Alain Clo
HPC Specialist, eGov Specialist and Business Development Manager
92MeudonIle-de-France - France
* Currently focusing on High Performance Computing
Innovative Software Environments for HPC applications
and Petaflops Configurations
* Highly motivated and professional with a proven track record in consistently setting and meeting Industry Solutions Sales targets in the IT market.
* Excellent communication and negotiation skills
* Ability to build and sustain business and relationships across all levels and nationalities
* Creative, tenacious, rigorous in execution
* Working on own initiative or as a strong and effective team member
* Ability to develop Industry Sales Best Practices through participative management
Alain has been focusing on e-Government Solutions, contributing to set up eGovernment services architectures, creating Solutions Best Practices and a Public Sector Community within Sun and beyond, and accelerating Sales in Government throughout the World.
2010 : A new year is starting, something is going to happen,
Soon more to come ....
2008-2009 Consultant in HPC and e-Government
2001-2007 SUN MICROSYSTEMS : Sales Development Director « Government/Corp » - EMEA / LATAM / APAC
1997-2001 SUN MICROSYSTEMS : Sales Development in Supercomputing within Finance, Defense and Education markets
1995-1997 SCHLUMBERGER/SMITHS : Paris, www.smithsdetection.com
Software Development Manager of the Data Processing Group
1992-1994 KENDALL SQUARE RESEARCH, Paris.
1989-1992 CONVEX/HP SUPERCOMPUTER, Paris.
Technical Manager in charge of SuperComputer Sales
1987-1989 ELF-AQUITAINE/TOTAL, Paris, www.total.com
Geophysicist, Engineer in Finite Element Modeling
1988-1989 Visiting Scientist at EARTH RESOURCES LAB – M.I.T, Cambridge, USA, www-eaps.mit.edu/erl/
· Research in Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media, Earth Modeling with Pr. Nafi Toksoz.
1987 SIMECSOL, Paris
1984-1986 CGG (Compagnie Générale de Géophysique), Paris, www.cgg.com
Geophysicist, Engineer in Soil Mechanics
45 contactsProfessional experience
1997 - 2007Corporate Industry Sales Development Director
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1997 — Present (10 years 4 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
High Tech
1995 - 1997Project Manager
Schlumberger / Smiths
(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
Informatique - Télécommunications
1989 - 1995Sales 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
Matériel informatique
1984 - 1989Visiting 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
Pétrole - Exploration - Production - Raffinage
Education
Hobbies
· Languages : fluent in French and English , reads German and currently learning Arabic.
· Music : harmony , vocals , guitar , piano.
· History and civilizations , origins and convergences.
