Intro
I have been living in the San Francisco bay area since 2012. Before that, I lived 5 years in Seattle, WA. 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 had been working in web agencies for almost as long as my earliest work experience, back in 1998, all the way to 2013.
I have run my own company for 10 years, until 2013. At this time, I am enjoying sharing my experience in various WebMarketing and Business Applications departments, currently at Splunk.
Fluent in PHP, XHTML/CSS, Javascript, Project Management, 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 25 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 a couple as of today. AWS, containers are replacing those. I know some PERL, *sh, and first started programming with C.
Project management
My desktop is filled with Eclipse, Git, 1Password, Atlassian tools, running on Mac, Windows and Ubuntu. The rest is kept secret, but you can ask.
Experience
- Splunk, August 2012 - Present.
Senior Web Developer and now Manager of a team of 20, helping various internal Departments, including Web Marketing, get the most out of the Web Development team, within the Business Applications Organization. PHP, NodeJS, Python - Clarisonic (a L'Oréal company), July 2011 - August 2012.
Senior developer, in charge of the international e-commerce websites, along with the US one. I have launched the Japanese, German and localized version of the United Kingdom website.
CMS Cascade Server (XML, XSLT). Shopsite and Avactis shopping carts. Zend Framework / jQuery. - Clearwire, February 2010 - June 2011.
Software developer, in charge of the e-commerce website and affiliates, along with the corporate one. I did the migration of the current coverage maps under Google Maps version 3. I also did the migration of the corporate website clearwire.com over to Concrete5, open-source CMS. Zend Framework / jQuery. - 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 the early part 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.