Software Consultant,  Project Leader,  Auditor

Extensive knowledge of most advandced software technologies and more than 30 years professional experience in designing and implementing system and scientific software applications for the industry and the military.
This allows me to quickly and accurately pinpoint critical factors of project success and bring in high performance answers to demanding applications.

Skills

• Technical as well as managerial and relationships audit of ongoing projects.
• Consultant for software architecture, algorithmics and NTIC (New Technologies for Information and Communication).
• Salvaging ailing software projects.
  

Achievements

• Audit and project management on industrial and military software applications, delivered within or even before schedule,  and within or under budget.
• Technology watch and consulting on NTIC,  E-Commerce, Intranets.
• Design of non numerical algorithms, 3D graphics and data compression.
• Custom drivers, real-time transmission protocols, high speed data acquisition.

Career

Since 1995, intermittent consulting missions, auditor or project leader for:
INTA -Vélizy, WEBNET - Boulogne, SOFTEAM - St Quentin, HYKSOS -Versailles, LNC - Paris

1983-1994, full time Software Technology Consultant, customers:
SOFT'X -Plaisir, CEGELEC-COMSIP - Rueil, CONCURRENT COMPUTERS - Bois d'Arcy, SOGITEC Electronique - Boulogne, Etc...

1980-1982 OS Software Maintenance Engineer, PERKIN-ELMER Data Systems - Arcueil

1978-1979 Research Assistant DGRST, Speech synthesis, IRCAM - Paris

1968-1977 Commercial and Scientific Software Developper, IBM, various Consulting Firms, BASF-Chimie - Bruxelles, European Space Agency  (ESA) Noordwijk & Paris

Some sample missions

Feb 2000 -Aug 2000 Project Leader - INTA Vélizy
Refurbishing a large real time military application (+ 250 000 lines of source code) for DGA
Result: Acceptance of the final product without any reservations, substantial gross margin on the project.

Oct 1998 - Jan 2000 Intermittent Consulting missions 
° Technical assistance of the developpement teams, ALCATEL - Lannion, contracted thru INTA -Vélizy
Result: Resolving a critical  bug of the in-house CASE  tools suite used by more than a 1000 engineers.

° Audit on internal telephony services of a large federated banks group, contracted thru HYKSOS -Versailles
Result: Showing the structural and non technical causes of the daily operational difficulties of the internal telephony department.

° Diagnosing et redesigning an Intranet for Economic Intelligence on mobile telephony for France-Télécom , contracted thru WEBNET - Boulogne
Result: Providing the software naïve economists with a  tool allowing them to update  the website  by themself and strongly reducing the upgrade delays.

° NTIC Consulting et creating an E-Commerce website for DVDHUNTER - Paris
Result: Very low operating cost website, still managing 700 DVD products , shopping cart, online payment and allowing positive financial results.

Jun 1998 -Sep 1998 Project Leader - INTA Vélizy
Feasibility study and porting  an ALCATEL-CIT debugger for the  CHILL language, from Sun-Solaris to DEC/ALPHA OSF1
contracted thru   INTA -Vélizy
Result: 60 man-days spared upon a total of 170 in initial budget.

Dec 1997 - May 1998 Software Integration Engineer - SOFTEAM St Quentin
Installing an Intranet Server for real time follow-up of delivery and integration of software modules of the CASE tool Objecteering (the house flagship product, +50 man-years, +500 000 source code lines)
Result: Reducing integration delays and turn around thru a better coordination of the developpers team (15 people)