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Education
| 1984
| Ingénieur de l'École Polytechnique
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| 1985
| "D.E.A" in Computer Science, Université Paris XI Orsay
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| 1991
| Ph.D. in Computer Science, C.N.A.M, Paris
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Languages
| French |
Mother tongue |
| English |
Fluently read, spoken and written |
| German |
School notions |
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Skills
| Management |
Business Unit management, contracts management, resources
and facilities, international teamwork, hiring, bid
preparation |
| Architecture | Accustomed to
designing and implementing quite complex network topologies
involving computers and routers as well as telecom and data
devices. Very familiar with the most popular Internet
protocols, including VOIP and multimedia. Effective
ability to envision distributed applications with maximum
reusability.
| | Software development | Thorough
experience from marketing-related activities like
requirements definition, cost/feature optimization &
impacts on design, cost control & impacts on planning. Very
familiar with the full spectrum of Open Source projects,
and with common practices such as source management
systems, daily build, automated regression test suites,
bug-tracking, trouble ticketing |
| IT Management | Strong experience in
IT infrastructure design and implementation, in terms of
hardware installation and maintenance, software deployment
strategies, and network security. |
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Professional Experience
| 2002 - now
| INRIA -
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et
Automatique
INRIA is the French National Research Institute
in Computer Science and Control Theory.
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As part of the
Planète Project-Team , that addresses Internet protocols
and applications, I have been setting up experimental tools
and facilities for various papers.
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I have been acting as the Technical Director for the E.U-funded OneLab project. In this
context, we have contributed significant extensions to the
PlanetLab
world-wide research platform with wireless capabilities,
passive and topology monitoring, and native
emulation. Beyond that, we are building a federation of
enhanced experimental facilities in Europe, including wired
nodes (PlanetLab Europe), and various wireless testbeds
(NITOS).
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This involves a wide range of activities, from software
development, operations, dissemination, as well as relationships
with many international partners, in Europe, the USA and Asia.
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| | 2000 - 2001
| 8x8
- Nasdaq:EGHT
/ Centile
8x8 is a hi-tech company based in Santa Clara -
California. In 1998 it bought Odisei, a French startup focused on
VOIP software products, based in Sophia-Antipolis, that later
became Centile.
| » | Inside Centile, I was in charge of
a 20 people team, in charge of product integration, validation
through automated and manual testing, and customer support.
| | » | I reworked the production
process, from marketing requirements to bug-tracking, and
implemented a pre- and post-sale customer support team, relying on
trouble-ticketing and knowledge-base tools.
| | » | I was also in charge of managing
the relationships with all the European customers.
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| 1991 - 1998
| IXI - Ingéniérie Concourante et
Systèmes d'Information
IXI was at the time a remote subsidiary of COGEMA, that
employed 150 engineers for a business of about 15 M€. Its
business areas addressed technical consulting, and software
applications development.
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and financial management of a business unit.
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lifecycle of integrated and complex software development projects,
from bid preparation until on-site delivery and maintenance, as
well as customer relationships.
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technical resources, in terms of hardware, software and skills;
definition, provisioning and exploitation of the heterogeneous and
distributed company Information System; deployment of company-wide
software applications.
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| 1985 - 1991
| CEP SYSTÈMES
This company focused on reliability-related studies for the
industry. For my PhD in collaboration with INRIA, I made the design
and implementation of a software tool supporting static metrology and
programming standards named MÉTROPOL. After 1988, I brought the
product to the European market.
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Some representative projects (latest first)
| PlanetLab | PlanetLab
is a world-wide testbed dedicated to research in the
networking area. It uses virtualization to provide users with
so-called slices on any number of the 800+ nodes scattered
around the world, that are currently managed from two
operations center, located in Princeton and in Paris.
| | Virtual world | V-eye
research application aims at demonstrating the
purposefulness of the IP multicast mechanism for implementing
a very scalable virtual world, supporting audio-video remote
conferencing, as well as high-definition video.
| | Soft PBX | The Centile's Ipbx aims at
providing a full replacement of a traditional PBX, as a
software-only solution. It is based upon many Internet and
telephony standards; it is designed for being hosted, so as to
support many SME's in a single data center, and to allow for
easy management by the end-user and by the operating provider,
resulting in a very cost-effective approach to outsourced
telephony systems |
| Modeling and Simulation | MissRdp
(see also this link) is a modeling and simulation system based on
colored Petri nets. This wide-scope tool allows to quantify
the macroscopic behavior of complex systems, and is very
well suited for simulating, assessing and dimensioning large
industrial objects.
| | Manufacturing | For COGEMA, I
designed and implemented a Technical Data Management System
and a Diagnosis Tool, that provide the factory
operator with up-to-date and relevant data about
the installations. They decisively contributed to increase
both productivity and safety on the plant.
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Other stuff
| Sailing |
I have been sailing around the world on various kinds of
ships in the 35-50 feet range.
I have sailed the West
Indies from Grenada to Virgin Islands, around the Seychelles
archipelago, in Greece and in Turkey. I crossed the Atlantic
Ocean from Pointe-à-Pitre to Gibraltar on Abricotine, a
Vauquiez 49''.
I am part of the racing crew on Maluba, formerly an IMX-40, and
who I conveyed all across the Mediterranean sea until
Tunisia. The Maluba team now runs a Ker 39.
I am also fond of Toccata, a prototype 43''-open, with
whom we reliably sailed in duo from Brittany to Scotland,
Spain and Ireland.
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