Resume

Professional objectives

• Create, develop and manage technologically challenging projects of public interest using the best of my technical and management skills.
• Make work more efficient, life easier and more pleasant by the use of the most appropriate technology.

Skills

• CEO of an IT startup specialising in software and services for micro-finance.
• Leading and managing a software development team (up to 10 people).
• Micro finance business domain expertise.
• Project management applied to software development (Agile or V methods) and IT services (ITIL v3).
• Computer languages: PHP (Zend Framework), Perl, bash, SQL, Javascript (Prototype), Python, C, C++, Java, XML, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, SOAP, AJAX, JSON, and UML.
• Tools: Eclipse, Trac, Jira, Git, Subversion, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Networks: switching (ethernet), routing (tcp/ip, ospf, bgp) and applications (dns, http, smtp, imap, pop3, ftp, ssh, snmp, ldap, firewalling, ...), protocol knowledge as well as operation experience.
• Cryptography knowledge: ssh, pgp, X509, simpleSAML.
• Operating Systems: UNIXes (Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris).
• Philosophical: free software and digital civil rights advocate.

Professional Background

• 2009 - now: eShango — Senegal — Chief Executive Officer
  • general management of the company (10 people),
  • supervision of the R&D department (software development and IT services for micro-finance),
  • supervision of the sales department,
  • company incorporation in Senegal, head of finance and administrative department, day to day business, human resources management,
  • business plan, financials, equity build up, together with 2 partners.

• 2008 - 2010: DANTE — UK — Systems Engineer
  • perfSONAR development team lead: project management, development best practices, R&D collaborative work (GEANT),
  • web application development: network circuits and assets database, network monitoring systems, sysadmin tasks automation (PHP, Python, Java, MySQL, bash),
  • web services and network applications deployment (MySQL, LDAP, Nagios, MRTG) with high availability setup,
  • authentication and authorization infrastructure deployement (Shibbolet, SAML, GIdP).

• 2005 - 2008: Aquadev — Senegal — Technical Manager, Lead Senior Software Engineer
  • team leading (7 persons) in Dakar, Senegal: planning, resources management, reporting, training and competitive intelligence.
  • ADbanking software development (PHP, Javascript, XML, XSLT, PostgreSQL, bash, Eclipse),
  • product requirements definition and architecture design of a banking software for the micro finance sector (ADbanking),
  • quality and release management, SCM tools setup (Trac, SVN).

• 2000 - 2005: BELNET — Belgium — System & Network Engineer
  • administration of multiple Internet servers of a national scale ISP (linux, Solaris, dns, web, ftp, mail, nntp, snmp),
  • web application development: network monitoring system, domain name registration system, sysadmin tasks automation (PHP, Perl, MySQL, bash),
  • configuration and operation of a national scale IP network, (Cisco, Juniper),
  • participation to RIPE IP network measurements working groups and workshops.

• 2000 - now: Cassiopea — Belgium — Sys Admin, Software Engineer, Administrator (volunteer)
  • administration of Internet servers of a small scale ISP (linux, dns, web, ftp, mail, ldap),
  • project management, web application development, webdesign and participation in open source projects (PHP, Perl, MySQL, bash),
  • creation, management and administration of a nonprofit ISP, president from 2000 to 2006,
  • writer on E-solidaire Un Internet plus équitable et solidaire.

• 1998 - 2005: Belgium — Free Lance Software Engineer
  • databases and web development (PHP, MySQL, 4thDimension),
  • administration of networks and servers (linux, MacOS, web, ftp, mail, dns, printing).

• 1997 - 1998: Alcatel Bell — Belgium — Junior Software Engineer
  • software development of a network management and monitoring platform (Solaris, C, C++).

Studies - Training

• 2003
  • IPv6 — Telindus, Leuven
  • DNSSEC — RIPE NCC, Amsterdam
  • Managing youth camps in south countries — Quinoa, Brussels
• 2002
  • Routing essentials, ospf, bgp, multicast — Arpnet, Brussels
• 2001
  • Juniper routing — Juniper, Amsterdam
  • Ici ou ailleurs, que faire ? — ITECO, Brussels (training for development cooperation)
  • Hostmaster, IP resource management — RIPE NCC, London
• 1998
  • Telecommunication Concepts — Bell Education Centre, Antwerpen
• 1991-1997
  • Civil Engineer (equivalent to Master of Science) in Computer Science — University of Liège
  • Study: Conception d’un système automatique d’analyse de séquences de peptides — Professor E. De Pauw

Languages

• French: mother tongue.
• English: fluent.
• Spanish: intermediate level.
• Dutch: basic level.

Personal background

• Scouting from 1981 to 1994, participation in international youth cooperation projects with Quinoa:
  • 1 month in Senegal in 2000,
  • 3 months in Guatemala in 2003 as project leader,
• Interested and concerned about ecology and citizen life, globalization issues.
• Direction, animation and engineering of a weekly local radio broadcasting from 1988 to 1993.
• I love movies, music, cooking and juggling and I like hiking, running, cycling and Tai Chi.