Christophe de BAST 5, rue de la Trésorerie 73 000 Chambéry - FRANCE
Mobile: +33 6 64 48 54 39 E-mail:
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Seeking position: Team Leader / Project Manager / Account manager Specialized in the embedded software for mobile phone devices since 1998, I have more than 8 years of experience in medium sized team management (up to 12 software engineers), and more recently been working as a Product Manager to define a full application suite based on the LiMo Linux consortium platform.
Professional experience Purple Labs (8 years) – Software design for mobile phones
Since Sept’07
Product Manager
Le Bourget du Lac, 73 375 - FRANCE
• Full responsibility to produce a detailed Product Description and Business Case documents for a complete Linux software platform (budget for this product: 14 millions USD) rd • Select 3 party partners as software suppliers, licences and prices negotiations • Tier 1 operator requirements analysis focusing on Orange and Vodafone • Interface with R&D team for feature explanation and selection • Competition monitoring and analysis • Work in a dynamic international context involving many trips abroad (China, Middle-east Asia, Europe) Team management • Up to 12 people management • Weekly team meetings for general communication and instruction purposes • Individual follow up, short, medium, long term targets • Weekly reporting to upper management • Appraisals and salary reviews • Deeply involved in hiring processes
Oct’01 Sept’07
Software Application Team Leader
Technical achievements • Full responsibility for the whole application developments for all devices • Application architecture in both a RT Linux and proprietary OS • Provided support to team members (technical issues, architecture advices and choices), coding rules and good practices, code reviews, unitary testing and MVC design pattern Projects • Up to 30 different models (from low to high tier): i-mode, WAP, multimedia phones, enhanced messaging devices, touch screen interfaces, hand writing recognition engine integration… • Complex development scheduling in a resource limited environment for a high pressured consumer market • Workshop with customers to define application features or graphical interfaces
Sensei Ltd (2.5 years) – Mobile phone design (SW and HW)
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire – UK
Team management • Up to 6 people management • Team activities and management as described above Dec’99 Oct’01
Man Machine Interface Team Leader
Technical achievements • Layer 3 stack stabilization (for phonebook, messaging, SS and SATK) • PC tool specifications for layout and touch screen engine, resource file management (icons, prompts) Projects • Black and white standard phones, grey scale touch screen phone, first WAP phones
Jan’99 Dec’99
MMI Software Developer
Christophe de Bast December 2008
Application development • Major developments: editors, a proprietary predictive text input algorithm, messaging and phonebook applications, VCard parser, supplementary services, Tetris, development PC tools 1/2
Colombes - FRANCE
Alcatel (1 year) Dec’99 Jul’98
Developer
Core development software engineer • Developed a tool that generate C source code in order to decode AT commands (interface with Modem) • Integration and test of the engine in the embedded environment
Skills French: native speaker English: fluent, I have lived and worked almost 3 years in the UK. Fully operational for both written documentation and oral presentation German: basic notions
Languages
Technical skills
Methods: V-Cycle, MVC design pattern, Object design Development: real time embedded constrained environments Programming language: C, Object Oriented C, notions of C++ Tools: gcc, svn, scons, nmake, Valgrind, Bugzilla, Bugtracker, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office OS: Linux, RTOS Telecom: general knowledge, ETSI specifications, mobile phone operator requirements
Education and trainings 1994 1998
ESME Sudria
Advanced French school of Engineer, Paris Majoring in computer science and telecommunications
Jun’97 Aug’98
Sagem
Full time training period at Sagem during which I have been integrated in the development team at the very early days of the GSM division to develop a PC tool to backup/restore user data, and fax data management for the “Fax inside” feature
1992 1994
Preparatory school
Preparatory years to high French engineer schools – Lycée St Joseph – La Roche/Yon – Majoring in Math (Maths Spé)
References Professional references available upon request
Interests and others Travels
New-Zealand, China, Taiwan, Hong-Kong, USA, Brazil, Venezuela, UK, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Czech republic
Sports
Swimming, ski, sailing, tennis and rugby fan (watching)
Others
DIY, socializing with friends, scout leader
Christophe de Bast December 2008
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