Working fo the municipality since 1989, Jean successively acted as a project architect, conservation project manager and he developed a specialty in assessing the heritage value of cultural sites. Jean graduated in architecture from Laval University (1981), obtained a Certificate in Conservation of Built Heritage from the International Center for the Study of the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome, (2007) and has completed a Master’s degree in Communications – Cinema and Moving Images – at UQAM (2017).