Stève SFARTZ

CTO - SaaS/Cloud Architect - Enterprise Transformation & Business Development

Location: Nantes Area, France
Industry: Information Technology and Services

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Stève SFARTZ's Overview

Current

CTO - SaaS Program & Operations Manager at KOSMOS

Past

Architect Lead - Cloud Computing & Incubation at MICROSOFT France
Senior Architect - Innovation & Incubation at MICROSOFT France
Deputy CEO - Professional Services & ISV industrialization Tools at IMPROVE SA

CTO - J2EE Architect at IMPROVE SA
IT Architect - Network Management at CEA
NeXT Developer at Intuitiv Systems
C++ Developer - Network Monitoring Software at Bull

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Education

Télécom Bretagne (ENST de Bretagne)
Lycée Chaptal

Connections

500+ connections

Websites

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20 years experience in innovation, software architecture, enterprise transformation, pre-sales and sales, project management.

I am particularly excited at starting up and renovating activities, delivering technical challenges, setting up teams, organization & projects roadmaps.
Strengths : Acheiver, Strategic, Self Assurance, Command & Focus

Specialties: Web / SaaS / Mobile and Enterprise Architecture
Incubation, Innovation and Technology Evangelism
Program management and IT operations
Opensource, Java & Microsoft Platforms
Business Development and Conferences Speaker
Team development and Enterprise transformation

CTO - SaaS Program & Operations Manager

KOSMOS

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry

December 2009 – Present (3 years 6 months) Nantes Area, France

Delivering SaaS services which are to serve 1.7 million users with a large set of functionalities : from educational (LMS, in-presence and home works) and collaboration tools (CMS, blogs, forums, workspaces…) to personal services (internal emails, masse communication, agenda…) accessed through both Web and Mobile channels.
SLA engagements (7/7, 24/24) with high indemnification.

Responsible for the services design, software architecture, technical infrastructure & resources optimization, help desk, hiring, teams and projects management, pre-sales, contracts & partners management

Software : Java, Spring, EHCache, HTML, Javascript, Fluid User Experience
Tooling : Eclipse, Maven/Hudson, Sonar, SVN, JIRA, JMeter, Amazon Web Services
SaaS/Hosting : Debian, FreeBSD, ha-proxy, Apache, Monitoring, JMS, SAN/Virtualisation versus Dedicated Servers for specific workloads
Mobility : Android, iPhone, Hybrid Apps, HTML5

Architect Lead - Cloud Computing & Incubation

MICROSOFT France

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry

May 2009 – November 2009 (7 months) Paris Area, France

Manage the Architecture Evangelism Team and drive adoption of the Microsoft Platform, focusing on innovative scenarios : Cloud, RIA, SOA, ALM.

Responsible for Microsoft Cloud Computing technologies (Windows Azure) technical adoption for France : launch activities, success stories, testimonials, conferences.

Identification of opportunities for Opensource + Microsoft technologies bridges, Incubation & lead of incubation projects : Eclipse for Windows Azure, Restlet OData extension.

Senior Architect - Innovation & Incubation

MICROSOFT France

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry

November 2005 – April 2009 (3 years 6 months) Paris Area, France

Architecture & Microsoft Technoloy Evangelist
Innovative scenarios in SMB and Enterprise critical environments with the Microsoft Platform.

Every day job consists in 50% evangelism & 50% technical architecture :
- One-To-Few Architectural Meetings & Technical Demonstrations,
- One-To-Many through newsletters, blogs & conferences
http://blog.sfartz.com, http://blogs.msdn.com/cloudcomputing, http://blogs.msdn.com/ssfartz

My area of expertise are SOA & Innovation :
- SOA (production & consumption of services) in heterogeneous context
- Innovation (consumer technologies, cloud computing ...)

Part of my job is also about initiating contacts to establish key partneship with local actors (Independant Software Vendors & Systems Integrators)

I am deeply concerned about interoperability : talks about .Net + Java, incubation of the Eclipse Tools For Silverlight.

Deputy CEO - Professional Services & ISV industrialization Tools

IMPROVE SA

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

November 2001 – October 2005 (4 years) Paris Area, France

Sales Team Manager, responsible for 70% of the overall company revenue, and 15% profitability

Business plan, incubation and business development

2 areas of focus: Java / opensource Professional Services and Industrialisation frameworks (Java dependency framework (spring-like microkernel) and complementary toolset (Eclipse plugins))

Recruitment of a talented team of J2EE specialists which are key Java Architecture leaders in the french community

CTO - J2EE Architect

IMPROVE SA

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

September 1996 – October 2001 (5 years 2 months) Paris Area, France

3 major Java Projects Delivery : DEPOSIT, MATRA AUTOMOBILE, AUGEO SOFTWARE (1 year and a half each, build from scratch in java, custom / home made framework, multi-layer software architecture)

WebSphere projects incubation for IBM large accounts
Delivering Architecture Studies for the french enterprise market

Internal company organisation, hiring & team Management

Web and technical magazines articles (Developpeur Reference, Programmez) Conferences (SUN, IBM, Borland, ...)
JavaOne Booth exhibitor in 1999 (Borland OptimizeIt)
Sun Java Certified Developer in 1997 (First Java Certified Developer for France)

IT Architect - Network Management

CEA

Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Research industry

September 1995 – August 1996 (1 year) Paris Area, France

Network management projet leader
Monitoring Systems Toolset selection
Enterprise monitoring processes definition
SNMP Agents customization and developement
Organisation of a IT team of 20 people

Technologies : Cray, Sun, HPOpenView

NeXT Developer

Intuitiv Systems

February 1995 – August 1995 (7 months) Sunnyvale, California Area, USA

Built a report builder and generator (API + rendering engine)

Technologies : Objective-C, PostScript

C++ Developer - Network Monitoring Software

Bull

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BULL REGPT; Information Technology and Services industry

September 1993 – August 1994 (1 year)

Part of the Bull OpenMaster dev team
Developer of the overall monitoring process (socket / network stack)
Network discovery through SNMP/CMIP agents

Technologies : C++, LISP, Unix (AIX), sockets

English

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Télécom Bretagne (ENST de Bretagne)

Master of Engineering, Computer Science, Networks, Telecom

1991 – 1995

Incubation program : One-year internship at Bull
Parallelism programming (Task, ADA), TCP/IP Network and sockets, Satellites, Business & Economics

Founded in 1977, Telecom Bretagne is one of the most prestigious graduate engineering schools ("Grandes Ecoles") in France. It is a public institution, under the aegis of the Ministry for Industry and is a member of the Institut Telecom and the Université européenne de Bretagne (European University of Brittany). The college trains future professionals for careers in industry, services and research.

The degrees on offer at Telecom Bretagne are internationally recognized and comply with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/engineering/

Activities and Societies: Creator of several school clubs : car mecanics, fitness & chess