Structure first. Quick wins early.
For SME owners and executives: digital and AI expertise to build your plan, deliver quick wins in the first weeks and see implementation through.
Who you'll work with
I'm Jean-Olivier Chamberland, a mechanical engineering graduate with more than 15 years of experience in enterprise systems and digital transformation across manufacturing and technology verticals and four years advising Canadian SMEs on technology and AI. Puncheur brings together a network of collaborators from different backgrounds. We set the structure first, then stay with the mandate through implementation.
Previous roles
- Boeing via Dassault Systèmes
- Julien Rail Solutions
- Optel Vision
- Bombardier
- Bell Canada
- BDC
Two ways to work together
Advisory mandate
A scoped mandate to set direction: diagnostic, decisions and a prioritized roadmap, with a defined duration and deliverables.
Fractional CIO
Ongoing senior technology leadership for a company that needs a CIO's judgment, not a full-time hire.
Who this is for
Technology decisions keep landing on your desk
A new ERP, a CRM, a data project, and no one in-house owns them at a senior level.
AI is on every agenda
Everyone is talking about it, but no one can say which use case to fund first, or whether your data is ready.
A project is slipping
It's under way, and the schedule, the budget or the integrator relationship is getting away from you.
Three areas, seven services
Direction
Strategy and roadmap, system selection and Fractional CIO: what to do, in what order and on which systems.
AI
AI preparation and AI delivery: choosing the use cases worth doing, checking that your data is ready, then taking the first ones from pilot to production, and coaching your team along the way.
Execution
Implementation support and implementation governance: hands-on help to get projects live, and the oversight that keeps them on track once they're running.
In numbers
15+ years
in enterprise systems, from engineering to advisory
4+ years
advising Canadian SMEs on technology and AI
4-6 weeks
for the shortest mandate, with a written scope before work starts
30 mins
for a first call, with no commitment
Why Puncheur
From the boardroom to the systems
A mechanical engineering degree and 15+ years on ERP, CRM, PLM, MES, integration and data, across aerospace, telecom, rail and pharma. We're as comfortable in a management meeting as in the systems behind it, and we turn technical reality into business decisions.
Structured, time-boxed mandates
Every mandate has a defined scope, duration, deliverables and decision rhythm. You always know what comes next, and what we're aiming to put in your hands in the first weeks.
Remote-first, on site when it counts
Most of the work runs remotely: interviews and working sessions by video, decisions and deliverables in writing, short feedback loops. We come on site for the moments that need it, such as a kickoff, an operations walk-through or a key steering meeting. Less time in transit and fewer meetings means more of your budget goes into the work itself. In French or English.
Independent advice
We don't resell software or take commissions from the vendors we recommend. Whether we're selecting a system or acting as your fractional CIO, our recommendation answers to your business, not to a sales target. If a mandate ever involves a commercial relationship with a vendor, we disclose it in writing before work starts.
How a mandate works
Scope
We agree on the question, the scope, the duration and the deliverables before work starts.
Aim:a written scope that states what will be decided, by whom and when.
First weeks
Interviews with your team and a review of your systems and data.
Aim:improvements that don't need to wait for the final report, identified and started.
Build
The roadmap, the system decision or the first AI use case, depending on the mandate, built with your team.
Aim:decisions made along the way, not saved for a final presentation.
Handover
Your team owns the result: the documents, the decisions and a clear plan for what comes next.
Aim:next steps your team can start the following week.
Have a technology or AI decision to make?
Start with a 30-minute call. We'll see whether a mandate fits, and what the first weeks would look like.
Book an intro callor write tojo@puncheur.ca