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 now an IBM STSM (Senior Technical Staff Member),involved in very interesting GRID computing projects, DB2 relational database projects
and other web services "stuff".
I released in 2005 a technology that combined both GRID OGSA-DAI V6.0 and the Websphere Information Integrator V8.2 technology. You can find the developerWorks article here : "Bridging the integration gap, Part 1: Federating grid data" and the technology can be downloaded here: "Grid Wrapper for WebSphere Information Integrator": Give it a try!


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.
My team 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 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"
  • 11/2000: ICSM
  • 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)


Knowledge: Even though now I mostly focusing on making other people work, I maintain my core technical skills up to date. ;-)


• 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