IT Analyst & Student at the University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Intern at Scottish Institute for Enterprise
- Owner at Revoluted (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Developer at Owen Russell Group
- Developer at DVSmile Technology
- IT Director at Innovative Consulting University of Edinburgh
- Developer at British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Web Developer at EADS Socata
- Education
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- The University of Edinburgh
- Lycée Saint Pierre
- Lycee Jean Baptiste De Lasalle
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Thomas Drapier’s Summary
I am a developer, specialising in web based projects. I have a year of professional experience within large multi-national organisations in the media and aeronautic sectors. I am experienced with classic ASP and PHP technologies. I grew up in a bilingual French and English family. I'm studying Computer Science and Management at the University of Edinburgh. Before that, I studied Electronics and Industrial Computing in France until 2005.
Major Achievements:
* Developed an intranet hot desk booking application for the BBC, Factual & Learning department. The BBC is planning to expand the application to other departments; it is used to reduce costs; to improve the space utilisation and helps people to meet within the company.
* Part of the team that developed an intranet application designed to manage the contract between the BBC and Siemens for out-sourcing BBC Technology, my tasks included daily collecting and processing bidder’s data, generating new reports. The BBC Technology sale was valued at over £2 billion. The whole process was achieved in less than 7 months; this was only made possible by the application.
* I was part of the development team that built a Public Key Infrastructure for EADS Socata. Key responsibilities included understanding the requirements and making technology choices. The application enabled users to digitally sign and crypt documents or messages with their own certificate to secure transmitted documents preventing corruption of data and hacks.
Thomas Drapier’s Specialties:
Project management, Risk management, Benefits management, Milestones management, Change management, Security, Web Design, Computer Design
ASP.NET, PHP, XHTML, CSS, MySQL, MS SQL, AJAX, Java
PKI, OpenSSL, OpenLDAP
Linux Servers, Apache, IIS
Thomas Drapier’s Experience
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Intern
Scottish Institute for Enterprise
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
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Owner
Revoluted (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Revoluted the trading name for the IT consulting service I provide. This includes gathering requirements, building and refactoring web applications for startups and corporates. Clients are based in the UK and in France.
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Developer
Owen Russell Group
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 6 months)
Created an application for the BBC Finance department to help the executives manage changes. Written in C#, a dozen people were involved directly in the development of the application.
Developed a data room for the BBC Resources department.
* Updated the web based hot desk booking application developed in 2004 for BBC’s Factual & Learning department. Made the whole application more user friendly and improved functionalities. Updated statistics generated and enabled the application to display who has logged onto a desk in real time.
* I have tested an ASP.NET application developed for the BBC Entertainment department. I have fixed graphical and data issues using CSS style sheets and SQL. -
Developer
DVSmile Technology
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 9 months)
I developed an e-commerce application which lets users purchase phone numbers and attach them to voice application: voicemail, automatic call distribution, company switchboard, prepaid solutions, etc. I then created an application to help our distributors manage their clients and their clients' applications.
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IT Director
Innovative Consulting University of Edinburgh
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
September 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 1 month)
iCUE is a student run society dedicated to the promotion of professional experience to students before they graduate. We build teams of students and run different project through the year, with small and medium business to large corporations including Deloitte, Accenture, Microsoft and P&G. As one of the IT directors, I was responsible of maintenance of the webpages and the support of the projects which require web applications to manage their process.
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Developer
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 3 months)
* Part of the team working for the BBC Technology Direction on a contract management application using classic ASP and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 technologies. The application was specially developed for the sale of BBC Technology. I have developed a web portal including news, issues, risks, contacts details management system with a document repository application. The sale of BBC Technology has been achieved after less than 7 months, selecting Siemens between several other bidders for a contract representing over £2 billions.
* Developed a pilot hot desk booking application for BBC’s Factual & Learning department using classic ASP and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 technologies. Reducing the costs of facilities and optimising the space used by the employees.
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Web Developer
EADS Socata
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
* Part of the development team who built a Public Key Infrastructure from scratch, using Apache, PHP, OpenSSL and OpenLDAP on a Linux based server. The application enables users to ask for a personal certificate, processed by a certificate authority. Certificates are exported to a FTP and LDAP server. A certificate revocation list is generated to prevent users using compromised certificates. I recommended the technologies to meet the requirements. This project was part of my BTS IRIS computing degree.
Thomas Drapier’s Education
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The University of Edinburgh
BSc, Computer Science and Management Science, Minor in Financial Markets & Entrepreneurship, 2005 — 2009 (expected)
At the University of Edinburgh, I quickly joined one of the business societies and started to see what kind of professionnal work I would be able to do. After a few months, I started working for a company in London/Paris: DVSmile Tech and Digitrad where I developed a part of the website letting businesses buy phone numbers and attach them to voice applications.
- Activities and Societies:
- Web Developer for iCue (innovative consultant university of Edinburgh)
Web Developer for JADE (European Confederation of Junior Enterprises)
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Lycée Saint Pierre
BTS, Informatique Reseau Industrie et Services, 2003 — 2005
It was while I was studying there that I had to opportunity to work 6 weeks for the BBC in London. I went there and in fact stayed for several months working on important projects and learning how a big public corporation works from the inside.
- Activities and Societies:
- VC++ (using the MFC), SQL, UML, data transmissions via cables, networking, 68000 assembler, physics, mathematics, economy, French and English.
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Lycee Jean Baptiste De Lasalle
BAC STI, Electronics, August 2001 — June 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- Electronics, 68HC11 assembler, mechanical science, physics, mathematics, philosophy, history, geography, French and English
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Thomas Drapier’s Interests:
new technology, internet, information technology, business, web development, software
Thomas Drapier’s Groups:
iCUE, E-Club
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iCUE
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