Victor Pillac
PhD Student at Ecole des Mines de Nantes
I am a French Ph.D. student at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France) and Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), in the area of transportation and computer science. My research interests go toward dynamic vehicle routing problems and the development of software packages to optimize the real-time routing of a fleet of vehicles.
I spent 22 months studying in Colombia, 6 months working in Australia and 3 in Canada, giving me a strong ability to adapt to different cultures and to fluently communicate in professional contexts in French, English and Spanish. I found the living and working abroad highly rewarding and I relish every opportunity to have such experiences.
I am quick-learning, autonomous and communicative, as I demonstrated in the project I carried out for Constraint Technologies, or during my PhD studies. I particularly enjoy managing projects and communicate on the results and applications, as I did for the 2007 Sustainable Development Trophies presenting the project in front of an audience composed of officials and executive directors. I also proved my ability to communicate complex concepts in other languages giving a seminar at the Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) on manpower planning optimization, or as a teaching assistant at the Universidad de Los Andes teaching a course in spanish on linear programming.
63 contacts2010 - 2010Full course responsibility of an undergraduate course in optimisation, 50-students lectures in Spanish, 2 45-hours semesters
2009 - 2009Design and implementation of a airline crew resource management optimizer aiming to find optimal hiring, promotion or cross-training strategy to minimise costs related to the introduction or withdrawals of aircraft in the fleet of an airline
Technologies: Xpress-Optimizer library, Swing
Languages: Java
2008 - 2008Development of Optime, the end-user application for the optimisation engine Coretex
Technologies: dotNet3.5, WPF, WCF, LINQ
Languages: C# & XAML
2007 - 2007– Audited the recycling units of the city of Nantes, France
– Analyzed the functioning of about 100 units and suggested improvements
– Wrote a professional report and presented recommendations to council experts
2007 - 2007–Developed a club management software package in Java using an embedded database, totaling 8000 lines of code
–This software has helped the club manager in the administration of his business and increased greatly the quality of his accounting
2007 - 2007Auditor for sustainable development trophies.
I visited 2 companies, observed, analyzed and synthesized their sustainable policy and presented a report to an expert committee
2006 - 2006– Two month work placement
– Analyzed manufacturing process to increase productivity and improve ergonomics
– Summarized and presented my results to management
– Provided an exhaustive list of improvements that lead to the enhancement of productivity, quality and employees welfare.