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Berlin, Germany

Beirut, Lebanon

Created an IT training program for refugee youth in Shatila refugee camp, Lebanon in collaboration with Alsama Project.- Delivered initial pilot program to 40+ students- designed and taught IT foundation skills and Office tools course to students- currently organising the roll-out of the program to 200+ students

Canada

Montreal, Canada Area

As Director of Engineering I am responsible for the technical direction of Local Logic, including the re-architecture and optimization of legacy data processing infrastructure, and implementation of best practices for code-quality, process and system redundancy. I am also responsible for delivery on product roadmap, building and scaling the development team and planning the future growth of team and technology as part of senior leadership team.

Montreal, Canada Area

Manager of 6 person development team, developing bookwitty.com website and APIsMy role also involves project planning in collaboration with product, marketing, SEO, UX and design teams. I am also responsible for project management and hiring decisions for the team.

Paris Area, France

As a member of Criteo's Publisher platform team, I developed tools used to help publishers monetise their websites :- development and support of real-time bidding (RTB) platform (C#)As part of the Criteo R+D recruitment team, I also helped Criteo hire talented engineers.Previously, as a member of the Ad-X mobile analytics team, I developed and supported the analytics platform :- migration of front-end client dashboard to ExtJS5- development of Windows Phone SDK- support of current tracking platform (PHP, Couchbase, RabbitMQ, Kafka/Storm)- server configuration (chef)

Paris

Founder and CTO of European restaurant guide, Multi lingual site available in English, French, Spanish and German. Thousands of restaurants across Europe with hundreds of thousands of user reviews. Site was launched in 2001 and today is one of the leading French language restaurant review sites.

Paris

Management of relationship between french marketing/editorial team and external development team for website migration project, technical documentation, sprint planning, liason with external partners

Paris, France

- Organisation of launch and development of co-branded sports site across 5 countries- Co-ordination of engineering, production and QA teams- Organisation of a multi-country cross-functional team to ensure execution of program deliverables- Engineering specification definition- Scrum master for multiple product, engineering and QA teams- Responsible and accountable for the execution of roadmap to ensure on-time product launch- Communication of project progress to management- Track and analyse risk and issues

Paris Area, France

Launch of Yahoo! Dating in UK, France, GermanyPorting of US Dating platform from proprietary language to PHP/MySQLManaging scalability issues of multi-continent application deployment I18n/L18n of US PlatformManagement of European engineering teamCoordination with marketing and product teamsClosure and outsourcing of platform following sale of site to partner

Paris Area, France

Work with European Infrastructure groupDevelopment of platform to migrate data from Oracle to MySQL DBDevelopment of Yahoo! Europe CMS platform (Perl/PHP/MySQL)

Paris Area, France

Launch of european Weather Platform (Java/Oracle)Maintenance of several European sites (Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! mobile, Yahoo! Travel...)

Responsible for application development (C, Perl, PHP, SQL, CGI, Javascript). Web site creation. Maintenance of UNIX (Solaris) and Linux servers. Administration of web server (Apache). Pre-sale and after-sale contact with clients.

Velizy

Responsible for application development (C, Perl, PHP, SQL, CGI, Javascript). Web site creation. Maintenance of UNIX (Solaris) and Linux servers. Administration of web server (Apache). Pre-sale and after-sale contact with clients.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Manchester (UK). Perl, C Programming. Management of a UNIX network for an internet service provider.

Msc, Music Technology

Hardware and software design and development for real-time audio generation and processing

B.Eng, Electronic Engineering

Included software engineering, and French and Spanish for engineers