Resume/CV

Since January 2003, I work for IBM UK in Hursley. IBM Hursley is located in the very beautiful Hursley park, not far from Winchester (see picture below)
I'm an IBM STSM (Senior Technical Staff Member), involved in projects related to DB2 relational database, RDBMS migrations, information federation.
My last work was to work on the latest version of DB2 GA'ed mid 2009. Redbook followed:"Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Compatibility Made Easy,SG24-7736-00"
With the local UK Emerging Technology team we released in December 2008 the Gaian Database (aka GaianDB):
This is a new lightweight embedded technology at the intersection of the folowing world: RDBMS,information federation, cloud computing and grid, autonomic and semantics. Sound complicated ? Take a look at the GaianDB description and give it a try!
In 2005,my team previously released a technology that combined both GRID OGSA-DAI V6.0 and the Websphere Information Integrator V8.2 technology. This technology is now retired, superseeded by the GaianDB. You can still find the developerWorks article here : "Bridging the integration gap, Part 1: Federating grid data" and the technology could be downloaded here: "Grid Wrapper for WebSphere Information Integrator".


Between 1996 and 2002: I worked for IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory (San Jose CA) formerly known as Santa Teresa Laboratory)

Between 2000 and 2002, I worked in the migration and integration tools department at IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory. Initially one of the two lead architects, I ended up being the manager of the development team. The purpose of my department(12 persons in 2002) was to develop and release RDBMS migration tools, written in JAVA, that could convert any competitor database (Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, ORACLE, Informix) schema, data and business logic (T-SQL, PL-SQL) to DB2 UDB on windows/Unix platforms. It was mainly like writing SQL compilers without the optimizers.
With my team, we released the IBM MTK for Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server and Informix that you can download for FREE here at this URL: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/db2/migration/mtk/

The other IBM projects I worked on previously were :

• The new DB2 SQL PL, stored procedure language for DB2 UDB V7.1, based on ISO SQL PSM definition. Our 3 person team implemented the first version of this procedural language in DB2 EE/EEE V7.1 in a year. I had to live many months in Toronto, working at the IBM Toronto Lab for this project. Toronto is a very nice city!
  I also co-authored a few redbooks on the new ORACLE to DB2 compatibility with PL/SQL and the DB2 UDB stored procedure language: Check them here :
  Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Compatibility Made Easy,SG24-7736-00
  Developing Cross-Platform DB2 Stored Procedures: SQL Procedures and the DB2 Stored Procedure Builder, SG24-5485-00
• NET.DATA for Nagano Winter Olympics Games and more precisely the FASTCGI port for NET.DATA.
• I worked on many other projects related to the INTERNET like "how to do stressing, quality and regression testing for internet applications". I have a US patent granted on this subject.
• Performance enhancements of existing web servers and applications
• Presentation/conferences:
  • 1 1/2000:IEEE:"Preserving and Enhancing the Value of Software"
  • helped with the following paper: Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints:Successes and Lingering Issues

• Graduated from MBDS Sophia Antipolis: Master in computer Science specialized in Relational/Object Databases and informational systems. I passed this MASTERE in one year, after 11 years of work in different fields (see below).
• Aquarel : My last job and company in France. I worked there as an technical database consultant specialized in SYBASE,ORACLE and Microsoft SQL Server databases. I worked on many large Client Server projects, using if possible Object Technologies, focusing on getting very fast SQL applications. Some common achievements were to reduce execution times of applications from hours down to minutes or even seconds. That was challenging and fun!!! ;-)
• And before 1993, I worked in many companies with different jobs, in different fields:
• • Client/Server projects with SYBASE for R2DII(France)
  • Smart Cards (CP8), network drivers and security processor(PASCAM) for Ausy Telecam (France)
  • Electronic Archiving Systems like Texto for ChemDATA(France),later bought by CINCOM
  • CASE tools for SITM (France)
  • Electronic security systems (France)
  I also co-authored a redbook on the DB2 UDB stored procedure language: check it here : Developing Cross-Platform DB2 Stored Procedures: SQL Procedures and the DB2 Stored Procedure Builder, SG24-5485-00
• NET.DATA for Nagano Winter Olympics Games and more precisely the FASTCGI port for NET.DATA.
• I worked on many other projects related to the INTERNET like "how to do stressing, quality and regression testing for internet applications". I have a US patent granted on this subject.
• Performance enhancements of existing web servers and applications
• Presentation/conferences:
  • 1 1/2000:IEEE:"Preserving and Enhancing the Value of Software"
  • helped with the following paper: Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints:Successes and Lingering Issues
  • Programming Languages: JAVA (Eclipse development environment), C++/C, Delphi V7&V8,ObjectView, Objective C (on NeXT), Visual Basic, T/SQL, PL/SQL.
    
  • Relational Databases: DB2 V6->V8, Websphere Information Integrator V7 & V8, Microsoft SQL Server V6->2000, SYBASE V4->V12, ORACLE V8i,9i, Informix IDS 9,
    
  • Web: web services stuff, HTML, XML,JSP,PhP,Net.Data, ICAPI, FASTCGI,... and all other common web development stuff