Curriculum Vitae

Experiences Educations and...

Xavier Briand

Paris, France

Currently Developer Department Manager at Sensio Labs, and Web & mobile developer (Founding partner) at Freegli.com.

Actively seeking full-time position from july 2012. Willing to relocate to Canada, Ontario.

Web application development with OOP PHP5 and Symfony 1&2 framework [1].

Ecommerce issues management, Soap/Rest webservices implementation as server and client. Application scalability (uncoupling, optimisation, cache, replication, data partitioning, load balancing, failover, ...).

Significant experience of lead developer, trainer, coach, but also in management of macro and micro planning, and HR (management, recruitment, career manager).

  • Macro and micro planning management (Project, Gantt)
  • PHP5 POO, framework MVC symfony 1.x and Symfony2
  • ORM Doctrine1&2, Pomm (PostgreSQL data mapper)
  • Soap/Rest Webservices
  • Web accessibility and standards, SEO
  • Objective-C, Cocoa, iOs
  • Web server administration

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Experience

★ Developer Department Manager @ SensioLabs

since july 2011 Paris, France

Planning and HR (aka developers) management.

Department organization: communication, training, team leading. Interdepartmental coordination, projects' boostrapping and debriefing. Project monitoring, developers' coaching, training and career management.

Keywords: HR, management, MSProject, Gantt, Redmine, Symfony2, Git, Gitolite, Twig, PostgreSQL

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

since november 2010 Paris, France

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

Web and mobile project management for a startup service.

Connection with iTunes search API and Apple Push Notification service.

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

★ PHP5 Symfony Web Developer @ SensioLabs & Extreme Sensio

from june 2009 to july 2011 Paris, France

  • La Plateforme du bâtiment - Saint-Gobain Ecommerce web site lead developer.

    Keywords: Symfony2, Doctrine2, Soap Server/client webservices, paybox, gmap api.

  • MyEvian - Evian Third party maintenance.

    Keywords: Magento, UPS webservices

  • Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau Third party maintenance.

    Creation from scratch og a search engine and a ecommerc module. High traffic website.

    Keywords: symfony1, propel, ecommerce, search engine, load balancing, super cache.

And:

  • Symfony coaching, Symfony2 and PHP OOP trainer
  • 5+ marketing websites (Sodiaal, St-Hubert, Virbac,...) in symfony1.4 and doctrine1.2

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

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

from january 2008 to may 2009 Reims, France

In charge of digital media and specifically the Internet. Responsible for the design, configuration and development of company's applications and websites.

Candissime

Japanese/French candy ecommerce website.

Keywords: symfony1.2, i18n, l10n, propel, mysql, SIPS payment

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

  • EasyPOP-Santé Video sequence organizer for advertising management with rich interface and browser compatibility issues

    Keywords: symfony1, prototypeJS

  • Web sites refactoring

    Web gate, e-business, static

    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)
  • Biking
  • RPG (with real pen and paper inside)
  • Wargames (W40k)

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