5, rue de la Trésorerie 73000 Chambéry FRANCE
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[email protected] Web (in French) : http://cdebast.free.fr French, single, driving license Date Of Birth : September, 2nd 1974
Christophe de Bast Objectives I am seeking a challenging position as a manager of a team of developers in a dynamic, technical and international environment, with possibilities to work abroad closer to the customer.
Key words GSM mobile phones, team management, daily high-pressure management due to tough consumer project market driven, multi-project scheduling, low resource optimizations, real time embedded C application development for mobile phones, jtag and GCC debug, PC tools and user interface specifications, MVC structures, SVN/SVT tools. ETSI specifications (SS, STK, SIM, SMS, USSD, CB...), WAP, imode.
Professional experience Sep. 2001 until today – Purple Labs – Le Bourget du Lac, France Position: Software Team Leader of the Application Team - Team management o Up to 10 people management o Weekly team meetings for general communication purposes o Individual follow up and short, medium, long term targets o Weekly reporting to upper management o Appraisals and salary reviews o Deeply involved in hiring processes - Technical achievements o Application development (messaging, progressive download development, menu library and data base architecture specifications) o Application architecture in both a RT Linux and proprietary OS o General support to team members (C issues, software architecture advices and choices) - Projects o Up to 30 different models (from low to high tier phones), i-mode, WAP, multimedia phones o Workshop with customers to define application features or graphical interfaces o Complex development scheduling, tracking, with limited resources Jan. 2000 to Sep. 2001 – Sensei Limited / Vtech Mobile – Aylesbury, UK Position: MMI Team Leader - Team management o See above - Technical achievements o Application development (Editors, developed a proprietary predictive text input algorithm, messaging and phonebook applications, VCard parser, supplementary services, Tetris, PC tools, ...) o Layer 3 external stack stabilization (for phonebook, messaging and SS) o PC tool specifications for graphical engine, including touch screen targets, resource file management (icons, prompts) - Projects o Black and white standard phones, grey scale touch screen phone, first WAP phones
Feb. 1999 to Feb. 2000 – Altran UK, London for Sensei Limited, Aylesbury, UK Position: developer Worked as a consultant for Sensei Limited, until the customer hired me to get to higher team responsibilities. See above. May 1998 to Feb. 1999 – Altran Technologies, Paris for Alcatel Mobile, Colombes, France Position: developer Development of a code maker tool to generate C source files compiled for Alcatel new phones, in order to parse and easily add new AT commands Jun.1996 to Aug. 1997 – Sagem Mobile Division, Cergy St Christophe, France Position: Full time 14 month training in the software team as a developer - AT command tool to backup / restore mobile phones in after sale repairs - Fax inside data management embedded in handsets - Minitel data parsing and user inputs for white and yellow pages
Skills Language : 8 years of embedded C development for RT OS, basic of C++ (school only) OS : Proprietary OS, RT Linux Tools : SVN, GCC, scons/nmake, Valgrind, Visual C++, Microsoft Project Team management
Education 1994 to 1998 - ESME Sudria, (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique) - Paris Majoring in Telecommunications and Networking Trainings : - 1996 to 1997 : Sagem (see professional experience above) - June 94 to Sept. 94 : SPS Proteg – Nantes - (Security systems for buildings) 1992 to 1994 – Preparatory years to high french engineer schools – Lycée St Joseph – La Roche/Yon – Option Math (Maths Spé) 1992 : Baccalauréat C – Externat des Enfants Nantais – Nantes
Languages French : fluent (mother tongue) English : fluent (Lived and worked 2.5 years in the UK, several business and personal trips) German : basic notions
Interests and others Trips : New-Zealand, USA, Brazil, Venezuela, UK, Hungary, Estonia, Finland, Spain Sport : Swimming, ski, sailing, tennis, squash, rugby (watching) Other : DIY, computing, internet, games, socializing with friends, scout leader
