Curriculum Vitæ

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Notting Hill LONDON e-mail: sylvain@liegehomeRemoveFightSpam.com  Web: www.liegehome.com

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Liemur.co.uk - Object Oriented Technology, Methodology and Agile Process

Liemur.com - Technologie et Méthodologie Orientée Objet, Agile Process

Engineer Doctor in Computer Science

Senior Technical Consultant - Trainer

Object Oriented Approach

Main expert evaluation domains    Object Oriented Languages : Java, Smalltalk, VisualAge, Envy, Websphere Studio App. Dev.   Methodologies: OOA, OOD, UML, UP J2EE, JavaBeans , JUnit, XML, EJB, Servlet       Declarative Modeling (Automatique Generation of 2D and 3D scenes from a description)

Currently (since 11/2000)

  Senior Technical Consultant - Trainer at Valtech-UK London.

• Since 07/2001 :
  Senior Consultant - Trainer :
  • Delivery of:
    • Java and Object Design.
    • OOAD (Object Oriented Analysis and Design).
    • Technical Introduction to Java (The Java platform inside a distributed architecture).
    • Technical Introduction to XML (XML in the heterogeneous architectures).
  • Delivery of: tailored Jumpstart for the NHS Accord project (see below consultancy).
  • Pre-sale: Evaluation for the creation of a course for InStranet product.
  • Delivery of: tailored Object Oriented Analysis with UML and Unified Process jumpstart for Powergen.
  • Mentoring in "feeder team".
• 11/2000 - 05/2001:
  Consultant in the Architecture team of the NHS (English Social Security) Accord project. This project is at that time the largest Java project in Europe.
  • Study of different patterns for defining easy to extend JavaBeans. The goal was to define the most easy to use, generic and extendable way to create new components in the project. Implementation of one of the solutions suggested.
  • Code review.
  • Study of a generic first level testing protocol for the beans provided by the team.
  • Study of the JUnit framework.
• Attended courses:
  • Unified Process (Valtech).
  • J2EE (Valtech).

Professional experiences

	11/1999 - 10/2000 : Consultant at  LabTech in Nantes (France). Activity in the Object Modelling Team. Courses creation and Teaching object technology: The Object approach; Smalltalk an Object language; Smalltalk vs. Java; The JVM; XML a Meta language. Modeling and realization in Java of a settlement date framework for an insurance company. OOA and OOD in UML (Rational Rose) for a new project about internal formation for France Telecom. Definition, ergonomic study and realization of a prototype (in Smalltalk VisualAge V5). The project has to be done with Java. Study and realisation of a prototype in Java for Websphere server and EJB technology. Professional training: Rational Rose (Rational training)
	Engineer at Decan-CS (now Getronics-Decan). 4/1998 - 10/1999 : Technical responsible for object modeling (OOA and OOD) on a sub-project in Retraites Unies's Convergence project. Member of the executive staff. This project consists in rewriting a complete software system for 3 pension companies which will merge in only 1. This is done in Smalltalk (Visualworks) with Envy. Project's size: 10 000 man/days. 1/1997 - 3/1998 : Smalltalk Development (VisualWorks) Envy, on the Mutuelles du Mans Assurances’ project SIGMMA. In the SIGMMA logical architecture team : definition and creation of generic tools for the printing part of the project. These tools allow defining et assembling the paper version of the insurance contracts from the system data.
	1996 - 2000 : Internet Consulting and Development In collaboration with Idée d'Image, a company specialized in multimedia products and Internet servers, I advised and participated to the realisation of interactive sites by developing new functionalities in JAVA, ASP or CGI and by technological development monitoring. Realizations for: La Poste France Telecom Samo Les Mutuelles de Loire-Atlantique La DRIRE CERMA (Research laboratory of the Ecole d'Architecture de Nantes)
	1993 - 1998 Associated teacher at Sciences Com’ Teaching for B.S. and M.S. Creation of multimedia products with students specialized in communication science. (cf. §Teaching ).

Education

Research and Development

Teaching

Computer Science

Certifications - Accreditations

• Certification SUN Java programer 1.4
• Certification SUN Trainer for Java SL 275.

Publications

• Sylvain Liège, Gérard Hégron, "Modélisation Déclarative Guidée, Application à la génération de tracés urbains." in Deuxièmes journées de l'Association Française d'Informatique Graphique 1994.
• Sylvain Liège, Gérard Hégron, "A Declarative Methode for Urban Layout Modelling" dans les actes de Compugraphics'95 Fourth International Conference on Computational Graphics and Visualization Techniques, December 1995, Portugal.
• Sylvain Liège, Gérard Hégron, "An Interactive Declarative Modelling for Urban Layout Design" Rapport interne, 96-2-INFO, Janvier 1996, Ecole des Mines de Nantes.
• S. Liège, G. Hégron, "An incremental declarative modelling applied to urban layout design",  Actes de WSCG'97, Plizen, février 1997.

Languages

•  French : - mother language.
• English : - fluent: working and teaching IT in London since november 2000.
• Hungarian : - more than one year spent in Hungary. Every day language.
• German : - academic notions (studied 5 years at school but never practiced).

Extra-professional Activities

• Œnology : Founder President of œnologic clubs: www.domeaflavour.com.
• History: Readings of historical books most of my free time.
• Languages: I wish to learn more languages.
• Arts :
  • Photography for 15 years : from shooting to laboratory.
  • Harmonica.
• Miscellaneous :
  • Tank fishing for 15 years.
  • French Billard.

To contact me: sylvain@liegehomeRemoveFightSpam.com 

You can get my CV in english in Word format

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Last update: 16th April 2003