People at Gna!: Nicolas Dufour Resume & Skills
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Resume
Nicolas Dufour
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FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
System & network administration on heterogeous platforms,
Development in Air Traffic Control domain.
EDUCATION
1998 University Paris VI : MA Computer Science/Geoscience.
1995 University Paris VII : BA Geochemistry/Geophysics.
1993 University Paris VII : BA Biology.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
OPERATING SYSTEMS:
Hurd, Linux, Solaris 2.x, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.x, Windows (3.x, 9x, NT4, 2000, XP), MacOS X.
HARDWARE:
Sun/HP Workstation/Server, PC, Mac.
LANGUAGES:
C/C++, Java, Perl, Assembly, Python, Tcl/Tk, Shell Script, PHP, SQL, HTML, XML, Javascript, Pascal, Fortran 77, Modula, Ada, Ruby, OCAML, C#.
METHODOLOGY:
UML, design patterns, object/aspect oriented development, AI and genetic algorithms.
NETWORK:
Ethernet, ATM (LAN/WAN), TCP/IP, voice-on-IP, video-on-demand, routers/firewalls.
DATABASES:
Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL..
APPLICATIONS:
Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Gimp, Premiere, Visual Studio.
EXPERIENCE
October 2003 - present: AFT development for NeoMetSYS.
Intern - Maastricht demo preparation.
- Finding common notions between American and European systems to translate European data for FSM.
- Conception/development of the OPLOG (European log file) parser & ADL File generator.
- Add Jupiter file & ADT file generators.
- Data sets preparation for the Maastricht convention.
February 2003 - October 2003: Intern network administration for NeoSYS.
Intern - Network infrastructure improvement with new geographical locations (La Seyne sur Mer and Toulouse offices).
- Setting up of firewall/VPN router, intranet web server, DHCP server (studying specifications, architecture conception, installation, configuration, test & support).
October 2002 - February 2003: Technical survey in USA for NeoSYS.
Intern - Technical survey.
- Comparative study of present middlewares.
- "Linux World Expo" convention participation at New York (conception, development & project support).
- Study report written.
April 1999 - October 2002: Eurocontrol EEC for NeoSYS.
TACOT project within 'Performance, Flow, Economy' department: Install and maintain the simulation platform TACT of CFMU (Central Flow Management Unit), provide support on ATFM (Air Traffic Flow Management) operational studies.
- TACT system installation and configuration.
- Simulations showing the relevance of a new parameter created to improve the slot allocation compute (definition, data preparation and data processing).
- Conception and development of data preparation tools and sectorization editor (HMI, algorithms).
- Development and integration of a TACT plugin.
November 1998 - January 1999: SNCF for Optium Ingénieurie.
Brehat system (RER wagons localization server) setting up within infrastructure department.
- Test, configuration and integration of several new developed modules by SNCF.
May 1998 - November 1998: Schlumberger.
Intern - System administration.
- Oil research application suite (Geoframe) installation, maintenance and support.
April 1997 - April 1998: Eurocontrol EEC.
Intern responsibilities within "Telecom & Networking" and "Environment" departments.
- Evaluation of a new multimedia platform through an ATM network (voice, video, data).
- Sun workstation on Solaris installation.
- Setting up ATM network line between Paris and Brussels.
- Voice, video and data flow optimization.
- Intranet applications development in Perl (simulations planning and information center).
1996: Institut Francais du Pétrole.
Intern responsibilities within seismic data management department.
- Fortran application (AG3D) migration from a vectorial platform to a parallel platform for managing seismic data.
OTHER
OpenSource project contributor.
Zynot Linux - http://www.zynot.org/
- New Linux distribution, still in development ; first version scheduled for 2004.
- Contribution to the new package manager Xeta.
- Development of GUI of Xeta.
Opale - http://opale.tuxfamily.org/
- Mathematical Java library, providing help to scientists with various mathematical objects (2d manipulation, differential equation solving, matrix manipulation and 3d objects).
- Brought expertise in system integration (ant building).
- Conception/development of a new module to handle graphs in preparation.
- Document translations.
- Webmaster.
Skills
| Skill | Level | Experience |
|---|---|---|
| Ada | Base Knowledge | < 6 Months |
| Antlr | Base Knowledge | < 6 Months |
| ATM | Good Knowledge | < 6 Months |
| Corba | Base Knowledge | < 6 Months |
| Fortran | Base Knowledge | < 6 Months |
| Gtk+ | Base Knowledge | < 6 Months |
| Python | Base Knowledge | < 6 Months |
| PHP | Good Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |
| C++ | Master | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| CVS | Good Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| Firewall | Good Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| GNU/Hurd | Good Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| LaTeX | Base Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| MySQL | Good Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| PostgreSQL | Good Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| Tcl/Tk | Base Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| UML | Good Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| VPN | Good Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| XML | Good Knowledge | 2 yr - 5 yr |
| C | Master | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| Ethernet | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| GNU/Linux | Master | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| HTML | Master | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| Java | Master | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| Pascal | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| PERL | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| Shell | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| SQL | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| TCP/IP | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
