| Single |
Swiss citizen |
Date of birth: Jan 29, 1979 |
Male |
Education and language
| 1998-2004 |
EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Communication Systems division, Master Degree in March 2004 |
| 1994-1998 |
High school, Collège du Sud, Bulle (Switzerland)
Scientific section, A-level in 1998 |
| Language |
French (native), English (Cambridge BEC Higher), German (basics)
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Professional experience
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| 2010, 2011 |
Business Intelligence
Design and deployment of Cognos BI for several Swiss companies (Richemont luxury group, retail). Intensive usage of Cognos Reports and Metric Studio. Creation of dashboards, usage of various Cognos caching mechanisms to accelerate reports display.
Experience with Cognos Business Insight, Cognos Mobile, and most other Cognos modules.
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| 2008, 2009 |
Data cleansing and data monetization
Design and deployment of 2 projects for large companies in South Africa. Creation of processes to improve and assess data quality. Creation of automatic and manual criteria to measure data quality.
Usage of the ETL tool BusinessObjects Data Integrator and of the search engine Microsoft FAST formerly known as FAST ESP.
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| 2007, 2008 |
Design and deployment of a Search Engine for the Yellow Pages in South Africa and in Singapore
Architect and part of the developers team of the project.
High-availability solution with worldwide visibility. Use of a highly customized Search Engine cluster with hardware/software redundancy. Advise and implement business rules, including products strategy (ranking, pricing model).
Design and deployment of a news aggregation portal for the Singapore market. Involved in all project phases, including negotiation phase with news providers.
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| 2008, 2009 |
Search engine for enterprise (Intranet) search
Manage and implement a project to enable a centralized search engine for a United Nations organization in Geneva. Connection to the existing back-end systems, such as Lotus Domino, Novell file shares and to the security gateway.
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| 2004-2006 |
Expert and technical adviser for several projects led by the UNECE
Responsible for the design and development of the web portal Clearing House of THE PEP. It is an exchange platform used to disseminate best-practices (electronic documents) related to Transport, Health or Environment.
- Understanding of the business requirements and their translation into an IT solution.
- Development using .Net technology (XML, XSL, Web services, SQL Server)
- Multilingual portal (Russian, French and English)
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Academic and research experience
Sony Technology Center, Tokyo, Japan
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| 2004 |
6-months internship. Understanding and characterization of Film Grain Noise. Used to create a digital model to generate articial noise and add it to high-resolution digital movie frames, compressed with MPEG algorithms (HDTV). Master Thesis work |
Philips Research, Natlab, Eindhoven, Netherlands
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| 2004 |
6-months internship. Work related to the improvement of FFT algorithm's speed when using fixed-point numbers. Application in the field of watermarking in MPEG framework. |
Computer skills
| Application |
Expert in FAST ESP (entreprise search engine)
Expert in SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator
Expert with Cognos BI 8.4 and 10.1 (certified specialist, see below) |
| Programming language |
C# .NET, Python, JAVA & JSP, PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Visual Basic, Javascript, C, C++
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| Operating System |
Windows XP/7/2003/2008 Server: strong knowledge in configuration and administration
Linux: strong knowledge in configuration and administration |
| Databases |
Microsoft SQL server 2005/2008: Stored procedures, advanced SQL queries, Reporting Services, .Net DataSet
MySQL 5: good knowledge
Oracle: good knowledge
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| Networking |
TCP/IP v4, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, routing, FTP, HTTP, web services, load balancing systems |
| Others |
Joomla, LaTex, Open Office, Microsoft Office, Symantec Backup Exec
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Other interests
| Engineering |
Understanding and usage of cutting edge IT products |
| Hobbies |
Ski touring, Badminton, Photography, Music |
IT Certifications
| Microsoft |
TS: Configuring Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 |
| IBM |
IBM Certified Designer - Cognos 8 BI Multidimensional Reports
IBM Certified Developer - Cognos 8 BI Scorecards
IBM Certified Specialist - Cognos 8 BI
IBM Certified Administrator - Cognos 8 BI |
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