Introduction

I had the opportunity to transform my passion, computer technology, into my professional activity. During 20 years of work experience, I have practice various jobs in various technical environments. I progressively became an OpenSource projects enthusiast.

Professional experience

Red Hat

Senior Software Engineer

Since 2012

Base OS / Web Stack team.

LL-experts

Self-employed

2012

I became self employed, as a secondary activity, to offer my expertise, especially in GLPI, as a business.
Site: http://www.ll-experts.com

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C.N.A.M.T.S.

Project manager

Since 2006

For the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés (French national health Insurance) I manage the implementation of OpenSource solutions : OCS Inventory NG (Automatic inventory), GLPI (Asset management and Helpdesk) and Pulse2 (Software deployment).

Among the goals of this mission, I mainly keep in mind, the wish to build a robust and long-term solution, by using the official upstream versions and by an active contribution to the projects, to merge our changes, according to the community roadmap. The C.N.A.M.T.S is today one of the biggest references of this projects and probably the most important contributor to GLPI. During this project, I join the developer team of GLPI and of various of its plugins.

C.P.A.M. de la Marne

Manager of the IT service

1993-2006

Hired as an application developer (dBase, C/win32) at the first years of personal computer, my skills have quickly increase with the growing number of computers and the network installation. After some time working as network administrator (wiring, network hardware, server) and system administrator (Windows, Linux, Aix, SCO, ...), I took the responsibility of the IT service. I was the manager of a 5 technicians team in charge of 700 PC (deployment, support, maintenance) and of a 5 administrators team in charge of the infrastructure (network, servers, applications). If I have managed this teams, keeping a large technical expertise, I also acquired management skills.

I.U.T. Informatique - Reims

System administrator

1994-2006

Working with the pedagogic team in the IT department of an university, I maintained the technical infrastructure, and progressively took its responsibility. The main goal was to provide the needed tools for the training in a very changing and heterogeneous environment (Windows, Linux, HP-UX). Technology intelligence was a large part of this job.

University of Reims

Contract temporary teacher

1990-2004

Involved in the pedagogic animation as a teacher in charge of various training (System, C/C++, Web, Database).

Self-employed

Application developer

1993-1995

Windows application development, mainly an e-learning software for a large french society, working with a team of graphic artists.

E.S.A.D. Reims

Pedagogic assistant

1989-1993

Technical asset management in the Art and Design school of Reims. Computer graphic initiation for the students, working with the pedagogic team.

Military service

Developer

1987-1988

Application development and maintenance (Cobol/Gcos6).

Open Source experience

Fedora project

Mainteneur de paquets et Parrain

Since 2006

I maintains more than 130 paquets in the fedora official repository and in EPEL (for Enterprise Linux versions) and co-maintains some important packages (PHP, PEAR, ...). I'm allowed to act on all the packages of the distribution (provenpackager). I also, occasionally sponsor new contributors.

GLPI project

Core and various plugins developer team member

Since 2007

GLPI is the reference (an least, french) of OpenSource asset management software. In my professional activity, I have regularly contributed to the project, working with the community, which, after an evaluation period, had accept me as a core team member. Over the, very important, social experience, I gain skill in collaboration tools for a geographically scattered team.

PHP

Contributor on PECL extensions

Since 2012

The PHP extension Community Library provides a repository of most of PHP extensions. I have commit access to the source repository to apply fixes, as I have propose various in the previous years.

Remi's RPM

RPM Third party repository maintener

Depuis 2005

The remi repository provides to Fedora, Redhat (CentOS and other clones) the latest web technologies, mostly PHP/MySQL, and have some success (~15000 RPM download each day). Some packages are backport of fedora versions, others are used to test evolutions before they get introduce in the fedora repository.

Education

Institut Universitaire de Technologie | Reims

D.U.I.I.C.

1988-1989

Major of the first graduation class in this University diploma in Image, Graphic computing and communication.
Year of specialization, scientific development in digital imaging.

Institut Universitaire de Technologie | Reims

D.U.T. Informatique

1985-1987

Second year university level in computing (Developer / Designer).

Skills