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NOVA PULSE
NovaPulse
HPC, AI & Scientific Computing
Cognitive & Twins City
Robot & Avatars
Virtual & Augmented Reality
Alain Clo's CV
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2021-Now NEOM, HPC/AI Cloud Account Manager, HPC/AI Solutions Manager
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2018-Now NovaPulse, Consulting in Scientific Computing, R&D CCUS Carbon Capture
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2010-2018 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, www.kaust.edu.sa Computational Scientist in charge of Business and Capacity Development for Researchers and Partners. • Driving Excellence and Productivity through Publication and Teaching of HPC Innovative Practices • Asset Innovation Creation leading to Global and Local Economics • Development of Cloud Computing for Economic Partners and Researchers.
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2001-2009 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, Paris and Washington DC. www.sun.com Business Development Director in the Global Government Industry Sales Organization • Definition of the Business Industry Plan, Customs, Tax and Social Services. • Business Pipeline Consolidation and Sales Activities (20% Sales Growth in FY02,03,04). • Public Sector Internal Knowledge and Community Management (~400 sales, ~100 published paper, Business Score Cards, Customer References, Sales Best Practices, e-Government White Paper, etc...). • Solution Development (e-Government Services Architecture, Recruitment of System Integrators and Independent Software Vendors). • Conferences and Interviews around the world (e-Government Awards in EU, WSIS, WSO, etc...)
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1997-2001 My role was to develop Sales as a High Performance Computing expert in the Finance, Education and Defense Market covering EMEA. My activities went from driving projects, proposals, tuning application to customer presentations with specific success in Banks, Intelligence Defense and Education.
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1995-1997 SCHLUMBERGER/SMITHS, Paris, www.smithsdetection.com Software Development Manager of the Data Processing Group Development of the Data Processing/Decision Support part of the first X-Ray Explosive Detector in Security Checkpoint. This system has been delivered to many airports around the world. • Management of a 10 developers team (Signal and Image Processing, Automatic Decision). • Optimization of the Software platform (Parallelization). • Successful in meeting technical requirements and deadlines.
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1994-1997 INRIA, Paris, www.inria.fr/index.en.html High Performance Computing Consultant in research projects • Development of Electromagnetic and Radiosity Codes with Letallec, Dabaghi, Gagalowicz.
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1992-1994 KENDALL SQUARE RESEARCH, Paris. Technical Manager in charge of SuperComputer Sales • Benchmarks, Customer Proposal, Presentations and Training. • Big Customer Success at INRIA and Ministry of Defense.
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1989-1992 CONVEX/HP SUPERCOMPUTER, Paris. Pre-Sales Engineer in charge of SuperComputer Sales • Benchmarks, Customer Proposals, Presentations, Trainings, Acceptance, Application Migration. • Great Success at French Navy and Geophysics CGG.
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1988-1989 EARTH RESOURCES LAB – M.I.T, Cambridge, USA, www-eaps.mit.edu/erl/ Visiting Scientist • Research in Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media, Earth Modeling with Pr. Nafi Toksoz. • Port of codes to Parallel Supercomputer, Cray2, Connection Machine, BBN, Ncube.
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1987-1989 ELF-AQUITAINE/TOTAL, Paris, www.total.com Engineer in Finite Element Modeling
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1987 SIMECSOL, Paris Engineer in Soil and Solid Mechanics • Design and Development of a 3D finite element method for structure/soil interaction modeling.
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1984-1986 CGG (Compagnie Générale de Géophysique), Paris, www.cgg.com Geophysicist, • Field Prospection of water and oil reservoir. Data Analysis, gravimetry, electromagnetism and seismic.
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