Yves Gattegno Paris FRANCE  [email protected]

R & D Director CTO Entrepreneur

born 1967 Feb 27 French Married, 2 children

Software Development Expert

 I began working with microcomputers in 1980. I learnt IT and Computer Science at first by myself and then at Paris XI University. My work experience as a developer, engineer and then as an Entrepreneur and Technical Director endowed me with high-level skills, technically and as a team leader and manager. My natural tendencies to pragmatism and customer-focus have also been reinforced by my work experience.

WORK EXPERIENCE Since 2000, January

Entrepreneur - CTO - Director of R & D, Production – Technical Director Currently, Director of R & D and Production at Hewlett Packard, France. In January 2000, I founded the start-up Qualystem Technology (based in Paris, France), one of the first companies to offer “Virtualized desktops” (by the mean of shared virtual disk drives). I was the inventor of the technologies we developed. Qualystem was at the beginning a two-engineers company: One developer and technical person (me) and one other person, in charge with fund raising, sales, and all the “non-technical” things. We have rapidly offered a software product named LiteNET PC, which aim was to build networks of diskless PCs running Windows 98 Second Edition that all shared the same virtual disk drive at the same time. This software product was partially relying on Microsoft Windows networking (in particular SMB/CIFS) and required a lot of proprietary developments, and a lot of R & D efforts. I developed nearly all the proprietary components used in LiteNET PC. I wrote my first patent at that time (FR2809840). In July 2000, we have been contacted by Intel (Intel Embedded Architecture, located in Malaysia). They wanted to use our product for their “Intel Electronic Classroom” program. This program was mainly aimed to be used in K12 schools in People’s Republic of China. Intel‘s specifications for “Electronic Classrooms” specified that the desktops needed to be diskless and to run Windows 98 Second Edition. We complied to these specifications and even added virtual disk sharing and heterogeneous hardware support. We were also at that time the only company that actually provided such a product and technology: our sole competitor being LanWorks (by then a subsidiary of 3Com) which product Virtual LAN Drive was announced in 1999 but not actually available before late 2001. Our partnership with Intel allowed massive deployment of our product in PRC. Intel’s last estimation was that more than 1 million licenses had been installed (most of them having been pirated!) Using the very same technology, I developed WinCDBoot product, which made it possible to boot a PC under Windows 98 off a CD-R or a DVD-R. In May 2001, the French venture-capitalist Chrysalead (which shareholders were Danone, CVC Capital Partners, GIMV and French IT service company Valoris) invested €1.5 million in Qualystem. The aim was to fund the development of shareable virtual drive technology for Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients. We could then hire employees, interns and contractors. The technical team headcount peaked to 14 people (engineers, interns and technicians), which I managed entirely. LiteNET PC name was changed to Qualystem LanPC. It evolved and went from version 1 (that used only IPX protocol) to version 2 (that could also use TCP/IP protocol and thus Linux/Unix/Samba servers). WinCDBoot was also renamed to Qualystem Rescue. We developed a license files generation and distribution web site for our products (php, html, MySQL, javascript etc) In June 2002, we introduced Qualystem LanPC 3 to the press. This product made it possible to remote boot Windows XP on diskless PCs off a Linux server that acted as a virtual disk server. We also introduced Qualystem Rescue 3 aimed to boot Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP off a CD-R or DVD-R. Rapidly we offered products that used these technologies. Qualystem LanPC 3 server module was ported to Windows, FreeBSD and Linux for PowerPC. I then wrote my second patent (FR2867869/WO2005101202) that deals mostly with technical aspects related to dynamic settings of computers that share the same system drive. In order to allow various computers using heterogeneous hardware to boot off a single Windows 2000/XP image, I invented and developed UbiBoot technology. This technology became rapidly a product of its own. One of the major Thin Clients vendors then had plan for a large partnership with us. They wanted to use our technologies under their own brand name. We then worked to comply with their specifications and implemented some “dynamic rebranding” methods. Another company, early player in virtualized solutions, also desired to resell our product under its brand name.

In December 2003, ANVAR (French government agency for Research) took a €350,000 stake in Qualystem, as buyoptions. In April 2005, Neoware (one of the 3 major thin clients vendors, the two other ones being Wyse and HP) acquired Qualystem Technology for €3 millions. Qualystem LanPC3 then became Neoware Image Manager (in July 2005) It was sold as a stand-alone software product and also bundled with Neoware appliances, that could be therefore sold without any flash-memory. Flash memory was replaced by a virtual disk drive provided and shared by our product. Thanks to this technology, Neoware hardware could also boot Windows XP Pro OS. In April 2005, I became a Director of R & D for Neoware (which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard on 2007 October 1st), reporting to the VP of Engineering. I was the architect of the disk virtualization products and its de facto product manager. I managed and led a team of 4 full-time engineers, several part-time engineers (who worked on my product and on other ones), interns, contractors…; an average of 10 people working under my supervision. Since January 2008 I am a Hewlett-Packard employee. My title is “Director of Production and R & D”. I also act as a Team Lead for the same OS/Streaming product as before, now named HP Image Manager. I interact with colleagues located worldwide: France, US, Shangaï, Brazil… I filed several patents since June 2005 (see below). I also am a member of two Patents Committees in HP. I am in charge with innovation management in our team. I wrote several abstracts for HP technical conference, one of them having been selected as an invitation to HP Technical Conference 2009. I used to be involved in most of the large sales of the product and am constantly in contact with customers. I deal with high-level support and with pre-sales/post-sales Engineers. I can then influence the developments so that they fit better to the needs of the market. I also act as a Director of Technical Marketing for the HP Image Manager product. As an Entrepreneur, I could also get used to negotiations and writing of contracts (commercial and/or technical) as well as Intellectual Property aspects. I used to attend every important trade show in which my company was present and I am one of the champion speakers whenever we have to deal with virtualization of disk drives, desktop, OS or application streaming etc. April 1993 to January 2000

January 1992 to April 1993

IT Engineer Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne (French University in Paris area), Systems and Network department. System Administrator in charge of approximately 250 PCs, mainly used by students. Research and Development in IT and Computer Science (remote boot of diskless Windows stations). Development and deployment of the first ever Windows 95 OSR2 diskless system using on-demand virtual disk. Administration of Microsoft Networks. IT and computer science teacher. dbA of an Oracle 6 database. Developer-Designer Engineer SOMEPOST (Subsidiary of “La Poste”, French Post). Developer, product architect. Pre and post sales. Trainer. Adminsys of a Novell network (NetWare 3.11).

1987-1996

Various missions, most of them as a volunteer, for G-DOC company (up to 1991) and then for Phoenixx Systèmes company. Research and Development in automated linguistic and word-games algorithms (crosswords generators/solvers, multiple anagrams generators, dictionary generators etc). Generation of the largest French crossword puzzle without black boxes (refer to Publications below). Various developments. Technical documentation writings.

1988

3 months internship, company G-DOC, in France. Design and development of macro-commands helper programs for automatic correction of French electronic texts, under MS-Word for DOS. I also wrote the related user’s manual. These products were sold by French company Apsylog.

IT and COMPUTER SCIENCES Programming Languages

Language C/C++, Delphi-Pascal (object oriented), PHP, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, cgi-bin and SSI, x86 assembly, good knowledge of: COBOL, FORTRAN, Basic. Intensive use of Windows API (Win32 and Kernel). Writing and architecture of Windows kernel drivers (Windows DDK/WDK)

Systems

Windows (all versions), Unix (Linux, FreeBSD...), MacOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS

Virtualization

VMware (ESX 3.x, 4.x, Server 1 and 2, Workstation 5 and 6, VCenter, View…), Microsoft (VirtualPC, Virtual Server, Hyper-V), VirtualBox, Xen... Connections Brokers (LeoStream, View…)

Hardware

IBM PC and compatibles (x86, x64), Thin Clients (x86).

Software

DataBases: mySQL, Oracle (v6), MS Access. Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc...). Project management (MS Project)

Networking

Microsoft Network (Windows); TCP/IP; Internet. Installation and maintenance of servers, (web, ftp, Citrix, TSE). Packet monitors (Wireshark, Microsoft Network Monitor). Switches (Cisco, ProCurve, LinkSys routers). VLANs.

EDUCATION 1989-91

Bachelor’s degree (BS) and Master in Computer Sciences (options: Databases, Network and Architecture) Université Paris XI, Faculty of Sciences, Orsay (91), France.

1987-88

Année Post Premier Cycle: A 2-year diploma from a university institute of technology taught in 1 year, available to DEUG graduates; Université Paris XI, University Institute of Technology, Orsay (91), France.

1985-87

DEUG A (university diploma taken after two years' study). Math and Physics. Option: Computer Science. Université Paris XI, Faculty of Sciences, Orsay (91), France.

1984-85

First year in DEUG B (Biology, Geology). Université Paris XI, Faculty of Sciences, Orsay (91), France.

1983-84

Baccalaureate C (Math, Physics, Chemistry). Lycée Lakanal, Sceaux (92), France.

PUBLICATIONS and PATENTS 1996

Mots croisés et anagrammes. Pour la science (French edition of Scientific American) N°223, May 1996, p 106-109. This article describes and illustrates the research work and algorithms developed by Yves Gattegno. Co-written with Bernard Iqueaux and Hervé This.

2000

Patent WO0193016: METHOD FOR LOADING AN OPERATING SYSTEM FROM A DATA STORAGE MEDIA NOT DESIGNED THEREFOR

2004

Patent WO2005101202: METHOD FOR THE SOFTWARE EMULATION OF THE HARD DISKS OF A COMPUTER PLATFORM AT THE OPERATING SYSTEM LEVEL, WITH ON-THE-FLY PARAMETER-ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF READ AND WRITE REQUESTS

2005

Patent WO2007006960: METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION AND PERSISTENT STORAGE OF A PRIORI VOLATILE PERSONALIZING PARAMETERS

2005

Patent EP05292657: A PROCEDURE FOR BOOTING A FIRST COMPUTER USING THE OPERATING SYSTEM OF A SECOND COMPUTER

2006

US Patent Application: 20070266027: MAINTAINING COMMONLY NAMED CLIENT-SPECIFIC FILE CONTENT IN HARD DISK DRIVE EMULATION.

2009

International Patent Application: PCT/US2009/057718: SYSTEM INCLUDING A VIRTUAL DISK

2009

International Patent Application: WO2010027358: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE HARDWARE PLATFORMS WITH A SINGLE DISK IMAGE

2009

International Patent Application: WO2010132055: SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL DISKS VERSION CONTROL

2009

International Patent Application: PCT/US2009/062768: SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CREATING A RESTORABLE COMPUTER INSTALLATION

2010

International Patent Application: FR2010/050985: SYSTEMS AND METODS FOR ACTIVATION OF APPLICATIONS USING CLIENT-SPECIFIC DATA.

2010

International Patent Application: PCT/US2010/053280: PC INVENTORY AND PROVISIONING USING PRE-BOOT (NON-OS) EXECUTABLE

LANGUAGES French

Fluent (mother tongue)

English

Read, written, spoken (very high standard, daily usage, regular journeys in the US and UK. Can negotiate)

Other

German: Academic

Notions of Spanish and Italian

Miscellaneous Leisure

Sports: Scuba diving (3 stars diver), swimming, snorkeling, sailing, skiing. And also reading, writing, walking, photographing Secretary for the Scientific Scuba Diving Club of Orsay Campus in 1989-90. President of this Club in 1990-91. Oenology.

Music

I play the guitar, bass, I sing and play a little keyboard, solo or in bands.

Driving

Driving License. Have transportation.