Hervé Jouin

Sector: Health and pharmaceutical

Euroclear is the world's premier settlement system for domestic and international securities transactions (€300,000 billion per year), covering bonds, equities and investment funds. In addition to its role as the leading International Central Securities Depositary (ICSD), Euroclear also acts as the Central Securities Depository (CSD) for Dutch, French, Irish and UK securities.

Member of the 'System Architecture and Research' then 'Enterprise Architecture' teams, especially dedicated to the big international projects impacting the French branch, I’m more particularly involved in the early stages of the projects to define the technical architecture:

- Data Centre Strategy : 70 M€ over 3 years. This project consolidates the datacentres of all the entities of the group in order to increase the applications availability and reduce the total cost of ownership.
- Euroclear Settlement of Euronext zone Securities : 39 M€ over 3 years. Tactical solution implementing a ‘Single Order Book’ for the Euronext market, preparing the new business model.
- New Business Model : 500 M€ over 5 years. This program, made of 3 projects, tends to develop a European domestic market and to allow a cost reduction of 300 M€ per year to the customers.
* Single Settlement Engine : Deployment of a unique settlement system for all the group entities.
* Single Application Platform : Total integration of the ‘Core Business’ applications on a unique platform.
* Common Client Interface : Consolidate the access means to Euroclear for all the customers.

Sector: Finance

Sector: High Tech

AXA Investment managers is the European leader of assets management (410 billion euros invested). Core part of the AXA group, a leader in financial protection and wealth management, AXA IM is present in 15 countries worldwide.

Technical project manager and interface between the English business teams in London and the technical teams in Paris:
• Define the projects architecture and consolidate with existing applications,
• Provide accurate and detailed solutions in terms of costs, scope and dates,
• Translate Business needs into competitive solutions
• Service Level Agreements
• Meeting conduct.

Some of the projects I managed:
• L.I.A.: 5.5 M€ over 1.5 years to install HiPortfolio as a new Back-Office system in London and develop interfaces using MQ Series / MQ SI as the company middleware.
• Decalog 4.1: 550 k€ over 7 months, to upgrade the Front & Middle office software (around 350 concurrent users worldwide) and to migrate the interfaces to the external systems.
• Chameleon: 400 k€ over 10 months to install a new Content Management System and redevelop the web sites with this new CMS.
• Segregation (BCP): 175 k€ over 3 months to segregate the business critical applications (part of the BCP project, 1.3 M€ over 10 months).

Sector: Asset Management

• Build of Tibco software training lab
--- Survey of needs, installation and configuration of the solution.
• Tibco Interface Manager for the Vontobel bank in Zurich
--- Tibco Rendezvous and adapters manager,
--- Coordinator role for the developers,
--- Definition and implementation of the norms.

Sector: Financial Services

Sector: Computer services

In a real-time environment, linked to the production chain and the stock:
• Survey of the migration of the databases to Oracle 8i,
• Survey of the migration of the Unix servers to HP-UX 11.0.

Sector: Retail

Sector: High Tech

Reorganisation of the IT production service (audit then implementation of the recommendations).

Sector: Finance

• Configuration of the of the HP servers and the cluster,
• Definition and implementation of the disaster recovery plan (DRA / DRP),
• Production automation with Tivoli Maestro.

Sector: Distribution

• Migration of the applications managing the ‘home bets’ (phone and minitel) to Unix and Oracle,
• Technical manager of the production follow-up team (10 people),
• Middleware manager (OpenView, ITO, …),
• DRA / DRP manager (OmniBack).

Unix and C teacher in my own graduate school for the students in lower courses (10h a week).

Sector: Universities and higher education institutions

Unix teacher (one week a month).

Sector: Professional training