Xavier Lepaul - Engineer

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Professional experience

Since July 2007: Moody's Analytics (previously Fermat SAS) - Grenoble

Member of the Infrastructure team for the Fermat application. PL/SQL, PowerBuilder and C++ development.

March 2005 - June 2007: Amadeus Global Travel Distribution S.A. - Sophia-Antipolis

Contribution in the initial specification and development of a hotel central reservation platform.

• writing of the functional and technical specifications;
• initial set-up of the web UI of the product (Java/JBoss). In charge of the HTML/CSS design, the Java middleware and some Javascript/Ajax functionnalities;
• functionnal developments of some parts of the application: UI and C++ back-end.

March-June 2004: I3D team - INRIA Rhône-Alpes - Grenoble

Conception and development in C++ of tactile interaction metaphors for scientific data exploration in virtual environment.

Use of different virtual reality peripherals, including a workbench allowing for 3-dimensional visualisation, a localisation/force feedback system and a glove with hand position sensors and tactile feedback capabilities.

Summer 2003: CCSTI - Grenoble

Development in Java of didactic applications around sonic waves and sound, in the scope of an exhibition dedicated to children.

Summer 2002: Ugitech - Ugine

Refactoring of an Excel interface to an Access database.

Skills

Operating systems

Linux, Mac OS X, Windows.

Programming languages

Java, C++, Shell-Script, Oracle PL/SQL, PHP.

Database

Oracle (and PL/SQL), MySQL, SQLite.

Web technologies

Webwork, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (particularly the Prototype library).

Integrated development environment

Eclipse, Emacs, Visual Studio .NET, PowerBuilder.

Languages

French: mother tongue.

English: good skills.

German: basic notions.

Education

2001-2004

Engineering degree from the ENSIMAG (Grenoble, France), with a major in Image.

2003-2004

Master IVR (Image, Vision, Robotics).

1999-2001

Prep schools to the French Engineering High schools at the Lycée Champollion in Grenoble.

Interests

Music

14 years of musical practice. At first cello, then saxophone and hand drums.

Member of an improvised music band during 5 years.

Sports

Skiing, hiking, climbing.

Leisures

Jazz music, photography, computer science.