Florent Villard
Academics |
5 years Degree in Engineer/Computer Science/Managment, July 1999, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Nancy.French Engineering and Managment high school.
Preparatory classes, Champollion, Grenoble (1994-1996). Baccalauréat, Dominique Villars, Gap (1994).
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Language |
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Fluent in English, French, beginner in Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. |
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Management skills |
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Software Development Director at Splitted Desktop Systems. Release Manager of Mandriva Consumer products. Team leader. Informal management of the Mandriva Linux community. |
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Computer skills |
| Languages |
perl, C, shells, beginner in java, php, python, javascript, ocaml, haskell, assembler. XML, XSL, HTML, Docbook. SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) |
| Linux |
Administration (network, tcp/ip, account, ipv6). Clustering, build-systems of linux distributions. Database (Postgresql, MySQL). Bugzilla. Distributed administration systems, cloud computing. Embedded systems. X server, Video driver, Video decoding and streaming. |
| Thermal analysis |
Comerics Flotherm (thermal simulation software). Conception of complex fanless consumer electronics products |
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Employment History |
| Software Development Director |
Splitted Desktop Systems
Mar 2007-Present |
Paris, France. Associate;
Manager of the software development team;
Developing a high-level multimedia embedded operating system for internet set-top boxes;
Resolving problem of easy internet access, boxes auto management, network auto-configuration and h264 video decoding;
Remote administration, update, remote access;
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| Consumer Product development manager |
Mandrakesoft/Mandriva
November 1999-Feb 2007 |
Paris, France. Manager of the Consumer product department;
Release Manager of the Mandriva One, Discovery, Powerpack and Powerpack+ products;
Architect and maintainer of the Mandriva build infrastructure (build cluster, mirrors, bugzilla);
Responsible of the Mandriva section in the Linux+ magazine;
Team leader of configuration and administration tools;
Initially Quality and Assurance Engineer, set up processes and policy for the linux distribution).
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| Engineer/Consultant |
Silicon Graphics Inc
July 1999-November 1999 |
Jouy-en-Josas, France. Linux and Unix expert. Member of the SGI services team.
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| Research Engineer Trainee |
Motorola Research Center
February 1999-June 1999 |
Gif-sur-Yvette, France. TCP optimization in the Linux kernel for wireless networks (wavelan, GSM). Study of the TCP implementation and dynamic configuration to bypass wireless links weaknesses.
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| Engineer Trainee |
ST Microelectronics
July 1998-January 1999 |
Rousset/Nancy, France. Development of a graphic user interface in java to Autosched/Automod, Solaris platform.
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| Student project |
LORIA, INRIA Lorraine Research Center
February 1998-June 1998 |
Nancy, France. Project about Active Networks (based on a MIT prototype) and IPv6. Development of a management protocol for the ANTS java protoptype and dynamic modification of the nodes functionalities.
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Miscellany |
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