
Sr. Software Engineer at Intrasoft International
Luxembourg

Sr. Software Engineer at Intrasoft International
Luxembourg
I love software architecture and development, and I love doing it well. I aim at reaching the highest quality standards (efficiency, robustness, maintainability, extensibility and usability). I am a perfectionist: I always try to do my best and to improve myself. I also have a high level of autonomy, I love taking initiatives and bringing creative ideas. I am a self-starter, when I believe in a project I am 150% committed into it.
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.
- Programming: Perl, PHP, Java,
- Web Development: PHP, CGI-Perl, GWT, HTML & XHTML, XML & XML Schema, CSS, RSS, W3C standards,
- Architecture: design patterns, UML
- Operating systems: First class experience in working on UNIX-like platforms,
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(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Working on new projects as well as corrective and evolutive maintenance on the Publications Office IT systems:
Software engineering:
clients requirements gathering, technical analyses, development, tests, documentation, packaging and delivery, clients support
Operations management:
* Clients and business partners relationships,
* Writing of offers in response to client requests,
* Workload estimates computation,
* Staffing: CVs selection, conducting recruitment interviews, choice of the selected candidate (hired 3 people)
* Planning tasks of a team of 4 engineers spread on two countries,
* Allocation of ressources,
* Coordination of tasks,
* Projects follow-up,
* Projects kick-off and progress meetings,
* Quality checks before deliveries,
* Improvement of operational work processes,
* Weekly and monthly reports regarding:
o projects progress
o financial figures
(Public Company; ATO; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2007 — November 2008 (1 year)
As a Perl expert, I was mainly involved in the Perl and Shell releasing tools re-engineering project:
* requirements analysis (with the client's technical and quality teams),
* technical specification (proposal of a full Perl, object-oriented solution, etc.),
* software architecture solutions proposals to the client,
* design,
* Perl development "Best Practices" setting up in my team,
* setting up of a standard log report strategy using Log4perl,
* development,
* integration,
* unit and integration tests setting up,
* client delivery processes setting up (CPAN packages),
* packaging and delivery,
* deployment on client site,
* code documentation standards setting up (POD),
* formalization and documentation of all set up standards and processes.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; SII; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — October 2007 (2 years)
Project: Extended Communication Server
Programming: Perl, PHP
Environment: Linux Red Hat 7.3 and Fedora Core 4
* 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.