Professional Objective

Contribute with my knowledge and experience acquired as a documentation manager to a major Information Technologies project.

Work Experience

Since 1999. MandrakeSoft (www.mandrakesoft.com)
Documentation Project Manager

• Development and maintenance of the Borges Documentation Production System, allowing to cope with restrained deadlines and human resources

• Writers, translators and programmers management of the documentation project in an international context

• In charge of the distribution documentation and partly in charge of the trainings material

1998-1999 French Embassy in the Dominican Republic

Assistant to the Scientific and Cultural Adviser

• System administrator of the Embassy, webmaster

• Follow-up on cooperation programs

1998 IRCAM (Institute for musical and acoustics research and coordination), Paris
Graduate Diploma Practice

• Qualitative study of brass instruments

1997 Dassault Aviation St-Cloud
Practice at numerical analysis department

• Wrote software for electrical schema analysis

Education

1997-1998 IRCAM Paris

• DEA (Graduate Diploma) ATIAM (Acoustics, signal processing and data processing applied to music)

1994-1997 ENSAM Paris/ Aix-en-Provence

• Engineer Graduate Diploma specialized in structures and numerical modeling. Final year project at Moscow State University

Languages

• French: Mother Tongue

• English. Reading skills: excellent. Writing and Verbal skills: very good

• Spanish: Excellent

Social Skills and Competences

• Ability to communicate and work with many different people from many different nationalities

• Ability to manage and improve collaboration of multicultural teams

• Ability to be at ease either face-to-face with people or remotely through Internet

Those competences were acquired during my various stays in foreign countries and at MandrakeSoft, working 4 years with people all over the globe.

Organizational Skills and Competences

• Ability to manage large teams (more than 20 people) made of both permanent and occasional members

• Ability to delegate

• Ability to adapt a project to strong time, money, and human resources constraints.

All this was learned as the Documentation project leader at MandrakeSoft

Technical Skills and Competences

• XML/SGML: Extended knowledge of the various recommendations associated, and special experience on their application to technical documentation and data coding

• Programming: Most common languages, particularly Perl and XSL

• Linux: Extended knowledge of system use and server administration

• Internet: creation and maintenance of a web site

Teaching Skills

Participation to numerous seminars and conferences, presenting various technologies and methods related to XML and Open-Source tools (Paris, London, Lyon, Bordeaux) in both English and French.

Artistic Skills and Competences

• Playing the trumpet since more than 10 years

• Experience as a conductor in little ensembles

• Playing at local bands