In charge of software architecture and development for Studyo, the school planner for the app generation.

In 2006, while tidying up my iTunes music library, I wanted to add album art to all my digital albums. Not wanting to do it manually (I had over 200 albums back then) and not happy with the poor quality of the existing software available to automate this task, I decided to write my own.It was working well, and I decided to put it out on the web as donation-ware in case other people want to use it. Lifehacker picked it up [1] and downloads soared. Seeing a business opportunity, I founded Polkapps to sell the application.It has been a huge success for a one-man shop, a welcome additional revenue, and a great adventure in managing a software business, from accounting to customer support.TuneSleeve has been discontinued in 2012, as demand was growing weaker and revenues were not covering maintenance costs.In 2008, when Apple announced the iOS SDK, I jumped in and took a 4-day weekend to write a small application to help split restaurant bills with friends. The resulting application, DutchTab, was submitted to Apple in time to be among the first batch of apps available when the App Store first opened.DutchTab has been discontinued in 2010, when it was a very tiny speck in a growing store. It was a great learning experience, making me switch from Windows/.NET to iOS/Cocoa/Objective-C development and fall in love with it.Today, even though Polkapps doesn't have any products on the market, it still lives. I plan to continue exploring new ventures under its umbrella as time permits.[1] http://lifehacker.com/219304/download-of-the-day-tunesleeve-windows

Working with the UX team, I am in charge of implementing a modern and dynamic UI for the app that connects to the OMsignal smart shirt.The app displays real-time biometric data and allows to navigate charts of historical data.

Roles and tasks:- Architect of a scalable infrastructure for multiplayer iOS games.- iOS development in Objective-C, C and C++- Backend development in Python with Twisted, Tornado and on Google App Engine infrastructure.- Real-time graphics using OpenGL ES 2, Cocos2d, CoreAnimation and Quartz2D.- Lua bindings for level and front end scripting.- Leader of a 5-person team, using FogBugz to manage tasks and bugs and good verbal and written communication to keep everybody happy and on the same page.- Implement a continuous integration process, using Jenkins to automate builds and server deployments.iOS Titles:Go Native- Real-time multiplayer game where up to 30 players compete in the same room to answer fun questions.- Published on the App Store from september 2010 through november 2012.- TouchArcade review: http://toucharcade.com/2010/09/24/go-native-review-a-cool-online-game-in-need-of-players/Pickpawcket- Stealth action/puzzle game where you play a cat trying to avoid the guard dogs to steal back famous painting.- Published on the App Store since august 2011: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pickpawcket/id443940166?mt=8All In & Friends- Play against your friends and win by betting on the most popular answers to fun questions.- Published on the App Store since may 2013: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/all-in-friends/id589012687?mt=8

- Designer, developer and team leader on a variety of commercial development libraries and frameworks for the Microsoft development ecosystems, from ActiveX to .NET.- Being part of an early adopter program, learned and worked with all Microsoft development platforms before anyone else: .NET, Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight- Frequent visits to the Microsoft campus to receive early hands-on training from the Microsoft product managers and developers.- Responsible for training my teammates on the emerging technologies so we can build on them.Products:Xceed Zip Compression Library- ActiveX component that allows manipulating ZIP files.Xceed Backup Library- ActiveX component that allows managing backups of any application's data files.Xceed Winsock Library- COM library that provides full access to the low-level Winsock2 API in any development language/runtime that can access COM interfaces (C, VisualBasic, Delphi, etc).Xceed Docking Windows for .NET- Windows Forms UI control that allows easy implementation of the Visual Studio-style docking windows and tabbed MDI user interface.Xceed DataGrid for .NET- Windows Forms UI control to display, manipulate and edit tabular data.Xceed DataGrid for WPF- WPF UI control to display, manipulate and edit tabular data with a flexible presentation system that enables many different ways to represent data, from traditional table to CoverFlow-style 3D animated cards.- Microsoft Channel 9 interview presenting the product: http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/AdamKinney/Pascal-Bourque-Building-a-rich-datagrid-in-WPF

Authored and taught an "Introduction to COM" course.

Design and development of HyperPage, a multimedia authoring tool:- In charge of development and test of various modules: text authoring, internet access (FTP, HTTP), page transitions, and more.- Build manager, in charge of producing the master disks of every released version of the application.- Oversee UI design, ensuring consistency and conformity to the Microsoft UI design guidelines as well as our own guidelines.