Consultant & Entrepreneur
Nice Area, France
- Current
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- Founder at Hitomi Studio
- Founder at OpenCoffee Club Sophia
- Consultant at Startups
- Founder at Loomiz
- Past
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- Software Engineer at Amadeus
- Application Engineer at Modem Media
- Education
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- Ecole Supérieure En Sciences Informatiques
- University Institute of Technology
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Stéphane Thomas’s Summary
Senior Engineer specialized in web applications. As a Consultant, I provide services to startups exclusively. And as an Entrepreneur, I am the founder of Loomiz, a new social bookmarking service meant to be simple, elegant and addictive.
Living in the South of France, I also initiated and organize an OpenCoffee Club in the Sophia Antipolis technology park to promote the entrepreneurial spirit and to meet entrepreneurs, investors and other people working in the Internet industry.
Stéphane Thomas’s Specialties:
More information available on my website and in my online resume.
Stéphane Thomas’s Experience
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Founder
Hitomi Studio
(Internet industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
Hitomi Studio is a small agency I cofounded. It is specialized in the development of bespoke and effective ecommerce websites based on the open source solution Magento. Hitomi Studio helps its clients to plan, design, build and refine their electronic commerce presence on Internet, with a strong focus on usability and best practices.
Visit 'www.hitomistudio.com' for more information. -
Founder
OpenCoffee Club Sophia
(Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
I initiated the OpenCoffee Club Sophia to allow people involved in startups and Internet to meet together. Since then, the organization team has grown and takes care of all the participants that gather every first and third Thursday of each month. Started in London and now around the world, OpenCoffee Clubs are regular, open and informal meeting places.
Visit 'www.opencoffeesophia.com' for more information. -
Consultant
Startups
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
As a freelance consultant, I work with startups to help them getting started and building successful web applications. I mainly provide User Experience, Internet Strategy and Technology Consulting services. For example, I helped Ziki (a startup formerly specialized in online personal branding) to clarify its vision and refined its product positioning before launching its new version. I also reviewed the website information architecture and the interface to improve the user experience.
Visit 'www.stephanethomas.com' for more information. -
Founder
Loomiz
(Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Loomiz is a new social bookmarking service meant to be simple, elegant and addictive. This service will let people store addresses (i.e. bookmarks) of their favorite websites online so they can access them from anywhere. Loomiz will also feature the possibility to organize addresses by keywords to find them more easily later on, as well as sharing them with his or her circle. It is not yet released, but I am still working hard at it. All my other professional activities are currently targeted at funding this new service which is entirely bootstrapped.
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Consultant
e-Travel
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
April 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 6 months)
Several roles in the development of the Air Canada booking web site, a high performance clustered multi-tiered J2EE application.
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Software Engineer
Equant
(Public Company; ENT; Telecommunications industry)
June 2003 — March 2004 (10 months)
Technical leader in a team of 4 engineers developing a complex management system for routers which offered services to discover, activate and store configurations and interfaces of some 50,000 devices administrated by Equant.
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Software Engineer
CDCK
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2001 — May 2003 (1 year 6 months)
Actively participated within a startup team in the implementation of a payment authorization solution for card-not-present transactions (Internet, mail order and telephone order).
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Software Engineer
Amadeus
(Privately Held; 1A; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2000 — October 2001 (11 months)
Significantly contributed to the conception and the integration of a new reservation module for Tour Operators to the Amadeus J2EE booking platform.
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Application Engineer
Modem Media
(Public Company; MMPT; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2000 — September 2000 (5 months)
Participated in the design and the development of 3 action sports websites within an engineering team focusing on the latest technologies and processes.
Stéphane Thomas’s Education
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Ecole Supérieure En Sciences Informatiques
Graduate School of Engineering , Computer Science , 1997 — 2000
Distributed Systems and Applications.
- Activities and Societies:
- Junior Entreprise member (students run their own company, sollicit and perform interesting projects for firms in the area), school newspaper editor, student association member.
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University Institute of Technology
Two-year University degree , Computer Science , 1995 — 1997
Software Engineering
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BarCampSophiaAntipolis
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