Pascal VUYLSTEKER
IT Consultant, Internet Project Leader, Web standarts and MacOSX evangelist.
Extensive knowledge of the Internet: 14 years' experience
encompassing all aspects of web sites and other internet tools deployment.
Strong engineering background. Experienced in research and teaching.
Practical minded, with an innovative approach to problem-solving.
Able to handle a large volume of work. Good relationship with people.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 05 / 09 - / -
6 months
Information Systems Manager at CEMS
(Jouy-en-Josas, France)
- Project Management. CEMS is a Global Alliance in Management Education. In practice, the association manage information coming from 28 academic institutions, 57 corporate partners, thousands of Alumni and more than 800 new students a year. I have the responsibility of the full information systems : from the back office, to the complete revamping of the outmoded web site. This job implies interactions with the alliance various stakeholders, and prioritisation of the requests. On the production side, there is the management of a developer and dealing with various providers.
- 10 / 06 -05 /09
3 years
IT Consultant at Opsomai
(Paris, France)
- Expertise: NewMedia (Web2.0, Ajax, Prototype ...), Video archives management, MacOSX/Cocoa programming, panoramic imagery and media geolocation
Technical research. Proposition of an reasoned shortlist of web based solutions for the B2B and B2C video delivery platform of the French Broadcasting Institute (INA).
Selection of an open source ECM (Enterprise Content Management) platform for INA's intranet.
Project Manager and Ajax developer for Orao : a QuickTime based web video player that fully emulate a professional video tape recorder user interface (jog shuttle, frame by frame...).
- 06 / 01 - 08 / 06
5 years
IT Lecturer (New Media, Web, Computer Graphics, VR) at ANU
(Canberra, Australia)
- Academic at the Australian
National University (ANU) in the eScience group of the Department
of Computer Science (in charge of the first Department's Masters)
Creation, management and teaching of courses : "NewMedia"
(Web2.0, Ajax, video & sound codecs), "Computer
Graphics" and "Networked
Virtual Reality".
Management of Masters student's projects.
Research interests : panoramic
imagery and media
geolocation (GIS : Geographic Information System)
- 09 / 94 - 08 / 00
6 years
INA Webmaster
(Bry-sur-Marne, near Paris, France)
- Technical team leader for the portal "MediaPort"
and INA's web site (supervised
a staff of 4 technicians.)
INA is the French National Broadcasting Institute (government organisation).
Main activities are Video Archiving, Teaching, Research and Production
related to Broadcasting.
Launched the Internet and web activity within INA from the very
first web site in 94 to the intranet.
Participated actively in organising international conferences (Imagina,
Monaco).
Designed and implemented large web site production tools.
Strong vision in the selection of technologies used and developed
by the team (Apache, Perl, MySQL, QuickTime...).
Involved in internet training program for French broadcasters.
Lobbying to develop the Internet in France. Technological survey
on Virtual
Reality
Involved in various publications
and manifestations
04 - 08 / 94
5 months
Marne la Vallée
University web site
(Noisy-le-Grand, near Paris, France)
DEA Training course at the Computer Graphics
Laboratory (C.I.G.)
Research interest :
Scientific visualisation : How to represent abstract data in 3 dimensions
How to introduce the 3rd dimension to the Web : VRML
07 - 09 / 93
3 months
SYSECA
(Computer engineering and maintenance company, Paris)
Develop a Producer-Injector of messages with intent to
validate a software package.
Treated fields: Lexical and syntactic analysis (lex, yacc), Unix graphic
interface. C.
01 - 06 / 93
6 months
Michel de Swaen High School
(Dunkerque, North of France)
Teaching technology to grades eight and nine.
04 - 07 / 91
4 months
INFODYNE
(R & D start-up in computing, Southern Paris)
Programming the module "skirting of obstacle" for an
autonomous vehicle.
Treated fields: algorithmic geometry, graphic
interface and dynamic management of the memory. C.
09 - 11 / 90
3 months
Plasma Research
Laboratory - Australian National University
(Canberra, Australia)
Computerization of a data acquisition: the plasma density distribution.
Treated fields: data acquisition card management, Object Oriented
Programming. Pascal.
RELATED ACTIVITIES
- 05 - 06
Panberra : a new website on Panoramic images in Canberra
(Canberra)
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- 01 - ...
Father of two
(Earth)
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- 01 - 03
Woodworking
(Canberra)
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- 98 - 99
Pari-Roller
(Paris)
- Every Friday evening, thousands (up to 30000 in summer)
of Parisians put on their rollers for a 3 hour ride trough Paris'
streets. I used to belong to the team of volunteers that help everything
to go off peacefully.
- 97 - 98
Université
Ouverte (Open university)
(Paris)
- The open university is an association and a place where
volunteers teach French, mathematics, computing... to anybody and
especially people with low ressources (unemployed, immigrants...).
- 91 - 92
Military service period
(Paris)
- Professor (mathematics, physics...) within the Paris
Fire Brigade.
- 88 - 91
Community life
(Marseille, France)
- Member of the Student Council of my Engineering School
Person in charge of the Photo Club, School newspaper chief editor.
School club treasurer.
- 84 - 90
Seasonal employment
(Drôme, Tarn et Garonne, France)
- Swimming pool life guard and poolman. Holiday camp activity
leader.
LANGUAGES
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English
Fluent
Teaching at Masters level in
Australia for 5 years, international worshops.
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French
First language
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ACTIVITIES AND INTEREST
- Travel
- Australia, Belgium, Benin, Holland, Morocco, Portugal, Singapour, UK, USA,...
- Leisure
- Panoramic Photography, Horse-riding (TREC), Rollerblading (Paris, Sydney), Paragliding,
Woodworking.
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