Senior Staff

(Photo: Lonnie Woods III)

Jean Denis

Director of Management Information Systems

Jean E. Denis is the director of information systems for Africare.  He oversees the operation of the corporate information system, software and hardware operations, system security and management of Africare’s IT personnel and consultants.

Mr. Denis has worked in the development field as an IT professional for more than 20 years and before being promoted, served as an information systems specialist spending three years in Rwanda as an administrative officer for Africare.

Before joining the organization, Mr. Denis worked with the Defense Logistics Agency as an application programmer, writing and maintaining business applications for the agency.  He also worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, and served in the villages of Batal and Dakar designing and implementing income-generation activities in the areas of animal husbandry, reforestation, energy conservation and milling machine maintenance and management.

Mr. Denis holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications from Indiana University where he minored in mathematics and computer science.  He is trained in Lawson Financial Management, Novell Network Administration, AS/400 Administration, RPG, and Delphi programming languages as well as Visual Studio.Net 2008 and 2010, Alpha 5, IBM DB/2 databases, VMWARE, Windows 2008 Server, MS SQL Server 2008 and Google Apps.  

Mr. Denis is fluent in French and Haitian Creole and has working knowledge of Senegalese Serer and Wolof.