Consultant at PIXDEV inc. offering software development services in various domains; line of business applications, scientific applications, embedded systems, etc. Expertise for on-premise applications and cloud-based applications (Microsoft Azure).

In this mandate, I was responsible for the selection of the software technology to be used for the implementation of an industrial Augmented Reality (AR) mobile application running under Android and iOS. This also included implementing the initial version of the product in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the technology.

My responsibility in this mandate was to modify Dimonoff’s flagship urban IoT management product (SCMS : Smart City Management System) to add support for the Azure Maps API. In addition to this work, I also optimized the SCMS system’s display pipeline to allow a much larger number of visual elements to be displayed on the screen at once while reducing the display delay.

Responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of a technology upgrade for a numerically controlled engraving system that have been in use over the last 25 years at Graphie 222 inc. The original system was based on a PC/DOS platform and the new system uses the embdedded BeagleBone platform for the real-time controller subsystem and a Windows 10 WPF application for the front-end part.

As director of software development, I managed the team responsible for the development of all software components part of AddEnergie’s products; back-end components (cloud-based centralized management system for charging stations), web sites used by Electric Vehicle owners (FLO network, Electric Circuit network, NB Power network), mobile applications, e-commerce site and embedded software in charging stations. Other responsibilities included road-map planning, putting in place and improving the development process (Agile), hiring new employees, managing field deployments (in devops mode) and providing third-level technical support.The work performed for AddEnergie was typical of a start-up environment; tight schedules, limited resources/budget and multiple responsibilities.

Responsible for the technical orientation of all software development (full-stack) at AddEnergie. My first mandate was to complete the development of AddEnergie’s first solution (a public charging network for electric vehicles) and to deploy it in production under a PaaS environment (Microsoft Azure). Many additions were then made in the years that followed; mobile apps, interoperability bridge with other networks (Electric Circuit from Hydro-Quebec), support for Fast DC (level 3) charging stations, etc.The work performed while at AddEnergie was typical of a start-up environment; tight schedules, limited resources/budget and multiple responsibilities.

Responsible for the implementation of simulation and presentation components (Graphical User Interface and 3D view) for Rheinmetall’s Air Defense Operations Simulator (ADOS). The ADOS simulator is used to train the Dutch Army personnel for optimal use of their Ground Based Air Defense System. My mandate in this project was to implement the graphical user interface for operation of the 3D environment and to provide a game-mode simulation component that allows students and role players complete manual control of simulated entities in the battlefield.

Responsible for the implementation of new features in Adacel’s 3D visual simulation system (used as part of Airport Tower simulators); real-time shadows engine, accumulation effects for snow plowing, and 3D sound engine with Doppler effects. The Real-Time Shadow Engine dynamically computes and renders in real-time all shadows cast by features in the scene (aircrafts, buildings, etc.). This is part of a contract to procure advanced Airport Tower Simulators to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States.

Responsible for the implementation of the Electronic Flight Instrumentation System (EFIS avionics) in Mechtronix’s Bell 412 simulator. As part of this contract, I had to analyze the Bell 412 helicopter data (technical specifications of data interchanged between the various avionic boxes in this helicopter) and implement the equivalent functionality in Mechtronix’s simulator. This involved writing code for the simulation of the electronic displays (Symbol Generators, Navigation displays), implementing the presentation of these displays and validating their look and functionality against video recordings made in the real Bell-412 aircraft.

Responsible for the architecture definition and design of an Airport Tower Simulation System. This involved specifying the architecture for the simulation system, doing the high-level design, and assembling the development environment. This project was a R&D joint venture between INTELCAN and the Kiev-based National Aeronautics University (NAU).

Lead the development of the Repository component part of TimeSpring’s Continuous Protection Server product (TimeData™). TimeData™ is a real-time continuous backup product that continuously monitors changes occurring to files stored on a set of servers and replicates these changes in a remote repository. The repository is a SQL-Server based storage engine that provides access to snapshots of these servers’ content at any point in time, allowing them to be rolled back to any previous state following detection of corruption or loss of data.Other responsibilities included performance tuning for the complete system and third-level customer support.

Responsible for the architecture, design, implementation and integration of the visual software for Adacel’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulation product. This is a real-time, distributed (up to 16 PCs per visual system), multithreaded Windows application responsible for graphically representing the visual appearance of airport environments, as seen by Tower Controllers. This includes a full simulation of environmental conditions (rain, sun, cloud layers, falling snow, fog, etc.) and airport traffic (landing and departing aircrafts).The extensive and realistic special effects developed as part of this mandate were key factors in helping Adacel win a major simulation contract worth more than 70M US$ for the installation of Airport Tower Simulators across 94 United States Air Force military bases.

My mandate was to improve the OSIM product (a complete development environment used to create distributed HLA simulation applications) to include a number of features such as the ability to import and export individual class definitions across modeling sessions, add the support for user-definable events in the run-time execution engine, allow the execution engine to run in scaled real-time mode, in the as-fast-as-possible mode under HLA Time Management, etc.This works also included proposing new modeling concepts for the evolution of the OSIM product.This mandate required learning the OSIM software structure in a very short time and implementing the features requested for delivery to OriginalSim clients.

This mandate required implementing a real-time Soldier Animation Engine as part of a training system used by the US Army (EST-2000). The engine animates virtual soldiers through all of the various states they can be in a virtual battlefield (i.e. running for cover, crawling, firing, etc). Part of the mandate was accomplished at ECC’s office in Orlando (now a division of Cubic Corporation) to establish the interface with their system and provide them with an initial implementation of the engine. Further development of the engine was done off-site using an incremental development process.

Responsible for the design, implementation and integration of the visual software for the Department of National Defense (DND) Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) crew gunnery training simulator. This is a fully distributed PC-based simulator used to train the Canadian Army personnel in combat situations. Each system contains five visual channels that display a realistic view of the battlefield conditions in normal day vision, image-intensified vision and thermal vision. Many special effects were custom-designed for this simulator: muzzle flash, obscuration, heat shimmering, weather conditions such as rain, fog, snow, day/night lighting, etc.

Responsible for the elaboration of CAE’s next generation HLA-based synthetic simulation environment (CAE STRIVE™). This included defining the software architecture for the next generation virtual environment, specifying and planning the development environment and managing the development team responsible for realizing the base implementation of this environment (proof of concept phase).

Responsible for leading the architectural definition, design and implementation of a client/server C++ persistence engine for object-oriented database applications. The persistence engine was a fully proprietary transactional, multi-user, fault-tolerant client/server database management system running under UNIX and Windows NT.

Responsible for the design and implementation of real-time software for embedded systems acting as I/O controllers. These controllers were used to interface simulation software with actual avionic systems part of CAE’s flight simulators. This included designing and implementing the multi-tasking real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded computers hosting I/O boards, device drivers for various communication protocols (Ethernet, ARINC, RS232, etc.) and various I/O driven applications in a flight simulator environment.

Responsible for the design and implementation of a computer assisted design and manufacturing package (CAD/CAM) for industrial plate engraving for my client, Graphie 222 inc. This system, still in operation today, is used to prepare signs for Bombardier Transportation. The software includes a graphical-based design station and a production station that controls a numerically-controlled milling machine.