Intro
I have been living in the Seattle area for three years as of early 2010. I have a work permit for the US, so if you have a project you would like to talk to me about, I am all ears.
Summary
I am a software engineer with strong Internet skills. I have been working in web agencies for almost as long as my earliest work experience, back in 1998.
I have been running my own agency for 6 years. At this time, my goal is to provide a company with this experience I think valuable.
Fluent in PHP, XHTML/CSS, French, English.
Skills
PHP
It is the most prominent skill I acquired. I started in 2001 with 4.0.0 and made my way to the most recent version. I built Frameworks when none existed, and know the language from top to bottom. SQL is a natural complement. I built multilingual websites, which happened to be my preferred assignments.
HTML/CSS/JS
I have been building websites for 10 years, and struggled with Netscape 4. IE6 was a relief, if you can only imagine.
SysAdmin
I know my way around Linux (Debian/Gentoo/RedHat) and am still running half a dozen as of today. I know some PERL, *sh, and first started programming with C.
Project management
My desktop is filled with Eclipse, Subversion, and a performance enhanced Firefox, running on Windows and Ubuntu. The rest is kept secret, but you can ask.
Experience
- Elliptic, Web Agency founded in October 2003 with an associate, up to three employees. Business Development, Project Management, Web Development.
- Kahiloa, February 2001 - August 2003
Software Engineer at first, followed by Software Architect. Creation of the PHP Business Unit upon arrival.
Most recognized project: HR Intranet intended for 600 people, 30'000 profiles. PHP on top of Active Directory 2000, Oracle8i, with LDAP PHP functions from PHP 4.0.6. - L'île des Médias, November 1999 - February 2001
Web development (ASP), HTML + CSS.
Most recognized project: Official Financial Website of L'Oréal, loreal-finance.com
Education
- 1999 : 1st year of Engineering school in Electronics and Computer Science : EFREI(Villejuif, France). That would be the equivalent of a Bachelor's Degree in the US.
About me
It's relatively easy to trace me on the Internet, nickname is hallucinant (.com, Twitter, Facebook, etc...) Having been my own boss for most of my career, what you can find out there is either personal or can reflect my company's statements.
I am a French citizen, born and raised in Paris. I do practice soccer, and have been practicing Badminton for some years.
My interests lie in languages and cultural discoveries, so if you happen to work in such an environment, give me a call, we can work something out.
I also have been working for quite some time on a project I have a special interest in : Univarts