Nicolas Grevet

Junior software architect

Specializing in Internet

• Nicolas Grevet
• 13 Chemin de la Campanette — 06800 Cagnes-sur-Mer — France
• 25 years old man — non-smoking — driver licence + vehicle

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• www.logout.fr
• +33 623 407 149

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Current position

Consulting Engineer
Janvier 2012 → Today
Orange France — Sophia-Antipolis, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, 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 everything IT, but more specifically towards programming, software architecture, Internet and multimedia since this is where I'm generally the most skilled.

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Career objective

Ten years passed 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, the awarding of two academic masters (bachelor equivalents) and two years of professional experience (including one in North America) I've accumulated a great amount of interesting knowledge, both in project management and software development/architecture.

I am now looking for another opportunity to put my skills up front for a motivating employer and face new challenges, whatever they might be. Because before being just my job, deep down this is what I truly like to do and I am prepared to move anywhere 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: Management + 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
• Baccalaureat in Sciences (ACT/SAT equivalent)
• Major: Physics/chemistry
• Charles de Gaulle High School — Compiègne, France

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Academic skills

• Fluent in English and French, 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

• Nov. 2010 → Oct. 2011
• Junior software architect — Manwin, Montreal, Canada
• I joined Manwin Canada as a junior software architect to help them cope with an incredible growth. Reorganizing their internal tools and processes, creating an enterprise framework, a major international billing platform and miscellaneous tools and websites while being part of an international bilingual, dynamic and experienced team.
• Their website

• Aug. 2008 → Sept. 2010
• Game developer — Independant
• Production of a complete DLC (downloadable content) for a triple-A American video game, consisting of an entirely new story. Trailer watched over 200,000 times and content downloaded over 600,000 times during the first two years after the release. Praised by all of the original video-game fans, the industry and the press. Role of team lead, project lead, level-designer, webmaster and PR manager.
• Play it! | Expand | Expand

• June 2008 → Nov. 2010
• Junior software architect — Alteo, Paris, France
• Planning and then development of the foundations for the new company's extranet ‒an ultra-modular project planned for the long-run‒ and supervision of the following development. Also worked on a new enterprise level MVC framework à la Zend Framework or Symfony dedicated to all future in-house developments of the company.
• Their website

• Dec. 2007 → Dec. 2008
• Game developer — Independant
• Production of a complete free video game, translated into eleven languages and lasting approximately eight hours. The game was played, discussed, distributed and downloaded over a million times a year worldwide. Awarded third best free game of 2008 by the eminent American website ModDB.com and the German MTV channel.
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• Sept. 2006 → June 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. Creation of an application to manage the company's UNIX server farm (real time monitoring). Also helped with maintenance and installation of the company's 60 servers UNIX servers.
• Their website

• Oct. 2007 → May 2008
• Software developer — ID Services, Paris, France
• Realization of a geolocation system prototype using nothing but Wi-Fi wave analysis to try and locate itself. The objective was to make it lightweight in order to embed it inside some forklift terminals wandering in supermarket warehouses. Pioneering project in France which led to the launch of a technical audit and an ambitious follow-up project.
• Company info

• April 2006 → July 2006
• Web developer — 6eme Sens, Compiegne, France
• Developed a dynamic and evolving e-commerce website for a french tour operator. Also responsible for quality assurance, project progress and tasks coordination. Also 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.
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• June 2005 → Aug. 2005
• Developer & clerk — APB SARL, Compiegne, France
• Development of an online shopping website for an automobile dealership with online selling and expedition plus stock management directly inside of the administration panel. Also clerk, auto-part reseller and webmaster of the aforementioned website. Development of a rough HTTP server in C to house parts of the project.
• Their website

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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 your visitors synthesized as nice and easy to understand 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 mockup
• Realization of an online operating system mockup. Programmed in Javascript/Ajax at a time when there was no powerful javascript frameworks available yet.
• Try it! (dusty & unstable) | Expand

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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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