Nicolas Grevet

Junior software architect

Specializes in web development

• Nicolas Grevet
• 48/50, Avenue du Hazay, 95800, Cergy, France
• 23 years old non-smoking guy with a driver licence

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• www.logout.fr
• +33 623 407 149

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Current position

Junior software architect
Alteo Web Agency — Cergy, France

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Personal profile

An employer would quickly find me to be a passionate and competent individual. I enjoy working to a high standard and strive to improve myself by pushing my expectations and skills towards a professional outcome. I have a keen interest in business IT and 3D design as these are where my skills lie.

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Career objective

It's been more than ten years since I first used a computer to create something. Since then, my own vision of this activity has changed a lot, from being a simple pastime to a full-time paid job. My own position also changed from being yet another developer to a junior software architect.

Thanks to three years of apprenticeship and the awarding of two academic Masters, I've accumulated a great amount of interesting knowledge, both in project management and software development/architecture. My own projects allow me to complete this knowledge with international PR and leadership.

I am now looking for an opportunity to realize my years of experience in an area that motivates me. Working in consulting, training or development of corporate frameworks is my short-term goal, and I am prepared to move anywhere needed to find the perfect place to work.

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Training & qualifications

Degrees and schools list

• 2008-2009
• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BScIT)
• Major: Intelligent, communicating and distributed systems
• Cergy-Pontoise University — Cergy, France

• 2006-2009
• Bachelor of Business Information Systems (BBIS)
• Major: Software engineering and applications
• ITIN/ESCIA Group — Cergy, France

• 2004-2006
• Associate of Software Development (ASD)
• Major: Networking and UNIX systems
• University of Picardie Jules Verne — Amiens, France

• 2001-2004
• Baccalauréat in Sciences (ACT/SAT equivalent)
• Major: Physics/chemistry
• Charles de Gaulle High School — Compiègne, France

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Academic skills

• Fluent in English, daily usage (reading, writing and speaking).
• TOEIC score of 985/990 (General Professional Proficiency).
• Basics of Spanish (reading).
• Basics of electronics and computer architecture.
• Basics of rights and laws around the ICT.

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Experiences

Personal and professional experiences

• 2009-2010
• Game developer — International freelance project
• Production of a complete DLC (downloadable content or add-on) for a triple-A American video game, consisting of a new story that takes place on five new 3D universes. Trailer watched and content downloaded over 110,000 times each during the first three weeks. Praised by all of the original video-game fans, the industry and the press. Role of leader/coordinator, level-designer, webmaster and PR manager. 3 men, 16 months project.
• Play it! | Expand Expand

• 2008-2010
• Software architect — Alteo, Paris, France
• Creation of the company's extranet (ultra-modular long-term project) and supervision of subsequent developments. Development of an enterprise MVC framework (Zend Framework-style or Symphony-style) for future in-house developments.
• Their website

• 2007-2008
• Game developer — International freelance project
• Production of a free complete 3D video game, translated into 11 languages and lasting for about eight hours. The game was played, discussed, distributed and downloaded over a million times for PC and Mac. Awarded third best free game of 2008 by the eminent American website ModDB.com and the German MTV channel. Praised by the whole video-game press. 3 men, 10 months project.
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• 2007-2008
• Web developer — Alteo, Paris, France
• Work on a professional e-mailing and reporting/analysis platform. Created a project management and customer relationship management software and automated the creation of sales quotes.
• Their website

• 2007-2008
• Software developer — ID Services (Groupe Autotech ID)
• Realization of a geolocation prototype using nothing but the wireless wave to calculate its position. It had to be embedded in the forklift terminals inside supermarket's warehouses. Pioneering project in France which led to the launch of a technical audit and an ambitious project. 4 men, 6 months project.
• Company infos (FR)

• 2006-2008
• System administrator — Alteo, Paris, France
• Creation of an application to manage the company's *NIX server farm (real time monitoring). Help with maintenance and installation of the company's 60 *NIX servers (fedora, redhat, gentoo, ubuntu, debian).
• Their website

• Summer 2006
• Web developer — 6ème Sens, Compiègne, France
• Developed a dynamic and evolving e-commerce website for a french tour operator. Also responsible for quality assurance, project progress and tasks coordination.
• Their website

• Spring 2006
• Software developer — 6ème Sens, Compiègne, France
• Integration of various voice synthesis and text-to-speech (TTS) components. Interfacing these components with an artificial intelligence engine and a 3D avatar within a website.
• Their website | Expand

• Early 2006
• Software developer — UPJV, Amiens, France
• Developed an application to manage tutored projects of the university of Amiens' IT department (France). Developed a light HTTP server in C designed to accommodate the aforementioned project.
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• Summer 2005
• Developer and seller — A.P.B SARL, Compiègne, France
• Developed an e-commerce website for a car-part reseller. Also, seller of car-parts and webmaster of the aforementioned website.
   
• Take a look! (old & dusty)

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IT skills

My IT skills are mostly comprised of programming languages and Internet-related technologies. However, I am a quick learner and hard worker, these are only the skills I master the most for the moment.

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Favorite everyday tools

It's been a long time since I launched an IDE or configured a server for the first time. These are the tools I am using on a daily basis during my work and personal projects.

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Project management & methods

Whether you are managing projects or developing software, one of the most important aspect of the job is to follow the rules, conventions and standards. Here are some of the concepts I carried out during the last years.

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Achievements

Personal achievements & projects

• Cloud Computing Paper
• A study focused on the state-of-the-art review of the Cloud Computing domain. Explanation of the philosophy, techniques and actors, description of the strengths and weaknesses, market analysis and present and future opportunities.
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• Play-uno.com
• Community website allowing people to play the famous Uno® game by Mattel online and against artificial intelligences. Classification system and full-javascript interface. Up to 25,000 monthly players at the time of its development. Now closed down due to the increase of financial requirements to maintain the infrastructure.
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• Web analytics tool
• Realization of a complete web analytics and statistics system allowing multi-site analysis similar to what Google Analytics is now doing. Allowed for all sorts of information about visitors synthesized as graphs. Now offline.
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• Internet Protocol Paper
• A study focused on the state-of-the-art review of the IPv4 and IPv6 domains. Explanation of the protocols, evolutions and actors, description of the strengths and weaknesses of each, market analysis and present and future opportunities.

• Online operating system prototype
• Realization of an online operating system prototype. Programmed in Javascript/Ajax when there was no powerful javascript frameworks available yet (mootools, prototype, jQuery or scriptaculous).
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Leisure & hobbies

Things I like to do as a pastime...

• 3D modeling
• Multiple realizations of virtual 3D universes as additional and free contents for existing video games. Several months to year long projects. Internationally recognized and acclaimed work. Partnerships with many french actors of the field.
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• Writing courses
• Writing of multiple courses and online tools to understand and master the optimization techniques of the Source 3D rendering engine from Valve Software. Labor widely recognized throughout online Francophone communities.
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• Website creation
• Realization of websites such as my university student's association's one, a website directory, an IT project management system, a video game community website, a web MMORPG prototype, a quiz community website, and many more...
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• Translation
• Official translator of several international English projects (into french). Includes a webcomic (about 200 pages), a guide to the Half-Life video game saga universe, an entire video game, several programming tools and courses, etc.
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• Sport
• Practice of judo and table tennis in competition for three years each (now stopped). Also a great amateur of mountain bike and regular physical exercises.

• Miscellaneous & leisure
• Travel, autonomous road-trips, mountain biking, reading, watching movies, programming, going out with friends, tutoring, photography, 3D modeling, level & game design, etc.

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