Pierre Andrews

Current

Research Fellow at University of Trento at University of Trento

Past

Freelance Web Development at Pierre Andrews - Freelance
Ph.D. Student at The University of York
Cover Teaching Assistant at The University of York, Department of Computer Science

Author at Eyrolles
Research Assistant at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Java Programmer at Cogito-Info
Java developper (internship) at CERN

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Education

University of York
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
College du Leman

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Computer Software

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Pierre Andrews’s Summary

I graduated as an engineer in computer science and software engineering, I have already developed Java applications in professional environments but I also worked for different open source projects in other programming languages, in particular for web based applications.

After obtaining my engineering degree (Master level) in Switzerland I started a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of York (UK). I am currently doing research on Human Computer Communication and Dialogue.

Web communities and open source development is amongst my personal interests and I belief they will have a great importance in a short future. Therefore I try to find time to develop skills in that field by:
- contributing to the SPIP content management system open source project. In the context of this open source community, I collaborate by providing user support, writing/translating documentation (some of which was published by Eyrolles Publications) and developing plugins (in PHP, Javascript and XHTML).
- developing Greasemonkey (Javascript) extensions to popular websites like Flickr.com and Ebay.

Pierre Andrews’s Specialties:

Technologies: JAVA:JMS/JSP/Servlet (J2EE), JAVA: Applet/Swing.
Languages: Java (JMS,Servlet,JSP,Swing), C, Ada, Lisp, Prolog, XHTML, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, SPIP, MySQL.
System: OS X, Unix, Linux, Windows.
Methodology: UML/Fusion.
Tools: Emacs, Eclipse, ANT, CVS, SVN, LaTex, CLI.
Languages: English (fluent), French (mother tongue), Italian (good knowledge), Spanish (rusty basics)

Pierre Andrews’s Experience

Research Fellow at University of Trento

University of Trento

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Working on Natural Language Processing and Human Computer Interfaces to create a Natural Language Interface within the Live Memories project with Prof. F. Giunchiglia.
Freelance Web Development

Pierre Andrews - Freelance

(Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)

Developing web site using the SPIP CMS, from raw photoshop designs provided by BouncingOrange, I create html and css design, input contents and develop the templates for the SPIP template engine.
Ph.D. Student

The University of York

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

October 2004 — December 2008 (4 years 3 months)

I obtained a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of York (UK).

I am working in the domain of human-computer dialogue with a scholarship from the University and Unilever.
Cover Teaching Assistant

The University of York, Department of Computer Science

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

October 2008 — November 2008 (2 months)

I teach half of the Advanced Programming Concept lecture for the IT master students and Computing master students at the department of computer science in the University of York.

This implies 10h of teaching per week (inc. practical), introducing concepts of programming and Object Oriented Programming through java to beginner students.
Author

Eyrolles

(Partnership; Publishing industry)

September 2005 — October 2005 (2 months)

I wrote (in French) in collaboration with Vincent Caron the "Mémento SPIP", a 14 page help sheet for Web developers using the spip.net content management system (CMS).
Research Assistant

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

June 2003 — October 2003 (5 months)

During this research internship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, I collaborated in a small team to write a report presenting the state of the art in "Document processing and visualization techniques".

This document was written as a deliverable for the Network of Excellence in text Mining and its applications in Statistics (http://nemis.cti.gr).
Java Programmer

Cogito-Info

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

July 2002 — October 2002 (4 months)

During this work at Cogito-Info I had the opportunity to program part of a J2EE application using the JBoss application server and the Java Messaging System (JMS).
Java developper (internship)

CERN

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

June 1998 — August 1998 (3 months)

Internship at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Learning the Java language and programing swing GUI for monitoring the quality of the construction of physical experiments.

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Pierre Andrews’s Interests:

new technology, web development, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, snowboarding, hot air ballooning, SPIP content management system, photography, flickr, greasemonkey, internet communities.