Kevin Saliou

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Work Experience :

Since April 2009

Self-employed : Freelance Web Development Consultant – (Barcelona/ES)

• Web Development for innovative projects

August 2006 to Marsh 2009

LocalBilling Limited : Senior developer, Team Lead – (Barcelona/ES)

• Development of a multilingual localized online payment processing system optimized for local markets
• Analysis, design and implementation of the system (payment gateway, backoffice, end user front end)
• Leading of the backoffice team following Agile Methodologies (Scrum) and using state of the art web development frameworks (Symfony, Zend Framework, Extjs, ...)

December 2003 to August 2006

Electronic Group Interactive : PHP developer – (Barcelona/ES)

• Development of several high traffic web based projects using PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc...

July 2002 to September 2003

ADvenue : Analyst-programmer / Webmaster – (Frankfurt/DE)

• Development of several web based projects and especially of the new version of the cultural portal www.etainme.de, of a project management tool and the managers' human ressources tool of Viterra (PHP/MySQL)
• Development of a SOAP webservice for etainme's partners websites (SOAP/PHP/MySQL)
• Implementation an E-learning tool for accessibility preferences selection based on the IMS's specifications (XML/XSL/CSS/PHP)

April 2000 to September 2000

Infrasoft Limited : Analyst-programmer (MX Road Team) – (Horsham/UK)

Took part in the development of the world leading civil engineering software Developing in VB 6 and Fortran

October 1999 to September 2000

SOS Médecin Rennes : Operator / Trainer – (Rennes/FR)

Telephone operator in a medical cabinet part time
I also took care of the computing training of other staff members

Education:

2002-2004

Sheffield Hallam University - MSc Multimedia Technologies for Ecommerce - (Sheffield/UK)
School of Computing and Management Sciences

• Web strand : functional web design - engineering distributed applications - multimedia development and delivery – advance databases and datawarehouses – interaction design –E-learning platform development
• Network strand : communication networks – high bandwidth multimedia design – enterprise network - network management and security
• Management strand : Internet service for business - economic, legal and political framework - technology foresight - managing change and innovation – E-commerce
• Development of several projects with PHP, MySQL, Access, XML, XHTML, HTML+TIME

2000-2001

Sheffield Hallam University - BSc Networks & Communications - (Sheffield/UK)
School of Computing and Management Sciences – Final Year

• Network Integrated Services
• Distributed Components Environment (including application development using Java)
• Management of Information Technology Projects
• Business modelling

University of South Brittany - DESTU Foreign Languages (English) - (Lorient/FR)
Part-time English course as a foreign language : presentation of my final year project

1999-2000

University of South Brittany - DUT in Computing - (Vannes/FR)
Two-year diploma from Vannes' university institute of technology in computing

• Object oriented programming (Java, C++ and Visual Basic)
• Computer architecture, operating systems and networking
• Relational databases : concepts and design (UML)

1997-1998

Warrensburg High School - (Warresnsburg/USA)
Senior year
One year in an American high school as a foreign exchange student

1994-1997

Lycée Emile Zola - (Rennes/Fr)
Secondary School
Baccalaureate diploma, speciality Maths
French equivalent to the General Certificate of Education

Technical skills:

Programming Languages

PHP5, Javascript, XML, XSL/t, PL/SQL, XHTML, CSS2

Databases

Mysql, SQLite, Postgres, Oracle

Web servers

Apache, Lighthttpd

SCM

Subversion, Bazaar, Git

Operating Systems

Linux (Red-hat/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu), Windows family

Languages:

French

Mother tongue

English

Fluent and technical

• Student in England for 2 years
• Work placement in Horsham for 5 months
• DESTU diploma in 2001 (presentation in English of my final year project)
• TOEIC exam in 1998: score 805/900
• Exchange student in U.S.A. for one year in 1997/98

Spanish

Fluent

Catalan

Fluent

German

Basic (2 months of intensive course)

Breton

Fluent (Spoken at school since age 3)

Extracurricular activities:

• I have been playing roller hockey for 10 years. During my last year as a junior, I was the captain of the team. I am now playing in the catalan league and used to play in the english Premier league with the Sheffield Wildcats team.
• I am fond of sailing and practice it as much as I can.
• I am also interested in cinema, music and new technologies (particularly the "open source" world).
• Finally, I enjoy travelling abroad and facing new experiences; so far I have visited 17 countries.

References:

Helge Holander

Advenue
Tel: (+49) 69 40 89 37 51
Web: www.advenue.de

Robert White

Infrasoft Limited
Tel: (+44) 1403 259511
Web site: www.infrasoft-civil.com