Education
Ingénieur Ecole Centrale Paris 1970
MS Computer Science Stanford University 1972

Professional Experience
A unique professional activity for 35 years: how to build well structured Information Systems adapted to company strategy, with 4 roles:

As a Consultant: (1972-1978).

As an IS Manager in large financial companies:
• Information Architecture Director for BNP (1979-1982)
• CIO for Credit du Nord: design, development and implementation of a full banking system based on a modern architecture which allowed huge increase of productivity and increased time to market.
• CIO for AXA Group and AXA France: Definition and implementation of the Group IS policy  (1988-1992)

As an Entrepreneur:
• Lyon-Consultants (1992-2000): consulting company helping large institutions to simplify their Information System. Obtained the first price of Best Software Companies in France in 1997.Grew within 6 years to a 200 consultant company, then was acquired by CGI, and became CGI-France
• Wyde (2001-2006): software editor providing development tools for large applications and an insurance application package (www.wynsure.com) built with the most modern approaches and technologies.

As a Teacher: founded CEISAR (from 2007), Center of Excellence for Enterprise Architecture inside Ecole Centrale Paris (www.ceisar.org) to formalize best practices and transform them into training for Students and Companies.

About CEISAR (Center of Excellence in Enterprise Architecture)
CEISAR is an academic institution, sponsored by large international groups (Air France, Axa, BNP Paribas, Michelin, Total), which produces EA White Papers based on case studies, from ADM and Enterprise Continuum.   The EA White papers are available on www.ceisar.org.  They serve as a base for training courses for students and companies. The presentation includes summaries of White Papers (EA Governance, How to Define Business Entities, Simplify Legacy Systems, Agility, New Business Roles in Projects…) and how CEISAR proceeds.

Based on the experience of business and IT professionals and architecture experts, the ambition of the CEISAR is to take advantage of all the good ideas which have been already delivered by existing groups, and make them accessible through standardization of language, and formalization of best practices.

Presentation

Stream A1:
CEISAR: Working with Universities and Industry to Promote EA as a Discipline for Enterprise Transformation

CEISAR presentation will review:
1.   What is CEISAR: relationship with enterprises and universities
2.    What is EA perimeter?
3.    Based on a survey embracing international companies, what large companies expect from training?
4.    White Papers and training courses delivered by CEISAR.
5.    How CEISAR works, what CEISAR can bring on the table, and what CEISAR expects from other actors.

Round Table

Stream A2:
Academic Organizations & The Open Group

Questions and topics to share in a roundtable including The Open Group and academic organizations.

Academic organizations are invited to participate in the track and/or to answer to the following questions: (new questions 8 – 10)

1. the academia networks
   1. Are you a part of an international network of universities? What do you share, what do you expect from it ?
   2. do you have relationship or are you networked with business or union organization (such as CIO Group ) ? What do you share, what do you expect from it ?
   3. are you a member of an EA or any IT association (such as The Open Group) ? What do you share, what do you expect from it ?
2. the university assets
   1. what kind of training is currently on the way (topic, number of hours/days, audience…) ?
   2. what material or topic is still missing ?
   3. what training material is in open access ?
   4. are there research works with enterprises ?
   5. are there existing white papers or training session on topics such as : the value of a well managed EA ? how the information system is built (right structure) ? what are the criteria for a well governed information system ?
3. EA perimeter
   1. is EA training a part of a broader Information System track (IS and business alignment, business modelling, project management, governance, architecture …) ?
   2. EA is an extensive discipline; it is a combination of science (systemic, modelling, etc.) and best practices (governance, project management, etc) To what extent do you teach TOGAF?
   3. On behalf of EA as a science, do you teach EA practice? Do you have or do you require any case study?
4. EA drivers in University?
   1. what was the driver to launch an EA training in your University ?
   2. Regarding your individual experience, how can we foster Enterprise Architecture training in major universities?
   3. Tips to develop a more visible EA practice to make more engineers or business school students trained to EA?
5. EA training audience
   1. Are you teaching in Engineering University?
   2. are you teaching in Business School ?
   3. Had you any demand for a master of business degree in EA ?

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