Jean-Michel Decombe

About Jean-Michel Decombe

I am currently CEO and CTO at Maporium, the human-directed, AI-assisted systems thinking company that I founded to foster individual and collaborative systems thinking and problem solving.Previously, I was cofounder and CTO at Helper Systems, working on an AI-enhanced educational platform. Before that, I contributed to the design and development of a new enterprise workforce communication platform at SocialChorus, deployed successfully at such corporations as 7 Eleven, AB InBev, Dow, Ford, Newell, Vodafone, and others. I also worked in mobile game engineering at Zynga, as Principal Engineer and later Director of Engineering, on successful iOS and Android games such as FarmVille, CityVille Hometown, ForestVille, Slots, and even Poker, which became the top grossing app on both iOS and Android simultaneously while I was managing the engineering team. Earlier, I was founder and CTO at Groxis, the visual federated search company that created the first graphical information interface, for which I obtained four utility patents and several awards.I have many years of desktop, web, and mobile software engineering experience and leadership, with an emphasis on engineering management, engineering process, and user experience. Over the course of my career, I have created a number of widely recognized and industry acclaimed software products and web services.My expertise spans the fields of software engineering, product design, user experience design, team building, team leadership, and intellectual property strategy. I excel at building and leading highly efficient product development teams with a hands on management style, designing and implementing software and user interface with a sharp eye for detail and simplicity, discovering and productizing the value hidden in advanced research work, as well as documenting and transferring system knowledge to team members, and helping to market and sell the final product.I am fluent in English and French, and was once fluent in German as well.

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer

   Helper Systems

   Jul 2018 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

Education

• Université Paris Dauphine - PSL

  Mathematics and Computer Science

  1982 — 1984

Skills

• Objective-C
• Perl
• Json
• User Interface Design
• Css
• Ios
• Actionscript
• Git
• Mobile Devices
• User Interface
• User Experience
• Tomcat
• Php
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Web Services
• Software Engineering
• Xcode
• Object Oriented Design
• Java
• Javascript
• Subversion
• Xml
• User Experience Design
• Software Development
• Mysql
• Jira
• Mobile Applications
• Bash
• Android
• Eclipse
• Jquery
• Web Applications