| 1996-1998 | : |
Telecom Paris (ENST),
ranked number one French Telecommunication School. 6 months of
studies.
Eurecom Institute,
Sophia Antipolis, to get an emphasis on Corporate
Communications. 1 year of studies, 6 months dedicated
to a training
period.
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| 1994-1996 | : |
Ecole Polytechnique, ranked number one
French Engineering School. 2 years of studies.
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| 1993-1994 | : |
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French Naval Academy.
Four months of study (plus the military service).
Became a French Navy Officer.
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| 1990-1993 | : |
ENSAM (Higher
National College of Engineering Arts). 3 years of studies.
Graduated with honors.
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| 1988-1990 | : |
Lycee des Eucalyptus, Nice. Preparatory classes for
engineering schools (Maths, Physics and Technology).
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| 1988 | : |
Lycee des Eucalyptus, Nice. French Baccalaureate (Maths,
Science) with honors.
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| English | : | Fluent (TOEFL: 630) |
| German | : | Good level |
| French | : | Mother tongue |
| Italian | : | Beginner |
| Russian | : | Good level |
| Feb. 2008 - Now | : |
Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis (France). In charge of
the Management Science department, in charge of Revenue
Management (theory and practice), Data Mining and Statistics, and
of the design, development, delivery and support of a Travel
Market Simulator (LATUS: Leisure And Travel Usage Simulator) in
partnership
with Dr. Peter Belobaba at
MIT. The Travel Market
Simulator has been integrated in the Amadeus Airline IT product
portfolio, both as a product and as a basis for consultancy
services.
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| Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2008 | : |
Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis (France). In charge of
two departments within the new Operations Research (OR) and
Innovation division: looked for (internal) customers, staffed and
set-up the projects (from scratch), built the teams and supported
the development adn deliveries. The Management Science department
is described above, while the Optimisation department is in
charge of all the Operations Research subjects in the airline
industry arena (for instance, passenger seating, re-accommodation
of passengers, airline planning, dynamic scheduling, disruption
management, etc.).
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Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2006
(1 year) |
: |
Amadeus, Sophia
Antipolis (France). In charge of a new
project, consisting in providing our customer airlines with a
Revenue Management System (RMS) and with Business
Intelligence (BI) and Decision Support System (DSS):
wrote the business case, contributed to the feasibility and
the functional specifications, as well as to the high-level
design, set-up the development environment and framework, and
implemented a few pieces of algorithm.
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Oct. 2000 - Dec. 2004
(4 years) |
: |
Amadeus, Sophia
Antipolis (France).
Worked on the Altea Inventory (a.k.a New Generation Inventory
/ NGI) project:
wrote the product specifications, implemented the
corresponding algorithms, and supported the production phase.
Specifically involved in the availability calculation and
revenue management part, and played an essential role in the
design of the architecture, as well as for the development
and integration of those components.
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Sep. 1998 - Sep. 2000
(2 years) |
: |
Sema
Group Telecom (now AtosOrigin, and just previously
SchlumbergerSema), Sophia Antipolis (France).
Built (i.e., was involved in pre-sales,
specifications, development, integration and
maintenance) electronic commerce sites using the
BroadVision's One-To-One platform.
Among the Internet sites that have gone live:
TravelVision
(a AirMiles/British Airways project),
Cortal Consors
(BNP/Paribas online bank),
Zebank (now Egg),
SanPaolo
(one of the greatest banks in Italy),
Telecom Italia
Mobile (TIM) (the first mobile company in Italy),
Belgacom Business
(Belgacom is the first belgium telecom operator).
Most of the projects were based in Europe
(Belgium, Switzerland, U.K., Ireland, Italy, Spain,
etc.).Designed and implemented a generic adapter to legacy systems, based on Transaction Description Files written in XML, allowing front-end developers to manipulate high-level, while simple, structures. This tool reduces greatly development times devoted to legacy systems integration. Part of it has been developed as an open source project. |
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Jan. - Aug. 1998
(8 months) |
: |
Sema
Group Telecom (now AtosOrigin, and just previously
SchlumbergerSema), Sophia Antipolis (France).
Designed and
implemented an architecture to evaluate how to use
transactional Java/Corba objects to access databases and
legacy applications. Conducted a beta test of the
Borland/Inprise's (formerly Visigenic) VisiBroker ITS product
(implementation of the Corba Transaction Service).
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Apr.-Jul. 1996
(4 months) |
: |
Computer Science
Department, Purdue University, Indiana (U.S.A).
Developed data
compression algorithms based on Pattern Matching. Wrote a
paper accepted by
 .
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Summer 1995
(3 months) |
: |
Zenith Data Systems (now Packard
Bell, previously Bull Group), Chicago, Illinois
(U.S.A).
Wrote a white
paper on "Security Issues and Status & Electronic
Commerce on the Internet".
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Jan. - Sept. 1994
(9 months) |
: |
Aviso Detroyat, French Navy. Military service as
watch-master on board
an "aviso" (100 people): when on watch, responsible for the war
ship security, navigation and maneuvering. Five months mission
in Persian Gulf and Red Sea. NATO operations.
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Summers 1992 & 1993
(2 x 3 months) |
: |
CERN, Geneva
(Switzerland).
Research Assistant: Studied and analyzed several devices to
prepare their use in a new experiment. Wrote and published
results reports in English. Worked with a Russian research
group. Often used English and computers.
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Summers 1990 & 1991
(2 x 2 months) |
: |
Telemecanique
(Schneider Group), Nice (France).
Planning and Production Department: Drafted final control
directives to be used by workers. Improved a production flux
(time studies, relationship with workers...). Organized the
mounting of a safety system.
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Summer 1989
(2 months) |
: |
Local
Council,
Cagnes sur Mer (40,000
inhabitants), France. System Operator: Maintained
functioning of operating systems. Assisted workers in
maintaining an efficient computer system environment.
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| Languages | : | C/C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, XML, HTML, Pascal, Prolog, ML, O2C, Fortran, Assembler, Basic |
| Operating systems | : | Unix, Linux, Dos & Windows, VM/CMS, VMS, MacOs |
| Softwares | : | Rational Rose (UML), Orbix/OrbixWeb (Iona), VisiBroker (Borland/Inprise), One-To-One (BroadVision), Netscape Enterprise Server, Oracle Database Systems, Open Source Softwares |
| 1999 - 2004 | : | Member of Linux Azur. |
| 1995 & 1996 | : | Teacher for students in difficulty. |
| 1993 | : | Organized a seminar aimed at letting companies present an expansion project before engineering students from four European Universities. |
| 1991 & 1992 | : | In charge of the Relations with Industry Department of the ENSAM Students Association. In charge of the local telecommunications network service. |