
Director, Services, Architecture at Alfresco Software
Greater New York City Area

Director, Services, Architecture at Alfresco Software
Greater New York City Area
As Director of Services for Alfresco Software, Jean works with Alfresco customers and partners on architecture, training, community building, and hands-on development of content-centric solutions.
Throughout his career, Jean held a number of roles that exposed him to different areas of technology creation. As Senior Consultant and Trainer for Infusion Development, a boutique consulting company in New York, he worked with some of the biggest Wall Street firms on enterprise development and training projects.
As an integration consultant working for a software company, he was involved in several automotive projects with Fortune 100 companies, including an internal engineering configuration project, and a publicly-facing consumer web site. In his role as principal developer for VERITAS (now Symantec), Jean was a member of a product team focused on business intelligence solutions aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the data center.
In addition to his work responsibilities, Jean has contributed to the IASA, the International Association of Software Architects, on several writing projects related to architects education. He is a frequent speaker to various technical user groups and has developed and presented several training courses.
Well-versed in both .NET and Java, Jean is interested in bringing the latest Web 2.0 ideas and technologies into the enterprise.
Content Management, J2EE, DotNET, ASP.NET, SharePoint, Architecture, Training, Technical Speaking and Writing
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year)
As Director of Services, Jean serves as the liaison from Alfresco to our partner integrator community, OEMs, and some of our customers. The goal is to be an architecture resource and help with architecting content-centric systems, both in Document Management and Web Content Management. This involves both Java J2EE Development using open source technologies, and also infrastructure and deployment architecture.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Roles: Architect, Sr. Trainer, Developer, Business Analyst
* Ran the Lehman Brothers Boot Camp for College Graduates (TDP)
* Completed a number of projects at major financial institutions
* Helped create the curriculum and delivered Developer Course for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Technologies Used: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Groove 3.1 & 2007, ASP.NET 2.0, C# 2.0, VB.NET, J2EE, Excel Programming, SQL Server 2005, SQL Reporting Services, Low-Latency Experience, Object Oriented Design
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYMC; Computer & Network Security industry)
August 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 3 months)
Veritas Backup Reporter is a web-based application enables IT organizations to better leverage their IT resources by enabling them to discover, report, automatically provision and monitor IT resources.
• Owner and lead architect and designer of several areas of the product such as Monitoring, Data Generation and Java Swing GUI.
• Designed the integration of a shared monitoring component and implemented it
• Responsible for all issues relating to monitoring section of the product
• Drove new requirements and architecture for the product
• Owner of the sample data generation component used for customer demos and testing
• Supervised design and development of a web testing framework
• Put in charge of interviewing and hiring a team of contractors
Project Technology: CORBA communication between distributed components, Java backend, Sybase ASA database, JSP / Servlets, XML processing, SNMP sending / receiving, Apache Tomcat Servlet Engine, Struts and Tiles frameworks
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1999 — June 2003 (4 years)
Role: Technical Lead, Project - FordDirect.com
Customer-facing vehicle configuration, pricing and financing website; extensive integration to third party systems to locate a vehicle, request quotes and place orders.
• Directed implementation of new functionality of the site; Primary technical contact for the client
• Coded new features; Designed APIs; Wrote regression tests
• Responsible for multiple releases; prepared project plans, executed detailed requirements gathering and estimates
• Managed a rigorous roll process to ensure high availability, oversaw quality improvement program
• Managed the development team (4 to 8 consultants); mentored 4 new members
• Grew the project to a showcase account as part of the account team; Identified and helped secure follow-on business
Project Technology: Java Backend with XML / BizTalk and CORBA integrations, JSP, ASP on IIS, JavaScript, DHTML supported all browser platforms.
BSE, Electrical Engineering / Computer Science, 1995 — 1999
4-Year Full-Tuition Scholarship
Partner Dancing, Improv, Cooking, Photography
New Jersey Governor's School in the Sciences, NJGSS, TU99, Trilogy Alumni, Scrum Alliance