Senior Software Engineer

Skills

Skills scope:

Experienced in the whole software lifecycle: requirements analysis, specification, architecture, design, implementation, integration, unit and integration testing, packaging and delivery, deployment, maintenance, evolution, user support, documentation. Experienced in providing technical expertise to IT colleagues.

Web Development:

Good experience developing in PHP, excellent skills in hand coding HTML and XHTML in a text editor, good CSS, XML and XML Schema, Ajax / Web 2.0 / Java experience with GWT, little CGI-Perl, RSS and microformats, good experience of working to W3C standards, interested in accessibility and search engine optimization (i.e. driving traffic, web positionning)

Programming:

Excellent knowledge of Perl. Solid working experience in PHP. Good Java (J2SE). Little JavaScript and C. Good Fortran.

Operating systems:

First class experience in working on UNIX platforms (Linux Slackware, Mandrake, Red Hat and Fedora, OpenBSD, AIX, Sun/Solaris, ULTRIX. GNU/Linux on the desktop. Software compilation and installation. Basic administration). Little Windows 3.1/NT/98SE/XP/2000/ME.

Database/Directory:

LDAP (openLDAP), JavaDB (Apache Derby).

Development tools:

xlf, ifc, g77 and gcc compilers. make/Makefile. RPM and CPAN packaging. CVS and Subversion source control tools. gdb and ddd debuggers. strace. Ftnchek analyzer. W3C's HTML and CSS validators. Perltidy. PhpWiki and Zope/Plone documentation databases.

Design tools:

UML modeling with Eclipse/Topcased, Microsoft Visio

Bug tracking system:

Mantis.

Languages:

French (mother tongue), technical English, non-technical Italian. Several stays in England (Bournemouth), Australia (Melbourne) and Italy (Roma, Torino, Firenze, Pisa, Napoli and Venezia). Used to reading and writing english technical documents.

Experience

Senior software engineer

Company:

Intrasoft International

Project:

OPOCE e-documents archiving systems

Programming:

Perl, Java

Environment:

Sun/Solaris, Windows XP

Software Engineer

Company:

For Atos Origin, at Amadeus (Sophia-Antipolis, France)

Project:

Development environment tools

Programming:

Perl, Shell, Java, Ruby On Rails

Environment:

Linux SLES 9 and SLES 10, Sun/Solaris, AIX, Windows XP

In the context of a SLA, my team is in charge of maintaining, enhancing and supporting all the tools used by the teams working on Amadeus PSP department business code (travel booking systems):

• the large number of Perl and shell scripts that manage the compilation of candidate releases on various target hosts, that check the integrity and quality of the delivered business code, and manage its publishing in the version control system after validation,
• the Ruby on Rails web application managing the releases cycle flow
• the Java software in charge of the non-regression tests on the department business code,
• the Zope/Plone CMS in charge of the department technical documentation, the bug tracking system (Mantis), the version control system (CVS), the tool that automates the department business code compilation (QuickBuild), the software debugging and optimization tools (Insure and Purify), etc.

My work was divided in two parts:

Maintenance, evolution and user support (15%):

I participated in the team-managed tools maintenance and user support activities: debugging of the tools on production systems, problem solving.

Releasing tools re-engineering project (85%):

As a Perl expert, I was mainly involved in the Perl and Shell releasing tools re-engineering project. Hands-on contributor in:

• business requirements analysis (with the client's functional and quality teams),
• technical specification (proposal of a full Perl, object-oriented solution, etc.),
• software architecture solutions proposals to the client's Architects (taking into account functional and non functional requirements, ensuring compliance with the client's architectural standards and processes and ensuring all stakeholders' interests are considered),
• design,
• Perl development "Best Practices" setting up in my team,
• setting up of a standard log report strategy using Log4perl,
• code documentation standards setting up (POD),
• direct involvement in development and integration efforts,
• unit and integration tests setting up and implementation,
• client delivery processes setting up (CPAN packages),
• packaging and delivery,
• deployment on client site,
• formalization and documentation of all set up standards and processes.

Perl and PHP Developer

Company:

Alcatel-Lucent, Linux Research and Development Team (Sophia-Antipolis, France)

Project:

Extended Communication Server, Eye-Soft v3.14, v4.0 and v4.1

Programming:

Perl, PHP

Environment:

Linux Red Hat 7.3 and Fedora Core 4

Alcatel-Lucent's Extended Communication Server is an easy-to-configure internet appliance designed for SMBs. It provides deployment and management tools for the corporate network (Wifi, etc.), a shared and secured internet access, mobility solutions (VPN, mobile virtual office, etc.) and collaborative applications (webmail, shared web calendar, shared contact list, etc.).

• Designed, developed, maintained and updated the (PHP) GUI and (Perl) system scripts of the Backup/Restore feature.
• Maintained and updated the GUI and system scripts of the following server features: Firewall (iptables), Proxy cache (Squid), Web access control, Black and White lists
• Developed and maintained the GUI and system scripts of the following server features: Remote proxy, QoS
• Integrated a third-party web content filtering tool (Optenet).
• Updated the GUI scripts of the following server features: Port redirection rules, PPTP and VPN.
• Cleaned up and rewrote on my own initiative much of the front end HTML, and also rewrote the perl code in order to use the Net::LDAP API instead of the obsolete Mozilla::LDAP API.

Software Test Engineer

Company:

M-Smartcom (Sophia-Antipolis, France)

Project:

Wellphone test

Programming:

Perl

Environment:

Windows 98SE/XP/2000/ME

Wellphone is a software that provides an internet access to any PC/Mac/PPC/Palm by using a mobile phone (with a serial, USB, irDA or bluetooth connection) as a modem. Wellphone also enables to control a mobile phone (send SMS, manage the contacts list, etc...) from a PC/Mac/PPC/Palm.

• Updated the test cases list
• Scripted on my own initiative some test processes (Perl/Win32::GuiTest)
• Bugtracking : tested the software on several operating systems, with different mobile phones and different connections

Perl Developer

Company:

Geneva Observatory (Switzerland)

Project:

Scientific computation tools

Programming:

Perl

Environment:

SUN/Solaris, Linux cluster

• Customized and maintained a perl script dedicated to manage the execution of a scientific software
• Monitored the computational software execution

Perl and Fortran Developer

Company:

LAOG (Grenoble, France)

Project:

Scientific software and relative tools

Programming:

Perl, Fortran

Environment:

UNIX network (AIX, Linux, OpenBSD), Linux clusters

• Designed, developed and integrated a module in a scientific software used by several teams in Europe.
• Extended three modules of this software
• Designed and developed on my own initiative:
  • Perl tools to manage the scientific software:
    • A Makefile generation tool in order to be able to compile the software on the platforms used by the different teams (Linux Mandrake, AIX, OpenBSD)
    • A software execution management tool that was designed to ensure the integrity of the data read, produced and saved during network traffic perturbations
  • Perl tools dedicated to process and display the results produced by the scientific software
  • a Perl WYSIWYG tool for automatically processing and viewing LaTeX documents
• Monitored the computational software execution (each computation could last up to several months with 3GHz CPUs)

Co-Webmaster

Company:

CIES (Grenoble, France)

Project:

CIES website

Programming:

CGI-Perl

Environment:

UNIX (OpenBSD, FreeBSD)

• Implemented new features in CGI-Perl scripts dedicated to online polls

Perl and Fortran Developer

Company:

LAOG (Grenoble, France)

Project:

Extension of the computation validity range of a scientific software

Programming:

Perl, Fortran

Environment:

UNIX (AIX, Linux)

• Analyzed a scientific software in order to decide which new design would be more relevant for the new features to be implemented
• Developed the required modifications
• Designed and developed on my initiative Perl tools to generate the scientific software input data
• Monitored the computational software execution

C Developer

Company:

LAOG (Grenoble, France)

Project:

Scientific software (Galaxy model)

Programming:

C

Environment:

UNIX (AIX, Ultrix)

• Designed and developed a scientific software in C

Perl Batch Scripts Developer

Company:

LAOG (Grenoble, France)

Project:

Scientific computation tools

Programming:

Perl

Environment:

UNIX (AIX)

• Designed and developed Perl batch scripts dedicated to run a scientific software
• Monitored the computational software execution

C programmer

Company:

LAOG (Grenoble, France)

Project:

Scientific software (Young stars disk model)

Programming:

C

Environment:

UNIX (AIX)

• Contributed to the development of a C module, part of a large scientific software

Perl Developer

Company:

None (Free time)

Project:

Nutrition software

Programming:

Perl

Environment:

Linux Slackware

• Created a nutritionnal database
• Designed and developed a software that helps to improve lunches nutritional equilibrium.

Education and Qualifications

Gwenaëlle Leclair

Creation:

Mon Jan 12 2004 18:00:00 CET

Last update:

Fri Jan 02 19:27:15 CEST 2009

leclair "at" caoua.org