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Objective

A job as a CS Engineer specialised in Python.

Experience

Consultant - Sungard Finance (October 2005 - today)

I work on the GP3 Runtime, a virtual machine in Python and C at the heart of GP3 Core, a financial software. My mission includes the migration to Python, testing and optimization. The Runtime can do arithmetical and relational database operations and operate on various platforms (Linux, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, OSF1 with Oracle and Sybase). It executes some financial applications written in a Sungard specific language.

Engineer - research assistant - INSERM (French National Health Institute in Paris) (January 2001 - February 2005)

In charge of the Libbraille project, a portable library to access Braille displays. This library supports Unicode and many languages (English, Japanese, Arabic...). It works with most Braille displays either USB, serial or bluetooth on Unix, Windows and MacOS X systems. It is usable in C, Java, and Python.

Created a development platform to build multimedia games accessible to blind and partially sighted children. This platform was developed in Python and C++ and provided an adapted output on screen, in surround sound or on a Braille display according to an XML style sheet.

Intern engineer - BT (Ipswich, UK) (June - November 1999)

Participated to the analysis of performance deterioration phenomena in data networks. Created an application in C++ to simulate and study the behaviour of data transfers in a network depending on many parameters.

Intern technician - Informatique Multi Services (July - September 1998)

Set up a phone connection and web server on Windows NT. Created dynamic content using HTML and Perl.

Education

Accessiweb expert degree - February 2004

Expert Degree in web accessibility for handicapped people

CS and Applied Mathematics engineer degree - July 2000

French National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Rouen, France

Skills

• Languages
  native French - fluent in English (TOEIC + 6 months of work in the UK)

• Computer Science
  relational database (SQL, Oracle, Sybase), Agile dev, unitary testing, refactoring, designing patterns, algorithmic, object oriented conception, software engineering, automates, expert systems, network

• Programming languages
  Python, C, SQL, Java, C++, Objective C, PHP, shell and Unix utilities

• Operating systems
  Unix (GNU/Linux, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, OSF1, FreeBSD), MacOS X, Windows (9x/NT/XP)

• Software
  Emacs, Eclipse, GNU tools (gcc, automake, autoconf, libtool), Visual Studio, Xcode, Apache, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL

• Mathematics
  Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Finite elements, Numerical Optimization, Dynamic Systems, Probability - Statistics, Signal Theory, Operational Research, Combinatorial Optimization