Romain d'Alverny

Current

Web department manager at Mandriva

Past

Lead developer, shield at af83
Online services engineer at Mandriva
Independant consultant (Self-employed)

System administrator at IUFM de Paris
Developer at Business Interactif

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Education

EFREI - Ecole Française d'Electronique et d'Informatique
Passy-Buzenval

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Information Technology and Services

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Romain d'Alverny’s Summary

Strong experience in web applications design and realignement (platform, code, user flow, information architecture, grid design levels).

Worked in various situations (service-oriented & product-oriented; single, or with 2 to 10 developers team, collaboration with other specialists). Mostly with free software/open source technologies & platforms.

Romain d'Alverny’s Specialties:

LAMP platforms, CSS (2 & 3), (x)HTML, Javascript (jQuery).

Collaborative environments (svn/git, wiki, trac/bugzilla)

These days, scratching the surface/interested in: CouchDB, Erlang & ruby / A/B testing / continuous/live integration & deployment / curious about applied arts & industrial design

Romain d'Alverny’s Experience

Web department manager

Mandriva

(Public Company; MDKFF; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

> online operations management & production (close collaboration with Communication, Online Sales, Engineering & QA departments)

> ran new mandriva.com website version redesign & production (information architecture, nav, style & consistency rules, tools & platform setup, copywriting direction, translation coordination, internal advocacy, project direction)

> realigned the online store design & experience; applied basic datamining processes to improve sales & customer care; participated in catalog diversification & growth, online advertisement;

> various web platforms and emailing processes maintenance/upgrade/redesign runs

(Mandriva LAMP platforms, bits of capistrano usage, definition of platform goals, metrics collection and analytics when available, A/B testing; looking for ideas/solutions around and filtering, making limited design decisions; involving contractors and interns in projects)
Lead developer, shield

af83

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2007 — April 2008 (11 months)

> coordinated and staffed a 8 developers team (backend, frontend)
> coordinated the team to learn/design/build an in-house web production framework (http://turb.ulenc.es)
> technically advised project managers
> collected, qualified and distributed tasks from project managers to developers (in production and maintenance contexts)
Online services engineer

Mandriva

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; MLMAN; Computer Software industry)

June 2004 — May 2007 (3 years )

In a team of two people with support engineers in Brazil and community contributors.

Online services (re)design, rationalization, production and supervision; on backend and frontend aspects:
> online store
> user identity/credits database, related web services
> users club
> default system web home page
> remote system management solution
> online collaborative support solution
> webmastering assistance inside the company
> projects life-cycle processes enhancement (collaborative tracking of issues, code sharing tools)
> community wiki redeployment management (Mediawiki platform)
> web contents and navigation tree redesign management and development
Independant consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — June 2004 (6 months)
System administrator

IUFM de Paris

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

March 2003 — December 2003 (10 months)

I was in charge of the school networks, servers, services (mail, web, ftp, profiles) and workstations supervision (Windows, MacOS 9/X and Linux servers and desktops).

Specific needs led to some web applications development:
> training sessions planning/subscription
> students accounts directory
> national student application website
Developer

Business Interactif

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; BNS; Internet industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

Romain d'Alverny’s Education

EFREI - Ecole Française d'Electronique et d'Informatique

Computer science and information systems management 1996 — 2001
Passy-Buzenval

1989 — 1996

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Romain d'Alverny’s Interests:

People, customs, ideas, things that make sense, music, calligraphy, painting, photography, open source, copyleft, linux, web, project management, communication, economics, marketing, skiing.