Frederic Marand

Current
  • CEO at OSInet (Ouest Systèmes Informatiques)
Past
  • Managing Director at Agorus
  • Professor, Information Systems at ESIEA
  • Teacher, network programming at Université de Caen Basse Normandie
  • Group leader at Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique
  • Teacher, business automation software at Université de Caen Basse Normandie
  • Exterior Relations Manager at H2Ondes
Education
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
  • Université de Caen Basse Normandie
  • ISMRa - ENSICAEN - Institut des Sciences de la Matière et du Rayonnement
  • Bayerische Julius-Maximiliaus-Universität Würzburg
Connections
15 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Frederic Marand’s Summary

Application development lead. Specialized in RPC-based systems over TCP/IP and other network stacks (1986-1994), then web-based systems.

Lead support and training team of engineers for government networks (1989-1994)

Develop front-office/back office integration and lead UNIX (Solaris) support team for mass distributors (1994-1996) .

Created one of the very first e-commerce sites in France (1997). Developed since then, based on Drupal since 2005.

Looking for an opportunity to lead new integration projects in web space, preferably around the Drupal CMS.

Frederic Marand’s Specialties:

Drupal CMS and other web technologies. Middleware: network programming (TCP/IP, UDP/IP), user-space system administration data. Architecting software and managing development engineers teams.


Frederic Marand’s Experience

  • CEO

    OSInet (Ouest Systèmes Informatiques)

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    December 1993Present (14 years 8 months)

    Sales and distribution deals with national and international customers and suppliers.

    Brand creation and development, web site data and back office integration. Running RFPs and managing web designers.

    Performing customer assistance and giving courses on :
    - Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP
    - ASP / ADO / IIS
    - AIX, Netware, Solaris
    - GroupWise and Exchange messaging suites, Border Manager and Watchguard firewalls, Paradox databases

  • Managing Director

    Agorus

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    September 1988April 2008 (19 years 8 months)

    Lead and manage software development team of engineers and developers

    Architect software: system management suite, NFS clone, DRI GEM clone, SNA/DECnet-DNA gateway, Apollo/DECnet-DNA gateway

    Write device drivers: avionics card (Arinc 429) for PC, data acquisition card (DT1492) for Sun/Solaris

    Provide technical assistance to the server design team for multiprocessor servers.

    Perform the company management tasks: answer RFPs/public tenders, purchase, find new suppliers, prepare accounting and tax information.

  • Professor, Information Systems

    ESIEA

    (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

    September 1989January 1992 (2 years 5 months)

    Teaching students at the MS (engineer) level information systems, from modeling to security.

  • Teacher, network programming

    Université de Caen Basse Normandie

    (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    September 1990January 1992 (1 year 5 months)

    Teaching MS (engineer) students about network programming : network API (sockets, streams, TLI), transport protocol properties.

  • Group leader

    Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

    August 1986August 1988 (2 years 1 month)

    Help system administrators under hacker attack protect their systems.

    Lead research projects in computer security: risk assessmment software, EMC/EMI analysis, Tempest zoning, RF digital signal processing.

  • Teacher, business automation software

    Université de Caen Basse Normandie

    (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    October 1984January 1986 (1 year 4 months)

    Teaching undergraduate and graduate students about business automation software. Practical cases and hands-on labs.

  • Exterior Relations Manager

    H2Ondes

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

    July 1981March 1984 (2 years 9 months)

    Developing partnerships within the upstream local news and media sources, in order to provide broadcast content.

    Manage administrative/financial aspects of the radio station.


Frederic Marand’s Education

  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

    DEA, Information systems methodology and architecture, 19861987

    Summa cum Laude (très bien avec félicitations du jury). Majoring in distributed systems.

    Activities and Societies:
    Vacation at INRIA working on the SOMIW kernel C++ implementation.
  • Université de Caen Basse Normandie

    DESS, Business Administration, 19841986

    Followed the courses for the DESS "Certificat d'Aptitude à l'Administration des Entreprises" along with my engineer degree, but did not take the degree to avoid a conflict of interest with my position as assistant teacher to my own class.

    Activities and Societies:
    Assistant teacher, business software tools
  • ISMRa - ENSICAEN - Institut des Sciences de la Matière et du Rayonnement

    Engineer, Computer Science, 19831986

    Ranked first in my specialty: robotics and artificial intelligence
    Ranked second of the whole school

    Activities and Societies:
    President of the Computing Club
  • Bayerische Julius-Maximiliaus-Universität Würzburg

    PNDS, German economics, 19851985

    Programme called "Soziale marktwirschaft für die 80er Jahren" (social market economy for the 80s), covering the german economics model, cultural background, and german language.


Additional Information

Frederic Marand’s Websites:

Frederic Marand’s Interests:

program-to-program communication, distributed systems, RPC, object brokering, system programming, performing on stage, bass, keyboards

Frederic Marand’s Groups:

IEEE CS, Drupal, PHP-GTK

  •    Drupal member
  •    PHP-GTK Community member

Frederic Marand’s Honors:

Caen medal honor for outstanding academic achievements.


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