Edouard Chevalier Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Technical Lead of the team developing and maintaining the VT technology, foundation of Configit's products. In addition to software developer activities, I was managing daily tasks, helping designing features and breaking them into stories, and acting as a go-to person for both developers and support.

Région De Copenhague, Danemark

Developing and maintaining the VT technology, foundation of Configit's products, within the Technology Center department. I contributed to the entire development of the BOM (Bill of Material) module and the implementation of various algorithms optimizations. I was highly involved in the design and implementation of the public APIs of the product. The technologies involved are .NET core and C#.

Région De Paris, France

Prototyping, design, development, maintenance and user-support of software components managing diverse and complex vehicle range using a proprietary, knowledge-compilation-based technology.Activity mainly focused on digital marketing (2011 - 2016) : - Designed, developed and promoted innovative web configuration engine : main data-driven web API handling business rules & pricing that efficiently powers Renault's and Nissan's web configurators.- Helped Renault digital marketing team design efficient and comprehensive vehicle configurator. Researched and evaluated new technologies. Co-wrote a scientific paper presented to the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (2012) about principles of the web configuration engine described above.- Designed and implemented an in-memory, column-oriented, distributed database for real-time queries and updates over Renault's vehicle inventory.- Designed and prototyped an innovative predictive vehicle navigation algorithm using different machine learning techniques.Activity mainly focused on sales and supply-chain (2006 - 2011) : - Implemented core component of a decision support SW to manage plant planning consistent with plant capacity constraints and commercial sales forecasts. Helped users define their requirements, modeled the mathematical problem in order to interface it with the IBM Cplex optimization SW package.- Designed and developed SW package to compute total vehicle cost based on complex, variable pricing rules.- Re-engineered core technology components from C to Java, improving speed by a factor of 2 to 8.- Optimized core technology areas to reduce memory-footprint by a factor of 10 to 400.- Maintained vehicle documentation SW for outbound logistics and commercial applications.

Région De Paris, France

- Provided support to 40-50 users of decision support SW employing the IBM Cplex optimization package. Deployed to over 20 countries, this SW gathers sales/stock forecasts.- Managed release planning with respect to budget and user needs. Designed and tested change requests.

Sophia-Antipolis, France

Prototyped re-engineering of UI & business rules from a JavaScript web app to a web server. Evaluated .NET environment and trade-offs between client and server execution.