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Xavier Briand

Currently Developers' team leader at Sensio Labs, and Web & mobile developer (Founding partner) at Freegli.com.

Actively seeking full-time position from july 2012 in Toronto, Ontario Canada.

My speciality is designing and developing web applications with Open Sources technologies. I'm fully proficient with PHP 5.3, Symfony2 framework [1], on a Linux/MacOs environment with a keyboard and a Vim editor.

I'm working on e-commerce and search engine issues, Soap/Rest webservices (as server and client), and application scalability (uncoupling, optimisation, cache, replication, data partitioning, sharding, load balancing, failover, ...).

I have a significant experiences as lead developer, trainer, coach, and also in management of macro and micro planning, and HR (management, recruitment, career manager).

Otherwise I'm learning Python.

  • Macro and micro planning management (Project, Gantt)
  • POO PHP 5.3, framework MVC symfony 1.x and Symfony2
  • ORM Doctrine1&2, Propel, Pomm
  • Soap/Rest Webservices
  • Web accessibility and standards, SEO
  • Web server administration
  • Objective-C, Cocoa, iOs

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Experience

★ Developers' Team Leader @ SensioLabs

from july 2011 to july 2012 Paris, France

About the company

Sensio Labs is a specialist in open source and creator of the PHP framework Symfony. Sensio Labs offers a wide range of services around Symfony 1 & 2. (80+ employees, 11M€ revenue)

Planning and HR (aka developers) management.

Missions:

  • Department organization

    My daily work consists in improving internal communication, training and leading over 10+ developers, and managing macro and micro planning in coordination with training and consulting departments.

  • Internal tools development/setup

    Development of a web application to manage the teams' planning (in Symfony2, Doctrine2). Setting up the development environment with Git, Gitolite and Gitweb for SCM, Jenkins for continuous testing and Sonar for code metrics. Application's deployment is standardized with Fabric python script and Run Deck application.

  • Project coaching

    I give a hand to project managers by bootstrapping, monitoring and debriefing projects.

Keywords:

HR, management, MSProject, Gantt, Redmine, Symfony2, Git, Gitolite, Twig,
Solr

★ Web & mobile developer (Founding partner) @ Freegli.com

founded in november 2010 Paris, France

About the company

Freegli.com is a daily mobile game service : Every day, at 10:10am, Freegli.com gives you a mobile game became free.

Mission

I'm the "technical guy" of the startup. I develop and enhance a web application which is a business backend as well as a web frontend and a data provider for mobile applications.

I develop PHP components like interfaces for iTunes Store and Apple Push Notification Service. See my github repo.

Keywords:

Startup, project management, Symfony2, Doctrine2, PostgreSQL, scalability,
MySQL, Git, Rest webservice, web mobile, Objective-C, Cocoa

★ PHP5 Symfony Web Developer @ SensioLabs & Extreme Sensio

from june 2009 to july 2011 Paris, France

About the company

Extreme Sensio advises and assists brands in deploying digital strategies creative, innovative and sustainable, built around ROI goals.

Projects:

  • La Plateforme du bâtiment - Saint-Gobain (8 months)

    Lead developer

    A e-commerce website connected to an information system and a data provider for the mobile application. Complex checkout process with availability computing according to many factor (availability, distance, origin, ...)

    Keywords:

    Symfony2, Doctrine2, Soap Server/client webservices, paybox, Gmap API
    
  • MyEvian - Evian (3 months)

    Third party maintenance.

    Keywords:

    Magento, UPS webservices
    
  • Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau (14 months)

    Third party maintenance.

    Setted up versioning and deployment process for a high traffic web site.

    Created from scratch of a search engine, an e-commerce module and add-ons to markdown parser.

    Keywords:

    symfony1, propel, ecommerce, search engine, load balancing, super cache,
    SVN, lexing, parsing, stemming
    
  • And:

    • Symfony coaching, Symfony2 and PHP OOP trainer (~4 trainings per year with 6+ trainnees)
    • 5+ marketing websites (Sodiaal, St-Hubert, Virbac,...) in symfony1.4 and doctrine1.2

Keywords:

PHP5, symfony, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SVN, Trac, Git, Redmine, Twig

★ PHP5 Symfony Web Developer (founding partner) @ Communiquez Plus

from january 2008 to may 2009 Reims, France

About the company

Communiquez-Plus is a communication agency working for SOHO/SME.

In charged of digital media and specifically the Internet part.

Projects:

  • Candissime

    Japanese/French deluxe candy ecommerce website.

    Keywords:

    symfony1.2, i18n, l10n, propel, mysql, SIPS payment
    
  • And:

    Drupal, Magento, Server management running on Fedora and CentOS, Domain name management, DNS, e-mail, e-mailing.

Keywords:

WAMP, Eclipse PDT, SVN, symfony1.2, Drupal, Magento, personnal framework,
javascript, prototypeJS, mootools

★ PHP5 Symfony Web Developer @ Apsides Communication

from december 2006 to january 2009 Reims, France

About the company

Apsides Communication is a communication agency working with pharmacy group.

Projects:

  • EasyPOP-Santé

    Implemented a video sequence organizer for advertising management with rich interface and browser compatibility issues

    Keywords:

    symfony1, prototypeJS
    
  • And:

    Refactored PHP4 web sites: Web gate, e-business, static web site, ...

    Keywords:

    PHP4, PHP5, javascript
    

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Education

★ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Digital Image Engineering

License Professionnelle Informatique Ingénierie de l'Image Numérique

2004/2005 @ Reims University Institute of Technology, France

with honors

1 month internship at BLP architectes, Reims, France

★ 2 years professional degree in network and telecoms

Diplôme Universitaire Technologique Génie des Télécommunication et Réseaux

2002/2004 @ Caen University Institute of Technology, France

with honors

1 month internship at Gemalto (formerly Axalto), Fareham, United Kingdom

★ French high-school diploma in Science

Baccalauréat série Scientifique, option Science et vie de la terre, spécialité Physique/Chimie

2002/2004 @ Deauville High School, France

with honors

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Extra-professional activities

  • Photography (my flickr)
  • Reading (Fantasy, SciFi, geek)
  • Bicycling, hicking
  • RPG (with real pen and paper inside)
  • Wargames (W40k)

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[1]Symfony is a PHP Web Development Framework. See Symfony website