Innovator – Strategy and business focused – Pragmatic – Team Leader
Systems Architecture – Data center Automation – Operations – ITIL
Configuration Automation – CMDB – Modeling
A result oriented technology and team leader with extensive skills in the area of Data Center Management solutions, IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Networking, and business/technology alignment. These skills are coupled with hands on experience, and demonstrated strategic, technical and thought leadership, leading to innovative developments.
Highlights
- Defined a pragmatic strategy and implementation tactic for Sun’s N1 data center management products, creating competitive offerings, and enabling the elimination of costly duplications.
- Effectively led virtual and onsite architecture and engineering teams.
- Created innovative architectures leveraging up to date technologies like SOA, J2EE, and Web Services.
- Expert in solutions and architectures for the life cycle management of grid infrastructures, distributed applications, and business services.
- ITIL Foundation certified with experience implementing CMDB solutions.
Professional Experience
| eBay Inc | 2008 – Present |
Distinguished Architect, Systems Architecture
Responsible for driving a new site architecture bringing cloud computing properties in the eBay Marketplace infrastructure.
| BMC Software Inc | 2006 – 2008 |
Chief Architect, Data Center Automation
Responsible for the definition and architecture of new solutions and products in the datacenter automation
space. Define a platform to integrate together new technologies with existing Remedy and Marimba products.
Support Merger and Acquisition efforts by defining technical evaluation criteria and ratings for candidate
companies.
Define and drive the functional specification, and architecture of CMDB applications in the area of application discovery, compliance and audit.
| Sun Microsystems Inc | 1995 – 2006 |
N1 Chief Architect, N1 Grid Systems
Defined and maintained the N1 strategy and product portfolio architecture. Developed Business Service Management (BSM) product vision, and implementation strategy. Presented N1 strategy, road map and products to executive level customers, industry analysts, or partners.
Contributed to Merger and Acquisition activities by identifying technology gaps, strategic opportunities, and evaluated target companies and their product portfolios.
Led the Business Service Management product team. Defined product concepts and architecture aligned with ITIL, implementing a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Provided architecture and design guidance, UML modeling and Object Oriented Analysis and Design expertise to a distributed group of ten architects.
Chaired a Sun wide strategic working group (20 members, 5 sub-groups). Drove definition of common agent infrastructure, and Sun wide information model based on DMTF CIM.
Interim CTO, N1 Technology Office
Managed a distributed team of 7 very senior technologists.
Redefined and prioritized the group’s goals, improved focus and drove the delivery on key initiatives in the area of WS-Management, ITIL Configuration Management, information model standardization and N1 strategy.
Senior Technologist, N1 Technology Office
Authored a chapter in the seminal document leading to the inception of N1, defining an architecture for utility based computing models, focusing on the telemetry and billing requirements.
Authored several architecture proposals for JMX based distributed management agents, OSS/J APIs, and accounting solutions.
Contributed to OSS/J Service Quality Management API (JSR 210) specification.
Evaluated acquisition and partner opportunities in the Service Level Management, Accounting and Billing space.
Developed prototypes using technologies like JSP, Servlets, XML/XSLT, ICAL (RFC 2445)
Project Lead, Network Resource Management, Solaris Internet Engineering
Led the Solaris 10 implementation of RFC2475 – An Architecture for Differentiated Service. Authored architecture and functional specifications. Managed all aspects of release life cycle. Developed a configuration API in Java.
Led Solaris Bandwidth Manager releases. Authored architecture and functional specifications. Managed all aspects of release life cycle. Implemented policy management modules in Java, above JMX.
Contributed to several Industry Standards: DEN, RFC 3060 and RFC 3703.
Led the development of a Solaris based implementation of RFC2205 – Resource Reservation protocol
(RSVP).
Senior Software Engineer, ICNC
Led X.500 team and initiated transition to native LDAP servers. Prototyped LDAP implementation and convinced management to fund project. Developed extensions to Sun’s X.400 product in C, on Solaris.
| Bull S.A. | 1993 – 1995 |
Senior Software Engineer, Unix Telecom Group -
Developed an OSI Virtual Terminal implementation in C on AIX.
Developed and maintained extensions to an X.400 message store, in C on Unix.
| Alcatel S.A. | 1991 – 1993 |
Senior Software Engineer, European Project ESPRIT
Developed a OSI MAP/TOP cell controller – integrated with the manufacturing equipments and tested the software on site.
Education
Master of Science – Computer Science – area of focus on computer systems architecture – On leave
Ingenieur CNAM – Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, , Grenoble, France
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science , with focus on computer systems architecture .
Diplome d’Enseignement Superieur Technique, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Grenoble, France
Patents
7 published
3 pending
Additional
Weblog on technology, virtualization and
data center management: http://www.jcmartin.org.
Websites development based on Apache/Tomcat, using JSP/Servlets, CSS
Fluent in French and English.