Current

• IT Manager and Lead Developer at Revolutions Holdings Ltd

Past

• Director at Sellla Code Ltd/Siliconz
• Director at Griffon Technologies
• Senior Developer at SCSI

• Senior Developer at Antycip
• Senior Developer at IDSoft
• Project Manager at TNS Media Intelligence
• Technical Administrator at Havas Interactive
• Webmaster assistant at Havas Interactive
• Webmaster at ADA Conseils & GAPS Formation
• Game sound programmer at Ubisoft

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Education

• Universite Paris VII - Denis Diderot
• IUT d'Orsay

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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Summary

10 years experience in software development, project management, business management and import and retail.
Fluent in C,C++,C#,Python,Java,Javascript,HTML,XML,CSS.
Working on Windows and Mac OSX platforms.

Always looking for new challenges.

Nothing is impossible.

Specialties:

Strong software programming knowledge. Run several businesses. Used to negociate with exporters. Fluent in English and French. Understand Portuguese.

Experience

• IT Manager and Lead Developer

  Revolutions Holdings Ltd

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  March 2009 — Present 2000 (1 year )

  In charge of developing the IT infrastructure, software management and development, design directions and online marketing and advertisement.
  
  I am working with the following technologies:
  - Python, Django and Google App Engine
  - PHP with a homebrew object-oriented framework
  - C and Objective-C for the MAC and iPhone platforms
  - HTML 4, CSS and Javascript (fluent user of jQuery and Pure)
  - Abode Air
  
  We are Open Source enthusiasts and we leverage tools like Trac, Subversion, Apache, Cherokee, Nginx, DOxygen and Mercurial in our development stack.

• Director

  Sellla Code Ltd/Siliconz

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — March 2009 (1 year )

  My assignments include:
  - managing as a director the development branch of the company: Sellla Code Ltd.
  - managing the import and resell business and particularly negotiating with exporters.
  - developing software and websites in close collaboration with the customers.
  Some of the projects include:
  - Express Today, the magazine: http://expresstoday.co.nz built using a custom made CMS in PHP and ExtJS with a MySQL backend.
  - Silhouette Paris, beauty clinic in Auckland: http://silhouetteparis.co.nz built in PHP with Drupal 6 and jQuery effects.
  - ISL – Herbal Products, herbal company: http://herbalproducts.co.nz built in PHP with Drupal 6, Flash and jQuery effects. Custom ecommerce integration with DPS Payment and custom Drupal modules have also been created.
  - A fitness application built with Adobe Air, jQuery and Flash.
  
  All projects have been developed with Agile methodologies and driven by Scrum. Other projects include a Django/Python project and a C# 3.0 Scrum tool.

• Director

  Griffon Technologies

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2004 — February 2008 (4 years )

  Consulting and development for companies in New Caledonia and abroad. Bringing an expertise in the latest technologies to the local market. My last assignments included development of new
  features for the TNS Media Intelligence Internet ads monitoring platform AdNetTrack using C#/.NET, providing support and specific developments for the CREIPAC (www.creipac.nc), and developing a backoffice for the New Caledonia North Province MIJ (agency to help youths find jobs).

• Senior Developer

  SCSI

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Consultant and developer on local SOA projects (Service Oriented
  Architecture). Working on both the Java and .NET platforms. My assignments included:
  - developing a backoffice for the Affaires Maritimes (New Caledonia Port Authority). The application is web based and built using Java 1.5, JDeveloper 10g, ADF BC, ADF Faces, Oracle 9i and the Oracle OC4J webserver.
  - lead and additional programming on a backoffice for the New Caledonia South Province MIJ (youth jobs agency). The project is web based and uses ASP.NET 2,0, Ajax and SQL Server 2005. The project was Agile and driven by Scrum.

• Senior Developer

  Antycip

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2006 — August 2006 (7 months)

  6 months contract as a developer to build a backoffice for the city of Noumea bus transportation company (Karuïa bus). Project made with .NET 2,0 and C# using SQL Server 2000.
  The project involved building the client/server backoffice from production to inventory, sales and reporting, managing the contactless bus cards and tickets printing, but also piloting webcams and contactless reader devices. Other used tools included Visio 2003 for modeling, and NSIS (nsis.sourceforge.net) for application deployment.

• Senior Developer

  IDSoft

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2005 — February 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Permanent position as a consultant, developer and trainer for a local Caledonian IT company.
  My assignments included:
  - developing a GIS (Geographic Information System) backoffice for a local government agency using VB 6.0, C++, J#, Access and Crystal Report. Data exports to PDF and Excel.
  - developing and supporting a PDA application for the local mining industry using Waba (Java clone for embedded devices).
  - giving VB.NET and ASP.NET training to local developers in particular for the SLN company (Société Le Nickel – Eramet), a mining company.
  - joint speaker in a local seminar with an Australian counterpart for Archibus (Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management) targeted to government offices and agencies.
  - developing for smaller projects mostly with Java, JSP, Apache and Tomcat.

• Project Manager

  TNS Media Intelligence

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2000 — December 2003 (4 years )

  Project manager and lead programmer for AdNetTrack, the leading internet ads tracking system from Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS).
  
  Designed the architecture, code, managed a development team of 2 more developers based in France and organized the development with the US technical team.
  The product was deployed in the US and Is pent 3 months in Pennsylvania, to localize and enhance the product and train the local technical staff.
  
  The architecture evolved from J 2000 ava, to C++ to the current C# version. Its generic, scalable, and open architecture eased deployment on different markets for different databases (Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server).
  Use of XML to configure and pilot processes, clients and servers. Backoffice and frontoffice web servers were all built using ASP.NET.
  This enterprise class heavily multithreaded software works on servers farms handling millions of new data inserts each day. The architecture is fault resistant, scalable and data is available almost immediately.

• Technical Administrator

  Havas Interactive

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  April 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 9 months)

  Permanent position as European ADI Online technical administrator (ADI is the top educational software in France). First in a 6 month internship then in a long-term contract.
  Installed, supervised and maintained the French, English and German Virtual Classes Servers and the consumer databases. Use of Visual Basic and some C++.

• Webmaster assistant

  Havas Interactive

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  July 1997 — August 1997 (2 months)

  Short term contract as webmaster assistant for the software game company SIERRA for their site www.sierra.fr. Authored web pages using HTML and JavaScript. Also developed a light database under ACCESS.

• Webmaster

  ADA Conseils & GAPS Formation

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1996 — March 1997 (4 months)

  Internship as webmaster for the sites www.adaconseils.com and www.gaps-formations.fr.
  Installed, configured and maintained a Microsoft IIS 3.0 server under NT as well as an ISDN router. Created the sites and authored web pages using HTML, JavaScript and Java.

• Game sound programmer

  Ubisoft

  (Public Company; UBI; Computer Games industry)

  May 1995 — August 1995 (4 months)

  Music and sound modules developer for the arcade hit Rayman. First in a 3 months internship then in a short term contract: for both the SEGA Megadrive 32X and the SEGA Saturn platform using assembly RISC SH2 and language C.

Education

• Universite Paris VII - Denis Diderot

  Bachelor , Mathematics and Computer Science , 1996 — 1998

  4+ years of university. Diploma obtained in the top 3. Equivalent to a New Zealand Bachelor degree.

• IUT d'Orsay

  DUT , Mathematics and Computer Science , 1993 — 1995

  2 years of University.