Alain Clo

Current

• Corporate Industry Sales Development Manager at Sun Microsystems

Past

• Project Manager at Schlumberger
• Consultant at INRIA
• Sales Development at Kendall Square Research

• Senior Software Engineer at CONVEX
• Visiting Scientist at MIT
• Geophysicist at TOTAL

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Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ecole du Pétrole et des Moteurs
• Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Alain Clo’s Summary

CURRENT GOAL :
- Develop SW/Services Sales Business in the Public Sector, Finance, Petroleum and Media/Entertainment Markets
- Implement eGovernment in a large Institution
- Investigate Business in the Energy Oil/Government/IT
EXPERIENCES :
5 years: Sales Development Mgr in Corporate Public Sector, Industry Knowledge and Community Mgmt
4 years: HPC Project Management at Sun, Schlumberger, INRIA.
7 years : HPC Solutions Sales Development at Sun, HP/Convex/KSR.
5 years : Geophysicist at MIT, ELF Aquitaine, CGG, SIMECSOL.

Speaks Fluent French and English. Currently learning Arab (second year) and Chinese (just starting). Reads German.

Alain Clo’s Specialties:

Corporate eGovernment Sales Development, eGovt Solutions Selling, Best Practices, Architecture, Leadership
Other expertise :
Finance/Capital Risk Management, Petroleum/Seismic, Manufacturing/FEM.
Education :
SM Engineering, MSc in Geophysics, Numerical Analysis, Mechanics, High Performance Tuning.

Alain Clo’s Experience

• Corporate Industry Sales Development Manager

  Sun Microsystems

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

  June 1997 — Present (11 years 5 months)

  Corporate Industry Office - Public Sector - Petroleum - Finance
  - Currently Manages eGovernment Public Sector Sales Development and Knowledge and Community
  - Sales Development in Finance - Risk Management with Algorithmics/Murex and Societe Generale and Credit Agricole
  - Sales Developement in Manufacturing and Petroleum

• Project Manager

  Schlumberger

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  January 1995 — June 1997 (2 years 6 months)

  Project Manager of SW development for Explosives Automatic
  Detection in Airport Luggages
  Team Management 13 people
  High Performance Computing
  Algorithmics
  Graphics
  Real Time

• Consultant

  INRIA

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  January 1995 — May 1997 (2 years 5 months)

  High Performance Computing Consultant for Electromagnetics, Image / Radiosity and Seismics projects.

• Sales Development

  Kendall Square Research

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1992 — December 1994 (2 years 4 months)

  HPC Sales Dev - Benchmarks - Customer Services at INRIA

• Senior Software Engineer

  CONVEX

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  December 1989 — September 1992 (2 years 10 months)

  HPC Sales Development, Benchmarks

• Visiting Scientist

  MIT

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

  November 1988 — December 1989 (1 year 2 months)

  Geophysics : Wave propagation, seismics, earthquake modeling
  Parallel Computing on CM2, NCube, BBN
  at MIT - Earth Resources Lab

• Geophysicist

  TOTAL

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  June 1984 — December 1988 (4 years 7 months)

  Geophysicist
  Seicmic Field Engineer, Oil and Water propection
  Reservoir Modelling
  Structure / Finite Element Modelling
  at TOTAL (Elf Aquitaine) but also
  Compagnie Générale de Géophysique
  SIMECSOL
  Compagnie Prospection Géophysique Francaise

Alain Clo’s Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Post Msc : Specialization, Geophysics and Parallel Computing, 1988 — 1989

• Ecole du Pétrole et des Moteurs

  M.Sc, GeoPhysics, 1985 — 1987

• Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

  S.M. Engineering, Mechanics, GeoPhysics, GeoTechnics, 1981 — 1984

  Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire Pierre et Marie Curie

Additional Information

Alain Clo’s Websites:

• My Blog

Alain Clo’s Interests:

Knowlegde and Community Management History of Civilisations, Humanity, Ethics, Religions Geosciences, Mathematics Linguistics : Arab, English, German, French, soon Chinese Music : loves harmony, plays guitar and piano and sings (at least tries!)

Alain Clo’s Groups:

•    InterFrench
•    SUNAlumni
•    Ex-Convex
•    High Performance & Super Computing
•    Business Intelligence Associates

Alain Clo’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch