Guillaume Connan

48 - Married 59 St Pauls Avenue . London NW2 5SY Tel. +44 07392 201046 E-mail : [email protected] Website : http://informathix.tuxfamily.org

Summary - Mathematics Teacher and Head of Department I have been a highly skilled secondary teacher for 23 years (ranked 70th at the national level) and more recently I have been employed at Nantes University as Head of Department and Head of Year. I have been an In-service Trainer for 10 years. My personal qualities are : excellent academic knowledge, adaptability, creativity, self-motivation, great capacity for work, team building, visionary, open minded, able to maintain high quality standard, result oriented, broad general culture. After years of experience in France, I am very excited about working in your school where I will be able to make the most of my pedagogical and managerial qualities.

Professional experience — MATHS CONSULTANT - September 2017-Present I am developing Python libraries to simplify the modeling of high-speed metal forming for ICUBE research. — MATHS TEACHER - 2016-2017 - Lycée International Winston Churchill (London) — Teaching Maths to students of Year 9, 11, 12 ; — Implementing classroom activities and after school sessions which challenge more able pupils and which allow less able pupils to progress and to access the curriculum ; — Organisation of scientific conferences in London (Marc Raynaud, Vincent Borelli, Simon Plouffe, François Sauvageot, Roland Lehoucq) ; — Pi Day organisation ; — After school computing and further maths workshops ; — Organisation of after school sessions to help pupils with exam techniques ; — Creating a healthy classroom environment, to foster positive learning ; — Providing opportunities to all learners ; — Participating in workshops for UK curriculum professional development. — HEAD OF DEPARTMENT - HEAD OF YEAR / 2011 - 2016 / UNIVERSITY of Nantes — Creating and organising all the resources for the Maths team : curriculum planning and execution, lecture notes, exercises, assessments ; — Hiring and administrative monitoring of peripatetic teachers ; — Mentoring staff and students for better performance ; — Departmental website editor ; — Students monitoring : individual interviews, computerisation of students progress cards ; — Applicant selection ; — Teaching Discrete Maths, Algebra, Linear Algebra, Calculus, Probability ; — Teaching Structured Programming (C, Python), Functional Programming (Haskell - OCaml), Systems Architecture, Floating-Point Arithmetic, Database ; — Intensive undergraduate course in Maths and Computer Science ; — MEXPROTEC project : student exchange organisation with Mexican universities ; — Supervision and coordination of interns ; — Involvement in all co-curricular activities. — MATHS TEACHER - 1993-2011 - SECONDARY schools — Teaching Maths to students of Year 7 to 13 in eight different schools ; — Intensive undergraduate course in Maths and Computer Science ; — NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND EXAMINATION BOARDS — 2016-2017 Computer Science examiner - École Centrale de Paris (Engineering school of international renown) ; — 2014-2017 Mathematics and computer science examiner - National School for Agronomy ; — 2013-2014 Member of the National Curriculum Board for the New National Mathematics Syllabus in the Computer Science Departments ; — 2006-Present Member of the Research Institute for Mathematics Education I organised and took part to numerous In-service training sessions, talks, workshops for secondary maths teachers.

Skills — Programming languages : Python, SageMath, Scilab, Haskell, OCaml, XCAS, Scala, ADA, C, Turbo Pascal, Maple, LATEX, Java, PHP, JavaScript ; — Spoken languages : French (native language), English (French accreditation to teach Maths in English), Spanish (C2), Italian, German (B1) ; — Hobbies and interests — Drama : Author of two plays - comedian and teacher in a French drama school ; — Opera singer : Jupiter in « Orpheus in the Underworld » and Calchas in « La belle Hélène » - Jacques Offenbach ; — Music : Trombone player ; — Sport : Rugby player - WASPS Vets team (London) ; — Charitable organisation : Member of the board of Enfants Réfugiés du Monde (Refugee children of the world) ; — National Service : Sergeant in the Marine Troops (1994-1995). Parachute licence.

Publications List available on Publimath : http://publimath.irem.univ-mrs.fr/publimath.php?r=guillaume+connan&b=biblio — Published books — 2018 Visa pour la Prépa - Maths (Transition from A-Level to First year BSc Maths) ; — 2017 Mathematical Computation with Sagemath (Secondary - University) ; — 2016 Programmation en Python pour les Mathématiques (Programming and Mathematics with Python) ; — 2014 Mathématiques : Méthodes et Exercices en Prépa BCPST (Maths textbook - First Year Bsc) ; — 2008 Guide du calcul avec des logiciels libres (Programming and Mathematics with Free Softwares) ; — 2002 Simulateur de Khôlles de Maths (Maths textbook - First Year Bsc). — Articles As a member of the French Research Institute for Mathematics Education (Irem), I published tenths of articles in specialised journals. — Lecture notes Available on http://informathix.tuxfamily.org.

Education — Professeur agrégé of mathematics ranked 70th nationwide (2000) : an academic rank conferred by the French government on one who has passed a rigidly competition examination and who is therefore entitled to appointment to the highest teaching post in a Lycée or University - QTS ; — PGCE (IUFM of Nantes - 1993) ; — MSc Pure Maths (Université de Paris VII - 1991) ; — Erasmus year (University of Leeds - 1990) ; — BSc Computer Science (Université de Besançon - 2014) ; — Baccalauréat - Maths and Physics (Lycée Stanislas - Paris - 1986).

Personal details Guillaume Connan Born 3rd February 1969 59 St Pauls Avenue London NW2 5SY Tel. +44 07392 201046 E-mail : [email protected]