Damien Debin Curriculum Vitæ de Damien Debin, Master of Science (MSc) of Centrale Paris in Computer Science and Networks

Damien DEBIN

32 years old, French nationality

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11/2007-Now → Telecom Italia France / Free SAS (Paris, France)

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 (Paris, France)

Responsible for following up projects, architecture and development (C#, .NET, SQL with 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 (Paris, France)

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)

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

1999 → Business Objects (Paris, France)

Specification and development in Visual C++ of a CORBA module for dynamic load balancing of Windows NT server clusters running WebIntelligence

1998 → Technical University of Ostrava (Ostrava, Czech Republic)

During two months as a researcher assistant in the metallurgy department, I conducted some experiments on metal corrosion (Internship)

1998–1999 → École Centrale Paris (Châtenay-Malabry, France)

Creation and organization of the first Raid Total Centrale, an adventure race for students and companies (150 competitors during 4 days)

1998–1999 → École Centrale Paris (Châtenay-Malabry, France)

Creation and presidency of the first Investing Club of École Centrale Paris

1997–1999 → Preparatory Classes (Saint-Maur des Fossés and Paris, France)

Professor in Computer Sciences (Algorithm, Maple V, Pascal)

1996–1999 → Master of Science from École Centrale Paris (top French eng. school)
Major in Information Technology (Châtenay-Malabry, France)
1991–1996 → Baccalauréat (A-level, major in sciences) and 2 years of courses to prepare the top French engineering school competition (Nantes, France)

Programming: Asm x86/MIPS, Fortran, Pascal, Java, C/C++/C#, (X)HTML/CSS, XSL-FO, PHP, SQL, UML, Design Patterns
Development Tools: RCS, MS DevStudio, MS Project, Codewarrior, Borland Together, Rational Rose
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

Running and adventure racing (raid) in competition, mountaineering (in France and abroad), traveling (India, Costa-Rica, Iran, Tanzania, China...), photography, photoblogging (author and webmaster of paris.photobloggers.org and photoaddiction.net)