Yvan Cognasse

Current

Application Solution Architect at Oracle

Past

Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle
Co-Founder and CEO at Invest Valley
Project Manager at Sopra Group

Quality Engineer at Capgemini

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Education

Ecole centrale de Paris
Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne
Telecom Saint-Etienne

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Yvan Cognasse’s Summary

Responsible for developing and presenting the application technical solution architecture in multi-pillar sales engagements. Helps customers assess their application technical architecture and its suitability for supporting relevant business processes. Recommends Oracle, Partner, and third party applications and technology solutions and IT best practice. Works across all ERP, CRM, Global Business units and Technology teams to present a single Oracle vision to the customer. Focus on long term delivery value.

Yvan Cognasse’s Specialties:

Applied technology for Oracle applications
Social Network business development
Oracle blogger
Bilingual - French and English

Yvan Cognasse’s Experience

Application Solution Architect

Oracle

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

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Responsible for developing and presenting the technical solution architecture in multi-pillar sales engagements. The Application Technical Architect (ATA) helps customers assess their technical application architecture and its suitability for supporting relevant business processes. I recommend Oracle and Partner application and technology solutions and IT best practice to meet the customer’s business requirements. I'm working across all ERP, CRM and Global Business Units and with Technology teams to present a single Oracle vision to the customer. My role is Sales led and focussed on delivering long term value to the customer and for Oracle.
Principal Sales Consultant

Oracle

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

September 1999 — February 2008 (8 years 6 months)

Principal Sales Consultant on E-Business Suite Technology in Oracle International Account Sales Group (EMEA) from January 2006 : Work as a part of a expert team within the EMEA, along side sales account managers, and pre-sales functional consulting staff in the positioning and sale of the Oracle Applications set, including Demonstrations & Presentations of Technology, Preparing responses to RFPs / RFIs and white papers, Sales strategy definition & account planning, Building and maintaining effective relationships with all relevant customers throughout the sales lifecycle, Contributing to the generation and maintenance of relevant Value Propositions, Designing and delivering customer demonstrations/presentations to articulate, update and evangelise Oracle based solutions in EMEA as required, Exploiting Oracle's Marketing messages in the definition of Applications solutions.
Co-Founder and CEO

Invest Valley

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Investment Management industry)

September 1999 — February 2006 (6 years 6 months)

InvestValley.com deals with the composition of financial markets and the analysis and valuation of traded securities. It describes the use of securities both in constructing and managing portfolios and in contributing to portfolio performance. Particular attention is paid to new types of investment product, different portfolio management strategies, speculation, arbitrage and risk management strategies and to financial market failure.

Company sold to Web Financial Group S.L. (editor of Bolsamania.com).
Project Manager

Sopra Group

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; SOP; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 1 month)

Interventions, in the organization and the implementation, in operations of reorganization linked to the Euro, marketing decisional system and fusion of processing center. Environment: IBM/MVS/DB2.
Quality Engineer

Capgemini

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

March 1997 — September 1997 (7 months)

Research and Intranet development of new access to information capitalized on projects and pre-sale: organisation and quality system

Yvan Cognasse’s Education

Ecole centrale de Paris

Specialised Master's Degrees (MS) , Technology and Innovation Management , 1996 — 1997

Member of the conference of "The Grandes Ecoles", the ECP has delivered for 20 years *Mastère Spécialisé' Degrees of which the number and the branches of specialities evolve with the needs for the market. The range is characterized by a recruitment very diversified in terms of qualification, profile, professional experience and course of career as well as opening to the international one. In this respect, the mandatory teaching of English and the presence of many students foreigner attest this effort of opening to the world.

Activities and Societies:

Technology and Management
Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne

Pre-PhD / DEA , Computer Science , 1994 — 1994

The School, founded in 1816, is one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France, in the top group of the "grandes écoles" for generalist engineers. Working closely with companies, the School offers experience, know-how and scientific innovation.

Activities and Societies:

Image Vision Signal
Telecom Saint-Etienne

Engineer , Engineering school in Science and technology, especially telecoms , 1991 — 1994

Telecom Saint-Etienne is one of France's prestigious engineering schools, in the group of "Grandes Ecoles". Telecom Saint-Etienne is a graduate school for science and technology, especially telecoms.

Activities and Societies:

Optics, Electronics, Telecommunications, Networks, Computer Graphics, Vision, Industrial, Optics