Patrick Petit

Current

Software Business Development Architect at Sun Microsystems (Switzerland)

Past

Independant Consultant at Patrick Petit Consulting
Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems (CTO/Labs)
Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems

Sr. Staff Engineer in Iplanet Division at Sun Microsystems
Staff Engineer Professional Services at Sun Microsystems
Internet Consultant (Self-employed)
Senior Operating System Engineer at ACRI
Independent Consultant (Self-employed)
Software engineer at Cap Sogeti

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Education

Grenoble Ecole de Management - Grenoble Graduate School of Business
Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII)

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Patrick Petit’s Summary

Senior architect and software engineer with over 20 years of experience in Unix, Java and C languages programming, and Internet engineering.

I am interested in advanced developments and innovative solutions prototyping. Focused more recently on projects involving the design and implementation of Web Access Management and Federation solutions based on open-source software and technologies mostly originating from Sun Microsystems including; Glassfish, OpenESB, OpenDS, and OpenSSO, as well as other open-source products.

Currently working on finalizing my MBA at GGSB. My master thesis objective is to deep dive into analyzing the business opportunities and impediments of cloud computing from the point of view of small and medium businesses.

Patrick Petit’s Specialties:

C, J2SE, J2EE, Virtualization, System Management and Monitoring, Web Access Management, Federation, Identity Management, Unix-like OSs (Solaris, Linux, Mac OSX).

Patrick Petit’s Experience

Software Business Development Architect

Sun Microsystems (Switzerland)

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Independant Consultant

Patrick Petit Consulting

(Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Independent consultant working on the design and development of innovative web applications with a particular focus on open-source software in general, and Sun Microsystem's open-source technologies in particular. It includes Glassfish J2EE Application Server and the Metro stack, Open Directory Server (OpenDS), Web Access Management and Federation (OpenSSO), as well as other applications of the Java Enterprise System (JES) products suite.

I am the initial and main contributor of the Information Card (Cardspace) authentication module of the OpenSSO platform. I continue developing and maintaining this software component on a regular basis.

Also pursuing an MBA part-time at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business. Elective in technology and innovation management.
Senior Staff Engineer

Sun Microsystems (CTO/Labs)

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

March 2004 — March 2007 (3 years 1 month)

Hired in SMI CTO for the Ulysses project. Ulysses was an advanced development project sponsored by Rob Gingel, head of the SMI Technology Office. The goal was to produce a product-quality prototype that can perform automated Service Level Management (SLM) functions over the applications of the Java Enterprise Systems suite. Produced software and a patents on the design and implementation of the Telemetry component based on OSS/J QoS and JMX. Filed a patent on the SNMP/JMX bridge I developed for this project.

Worked on the design and implementation of a turnkey Weblog Server Appliance proof-of-concept to be deployed on Solaris/Linux-Xen virtual machines.
Sr. Staff Engineer

Sun Microsystems

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

November 2002 — November 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Initiator and lead architect of the Java Enterprise System Monitoring Framework. The objective of this project was to conceive and deliver a general framework and tools for developers to expose service-affecting data such as, faults, resource usage, operational status and performance data in a uniform and consistent manner via a CIM model representation of the managed objects and a JMX implementation support.
Sr. Staff Engineer in Iplanet Division

Sun Microsystems

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

January 1999 — November 2002 (3 years 11 months)

California (USA)
Performance and scalability architect in the iPlanet Portal Server (iPS) engineering group. Increased significantly the performance, scalability and reliability of the product over multiple releases both in Portal Server and Identity Manager code. Designed performance patches for the 3.0 version and resolved several customer escalation situations in the US.
Staff Engineer Professional Services

Sun Microsystems

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

August 1997 — January 1999 (1 year 6 months)

Velizy (France)
Internet architect in the Advanced Internet Consulting Practice (Worldwide) of Sun. I have been involved in the development of some major ISP infrastructure projects.
Internet Consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

May 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 4 months)

Worked as an independent consultant on several Internet projects for EUnet Paris (France) and France Telecom Hébergement (FTH) Malakoff (France).
Senior Operating System Engineer

ACRI

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1992 — March 1995 (2 years 6 months)

Lyon (France)
Worked as a Unix's internals expert in the operating system group of ACRI. ACRI was an international start-up, created by Jacques Stern, involved in the development of a supercomputer for the EEC market. Designed and implemented the I/O subsystem of ACRI's first supercomputer machine.
Independent Consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

November 1989 — September 1992 (2 years 11 months)

Worked as a UNIX expert at Gec Alsthom (Chatillon), Thomson SDC (Vélizy) and Thomson DOI Colombes (France) on advanced UNIX engineering projects (drivers, pesudo real-time communitation framework)
Software engineer

Cap Sogeti

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

July 1986 — October 1989 (3 years 4 months)

Worked on two UNIX operating system port projects at BULL MTS (Massy) and Copernic (La Celles Saint Cloud), and a distributed airport regualtion system at STNA (Evry)