canvas, Defining your Vision, Growing your product)- Design Thinking workshops (Ideation sessions, Design Sprints, Mini Sprints)- Competitive analysis and market research

Garden City, Idaho, Us

- Lead the digital transformation of Translators without Borders in its evolution into CLEAR Global to drive the development of technologies and services to better support speakers of marginalised languages.- Help our organisation define and achieve its mission of helping people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak by developing our technology initiatives around voice, conversational ai, and machine translation.- Developed the roadmap to our next generation community platform.Under my guidance as CTO, we developed the 5 years technology vision including playbooks for our multilingual chatbots, expansion of our marketplace platform, APIs for machine translation, ASR and transcription services.

Garden City, Idaho, Us

Lead Translators Without Borders digital transformation to drive the development of technologies and services to better support speakers of marginalised languages.As part of our digital transformation, I initiated and coordinated the following activities:- integration of Memsource to our translation marketplace (Kato Platform)- adoption and integration of Asana as part of our productivity toolset to replace the "spreadsheet" culture- adoption and integration of Hubspot as part of our CRM platform

The ADAPT Centre combines the know-how of industry partners with the expertise of researchers at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, University College Dublin, and Dublin Institute of Technology.As an Innovation Lead, I ensured the successful delivery of multiple, concurrent targeted projects to schedule, cost, quality and to funding partners’ expectations. Successful Industry participation is key to the ability of the centre to deliver economic and commercial impact, and to its future sustainability. I nurtured and strengthened relationships with Industry Partners and addressed their business challenges through the identification and application of ADAPT research expertise and through effective project management. I delivered innovation and design thinking workshops internally to foster a successful spinout culture, and externally to help our industry partners to expand in new directions.Part of my responsibilities included:- Working closely with the customer and /or Product Owner and Software Developer(s) to understand customer requirements and priorities and ensure these are aligned with the research and software development teams’ activities. - Managing the backlog of my product when applicable- Ensuring intellectual property assets are managed appropriately – ensuring industry partner confidentiality as needed.- Assist in driving the innovation pipeline from Platform Research to Targeted Projects while developing and nurturing the relationship with the Platform Research Management Team Business tools: Lean Canvas, Guided Ideation session, Business Model Canvas, Design Thinking workshops.

Redmond, Washington, Us

When redundancy strike, it was time to jump on opportunities! I decided to put theory into practice and as part of the MSc in Product Management, I used the time left at Microsoft to deliver an Innovation Audit to the Globalisation Services and Experiences group with support from our senior management.The audit contains the following information:- Introduction & Overview (Executive Summary. Top 10 Actions Summary)- Assessments (Innovation & Strategy, Leadership, Key Obstacles & Enablers, Innovation Process, Innovation Culture & Attitudes)- Action plan (Organizational Development for Innovation, Creativity Boosters)

Redmond, Washington, Us

Still as part of the Localisation Service and Experiences team, my responsibilities moved from owning OneNote to the Education portfolio comprising of Learning Tools, Microsoft Classroom and Student Data Sync.My responsibilities included:- Ensuring the products are ready for deployment globally- Driving international product innovation to increase market share- Driving activities to increase awareness in the Education sector.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As part of the Localisation Service & Experiences team, I was responsible for the international OneNote customer experiences & releases on Mac and iOS as well as owning responsibility for international telemetry supporting our users and systems health experiences for the Apex (Apple Productivity Experience) and OneNote teams. Being responsible for international engineering, testing and project management for OneNote Mac and iOS, my responsibilities were- Specializing in and growing deeper skills in the customer experience telemetry- Innovating towards a more streamlined workflow- Leveraging best practices and knowledge in a more rapid way- Having more flexible resource balancing across our team as the app landscape evolves.- Grow and nurture a vibrant global Office developer community

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Manage all phases of highly complex localization projects on both short and long term schedules using waterfall and agile methodologies. - Worked closely with our partner team which has a startup vibe within Microsoft and is loaded with passionate people who are focused on shipping great, not good enough, products.- Collaborated with US PM and developers on feature design and implementation- Contributed to product development and usability testing through dogfood, specifications review, UI review and white papers. - Drove the awareness of international issues within the US team- Managed the international release of Office for iPad and iPhone- Contributed to the development and deployment of Scenario Focused Engineering methodologyCustomers/Partners Experiences:- Managed the European Beta Program - Provided training to customers and partners - Maintained good partnership with our subsidiaries by participating in product launches, press conferences and major customer events such as Apple Expo. - Participated in social forums and blogs

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Managed a team of experienced Software Test Engineers through all the phases of testing and drove their career development. - Constantly review existing processes to identify areas for improvements. - Managed the testing budget (﴾~$500K)﴿.- Managed relationship with our testing vendorsCustomers/Partners Experiences:- Establish good communications with our subsidiary markets to respond quickly to customer feedback. - Trained and supported subsidiaries and local PSS. - Participated in major customer events such as Apple Expo.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Lead a team of Software Quality Assurance engineers through the testing phase of a product. Delivered a localized Macintosh product of the highest quality. Improved established testing processes.Ensured UX and product/market fit for our global audience.Project Management using waterfall methodologyProducts: CorelDraw, CorelPhotoPaint, Catalyst

Montréal, Qc, Ca

Work in collaboration with the business development team to develop proposal to expand our customer base. Supervised a team of engineers developing our custom search engine (CSHTML).Planned our customers implementation and automation of our custom search and publish engine for web production.Help regional media with their digital transformation towards online publishing.

The birth of the WWW gave us an opportunity to showcase French Canadian fashion designers on the global stage. Our goal at Designers.qc.ca was to share news about the industry and provide a platform for designers to present and sell their products. Without access to online payment systems (not invented yet) and broadband (ISDN was a luxury then), we still managed to create a platform that received positive mention in recognized fashion magazines (Elle, Vogue) and tv (FashionTV, Perfecto).We supported technologies early in their development (Mosaic, html 1.0, 2.0, Quicktime, GIF and JPEG) to optimize the user experience.

Master Of Science - Ms, Product Management

Postgraduate Diploma In Product Management, Product Management

Certificate In Technology Management And Innovation, Information Technology

B.Sc, Arts And Communications

Dec, Communications