Yohan Launay

Current

Technology & Innovation Advisor at ConceptSL
Project Planning Seminar Teacher at EFREI - Ecole des Technologies de l'Information et du Management
Co-Owner & Director of Operations at H2I France

Co-founder at NoMajors.com - pilot project H2I France

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Past

Innovation & Concept Engineer - Innovation Labs at Altran Group
Innovation Labs Co-Founder at ALTRAN Télécoms & Médias / Innovation Labs
R&D Engineer - Mobile Advertising Solutions at Orange

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

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Yohan Launay’s Summary

Important: I am looking for business opportunities in Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, China, HK) , preferably joining a well established company (small or medium size). Please contact me if you think your company would benefit from people like me.

Software & IT Engineer (MSc) [EFREI-McGill], I have developed several video surveillance professional software, one of these projects has been rewarded by Microsoft - Label Ingénieur 2004 (Engineering Award 2004). I spent some time at Lafarge / Edifixio to redesign their logistics system. I also worked at the prestigious McGill Modeling, Simulation & Design Lab (MSDL) in Canada. My speciality : the study and analysis of technologies and their uses - called Reverse Engineering.

My job is to design and extend the capabilities of existing products or services, create innovative solutions and experiences by combining new technologies and emerging Internet technologies. I work with my customer at every phase of the conception : from the initial audit of his services and of his competitors, the feasibility and cost studies, creation phase, prototyping, to the supervision of the project and integration.

My First Job: Technology Advisor

My Second Job: Specialized Technology Watch and Intelligence

I'm quite specialized in 3D-Internet technologies, and I have written a couple of papers on the matter you may be interested to read here : http://www.ConceptSL.com/papers/

Yohan Launay’s Specialties:

new technologies, web 3D, virtual worlds, software architecture, languages

Yohan Launay’s Experience

Technology & Innovation Advisor

ConceptSL

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Website : http://www.ConceptSL.com

"The technology is less interesting than the stories. We use technology as a stage to tell stories that would otherwise be untellable."

Our First Job: Technology Advisors

* Feasibility studies
* Costs Studies and Technical Project Costs Evaluation
* Prototyping
* Profiling, Searching and Qualifying technologies to develop specific projects
* Profiling, Searching and Qualifying technology providers and specialists
* Project Technical Constraints and Scope definitions
* Bids / Call for projects propositions writing and / or validation
* Negotiation with technology providers and specialists
* Technological Partnerships Building
* Technology & Innovation Auditing

Our Second Job: Specialized Technology Watch and Intelligence

* Researching technologies bringing value to your activity
* Proposing innovations on your products and services
* Tests of New Technologies
* Case Studies
* Writing White Papers for decision makers
Project Planning Seminar Teacher

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

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

2006 — Present (3 years )

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).
Co-Owner & Director of Operations

H2I France

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

We are two engineers from the software world (programming and architecture). We use our unconventionnal approach, methodology and analysis to assist companies in solving their strategic problems. We help our customers identify and implement innovative strategies based on new technologies.

We have a very straightforward and opened approach. We want our customers to understand every aspects of the operations we set up. The goal is to help them prepare their own operation. We then just step in for the realisation.

We do not prospect, we rely essentially on word to mouth. We pick our projects carefuly. They must be really innovative, value-adding and with great potential.

We are trying to build a network of professionals from various domains related to innovation to address a maximum of problematics. Don't hesistate to contact me.
Co-founder

NoMajors.com - pilot project H2I France

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

After 8 months of work, we beta-launched NoMajors.com pilot project of H2I France. NoMajors is an Internet platform to ease up music distribution for independent artists, bypassing traditional distribution channels. A bit like MySpace but more focused on music distribution. The main goal of the project was to start from a simple business idea and develop it as far as possible with a few financial capabilities both technically and business side. The project would now need VC financing to be turned into a profitable business.
Innovation & Concept Engineer - Innovation Labs

Altran Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year )
Innovation Labs Co-Founder

ALTRAN Télécoms & Médias / Innovation Labs

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year )
R&D Engineer - Mobile Advertising Solutions

Orange

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
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
Ecole d'Ingénieurs des Technologies de l'Information et du Management

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