
Chief Technology Officer at BuzzLogic
San Francisco Bay Area

Chief Technology Officer at BuzzLogic
San Francisco Bay Area
Jean is a proven software entrepreneur, executive, and architect. Put differently, he's a passionate builder.
He joined Buzzlogic as Chief Technology Officer in April 2008 through the company's acquisition of Activeweave, and heads the core technical vision and architecture, aimed at targeting relevance and influence across social media.
His expertise and interests are primarily focused on the design and development of distributed computing infrastructures and web-scale services.
Based in the Silicon Valley since 1996, he has honed his leadership and software engineering skills over the last 15 years, building large-scale multi-tiered platforms and managing international engineering teams.
Prior to running the company’s engineering, Jean co-founded Activeweave in 2005, where he served as CTO, building and scaling its contextual, personalized relevance engine. Jean also held Director and Senior Director of Software Engineering positions at Oracle and Symbol Technologies.
Jean holds Masters Degrees in Computer Science from Telecom Paris and the Computer Science Laboratories at the Paris University.
Software Entrepreneur, Distributed and Internet Systems, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Project Management, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Collaboration, Mobile, Wireless, Web 2.0, Object Oriented Design, Programming, Web Architecture, Rich Internet Applications, Software executive
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (8 months)
Buzzlogic unlocks the power of conversations and influence, with applications that help players across the social media ecosystem—businesses, online publishers and the bloggers contributing to influential communities— reap the rewards and engage its constituents.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 10 months)
Activeweave, maker of Stickis and BlogRovR, helps realize the potential of a new, social web, enabling individuals to contribute and share perspective and commentary among their social groups.
With Stickis, we make the web more participatory: augmented by your personal annotations, enriched by your community's. Our technology helps you see, compose, and remix the web. We give you a voice for expression, an easy way of sharing it with anyone you like, and integrated access to the services and perspectives that interest you.
BlogRovR lets you bring your favorite bloggers along as you browse: our personalized on-the-fly contextual relevance engine delivers stories related to the page you're on right into the browser.
Activeweave was acquired in April 2008 by Buzzlogic.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SBL; Computer Networking industry)
May 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Mobility Software Division
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
October 1996 — May 2004 (7 years 8 months)
Server Technologies Division
DEA, Computer Systems, Distributed Computing, 1995 — 1996
MS, Computer Science, 1993 — 1996