About Jean-Yves Rigolet
Jean-Yves Rigolet is a software engineer in the IBM Software Group, working in the development labs of the Rational division. With 20 years of application and development tools shipping experience in a variety of programming environments and platforms, including the IBM Telecom Web Services Toolkit, VisualAge Pacbase, VisualAge Generator and Rational Team Concert products, he is currently based in the IBM France Laboratory in Paris, where he is the technical lead for the Rational Enterprise Modernization cloud development. He is author of the “From silos to agility: Rethinking enterprise software delivery with the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management” paper and other articles, and presented the Rational Enterprise Modernization cloud strategy and agile adoption at various conferences and events worldwide. Prior to joining Rational, Jean-Yves spent several months launching a Workplace and Eclipse practice as part of the Software Group Lab Services initiative and helped customers by building a workshop which he facilitated around Europe. Before IBM, Jean-Yves acquired a solid experience on enterprise applications during the first few years of his career through building business applications for CGI Informatique (acquired by IBM when he joined the labs).
