Database and Web developer
Stockholm Area, Sweden
- Current
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- Owner and Web developer at www.geotruc.net
- Database developer for GBIF-Sweden at Swedish Museum of Natural History
- Past
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- Creator and Core Developer of Orage at Xfce Desktop Environment
- System developer at Telia AdHostCenter
- Database developer at Netpool International
- Education
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- IUP MIAGE Aix en Provence
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Mickaël Graf’s Summary
Mickaël Graf, 36, is born in Montpellier, France. After obtaining his Masters Degree in Information System and Management, and a short job experience in France, he moved to Sweden in February 1999 and soon started to work as database developer in an Internet advertising company.
In January 2003 he started as database developer for GBIF-Sweden, at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. During his five years at this position, he made Sweden to be the third biggest provider of biodiversity records. He also developped the corporate website, which includes a search engine, a mapserver, news and documents.
Mickaël is also the creator and former main developer of Orage (http://www.xfce.org/projects/orage), a calendar application for the Xfce project (http://www.xfce.org), a desktop environment for various Linux and Unix systems.
He lately created geo:truc (http://www.geotruc.net/), a web based application allowing people to easily find the latitude and longitude of a location, and to encode them in different formats, such as geoRSS, geo (microformat) and machine tags.
Mickaël Graf’s Specialties:
Database design, development and maintainance (MySQL, Oracle, FileMaker)
SQL, PL/SQL, AJAX, PHP, C, Javascript, XML, (X)HTML, Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat, Slackware), Apache, Open Source, Mapserver, Google Maps, Google Appengine, GeoRSS, Microformats, Textpattern, Wordpress
Mickaël Graf’s Experience
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Owner and Web developer
www.geotruc.net
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
geo:truc is a website allowing users to get latitude and longitude for a location from an address or from a map.
It can convert between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, seconds, and provides the position in various formats: geoRSS, machine tags, KML, geo (microformat) and W3C geo. -
Database developer for GBIF-Sweden
Swedish Museum of Natural History
(Government Agency; Museums and Institutions industry)
January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)
GBIF-Sweden is the swedish node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, hosted at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
- Developer and administrator for GBIF-Sweden's database, used for gathering swedish data to the GBIF network. The database contains more than 24 millions records, and mirrors 51 databases from 15 institutions.
- Developer and Webmaster for GBIF-Sweden (portal and mapserver)
- Development of different applications for the Museum as well
- Speaker in several conferences. -
Creator and Core Developer of Orage
Xfce Desktop Environment
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
June 2003 — November 2005 (2 years 6 months)
Orage, formerly known as Xfcalendar, is a calendar application for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It has a clean and intuitive interface, is fast and responsive, and is translated in more than 25 languages.
Orage handles recurring appointments, alerts, and manages timezones.
Along with Xfce, Orage is provided with major Linux distributions, such as Debian, Fedora, Xubuntu and Slackware. -
System developer
Telia AdHostCenter
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — December 2002 (2 years )
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Database developer
Netpool International
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 10 months)
Mickaël Graf’s Education
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IUP MIAGE Aix en Provence
Master , Information System and Management , 1995 — 1998
Additional Information
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Mickaël Graf’s Groups:
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Xfce User
Mickaël Graf’s Contact Settings
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