Current
  • Technical Manager at Newsweb
Past
  • Technical Manager at Upper Web Sites
  • Developer at Vol Protection
  • Developer at Les Films des Tournelles
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Chris Apers’s Summary

Chris Apers’s Specialties:

Mainly focused on Microsoft technologies and PalmOS expertise

- .Net / C# - ASP.Net / FW 2.0/3.5 (VS 2005/2008)
- C / C++
- PalmOS development specialist (Code Warrior 9.3)
- Mobile development
- VB / VBScript (ASP, admin scripts)
- SQL Server (7.0 - 2000 - 2005)
- Assembly (68k, x86, ARM)
- HTML / XHTML specifications / CSS
- Javascript (OOP) / Ajax / DOM
- IIS
- Windows Server (NT - 2000 - 2003)
- Photoshop


Chris Apers’s Experience

  • Technical Manager

    Newsweb

    (Internet industry)

    December 1999Present (8 years 11 months)

    Formely Boursier.com (ex Oppotunités et Communication) till 2006

    In charge of Boursier.com development, a stock exchange information website. This web site provides, along with articles and investment advices, live quote informations and many user oriented functionalities.

    Starting with the new entity "Newsweb", I'm also in charge of sport4fun website and derivative, and of the upcoming .Net projects and migrations (focused on C#) including SilverLight implementation.

    - providers prospection, negotiation, validation and relation (hosting, services, ...)
    - high scalability architecture (hard and soft)
    - capacity planning
    - application architecture and development and security
    - database architecture and optimization
    - customers care
    - functional evolutions

    Technologies:
    - C/C++
    - VB / VBScript
    - ASP
    - C# (FW 3.5) / VS2005-2008
    - SQL Server 7.0 to 2005
    - IIS4 to 6 (windows NT Server to 2003)

  • Technical Manager

    Upper Web Sites

    (Internet industry)

    January 1999December 1999 (1 year)

    In charge of Internet applications development, e-commerce solutions, GUI, database management and connectivity.

    - standard web features
    - mainly on Unix servers
    - Perl based e-commerce solution with multiple database connectors (text plain, mySQL, mSQL, ODBC, ...)
    - PHP / ASP (IIS and Apache with ChiliASP by ChiliSoft)
    - advanced JS development (animation, ...)
    - graphics

    Customers:
    - Caisse des dépôts et consignations
    - Inserm
    - Logic Instrument (and Tetra Computer)
    ... and more

  • Developer

    Vol Protection

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    April 1998December 1998 (9 months)

    I was mainly working on project "SurFrance.com" as web developer, which was providing a global services directory (commerce, restaurant, ..) and a web presence to small business companies as currently done by "Pages Jaunes".

    I was also part of the new security products validation group and did an extra mission at Bull-Integris as office automation technician.

  • Developer

    Les Films des Tournelles

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

    July 1997August 1997 (2 months)

    Website developpement for the film "La Patinoire" (The Ice Rink) by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Live broadcast of filming pictures.

    - Standard web features (HTML, JS, ...)
    - Video encoding for streaming broadcast
    - Graphics

    Awards:
    - Yahoo Net Events ! (cool site to visit)
    - NB News Editor's Choice
    - one of the 3 finalists for the award of the best audiovisual communication

    http://www.lapatinoire.com/


Additional Information

Chris Apers’s Websites:

Chris Apers’s Interests:

New Technology, Aviation, Gaming

Chris Apers’s Honors:

PalmOS:
ScummVM: 2007 - SourceForge.net Community Choice Award : Best Project for Gamers
ScummVM: 2003 - PDArcade Best Freeware Emulation Game

Internet:
Website : 1997 - Yahoo Net Event! (cool site to visit)
Website : 1997 - NB News Editor's Choice
Website : 1997 - One of the 3 finalists for the award of the best audiovisual communication

Credits:
- Game : 2008 - Platypus PalmOS version (Astraware)
- Film : 1997 - La Patinoire by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
- Game : 2005 - Broken Sword PalmOS version (Astraware)
- Open Source Project : ScummVM


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