Victor Nicollet

Born 19/04/1985
http://www.nicollet.net / victor@nicollet.netThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
+336 31 11 45 45, Paris 75012

Skills

• Project management: project preparation, pre-sales, team management, Agile development, Test-First and Test Driven Development, Scrum process.

• Software design: object-oriented (Design Patterns, Model/View/Controller), aspect-oriented, pure functional style, procedural style. UML2 modelling.

• Programming languages: C++ (STL, boost), Objective Caml, PHP (Zend Framework), XML/XSL, XHTML/CSS, Javascript (jQuery), SQL, C, CUDA 1.0 (et ISA PTX). Experience in C# (ASP.NET 2.0), Java. Knowledge of LaTeX 2e.

• Domain knowledge: content management systems, compiler design, massive SIMD optimization, algorithmic vision and pattern matching, video game design, e-Commerce, workflows, type-setting. Certified Alfresco Developer (December 2008)

• Software suites: LAMP administration, Ubuntu/Debian/Windows XP/Windows Vista, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, SVN/CVS, emacs.

• Languages: French, English, elementary Romanian.

Professional experience

• Tangane, April 2008–Now: technology forecasting, Open Source expert, project manager.

• Lycée Louis le Grand, January 2006–Now: teaching assistant, programming courses in the Caml Light language, in Classes Préparatoires.

• Paris School of Economics, March 2007–April 2008: PHP/SQL development, internet and intranet security expert.

• int13 productions, September 2003–November 2004: lead programmer for the video game Darklaga : Cannonball Symphony

Other experience

• Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, June 2007-Novembrer 2007: R&D internship, GPGPU optimisation of financial derivatives using CUDA.

• Exalead, June 2005-August 2005: R&D internship, creation of an automatic web site classification system.

• NGrid, 2005: development of a better-performing alternative to the default .NET and Mono serialization processes, for the NGrid open source grid computing solution.

Education

• Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2004-2008, Computer Science and Economics.

• Master Parisien de Recherche en Informatique, Computer Science, ENS/Paris VII, 2006-2007.

• Master Analyse et Politiques Economiques, Economics and Finance, ENS/EHESS/ENSAE, 2005-2007.

• Licence de Mathématiques, Mathematics, ENS/Paris VII, 2004-2005.

Other activities

• Contributed articles to game development books Beginning Game Programming (ISBN 1-59863-805-X) and Design and Content Creation (ISBN 1-59863-808-4), both published in 2009.

• Improvisational theater with the N’Improtequoi student association, since 2007 (and secretary of the association in 2008-2009).

• Member of the party sound and lighting team of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, from 2006 to 2008.

• Member of GameDev.Net since 2002, using the nickname ToohrVyk, ranked best non-moderator member of the forums in september 2008 and author of two articles.

• Author of the Nicollet.Net Blog.