Julien Guérand Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

Developed OCR system for Camera Captured documents using deep learningDesigned algorithms to analyze structure of OCRed documents and extract all available information required to duly process them.Designed a new logic to generalize some automated process so as to broaden their field of applications.

Pasadena, California, Usa

Producer: Managed simultaneous projects sharing cross-functional resources. Successfully revisited the production process to introduce aspects of Agile methodology.- Successfully managed a $600,000 project funded by the National Science Foundation to create games and puzzles to teach mathematics. Improved efficiency by ensuring games scale through different grades and address different notions.- Partnered with William James College (formerly Massachusetts School of Professional Psychiatry) over 4 years and 3 different projects to create a set of games and activities introduced throughout a virtual world and aimed at improving emotional wellness and mental illness awareness.- Partnered with the University of North Texas to build games, activities, and a mobile app to develop awareness about wasteful power.- Designed multiple iterations of an activity for kids to help real life scientists analyze millions of images for presence of microorganisms. Fine-tuned feedback loops and reward incentives to improve kids' activity and sorting accuracy.- Managed creation and integration of the system allowing users to save and load their favorite avatars. This system was integrated in chat rooms with a chat command for dynamic loads.- Managed events and parties in the virtual world. Improved parties’ quality by adding new scoring mechanism and developing a new venue.- Directed efforts to adapt existing site to current needs of users: chat room conversion from Flash to JavaScript, modification of the UI for compatibility with touch devices, conversion to HTML5.Programmer: Used JavaScript (with jQuery and jQuery UI), HTML5 and CSS3 to add features to existing activities. Used Java, MySQL and Perl to improve server side data management and create relevant reports. Used HAXE to create an algorithm to evaluate user generated content.Others: Assumed the roles of QA analyst, Game designer, Data analyst or Marketing coordinator whenever necessary.

Analysis of students difficulties and expert advice to allow them to overcome said difficulties.

Angoulême, France

Organized project culling and team building to insure student projects would be viable in regard to time allocated and skills needed. Built planning for teams to meet faculty for milestones evaluation. Successfully managed with high praise 3 students’ projects:Managed the "Narcosis" project; · 6 month-long pre-production with a team of 9. · Developed with the Scrumm agile methodology supported by Jira and the GreenHopper plugin.Conceived and managed the "Cauchemar" project : (April ­ June 2011) · ACE 2011 game competition Gold Award · Developed on Ipad2 using the electronic gyroscope, with a 5 persons team in 3 months. · Suffered a 5 week loss due to the obsolescence of the Ios and unity/Ios licenses we were supposed to have. · Disturbed by late delivery of the Ipad2 with only 4 weeks of development left. · Despite that, through tasks and risks management leading to changes of the features and a thorough pre-production process, the project was delivered on time and earned the whole team a full round of applause. Managed the "ECHO" project : www.echo-the-game.com, (December 2010 to January 2011) · Developed using Game Maker, · with a team of 9 persons covering every field involved in the game production process, · and a production scheduled for 6 weeks including the Christmas 2 week holiday. · We used communication and management tools like SVN and Redmine, to be able to work from home and during our vacations. This allowed the project to be delivered on time without anyone on the team skipping any class, and got us the top score.

Analysis of students difficulties with Mathematics and/or Physics.Collaborative building of a plan to overcome those difficulties

Built annual progressions to match national standards while maximizing students’ interest.Improved communication inside the teaching team and with the students' parents through the implementation of web-based technologies.- Created and managed two chess clubs and a strategy game club.- Worked with a theater and the local government to provide acting classes.- Organized a mathematics competition between elementary and middle school kids.- Participated in special mathematics classes to reintegrate at-risk youth.

Capes; Master Degree, Mathematics; Mathematics

certificate of aptitude to teach in secondary school

Ai - Machine Learning - Deep Learning

Coursera -Deep Learning course: - Regularization with L2 or Dropout - Convolutional Neural Network and inception modules - Recurrent.

Master Degree, Management

Activities and Societies: As a class representative for 51 students from six specialties (production management, programming, game design.

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