Jean Sini
MSc in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications with D.E.A. in Computer Systems from Paris University. Currently working as CTO at Buzzlogic, Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Chinese, English, French, German, Languages, Spanish |
| Groups: | BASES |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Buzzlogic, Inc. |
| Position: | Chief Technology Officer |
| Time period: | March 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Buzzlogic, a web 2.0 technology company, unlocks the power of conversations and influence, with applications that help players across the social media ecosystem, from businesses to online publishers to the bloggers contributing to influential communities, reap the rewards and engage its constituents.
As Chief Technology Officer, I head Buzzlogic’s strategic vision, architecture, and development. |
| Employer: | Activeweave, Inc. |
| Position: | Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder |
| Time period: | May 2005 - March 2008 |
| Description: | Activeweave, a web 2.0 startup, lets users browse smarter: its patent-pending, always-on, personalized relevance engine, coupled with its browser add-on, delivers in real-time a contextual overlay straight into the browser, everywhere users navigate. Its services augment the current page with related information from customized, trusted sources. Activeweave also helps realize the potential of an enhanced, social web using new browser metaphors to empower individuals to share commentary among their social groups. Activeweave is making the web more participatory, breaking the boundaries between the pages browsed and the relevant context about those pages. In the words of others: Erick Schonfeld in Business 2.0, Mike Arrington on Techcrunch, etc.
As Chief Technology Officer, I head Activeweave’s strategic vision, architecture, cross-platform development, and operations. |
| Employer: | Symbol Technologies, Mobility Software Division |
| Position: | Senior Director, Engineering |
| Time period: | April 2004 - May 2005 |
| Description: | Symbol Technologies (now part of Motorola) is the leader in enterprise mobility solutions that create new advantage: streamlining supply chains; empowering people to do more with less; driving productivity and profitability. Symbol is leading a provider of secure mobile information systems.
The Mobility Software Division has released the Mobility Services Platform, empowering enterprise customers to actively monitor the performance of their wireless infrastructure and business processes: We enable our customers to implement the Capture, Move and Manage vision, with the industrial strength, availability and robustness they need, by letting them manage and monitor their entire deployment, from devices to access ports to switches, and integrate with back-end business applications that leverage the flow of captured data. |
| Employer: | Oracle Corporation, Server Technologies |
| Position: | Director, Software Engineering |
| Time period: | March 2000 - April 2004 |
| Description: | The Oracle 9i Application Server is Oracle’s fully J2EE compliant server, delivering industrial-strength performance, reliability, scalability and security. 9i AS Wireless Edition, the world’s leading mobile application server, builds on this industrial-strength core and on open W3C standards such as XHTML 1.1 and XForms, XSLT and CSS style-sheets to optimize content adaptation for many classes of devices, ranging from rich Pocket PC browsers to voice-only phones. The platform also implements Web Services compliant to SOAP and WSDL specifications. It enables customers to develop, deploy and maintain their mobile applications once and render them (both online and offline) optimally on many devices.
• Group Director, in charge of hiring and managing 3 core development teams. • Architect, driving overall and detailed design of the core application platform. • Technical Expert, push and synchronization technologies. • Technical Expert, product technologies and performance (XML, XSLT). • Technical Expert, Extensible Application Framework (Web Services, J2EE). • Release Management, successfully delivered 4 releases of the product. • Business Development Contact, evangelization and requirements gathering. • Mobile Commerce Expert, 4 Mobile Commerce Infrastructure Patents Pending. • Mobile Payments Lead, XML Working Group Chair, Pay Circle Consortium. In charge of the Oracle 9iAS Server Wireless Core Application Platform development group (20 senior engineers and team leads). Our mission is to architect, develop and deliver Oracle’s mobile application platform, as well as core mobile web services, enabling enterprises and service providers to build, integrate and manage highly customizable mobile applications and serve content to users on any device (in-browser applications as well as native, intermittently connected applications using push and sync technologies), offer them a fully integrated and personalized mobile experience. Core mobile web services include the Mobile Commerce Infrastructure, Collaboration Suite, and Location Based Services. |
| Employer: | Oracle Corporation, CRM Division |
| Position: | Software Development Manager |
| Time period: | September 1996 - March 2000 |
| Description: | Oracle Corporation is the world’s leading supplier of software for information management, and the world’s second largest independent software company. With annual revenues of more than $10.1 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 145 countries around the world.
• Development Manager, in charge of a 5-member engineering team. • Architect, driving detailed design of Oracle’s Electronic Billing application. • Technical Expert, product technologies (JSP, JDBC). • Mobile Commerce Expert (ACH and Credit Card Transaction Schemes). • Network Architecture: Member of the Oracle Network Computing Group. Mar. 1998 - Jan. 2000, Electronic Commerce Group, then Sales Online. Development manager, lead architect in charge of the design and implementation of Oracle’s component-based Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment product. Oct. 1996 - Feb. 1998, Network Computing Group. Senior Engineer, in charge of the design and development of a Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) system into Oracle’s Network Computing Architecture. |
| Employer: | General Electric Medical Systems |
| Position: | Senior Software Engineer |
| Time period: | May 1996 - September 1996 |
| Description: | GE Medical Systems is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of diagnostic imaging equipment, including conventional and digital x-ray, computed tomography (CT) magnetic resonance (MR), ultrasound, positron emission tomography (PET), and nuclear medicine. GE also provides diagnostic information management systems and diagnostic imaging parts and accessories.
Evaluated technologies, then designed and prototyped a distributed real-time systems communication component using the Real-Time Object Oriented Methodology (ROOM) analysis model. Application to medical imaging equipment system software. |
| Employer: | UUNet France |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | January 1996 - April 1996 |
| Description: | UUNET, a Verizon company, is a global leader in Internet communications.
Architecture and implementation of a statistics module to analyze site traffic. Design and implementation of a web-based charting component rendering the generated data. |
| Employer: | Adimas |
| Position: | Software Engineer, Team Lead |
| Time period: | August 1995 - December 1995 |
| Description: | Adimas is a Paris-based software consulting firm specializing in the implementation of online distributed reservation systems.
Architecture, design and development of a commercial online reservation and ticketing system. Design of the underlying database and middle tier. |
| Employer: | Banque Nationale de Paris |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | May 1995 - August 1995 |
| Description: | Banque Nationale de Paris is a leading French bank ranked among the 20 largest banks in the world.
Electronic Data Processing department. Local and Wide Area Network enhancements to enable secure email exchange between branches (Taiwan, Hong-Kong, Singapore). Design and development of a profitability analysis tool interfacing with the accounting system. |
| Employer: | Axis&Agix |
| Position: | Senior Instructor |
| Time period: | December 1994 - April 1995 |
| Description: | Axis&Agix is the French leader in Unix and Open Systems courses.
Courses Taught: Advanced C Programming, System Programming in C for Unix. |
