Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sydney Area, Australia
- Current
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- Senior Software Engineer at Google
- Past
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- Professional Services at Datacom Relate Pty Ltd
- Professional Services at Datacom Relate
- Professional Services at Datacom
- Senior Consultant at Readify
- IT Consultant at Readify Pty Ltd
- IT Consultant at Honeywell
- IT Consultant at Right Hemisphere
- Software Dev. Manager at Portfolio Business Technology Pty Ltd
- Software Architect at Altnet Inc.
- Software Dev. Manager at Info-Onscreen Software Systems Pty Ltd
- Project Manager - Architect at Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc.
- Project Manager at Stratus Computer
- Network Consultant at Borland Australia
- Project Leader at Fujitsu Australia
- Project Leader at Comelog Services
- Education
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- Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
- University of Technology, Sydney
- Lycee Roissy
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Marc Ridey’s Summary
Over the past 16 years, I have worked in a range of industries and technologies. Each assignment has helped me develop my skills and build a strong set of competencies across a wide range of technologies and architectures.
- Strong analytical skills, to get efficient solutions to problems, big or small.
- Extensive Database training and expertise, on large complex replicated databases.
- Good communication skills, with customers, suppliers, colleagues and management.
- Expert knowledge in Microsoft technologies.
- Efficient research skills, minimizing development by using internal work and 3rd party products.
- Ability to learn fast and to mentor junior colleagues.
- Broad engineering background with extensive Mathematics and Statistics training.
- Multi-lingual, fluent in English and French, knowledge in German and Japanese
These competencies, combined with a will to achieve goals with high quality standards, have allowed me to succeed well in all the challenges I have faced, in technical, sales and marketing activities. I look forward to a role that will make best use of my background and provide new challenges.
Marc Ridey’s Specialties:
Software Architecture, SQL Server, .NET
Marc Ridey’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
Google
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
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Professional Services
Datacom Relate Pty Ltd
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — November 2008 (11 months)
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Professional Services
Datacom Relate
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — November 2008 (11 months)
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Professional Services
Datacom
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — November 2008 (11 months)
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Senior Consultant
Readify
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 6 months)
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IT Consultant
Readify Pty Ltd
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 6 months)
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IT Consultant
Honeywell
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)
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IT Consultant
Right Hemisphere
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2006 — May 2006 (4 months)
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Software Dev. Manager
Portfolio Business Technology Pty Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 8 months)
PBT is a small startup company based in the city. I joined PBT at its inception to establish its development team and to manage all development projects.
My task was to design a Document Management System based on Microsoft PowerPoint and the architecture needed to allow for the phased development of desktop, business and enterprise versions.
The objectives were to
• Design an extensible application framework to support the phased development of desktop, business and enterprise versions
• Provide seamless or near seamless integration of the document management modules into Microsoft PowerPoint
• Distributed database backend to provide enterprise wide storage, workflow, access control and resource management
• Establish the infrastructure and procedures to manage and control the SDLC lifecycle
• Research and select appropriate technologies and/or 3rd party products to minimize development time and cost -
Software Architect
Altnet Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 7 months)
Altnet Inc. specializes in the online distribution of Multimedia content using Peer to Peer technology.
Within the development team I had overall responsibility for the design of the online infrastructure, both the front-end and back-end website architecture as well as the SQL databases.
The objectives were to
• Design a high availability distributed database infrastructure to handle high volume online transactions
• Determine the optimum Server configuration to handle the expected number of transactions requiring detailed database and hardware capacity planning and provide detailed costing to senior management
• Establish an end to end framework to ensure that each modules conformed to the overall architecture
• Implement QA procedures and development standards
• Develop guidelines, processes and tools to monitor the applications performance and resolve problems in the shortest possible time -
Software Dev. Manager
Info-Onscreen Software Systems Pty Ltd
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2001 — February 2003 (1 year 9 months)
IOS Software Systems specializes in multimedia content, mostly Macromedia Director. I joined IOS as the Software Development Manager and Software Architect to expand the development team and design products used for indoor and outdoor Multimedia Advertising displays.
The objectives were to:
• Take over the existing projects
• Study competing products
• Review the current product range and define a new strategy for the future
• Grow the development team
• Introduce development guidelines and QA procedures
• Provide technical consulting to Sales activities
The new range of applications allowed IOS to expand to new markets and to successfully sell and deliver the product both locally and overseas. -
Project Manager - Architect
Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — May 2001 (3 years 5 months)
Brilliant Digital Entertainment designed 3D technology for the distribution of games and multimedia advertising content on the internet.
BDE had a very fluid development environment that required a continuous change to development priorities. As project manager, I oversaw development across all teams, monitoring progress and scheduling releases.
The objectives were to:
• Manage of the development projects
• Research new Internet technologies
• Design an on-line media distribution system
• Manage 3rd party suppliers
The platform implemented at BDE allowed for the on-line sales and distributor of BDE’s 3D animated movies as well as the distribution through 3rd party advertising networks of new 3D advertising banners. -
Project Manager
Stratus Computer
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1997 — January 1998 (5 months)
Stratus Technologies provides high-availability products, services and solutions to all industries.
I worked for Stratus on a contract as a project manager on-site at the StGeorge Bank. My responsibilities for this assignment where purely commercial, managing the day-to-day project and customer relationship with StGeorge. I interfaced between the development team, the project leader and the client. -
Network Consultant
Borland Australia
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1997 — September 1997 (6 months)
Borland Australia is the local branch of Borland US and included at the time a local development team, Sales, Marketing and Accounting departments as well as a call centre.
The objectives were to:
Review the existing IT equipment
Determine the company IT needs
Design and implement a new IT infrastructure
On completion of my assignment, I had rationalized all the Unix and Windows IT equipment, moved all services to centralized redundant hardware and interfaced the different company applications to provide all employees the access they required and hired and trained a junior to look after the daily backup activities. -
Project Leader
Fujitsu Australia
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1990 — March 1997 (6 years 5 months)
I first joined Fujitsu as a team leader in the Software R&D group. I designed and implemented a set of communication applications designed to transfer banking transactions. I then joined a new Banking R&D group where I managed product development for banking terminals and smart card equipments. My role was split between technical responsibilities to get the product designed and manufactured, and marketing/sales responsibilities responding to tenders, making client presentations and exhibiting, interstate and overseas. I managed both client and supplier relationships.
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Project Leader
Comelog Services
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1989 — November 1990 (1 year 3 months)
Comelog was a consulting company based in Paris, France. I was working on-site as a team leader designing a tendering/ordering system based on ADABAS/NATURAL.
Marc Ridey’s Education
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Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
1984 — 1989
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University of Technology, Sydney
Computer Sciences 1987 — 1988
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Lycee Roissy
Bac C , Mathematics , 1981 — 1984
