Jesper Kvist

Jesper Kvist has over 25 years of work experience in various roles within the IT industry. Jesper is currently the Vice President of Strategic Project Management and Business Optimization at First Guaranty Bank, where they lead and oversees the delivery of IT projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget. Prior to this, Jesper worked at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana as a Process Improvement Manager and Senior Project Manager. Jesper also has experience as a Solutions Architect at Global Data Systems and as a Program Manager at MeridianLink. Before that, Jesper held positions as a Senior Information Technology Manager and IT Service Manager at CRIF Lending Solutions. Jesper began their career as a Project/Development Engineer at Marine Technologies LLC and later took on the role of Manager of Network Services and Director of Data Services at NexBand Communications/Expetel Communications. Jesper has a strong background in project management, process improvement, and IT leadership.

Jesper Kvist has a background in Mechanical Engineering. Jesper attended the Louisiana State University from 1990 to 1993 and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 1993 to 1995, specializing in Mechanical Engineering. There is no specific mention of any degrees obtained during these periods.

Additionally, Jesper Kvist has acquired various certifications throughout their career. These include the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (ICYB) obtained from the Project Management Academy in August 2022, the CMNA certification from Cisco Meraki in November 2019, the IS741 ed2 Intelsat Flex and IS742 ed2 IntelSatOne Flex certifications from GVF in November 2019, the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute in August 2019, the ITIL Foundation certification from AXELOS Global Best Practice in December 2017, the SANS Security Awareness certification from the SANS Institute in September 2017, and the Management Development certification from The Development Alchemists in July 2017.

Furthermore, Jesper Kvist possesses the H2S certification from Petroleum Education obtained in August 2013 and the A+ certification from CompTIA obtained in July 1998. Additionally, they have obtained the SAFe 5 Scrum Master certification from Scaled Agile, Inc. in August 2022.

Although there are mentions of several other certifications, such as CCDA, CCNA, GVF Level 1, GVF Level 3 iDirect, GVF Level 2, RigPass, SafeGulf/SafeLand, and TWIC, no specific information is provided about the obtained months or years for these certifications, or their respective institutions.