Summary

Technologies used are:

• XML: data storage, transformations through XSL, DOM or SAX regarding needs.
• RSS: for a news feed.
• CSS: for the styles and graphical design.
• JavaScript: for glossary offline manipulation.
• PHP: to organize the framework.
• PDF: for printable documents.

Gregory recommends Linux Ubuntu 9.10, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Eclipse 3.5 Galileo

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Organization	Date	Role / Nature of work
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)	October 2009 till now	Project Manager Manages a 6-person team Project Management, R&D & Solutioning in networks and cryptography Needs analysis alongside with customers, Specification & Design Technologies: Java, C, Microsoft SQL Server, UML, CVS, Eclipse, Testlink, DotProject. Payment Solutions projects for South-East Asian market: Pre-paid Top-up Systems for mobile phone suppliers (I achieved several upgrades on the main customer's running system) Gift Cards, Loyalty Cards and management systems iPay: an online payment functionality for Gift Cards System (which I entirely designed) Embedded application for credit cards payment, integration with Electronic Cash Register (I specified the requirements to ECR developers) Lines Encryption System between Point-Of-Sales and banking application servers (I introduced the product at the banks headquarters) Touch'n'Go Payment System & devices (using Proximity Coupling Device - I specified the flow of transactions and all other main aspects for several projects bound to this technology) Integration of various applications on a standalone terminal As a department lead, I also worked at improving the process (I defined the strategy guidelines, I created workflows for maintenance and new developments and I also brought a quality approach).
Vietnam Global Delivery Center Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)	March to August 2009	Officially agreed end of studies internship : Contributed to "MdP" team projects, expert in Java/J2E technologies (collaborative working based on Hibernate/Spring/Struts frameworks, Mantis bugtracker, Subversion) Status and tasks evoluted regarding projects: Knowledge Base Portal: I supplied solutions (CMS comparisons). & Installed & Customized & Administrated the CMS EZ-Publish & Promoted the use of the portal to the team. I developed complete screens of web applications based on Java framework Hibernate / Spring / Struts (Using HQL, JSP, JavaScript, XML, CSS and JEE concepts) I corrected bugs and executed change-requests on this JEE web application. Business analyst: I was a relay between IBM VN and IBM FR I translated documents from French to English, I detailed the specifications, and I filtered out the possible ambiguities. Internal project: I had the honour to manage a 1-to-4-persons team depending on the iteration (spiral lifecycle). The project was managed following MdP workflow (estimations, planning and tracking). For each iteration I investigated to answer the needs, searching and proposing my solutions. I contributed greatly in the specification and design of the model, I helped my team in their LAMP or WAMP server or IDE configuration, and I also contributed in implementing the most complex parts (using MySQL, PHP, JavaScript/AJAX) I supplied my ideas about the model design and also technical elements into the context of a new offer IBM Formations: Function Points: methods to estimate the charge of projects Quality Process Awareness and Competency Evaluation: Understanding the concepts of quality assurance CMMI Awareness: Participation in training sessions with a view to the certification of the development center
IT Outsourcing Services Vitrolles -near Marseille-	Summer 2008	Administrated the professionnal database management system "Remedy" for EUROCOPTER at Marignane + Created a videoconferencing rooms directory (SQL, PHP)
Senecrus Co Rungis -near Paris-	Summer 2007	Chief machine operator, managed staff and upkept the material in a shrimps transformation and conditioning factory
Mathematics lessons Lorgues/La Valette -south of France-	June 2007	Private tutoring for high school students with various levels
CMC-Animations Toulon -south of France-	Christmas 2006	Giant fluffy in the great Christmas parades. Dancing and snapshots with the kids.
Sophia-Antipolis -French Riviera-	2006	Officially agreed internship 2006 : Testing, Quality Control for java applications, writing technical documentations and user guides.
Hypermarket E. Leclerc Le Luc -south of France-	Summer 2005	Versatile employee in liquids shelves Using hand and power pallet trucks
Atelier V Carros -near Nice-	Summer 2004	Manufacturing roadsigns for the works of Nice's streetcar
Total Service Station Le Cannet -south of France-	Fall 2003	In charge of sales and restocking shelves, using cash register, serving petrol, opening and closing of the station
Town Hall Le Luc	Summer 2003	Arranging festivities, general maintenance of the spaces
Chateau la Lauzade Le Luc	September 2002	Grape harvest
Qualimedia Plus Nice	Summer 2000	Computers shop in removal : various work, setting up material

EDUCATION (French Awards)

• 2009 : MASTER2 PRO Information and Systems Science (MSc)
  speciality Computer Science major Software Engineering
  Honors: magna cum laude - 2:1 - (mention bien)
  Universite Aix-Marseille III
  (5th year of university)
  As is common in France, I had chosen to study the second year of my major at a different institute, as courses are compatible between different universities. I studied Software Engineering major in my 2nd year of masters the purpose of which is to prepare students for the job market. The courses provided us the access to any part of an SDLC (we were trained to manage projects, specify, design, implement, and control the quality).
  
  
• 2008 : MASTER1- Information and Systems Science
  (MSc) with Honors cum laude - 2:2
  Universite de Toulon et du Var (South of France)
  (4th year of university)
  Each year my courses became more and more oriented in the domain I chose and from this year onwards I have only been studying really modern techologies. We had projects to analyse in a case study and then to develop.
  
  
• 2007 : GRADUATION Science and Technologies (BSc)
  speciality Computer Science major Computer Science.
  Universite de Toulon et du Var
  (3rd year of university)
  I got reoriented from a Mathematics Degree and so, to be able to carry out computer science projects I had to learn a lot by myself, mostly about the web and the operating systems. Meanwhile, when I had a course on object oriented programming concepts, I could learn the use of graphical libraries and added a very personal touch to a project.
  
  
• 2005 : UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE Mathematics and Computer Science Engineering
  (major Applied Mathematics for Industry)
  Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble (French Alps)
  (2nd year of university)
  I was part of an Engineering School whose major is to develop Mathematics Research using Computer Science Tools. So we learnt both Mathematics (with algebra, analysis, optimization, probabilities) and Computer Science.
  
  
• 2004 : passed first year of university in Science and Technologies
  
  
  
• 2002 : General Baccalaureate major Science with Honors cum laude - 2:2
  La Seyne/mer(83)
  
  
  

KNOWLEDGE

• Project Management : Operational schedules, BPM, Charge estimation (Function points),
  Tracking, Collaborative working tools
• Quality Management : HMI (Management of ergonomic and cognitive criteria)
  ISO9001 & CMMI awareness, Validation & Verification
• Specification : Scope statements, SADT/SART(Real-time computing), Specification methods and tools (CASE tools), Software architectures solutioning
• UML Design, Automatons and Petri nets
• Programming in C/C++, Java/J2EE, IDE NetBeans, Eclipse, JDBC, log4j, License4j, JTidy, JUnit, RMI, JMS, EJB, JBoss.
• SQL(DDL, DML, DCL, DQL): Design, Relational Algebra, Requests, Procedural Languages (object)
  DBMS Postgres, MySQL, Oracle
• Web development : CSS, XHTML, PHP, AJAX, JavaScript (with libraries JQuery, PHPUnit, PHPExcel...)
• XML : XSL, XSP, XQuery , Apache-Cocoon
• Algorithm : Computational complexity theory
• Development of graphical interfaces in Awt/Swing, Gtk+, Tcl/Tk University work
• Digital Art 2D/3D : SDL, OpenGL works : 2D 3D
• Networks : Data-Link and network Layers, Transport Layer, TCP/UDP-IP,
  BGP-IV, Spoofing, firewalls, SSH, NAT.
• System : Scheduling, Multitasking (semaphores, IPC)
• Compilation : Lexical, Syntax and Semantical Analysis with flex and bison.
• Functional Programming : CamL Language
• Information theory / information retrieval : Shannon's source coding theorem / speech, picture processing, recall and precision, search engines pagerank
  Master's Thesis: Searching similarities between documents described by keywords
• Win/Linux : knowledge on Windows/MacOS ; mastering Unix Environment.
  Shell programming : BASH, TCSH, Perl, Python
• Office/Open office/Adobe
  
  

• Driving Licence (from France and Vietnam) / Boat Licence
• Languages : French (mother tongue), English (TOEIC Score : 845), Spanish (good knowledge)

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

Chairman of Grenoble Association Modelisation Mathematiques Appliquees in 2005 and 2006:
arrangement of leisure activities for the students of the school. Association website
I took part in associations from 2006 to 2008 dedicated to students rights protection.

GOALS

1. Technology watch: I consider as a must to keep up-to-date.
   Whatever could be the context I should be able to propose up-to-date technologic solutions as well as up-to-date process guidelines.
   My cross-cultural career provides me cross-cultural methods, and I love that.
   
   
2. Polyvalent skill-set: I like to have more and more plugins on my Eclipse IDE. I ecourage self-learning and I am also a self-learner, this is how I often got familiar with new languages or even new frameworks. Those people who can manage working on all the tools, all architectures, and use all kinds of codes, are called... Guru!
   
   
3. Quality: My experience taught me that end-to-end development lifecycles should not be under-estimated, internal projects might have their importance and need support because they keep people motivated, updated and efficient. Continuous improvement attracts new opportunities should it be for the business or the private concern of each contributor. I want my job to give me the occasion to do things the right way.
   
   
4. Participatory democracy: management has turned into coaching and encouraging, rather than ordering and directing. And that forces managers and leaders to be open to being taught by their employees. That's the way I want to handle my team improvement. I also strongly believe a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Team building is fundamental, no one can be let down.
   
   
5. Awards: I had felt attracted to research issues since I started my masters degree and today I hope I can propose a PhD thesis subject someday under the title of R&D engineer in any of my next establishments. I am as well greatly attracted by a Sun certification, an OMG certification, or any suitable and valuable computing certification.
   
   
6. A bridge is to be created between East and West, I feel confident now I can be an actor in this play.

REFEREES

Thomas Nguyen

Project Manager, Web Development Competency Leader at IBM Vietnam

Letter (pdf)

Jean Caussanel

Lecturer at Universite Aix-Marseille III

Letter (pdf)