WS Boutique
Helping Organizations Go to the Next Level
Business, Information, Applications, Technology, Data Science
Services
WS Boutique helps develop and execute technical strategy for businesses and startups. Our boutique firm, through technical advising, has helped organizations increase profits and improve customer retention, scale, go through mergers and acquisitions, navigate events like the subprime crisis and COVID-19, and leverage technologies like AI to drive business growth.- We help identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities across the organization's landscape and across entities as well. We help you refine your strategy.
- Doing so, we define the target state, identify gaps and provide you with key steps, architecture and design points, and roadmap integration plans. All this while guiding and working with both business and technical divisions for adoption and implementation.
- We also help change the legacy culture, adjust the operating model, and help your teams grow.
- We leverage our expertise in various areas such as: streamlining information models and flows; building for scale, availability and reliability; architecting and designing for compliance; supporting analytics, data science and AI; and leveraging new technologies.
The Team
Laurence Melloul, Principal and Founder, has more than 20 years of experience in guiding organizations through transformations as well as in building robust, scalable and flexible applications. Laurence has a strong business acumen and provides guidance to C-level, department heads, architects, and business and technical delivery teams.Since she started her boutique firm more than 15 years ago, Laurence has been doing customer-facing consulting for large and small companies in various industries, including Fortune-500 companies and international nonprofits.
Prior to being an independent consultant, Laurence was a technical Program Manager for the .Net framework at Microsoft and obtained a patent on causality of events in distributed systems (assigned to MS).
Before joining Microsoft, Laurence conducted research on Web service composition at Stanford University, and published in the field.
Laurence Melloul holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Paris-Dauphine in France, a Master's in Computer Science from Stanford University, and was a Doctoral Candidate in the Ph.D. Program in Computer Science at Stanford.
Contact
WS Boutique
Seattle, WA / NY, NY
(1) 646 435 2933