Frédéric Mayot

August 2011 – April 2012 (9 months) San Francisco Bay Area

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry

March 2010 – July 2011 (1 year 5 months) San Francisco Bay Area

- Solved technical challenges that allowed the company to enter the market of mobile phones and rich internet applications (Flash, iOS, Android, BlackBerry). Transferred a solution to Engineering minimizing impact on existing technology while enabling a fast time-to-market for the launch of GoToMeeting/GoToAssist on new platforms

- Spearheaded, prototyped, and promoted several innovative solutions for GoToMeeting involving multi-party video conferencing, mobile and tablet-specific applications (iPad, iPhone, Android), sketching tools, and mobile audio conferencing (VoIP)

- Brought significant contributions to User Experience teams for video conferencing and inspired Product Management for the next generation of tablet products

- Invented and successfully deployed GoToMeeting’s new image compression algorithm, a competitive advantage in user experience for real-time screen-sharing. The new algorithm is not only highly efficient on mobile and thin clients, but also surpasses the previous and state-of-art algorithm the company had developed. Received company Excellence award in 2010 for this contribution

- Proved the potential of HTML5 for the company to the board of architects and senior managers. Identified prospective products for the technology, prototyped cutting-edge proof of concepts, and evangelized the potential of web-centric technologies inside the company

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry

October 2007 – March 2010 (2 years 6 months) Santa Barbara, California Area

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; GLE FP; Investment Banking industry

November 2006 – October 2007 (1 year) Greater New York City Area

- Improved the efficiency of the market order retrieval system for high-frequency trading, in which speed is key for profit
[ C++/Linux, UDP multicast, multi-threaded programming ]

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; STM; Semiconductors industry

March 2006 – September 2006 (7 months) Grenoble Area, France

- Combined 2 approaches in an innovative way to create a pragmatic and efficient solution for the development of multimedia applications targeting the fast growing market of multi-core processors
[ Component-based programming, Developed join-pattern compiler in Java with C runtime, parallel MPEG2 decoder as a proof of concept and for MPSoC benchmarking ]

Master's thesis: http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/papers/files/06-Mayot-M2R.pdf

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Human Resources industry

September 2004 – March 2006 (1 year 7 months) Paris Area, France

- Led geographically spread teams (Romania, Paris, Grenoble) of 2-10 developers in projects up to 500-man days

- Supervised full overhaul of the company’s product (including PRD and technical architecture), switching to a new technology and repositioning the company for the long-term

- Carried out functional and technical audit of Veolia’s e-recruitment platform (300,000 employees), including PRD and UML modeling of workflows and data models. Excellence of the analysis resulted in closing a major deal with Veolia

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry

June 2005 – September 2005 (4 months) Nice Area, France

- Team-lead in a 4-intern team. Gathered client’s needs, created business plan, and built a prototype using RFID technology to improve traceability and optimize patients’ path in Nice Medical Center’s emergency unit. Led a business and technical presentation that was highly acclaimed by IBM EMEA executives
[ J2EE, Websphere, Portal Server, EJB ]

June 2001 – August 2004 (3 years 3 months) Paris Area, France

- Engaged partnership with University of Lyon to develop an artificial intelligence module that automatically extracts and structures information in resumes, placing the company at the forefront of innovation on e-recruitment in 2002.
[ C++/ATL/MFC, CLIPS inference engine ]

- Became company expert in technical problem solving including multi-dimensional statistical analysis and database modeling
[ SQL Server, COM ]

December 2003 – June 2004 (7 months) Lyon Area, France

- Designed a web search engine based on multi-agent paradigm with a behavior inspired by social insects.

- Studied effects of the topology of dynamic networks (scale-free) on the approach inspired by social insects (applied to load and multi-criteria balancing). Developed a high performance simulator (C++/Linux). Made simulations and analyzed the results.

Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry

February 2003 – April 2003 (3 months) Lyon Area, France

- Multi-agent simulation applied to robotics (C++/Linux). Implemented genetic algorithms and neural networks.