Patrick Chanezon

Current

• Client and Cloud Advocacy Team manager at Google

Past

• Google Friend Connect Developer Advocate at Google
• OpenWeb Advocacy Team Manager at Google
• Developer Advocate - OpenSocial at Google

• API evangelist - AdWords and Checkout at Google
• Software Architect at Sun Microsystems
• Portal Tech Lead at AOL
• MyNetscape Engineering Manager at Netscape
• Custom Netcenter Extensions Software Architect at Netscape
• Content Management Architect for Netscape Netcenter at NSCP
• Senior Consultant at Netscape Professional Services for Netscape France at NSCP
• Senior Technology Consultant at Accenture
• Client-Server Software Development Engineer at CSII

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Education

• Ecole Centrale de Lyon
• Lycee Marie Curie

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
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• My Company

Patrick Chanezon’s Summary

See details at http://wordpress.chanezon.com/?p=2

At Google since July 2005 evangelizing Google API: GWT, Appengine, Openweb, Google Friend Connect, OpenSocial, Checkout, AdWords
5 years at Sun: Weblogs, Portals, Struts, JSF, software architect, B2B, technical evangelist, engineering manager
3 years at Netscape/AOL : Consulting, Portals and B2B, architect, engineering manager
2 years at Andersen Consulting : Workflow, consultant
1 year as a Software Development Engineer at CSII : Client/Server development

I'm 41, live in San francisco, and am married to Dorothee Chabas, a neurologist. We have 3 kids, Eliette, Simon, and Charlotte.

I convinced 18 social sites to join the OpenSocial standard: http://opensocial.org/.
I used to be part of the blogmasters at Sun: I helped launch http://blogs.sun.com.
I also co-created the Rome - Atom and RSS utilities in java, an open source library designed to make writing syndication applications in java simpler.

As Portal Architect at Sun, I ported Sun ONE Portal Server to Sun, IBM and BEA application servers. Then I worked on adding collaboration capabilities in Sun Portal.

My other 3 main threads of interest were:
- weblog software: defining an enterprise weblog product that solves the collaboration needs of our customers.
This product would use technologies such as: weblogs, RSS, wikis, FOAF, XFML, Web Services, Portals, Liberty Alliance
- Aspect Oriented Programming
- Semantic Web: waiting for it to happen since 6 years. Lots of reading but haven't participated much, apart from using RDF in Netscape sidebar.

Apart from my family and technology, my main interests are poetry, novels, sociology, graphic novels and the game of Go.
More details at http://www.chanezon.com/pat/cv/

Patrick Chanezon’s Specialties:

html5, openweb, appengine, cloud computing, gwt, javascript, OpenSocial, Checkout, Ruby, Javascript, Ajax, SaaS, SOA, AdWords, Web Services, Weblogs, Wikis, RSS, Atom, J2EE, Portals, AOP, Struts, JSF
See http://www.chanezon.com/pat/cv/ for details

Patrick Chanezon’s Experience

• Client and Cloud Advocacy Team manager

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

  I manage the Client and Cloud Advocacy team (9 people) promoting the new client server architecture based on Openweb standards (html5, SVG), Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Google Appengine.

• Google Friend Connect Developer Advocate

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  March 2009 — June 2009 (4 months)

  Business development: in 3 months I got the first large partners to use Google Friend Connect: Time.com and Huffington Post.
  I built the Time.com social list feature myself with Time.com engineering team.
  These integrations were featured at the Google IO conference (see slides and video at http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/GFCPartners.html)

• OpenWeb Advocacy Team Manager

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  November 2008 — June 2009 (8 months)

  I lead a team of 5 people dedicated to advocate openweb technologies: canvas, svg, html5, javascript.
  We started a big push for these technologies at Google IO 2009 http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html#client and Google Developer Days 2009 China, Japan and Brazil http://code.google.com/events/developerday/2009/

• Developer Advocate - OpenSocial

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 10 months)

  In 2007 I started the OpenSocial developer outreach program from scratch, convincing 18 social sites to join OpenSocial, preparing the launch event with 70 applications, growing the standard and managing social sites relationships to get many sites live (LinkedIn, Friendster).
  In 2008 I have worked on growing the number of OpenSocial sites (cf http://opensocial.org), attracting developers to OpenSocial and build an ecosystem of advertisers, tool vendors and IT firms around the standard.
  
  In 2009 most social networks worldwide have implemented OpenSocial (more than 20 sites) representing 800 M users (MySpace, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Hi5, Orkut), 7500 apps have been developed, 315M installs and we start to see the enterprise adopting it (Exo, Atlassian, Oracle, IBM).
  
  I gave numerous presentations, keynotes and organized developer events worldwide in the past 3 years, see my blog at http://wordpress.chanezon.com/
  More details at http://www.chanezon.com/pat/cv/

• API evangelist - AdWords and Checkout

  Google

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GOOG; Computer Software industry)

  June 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 3 months)

  I was the first API evangelist hired at Google in 2005 when Google had 3 APIs. I helped build a team of 40 developer relations, for 40 APIs.
  
  I drive adoption, foster a community and an ecosystem around Google APIs. I tend to specialize on the most business oriented APIs: Checkout API, http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/, Adwords API, http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/.
  
  * AdWords API: built a developer program, managed the biggest customers, and initiated the Google-Salesforce.com AdWords partnership.
  * Checkout API: managed a virtual team of 20 developers to build SDKs in all languages, test the API, and provide merchants with a turnkey offering to integrate Checkout.
  
  I gave numerous presentations about most Google APIs (Maps, Earth, GWT, Ajax Search, Gears), keynotes and organized developer events worldwide.
  More details at http://www.chanezon.com/pat/cv/

• Software Architect

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

  December 2000 — May 2005 (4 years 6 months)

  I'm part of the blogmasters at Sun: I helped launch http://blogs.sun.com. I suggested to use Roller as our public weblog server, and wrote an internal user provisioning application to create users on the system and enforce various policies. I helped evangelize blogging within Sun, giving various presentations on weblogs, wikis and RSS technologies.
  
  With Alejandro Abdelnur and Elaine Chien we created the Rome - Atom and RSS utilities in java, an open source library designed to make writing syndication applications in java simpler. It is today the 4th most popular project in the xml and web services community on java.net, with more than 6 external developers, and many subprojects.
  
  As Portal Architect at Sun, I ported Sun ONE Portal Server to Sun, IBM and BEA application servers.
  I am now working on creating collaboration tools in the Portal: RSS, weblogs, content management.
  
  My other main threads of interest are:
  - weblog software
  - Aspect Oriented Programming
  - Semantic Web

• Portal Tech Lead

  AOL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AOLTW; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — November 2000 (11 months)

  iPlanet Market Maker (iMM) was a digital marketplace software for B2B exchanges developed by iPlanet, a joint venture between AOL and Sun.
  I managed the portal module team (2-3 persons) who developed the Portal framework used by all other modules of iMM
  * define the requirements and manage the schedule for the module
  * hire a new team member and coach her to bring her up to speed.
  * develop part of the framework for our 1.0 release: My Netscape-like personalization page and display profile serialization (in XML to Oracle).
  * participate in discussions with the iPlanet Portal Server team in order for them to implement our features in their product.
  * do some research and development on various technologies: ICE syndication format, ant build tool, automatic setup of development machines (Oracle and Directory silent install), document how to setup debugging for the project, document tools we use (Jspc, TOAD, Optimize It), client side cross-browser DHTML/javascript development.

• MyNetscape Engineering Manager

  Netscape

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NSCP; Computer Software industry)

  November 1999 — December 1999 (2 months)

  I managed a team of 3 people on the My Netscape service. My Netscape provides a personalized home page to 7 Million users.
  My main accomplishment during these 2 month was to define the server side technical architecture for sidebar in Communicator 6.0, gathering requirements from 4 different departments inside Netscape: specify the syntax of server side RDF files, specify automatic generation programs for some files, specify the workflow for other files, integrate these files in the content management system, define a deployment and QA process, specify a caching program that was developed by an engineer in my team.

• Custom Netcenter Extensions Software Architect

  Netscape

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NSCP; Computer Software industry)

  June 1999 — October 1999 (5 months)

  During 5 months I worked in a team of 4 on Custom Netcenter Extensions, a product that allows corporations to deploy their own customized portal, integrating Netcenter personalized content with their existing content and applications in a single personalized portal.
  The project was canceled and we handed our code to the iPlanet Portal Server.
  
  * I was in charge of the technical architecture: we chose to build it as a NAS4.0 application using servlets and service modules in java and C++ for common services. The application was designed to handle 1 Million users per installation. I studied the use of custom NAS extensions and decided against it.
  * I also designed and implemented the cache module: it is a java extension that uses C++ and STL via JNI for scalability and performance.
  * I am the buildmaster for the team: I designed the makefiles, the file layout, the coding standards, and the automatic document generation for the project.

• Content Management Architect for Netscape Netcenter

  NSCP

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NSCP; Computer Software industry)

  January 1999 — May 1999 (5 months)

  During 5 months I worked on the customization of FutureTense IPS and Xcelerate (nowOpen Market Content Server) for Netcenter, which involved:
  
  * My main focus was on the internationalization of IPS: I extended the system (with java and XML) in order to allow the input/output of content in any encoding and store it in UTF8 in the database.
  * I Designed and maintained some of the most complex custom elements of the system, and helped templates designers to use them
  * I coached consultants to implement required features
  * I helped a colleague to design a perl import tool to translate html content in XML
  * I collaborated with Operations in order to define the Content Management production process and qualify critical bugs

• Senior Consultant at Netscape Professional Services for Netscape France

  NSCP

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NSCP; Computer Software industry)

  October 1997 — January 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  I was a consultant for 2 years at Netscape France, extending Netscape enterprise products for various european customers.

• Senior Technology Consultant

  Accenture

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1995 — September 1997 (2 years 1 month)

  technology consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), specialized in Workflow (Lotus Notes).

• Client-Server Software Development Engineer

  CSII

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1994 — August 1995 (1 year )

  Client-Server Software Development Engineer, using the CASE tool that the company was developing for customer projects.

Patrick Chanezon’s Education

• Ecole Centrale de Lyon

  MS , Computer Science , September 1988 — August 1993

  These were 5 busy years! I learnt a lot, made enough mistakes for the rest of my life, and met some of my best friends.

  Activities and Societies:

  GDC award, V6 Executive Commitee Member, Soul Men Club Founder, Forbidden Litterature Library Club Founder, Contributed a few bad poems to the school journal, Read a lot of sociology and poetry.

• Lycee Marie Curie

  baccalaureat , math , 1978 — 1985

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Patrick Chanezon’s Websites:

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• My Company

Patrick Chanezon’s Groups:

OpenSocial

•    LeWeb3-07
•    Openweb
•    OpenSocial Developers
•    OpenSocial
•    Evans Data Developer Relations Professionals Group
•    Innovation Management Institute
•    Internet Business Development

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