Florent Villard's Resume
   

Contact Information:

Florent Villard
7 résidence Guillaume de Voisin
 Gif-sur-Yvette, France 91190

Phone: (33)144617166
Email: warly@warly.org


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).
        

Language:
  
    
    Fluent in English, French, beginner in Spanish,
    Portuguese and Russian.
  
  
  



Management skills:
  
    
    Software Development Director at Splitted Desktop
    Systems, Release Manager of Mandriva Consumer
    products, Team leader, Informal management of
    the Mandriva Linux community.
  
  
  



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
  
  
  



Employment History:
    
    Software Development Director
    Splitted Desktop Systems
    Mar 2007-Present
    
    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;
    
    
    Consumer Product development manager
    Mandrakesoft/Mandriva
    November 1999-Feb 2007
    
    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).
    
    
    Engineer/Consultant
    Silicon Graphics Inc
    July 1999-November 1999
    
    Linux and Unix expert. Member of the SGI services team.
    
    
    Research Engineer Trainee
    Motorola Research Center
    February 1999-June 1999
    
    TCP optimization in the Linux kernel for wireless networks (wavelan,
    GSM). Study of the TCP implementation and dynamic configuration to
    bypass wireless links weaknesses.
    
    
    Engineer Trainee
    ST Microelectronics
    July 1998-January 1999
    
    Development of a graphic user interface in java to Autosched/Automod,
    Solaris platform.
    
    
    Student project
    LORIA, INRIA Lorraine Research Center
    February 1998-June 1998
    
    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.
    
    
    Miscellany
    
Hobbies: programming (http://www.warly.org), drawing, running marathons,
trekking, cycling, writing (Le Patriarche: http://patriarche.warly.org).