Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

In his role as President of MS Open Tech, Jean leads a diverse team of engineers, standards professionals and technical evangelists to promote open platform development and customer choice by delivering new technologies in collaboration with open source and standards communities.

A passionate advocate of open standards since 1985, Jean was one of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard via the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and he has garnered multiple industry awards for his work.

Upon joining Microsoft Corporation in 1996, Jean jump-started XML development and managed the team that delivered msxml, the software that XML-enabled both Internet Explorer and the Windows operating system. Jean helped architect Office XML support and was instrumental in creating InfoPath, the XML Office Electronic Forms application. He also participated in ISO/IEC SC34/ WG4 and as co-chair of the TC45 Ecma standards committee that formalized the Office Open XML Format as an international standard.

Operating as a distinct business operation since 2012, Jean’s team at MS Open Tech has worked closely with many business groups across Microsoft to promote several technical standards, including W3C’s HTML5, IETF’s HTTP 2.0, Cloud standards in DMTF and OASIS. The team also collaborates with a broad variety of development communities to contribute tools that promote interoperability between Microsoft technologies within open source environments such as Node.js, MongoDB and Phonegap.

Prior to Microsoft, Jean worked with a number of European research institutes, including INRIA in France, where he designed systems to facilitate data exchange for major corporations.