Curriculum Vitæ
Damien DEBIN
39 years old, married, French nationality
mobile: (+33)6xxxxxxxx | damien@debin.net | damiendebin.net | LinkedIn
Experience
Since 01/2010 → SmartApps
CTO, co-founder
SmartApps is focused on mobile application development (and broadcast/geolocalization solutions) dedicated to cultural sector and museums.
- Mobile applications dedicated to Museums and Cultural Institutions
- Specialized Content Management System R&D
- Custom next-generation iOS / Android / Windows Phone / HTML5 experiences
- Restricted/accelerated AppStore(s) access via Wi-Fi
- Indoor geolocation.
11/2007-10/2009 → Telecom Italia France / Free SAS
R&D Manager
- In charge of all IPTV software (server side and embedded) and hardware (AliceBox STB) research and development for the French ISP Alice: TV over ADSL, video on demand, media center, user interfaces, editorial and catalog management consoles, etc.
- Team management of project leaders, architects and software developers (11 people) working with technologies like ASP.NET, SQL, PHP, JS, Flash, IPTV.
- Some figures: a network with 220 000 STB, 150 TV channels and 5 000 VoD titles
06/2004-11/2007 → Serensia
Software Project Manager
- Responsible for following up projects, architecture and development (C#, .NET, SQL with persistence “Wikipedia definition for « persistence »”)) of innovative software applications allowing safe exchange and management of electronic documents
- High involvement in the customer prospection ; in charge of applications hosting infrastructures and implementation of a user support service
07/2001-05/2004 → zSlide
Multimedia Project Manager & CIO
- Team management of software developers working on new generation video game console projects (Playstation 2, Xbox), applications (instant messaging, video edition, media portal, etc.) specification and development (C/C++/UML)
- Information Systems Manager (2 team members): in charge of the internal servers, desktop computers, networks, security (firewall), development tools (version control, bug tracking, etc.)
- Led the Futuroscope Digital City giant Xbox network project (Futuroscope is a well-known French theme park based upon multimedia, cinematographic and audio-visual techniques of the future) ; about 150 game consoles were connected together with a custom-made central control application
09/1999-02/2001 → THEMIS Observatory - CNRS/INSU (French National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy) (Santa-Cruz, Spain)
System Engineer
- In charge of all Sun/HP/Linux servers and Windows PCs administration (~ 40 machines)
- Specification and development of an interface for real time telescope piloting, client (Java) / server (C/VxWorks) architecture
- Specification and development of a web application in PHP/MySQL to manage the observatory inventory
- Re-design of the observatory Internet web site
1997-1999 → Preparatory Classes PC* and TSI (Marcelin Berthelot and Raspail)
Teacher in Computer Sciences
Education
- 1996-1999 → Master of Science from École Centrale Paris (top French eng. school), major in Information Technology
- 1991-996 → Baccalauréat (A-level, major in sciences) and 2 years of courses to prepare the top French engineering school competition
Languages
- English: fluent
- Spanish: reading, writing, verbal: good
- German: reading, writing, verbal: basic
Computer Skills
- Programming: Asm x86/MIPS, Fortran, Pascal, Java, C/C++/C#/Objective-C, (X)HTML/CSS, PHP, SQL, UML, Design Patterns
- Development Tools: RCS, MS DevStudio, MS Project, Codewarrior, Borland Together, Rational Rose, Agile software development
- System Administration: Windows 9x/2000/XP, Unix (Solaris, Linux, OpenBSD)
- Real Time: VxWorks, QNX (in charge of the computer aspects for a robot participating in the E=M6 Robotic Cup)
- Digital Publishing: Quark Xpress, Adobe InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop
Personal Interests
Running and adventure racing (raid) in competition, mountaineering (in France and abroad), traveling (India, Costa-Rica, Iran, Tanzania, China…), photography