Resume

Positions

• April 2009 – Now: Senior software developer at Apption Software
• Mai 2003 – April 2009: Research Associate at National Research Council Canada – Software engineering group
  • 2003-2004: Work on Commercial Off-The-Shelf Systems (COTS) and cooperation with PWGSC
    • Assisted PWGSC in the creation and review of requirements and other documents for a final RFP
    • Organized workshops for requirements and uses cases
    • 1 paper presented at ICCBSS
  • 2004-2006: Performance analysis in COTS systems
    • Cooperation with IBM Toronto (TPTP Team) and Murray Woodside, Carleton University
    • 3 conference papers, 1 invited seminar, 1 conference tutorial
    • 1 paper published on IEEE Software
    • Implemented through extensions to Eclipse TPTP
  • 2006-2009: Business Rules Extraction from Legacy Code (details here)
    • Collaboration with PWGSC – help with business rules requirements for replacing a legacy system
    • Technology implemented in Java and Scala, plus a COBOL parser in ANTLR 3
    • Proof of concept with 1 million COBOL lines, 73 programs and 20000 text documents
    • Full test, build and version control automation with maven
    • Complete test suite from COBOL parsing to business rules construction
    • Technology was in the process of being licensed to an external company
    • Integrated statistical natural language processing technology and full text search
    • 2 conference publications

Degrees

• 1999-2002: PhD. Thesis Computer Science, Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry, France, graduated 12th December, 2002 with honours (Mention très honorable): “Resource usage management for large scale distributed applications”, Supervisor: Pr. Guy Bernard.
• 1998-1999: D.E.A of Computer Science (= Pre-doctoral studies = Master of Computing Science) obtained in 1999 at University of Evry, France with Mention Bien (= honours). University of Evry, France
  • Master Thesis (Research project of D.E.A.): middleware application migration using mobile agents, Supervisor: Pr. Guy Bernard.
• 1997-1998: Maîtrise of Mathematics (obtained in 1998 with honours = french Mention Assez Bien)
• 1993-1997: B. A. of Mathematics and Computing Science at University of Evry, France = french DEUG of Mathematics and Computing Sciences with honours + License of Mathematics.

Publications

• See my publication list

Conferences

• Cascon 2009 program committee
• RuleML 2009 track chair on rule transformation and extraction

Technologies

• Business Rules Extraction
  • Test-driven development methodology
  • ANTLR LL-* parsing
  • Maven build management
  • TestNG framework
  • Scala functional programming
  • Google Guice IoC and Pico
  • DB4O Object Oriented Database
  • Lucene full text search
  • CGLib and Javassist – bytecode generation
  • Swing end user interface
• Performance analysis in COTS systems
  • TPTP JVM Agent for generating traces
  • Extensions to the TPTP Eclipse plug-in with new views
  • Hibernate persistence framework
  • MySQL database
• Ph.D. thesis on load balancing
  • AOP programming
  • CORBA middleware (OpenORB committer)
  • Linux, windows and network load monitoring
  • OMG Member and supporter for the Load Balancing Request for Proposals (mars/02-04-05, IONA/Tri-Pacific/Vertel Revised submission to the Load Balancing RFP).
• Actualis
  • Spring/Hibernate/Tapestry/Tomcat website
  • MySQL tuning for high scalability
  • Custom gateway to integrate data in a COTS CRM application
  • Pentaho Data Integration to aggregate different vendors data and export feeds to partners

Other

• Co-chair of colloquiums at NRC IIT, setup webcast, improved attendance and organized several successful talks. Promoted IIT in Ottawa.
• 1997: Co-founder of Actualis – French company specialized in professional computer hardware
  • setup their IT backend and website to respond rapidly to change and integrate data sources from suppliers and partners
• Contributions to many open source projects (see details)