Nicolas Grevet
Ingénieur consultant, Orange France
Ten years passed since I first used a computer to create something. Since then, my own vision of this activity has changed a lot, from being a simple pastime to a full-time paid job. My own position also changed from being yet another developer to a junior software architect. Thanks to three years of apprenticeship, the awarding of two academic masters (bachelor equivalents) and two years of professional experience (including one in Canada) I've accumulated a great amount of interesting knowledge, both in project management and software development/architecture. I am now looking for another opportunity to put my skills up front for a motivating employer and face new challenges, whatever they might be. Because before being just my job, deep down this is what I truly like to do and I am prepared to move anywhere to find the perfect place to work.
7 contactsProviding framework experience to Orange Portals France employees regarding the restructuring of some of their products. Development and improvement of internal tools and participation in the maintenance and development of multimedia products (dailymotion, deezer, video on demand). Also technical audits of existing products.
2010 - 2011I joined Manwin Canada as a junior software architect to help them cope with an incredible growth. Reorganizing their internal tools and processes, creating an enterprise framework, a major international billing platform and miscellaneous tools and websites while being part of an international bilingual, dynamic and experienced team.
2008 - 2010Production of a complete DLC (downloadable content) for a triple-A American video game, consisting of an entirely new story. Trailer watched over 130,000 times and content downloaded over 200,000 times during the first three months. Praised by all of the original video-game fans, the industry and the press. Role of leader/coordinator, level-designer, webmaster and PR manager.
2008 - 2010Planning and then development of the foundations for the new company's extranet ‒an ultra-modular project planned for the long-run‒ and supervision of the following development. Also worked on a new enterprise level MVC framework à la Zend Framework or Symfony dedicated to all future in-house developments of the company.
2007 - 2008Realization of a geolocation system prototype using nothing but Wi-Fi wave analysis to try and locate itself. The objective was to make it lightweight in order to embed it inside some forklift terminals wandering in supermarket warehouses. Pioneering project in France which led to the launch of a technical audit and an ambitious follow-up project.
2007 - 2008Production of a free complete video game, translated into eleven languages and lasting approximately eight hours. The game was played, discussed, distributed and downloaded over a million times a year worldwide. Awarded third best free game of 2008 by the eminent American website ModDB.com and the German MTV channel.
2006 - 2008Work on a professional e-mailing and reporting/analysis platform. Created a project management and customer relationship management software and automated the creation of sales quotes. Creation of an application to manage the company's UNIX server farm (real time monitoring). Also helped with maintenance and installation of the company's 60 servers.
2006 - 2006Developed a dynamic and evolving e-commerce website for a french tour operator. Also responsible for quality assurance, project progress and tasks coordination. Also integration of various voice synthesis and text-to-speech (TTS) components. Interfacing these components with an artificial intelligence engine and a 3D avatar within a website.
2005 - 2005Development of an online shopping website for an automobile dealership with online selling and expedition plus stock management directly inside of the administration panel. Also clerk, auto-part reseller and webmaster of the aforementioned website. Development of a rough HTTP server in C to house parts of the project.