Yohan Launay

Current

Software Architect : Prototyping and Concepts at RADIOActive.sg

Past

Software Architect Multimedia Chain Digital Radio at Vizion'R
Innovation Labs Co-Founder & Engineer at ALTRAN Télécoms & Médias / Innovation Labs
R&D Engineer - Mobile Advertising Solutions at Orange

Project Planning Seminar Teacher at EFREI - Ecole des Technologies de l'Information et du Management
Emerging Technologies Consultant / Concept Designer (co-founder) at ConceptSL
In-house Developper / Lead GUI Designer at Edifixio
C++ Programming / Methodology Teacher at EFREI - Ecole des Technologies de l'Information et du Management
President at SEPEFREI
R&D Programmer - Part Time at Scutum

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Education

McGill University
Ecole d'Ingénieurs des Technologies de l'Information et du Management

Connections

260 connections

Industry

Online Media

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Yohan Launay’s Summary

ew Technologies / IT engineer [EFREI Engineering Institute in Paris '2006], I did my final masters year in McGill University in Canada and I hold a business certificate in IT management from University College London.

French Engineering Award in 2004 decreed by Microsoft, 2 years of experience in R&D during my studies + software modeling lab in McGill (Master Project in optimization of multi-threaded architecture).

Created my own consulting business before I graduated (in 2006) - ConceptSL (see http://www.ConceptSL.com), specialized in emerging new technologies (3D-internet, Virtual Worlds and Avatars, and mixing all this with the web).

The global economic crisis hit me, emerging technologies lost the hype they gained in 2007/2008 with the rising of Second Life. I took a daytime job while pursuing my consulting business evenings and week-ends (mainly publishing papers on Avatar topics and assisting startups with their tech strategy). I'm actually working as a software architect & business developer of the content generation chain for visual services in Digital Radio (http://www.Vizionr.fr), after contributing to the launch of Altran Technologies Innovation Labs and R&D work in in-game advertising for Orange Labs. I saved enough money to move to Singapore look for a job there. And here i am fully settled in Singapore and working in Internet and 3G radio.

Yohan Launay’s Specialties:

new technologies, radio streaming, 3G, Internet, online music

Yohan Launay’s Experience

Software Architect : Prototyping and Concepts

RADIOActive.sg

(Online Media industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Responsible for designing and prototyping innovative solutions for Radio stations. My mission is focused on internet and mobile services.
Software Architect Multimedia Chain Digital Radio

Vizion'R

(Broadcast Media industry)

April 2009 — September 2009 (6 months)

VizionR + RTL & Radio France
Prototyping of the first content generation chain for visual services for Digital Radio broadcast

Along with high-quality audio, the digital radio TDM-B standard enables Radios to broadcast visual services using high-end 2D and interactive graphics (like small websites).

My role was to quickly design (concept, architecture and programming) a first working prototype of the content-generation chain (mixing JAVA, PHP and Javascript) including
content aggregation tools (servers, scripts and standalone applications), MPEG4-BIFS content generators, Plug-in
systems, Control and Configuration XML/RPC protocols, and Control web-interfaces and radio audio stream/information system glues and synchronization. I was also in charge of identifying and exploring partnership opportunities with content providers (weather, cinema, stock quotes, sports and world news, etc.). I reported directly to the CEO – French digital radio expert.
Innovation Labs Co-Founder & Engineer

ALTRAN Télécoms & Médias / Innovation Labs

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — April 2009 (7 months)

Contributed to the launch of Altran Innovation Labs designing innovative solutions using new technologies
Directly reporting to the deputy-CEO of Altran Telecom and Media, I was part of the team of 5 people who launched
Altran Innovation Lab in France. I have been in charge of designing and deploying the Technological Watch system, the 3 website portals using CMS (front-end, technical news portal and customer-oriented watch portal), participate in brainstorming sessions (submitting concepts and ideas of new services for Telco & media customers) and participate in prototyping of innovative solutions (Orange Labs, Citypulse Consortium, Orange Business Services, etc.)

Topics processed by the lab include gaming, gambling, mobile, web, m-payment, e-sports, augmented-reality.
R&D Engineer - Mobile Advertising Solutions

Orange

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)

1st mission with Altran Innovation Labs: proof of concept of dynamic mobile+web in-game advertising injection.
Project Planning Seminar Teacher

EFREI - Ecole des Technologies de l'Information et du Management

(Education Management industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )

Teacher in Project Planning & Management Seminar for international students :
Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan), US & Singaporean universities
Every year, several times a year (one month seminar each time).
Emerging Technologies Consultant / Concept Designer (co-founder)

ConceptSL

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 5 months)

ICT & Web technologies Consulting, Proof of Concept + Prototype design and Implementation, Technical Watch

- Case studies Feasibility studies, Technical Cost Studies, Technical Constraints studies (for ICT & Web projects)
- Products / Solutions Prototyping
- ICT Project / Web Project coordinator
- Sourcing of technologies and people required to perform / develop a specific technical project
- Requests/Calls-for-proposals, Requests-for-comments: writing and validation
- Negotiating partnership deals (technology providers, IT companies, potentials business partners)
- Sourcing and deploying technologies that would add value to a company’s products or services
- Propositions of concepts / brainstorming sessions for new products or services mixing or relying on ICT/Web
technologies
- New Technologies evaluation
- Sharing knowledge through white-papers and documents tailored for decision-makers or technical teams
In-house Developper / Lead GUI Designer

Edifixio

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2005 — July 2005 (4 months)

- Team project for rebuilding the entire Lafarge logistics system
- Lead GUI Programmer : ergonomic, design and implementation
C++ Programming / Methodology Teacher

EFREI - Ecole des Technologies de l'Information et du Management

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )

Giving courses in C++ programming and methodology to a class of 20+ software engineering students (U3) of EFREI.
President

SEPEFREI

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 1 month)

SEPEFREI is a student-run company of EFREI engineering school (IT+Management).
- Professional association developing software for big companies, hosted in EFREI School
- Managing a team of 15 people, training in programming, project management and quality (process & management)
R&D Programmer - Part Time

Scutum

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Security and Investigations industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )

- Analyzing and designing video-surveillance software packages and industrial software
- Technical and Functional Specs, Maintenance and Development planning
- Developer of several software package : video camera monitoring, streaming servers, data stream routers, video-camera control scripts
- Writing test procedures, software validation, test planning
- Languages used: PHP, SQL, C/C++, Perl, Gtk GUI API, OpenGL, XML

!!! Winner of 2004 Best Engineering Project award, decreed by Microsoft and “Le Journal des Grandes Ecoles” for the Secur’IP Box Project developed for SEPEFREI and SCUTUM corp.

Yohan Launay’s Education

McGill University

Exchange , Business + Computer Sciences (Research Project) , 2005 — 2006

Master's Research Project at MSDL - McGill Simulation & Design Lab during the first quarter 2006 : Optimization of Multi-threaded architectures applied to video-surveillance industrial software systems.

Activities and Societies:

Proud member of Alpha Kappa Psi, Professional Business Fraternity
Ecole d'Ingénieurs des Technologies de l'Information et du Management

Master of Science , Computer Science & Engineering , 2001 — 2006

Activities and Societies:

SEPEFREI, EFFOR, Game EFREI