Curriculum Vitae

Career Summary
Manage a team of passionate developers building one of the first Travel Review Portals for general public (B2C) in France and professionals around the world (B2B). Work confidently in a multi-cultural environment involving individuals with different backgrounds. Act as facilitator between the technical team and other departments while providing innovative solutions for their needs. Possess in-depth knowledge of the web and several related technologies. Supervise and liaise with outsourcing companies and consultants for implementation of new projects.

Skills

• Leadership and Supervising abilities
• More than 7 years proven programming skills with assets such as : OOD, Enterprise Design Patterns, implementing complex web applications
• Strong experience in ASP.NET (C#) building tailor-made products with high performance and scalability aspects
• Proficient in PHP and MySQL, implementing solutions using WordPress and CodeIgniter
• Self-Starter with a continuous improvement mindset
• Speak and Write English & French fluently : Give presentation to team and department head
• Pragmatic, Outgoing and Ambitious

Experience

Responsibilities and Achievements

• Manage a team of developers using tools and techniques such as Issue Tracking and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Develop web applications ranging for medium to high complexity with ASP.NET(C#) and SQL Server using Enterprise Design Patterns (S.O.L.I.D Principles)
• Provide innovative solutions for other departments that are cost efficient and delivered within plan schedules
• Overview SEO techniques devised by the Marketing Department, by validating the implementation with major search engine guidelines
• Perform profile filtering and job interview with potential recruits for Technical Department
• Conduct training with team members on aspects such as Increasing Productivity, Keeping Focus, Time Management and Reporting with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Design a tool using SSIS for importing and processing third party data feed (XML, TXT or CSV) to our database
• Setup a process improvement strategy for departmental head to increase communication efficiency using shared documents and regular brief each week
• Increased application performance by threefold, by implementing database tuning, code review with refactoring and optimizing server configurations
• Devised a solution giving 70% to 100% precision for data matching using Distance Algorithm
• Initiated an optimized communication channel within the technical team that allowed visibility of tasks and achievements of other teammates and increased direct interaction among each other
• Successfully recruited talented individuals for Technical Team

Skills, Environment and Tools

Languages: .NET(2.0/4.0), ASP.NET (MVC), C#, T-SQL, PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (JQuery)
Tools: Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SSIS, SVN, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office
Environment: Windows Server, IIS

Responsibilities and Achievements

• Assisted in the UAT (User acceptance testing) process for the roll out of a new BizTalk pilot project at the client site, by ensuring that modules created in C# are working optimally
• Developed custom C# module for BizTalk to interact between the client legacy system and the new pilot application
• Successfully solved all issues found during UAT, before the roll out of the pilot to production environment

Skills, Environment and Tools

Languages: .NET(2.0), C#
Tools: Visual Studio, BizTalk
Environment: Windows Server

Responsibilities and Achievements

• Worked in the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) team to create transfer mapping for data from OLTP to OLAP database using Informatica and Siebel tools
• Developed and documented custom Siebel extension mappings not available in Siebel Core application that enabled specific data from customer databases to be processed
• Increased performance of SQL Queries using Indexes and query optimization techniques to handle processing of several millions records of Fact and Dimension tables
• Tested and validated ETL mappings before roll out to production environment
• Implemented a mechanism using Flat File and PHP to migrate data from legacy OLAP database to new one

Skills, Environment and Tools

Languages: T-SQL, PHP
Tools: Microsoft SQL Server, Siebel, Informatica Tools
Environment: Windows Server

Responsibilities and Achievements

• Created High Level Design (HLD) document by gathering facts and specification with the client
• Designed UML (Sequence Diagram) based on HLDs for the development process
• Developed an ASP.NET Front-End using SOA framework in a team of 3 developers

Skills, Environment and Tools

Languages: ASP.NET, C#, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Tools: Visual Studio, Oracle, Toad, ACA.NET
Environment: Windows Server

Responsibilities and Achievements

• Worked on different .NET projects for TheCodingMachine.com online development platform with different group of developers around the world; Tasks to be completed were delivered through detailed specification and project skeleton
• Created a .NET module to merge multiple JPG/PDF files into a single PDF with table of content for archiving purposes
• Designed and implemented a custom CMS for a client using CodeIgniter

Skills, Environment and Tools

Languages: .NET(1.1/2.0), C#, SQL, PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (JQuery)
Tools: Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, SVN, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse, MySQL
Environment: Windows Server, Linux Share Hosting

Training and Awards

Academics

Interest

Travelling, Water Sports, High Tech Gadgets, New Technologies, Sailing, Trekking, Abseiling, Martial Arts, Learn something new.
Blog: http://www.wacdesigns.com

References

LinkedIn Profile: http://mu.linkedin.com/in/jeanfrancoist

Other references available upon request