Thomas Conté   Born: December 28th, 1971 Nationality: French

96, boulevard Maurice Barrès 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine France   Email : thomas@conte.com Phone :

 

 

 

Professional Experience

 

March 2006 – Present

Product Technical Specialist, Portals & Collaboration

Microsoft Corporation – France

 

Within the Information Worker division of the Enterprise & Partner Group (EPG), handling of technical pre-sales engagements on Microsoft SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Web Content Management (WCM) workloads. Customer presentations & demos, RFP/RFI management, architecture design sessions, proof of concepts. Working in close relationship with product teams in the US and consulting organization in France & Europe.

 

May 2005 – February 2006

Senior Sales Engineer

Vignette Corporation – EMEA

 

• Sales Engineer for the entire Vignette product portfolio, with special focus on the Portal, Web Content Management and Collaboration products.
• Specifically engaged on deals that exhibit a highly technical nature.
• In charge of designing the overall technical solution and architecture.
• Reponses to RFPs/RFIs, product demonstrations.
• Construction and demonstration of prototypes.

 

October 2003 – September 2004

Delivery Manager, Athens 2004 Olympic Games

Vignette Corporation – Vignette Professional Services – EMEA

 

• Member of the technical architecture board for the overall solution, for both Systems and Application architectures.

̵      Designed a Web platform that scaled up to 50 millions pages views in one day

̵      Optimized performance using pre-generated page fragments and dynamic assembly

̵      Sport event results updated and published in real-time from XML feeds

̵      Directly engaged in day-to-day design, construction and operation of the platform

• Member of the project management board for the overall project.

̵      Complex project environment with numerous suppliers and implementation partners

̵      Extremely short deadlines

• Managed and coordinated Vignette resources at the customer site.

̵      Up to 10 Vignette resources on site, from the design to production phases

• Managed and coordinated interaction with Engineering and Support groups throughout the project.

̵      The project required producing a customized version of our product to handle the performance requirements

̵      Helped engineering with technical requirements and specs, performance testing, and implementation.

 

 

October 2000 – April 2005

Principal Architect – Solutions Architect, Performance Tuning Specialist

Vignette Corporation – Vignette Professional Services – EMEA

 

• Architecture: designed and implemented J2EE Content Management and Portal solutions for major enterprise customers. Provided detailed technical guidance on architecture, integration, sizing and implementation through presentations, discussions and formal architecture documents. Hands-on involvement in the implementation and construction of complex system architectures. Provided detailed operations guidelines for monitoring and managing the platforms.
• Performance Tuning expertise: helped major European customers overcome complex performance problems by analyzing the behavior of their systems and providing detailed reports of bottlenecks, from the network layer to the application code. These engagements often involved dealing with very critical situations.
• Involved in pre-sales situations: proof of concepts, prototypes, responding to RFPs, delivering technical information and presentations.
• Responsible for gathering and communicating technical information from U.S. Engineering and Architects, and transferring information to local teams.
• Received an EMEA Customer Satisfaction award in October 2001 and a “VPS All-Star” award in August 2003.

 

Vignette is a leader in Enterprise Web Applications software.

 

October 1998 – July 2000

Senior Systems Architect

UUNET – Global Product Engineering – Paris

 

• In coordination with Product Marketing and Global Operations departments, designed, developed and delivered a massively scalable Web hosting platform to support the worldwide portfolio of shared hosting products. Worked with vendors to integrate best-of-breed products for HTTP serving, load-balancing and file sharing into a solid distributed architecture. Deployed the platform worldwide (US, EMEA, APAC); it hosted up to 300,000 personal and 2,000 corporate Web sites.
• Involved in the development and deployment of Branded Dial, a global “Virtual ISP” product. Focused on the Web hosting, electronic mail and WebMail platforms, and their integration with the customer databases.
• Lead the re-design of the e-mail platform to make it more robust and scalable. New design uses exclusively Open Source components to optimize costs, and is expected to support up to 5 million mailboxes.

 

UUNET, now part of MCI, is one of the largest global Internet Service Providers.

 

July 1997 – October 1998

Web Developer and Technical Team Leader

Cythère – Paris, France

 

• With a team of three people, designed and implemented all the Web solutions for the agency's customers: L'Oréal, ClubMed, Danone. Developed highly successful dynamic and e-commerce Web sites on Unix and Windows NT, using technologies such as IIS, Apache, WebObjects and Python. Deployed the systems in France and in the United States.
• Consulted on various other technology areas, such as electronic mail and security, and implemented them.

 

Cythère (now part of Nurun Inc.) is one of the leading French Web agencies.

 

January 1995 – June 1997

Systems and Networks Administrator

CalvaCom – France

 

• As an intern between January and June 1995, designed and implemented the base ISP architecture to serve several hundred customers in the Paris local area: network infrastructure, dialup ports, Unix systems, Internet services, interfaces with accounting and customer management systems.
• Scaled the network and systems architecture to accommodate several thousand additional customers, and to extend the service nationwide. Designed and implemented the Web hosting service for enterprise customers and dialup users. Developed Web applications for well-known French customers such as Rhône-Poulenc or Total.

 

CalvaCom (now part of PSINet) is a French Internet Service Provider.

 

 

Technical Skills

 

Web Application Architecture: Microsoft Platform

·       Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) architecture & development

• Microsoft Application Platform architecture & development : ASP.NET 2.0 & 3.0, Windows Workflow Foundation, SQL Server
• Visual Studio 2006 integrated development environment
• Scripting with Windows PowerShell
• Notions of XAML, WPF, Silverlight

 

Web Application Architecture: Java Platform

• J2EE Application Servers: BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Jakarta Tomcat.
• J2EE application design: JSP/Servlets, JavaBeans, EJB, SOA / SOAP, Java frameworks.
• Web platform engineering: Apache, iPlanet Web Server…
• Scripting for the Web on Unix in Perl, Python, PHP, TCL.
• Databases: Oracle, MySQL.

 

Systems Architecture

• Systems architecture design and capacity planning for complex Internet environments (Web and e-Business platforms, as well as other Internet services such as Mail, Usenet News, etc.)
• Advanced Unix systems administration and performance tuning (Solaris, Linux) – including large-scale production environments.
• Storage systems design and implementation using NAS and SAN techniques (Network Appliance NFS filers, Fiber Channel).
• Unix System programming in C, C++
• Unix system scripting in shell scripts, Perl, Python.
• Windows system scripting with Cygwin.

 

Networks Architecture

• Network services: load-balancing, caching, bandwidth allocation, QoS. Experience with products from Alteon/Nortel, Resonate, CacheFlow/BlueCoat, Network Appliance.
• TCP/IP network implementation using Cisco equipment.
• TCP/IP troubleshooting using tcpdump, traceroute, ping.

 

 

Education

 

1991 – 1995

M.S. in Comp. Sc., EPITA (Ecole Pour l’Informatique et les Techniques Avancées) Computer Engineering School, Paris. Specialization: Systems & Networks.

 

1989

Baccalauréat B (Economics).

 

 

Languages

 

English

Fluent. Used daily.

 

French

Native language.

 

Modern Greek

Notions.