Nanalegumene Édouard Brière’s musings

Résumé

Identity

Édouard Brière

edouard.briere@gmail.com

Living in Linköping, Sweden

Born June the 20th, 1982 (26 years old)

French Citizenship

Experience

Web developer at Last.fm Ltd. (CBS Interactive)
London, United Kingdom. February 2007 – December 2008

Website Internationalisation, development of back-end tools.

Based in London, Last.fm is maybe the largest music website on Internet, used by more than 25 Million users.

My duties are to maintain the 11 international websites, develop scalable, reusable and localisable components, adapt the website to each language specificity and develop back-end tools used by the staff.

Last.fm — http://www.last.fm

Java developer at Crédit Agricole Asset Management
Paris, France. June 2006 – August 2006

Development of internal web services

Crédit Agricole is one the largest bank in France. I was employed by the technical team of the “assets department”. My duty was to develop a set of internal web services used by an audit.

I also developed the two first clients for this webservice, in Java and Microsoft Excel.

Crédit Agricole Asset Management – http://www.caam.com/

Technical skills

Years of Experience is enclosed between brackets.

Languages

PHP (7), Ruby (1), Java (4), C++ (2), SQL (5)
CSS (4), JavaScript (5)

Technologies and Frameworks

Smarty (2), Ruby on Rails (1) , Struts (0,5)

Miscellaneous

Version Control Systems (svn, git) (2)
Memcached (2)

College Education

Master Degree in Computer Sciences and Management
University of Linköping, Sweden. 2007 – Present

While working for Last.fm I studied a master degree at the University of Linköping in Sweden. The courses I chose are focused on Project Management, Agile methods and Quality Assessment.

I also chose non-IT related courses such as courses to learn the Swedish language and courses about History and Culture of Sweden.

Bachelor in Computer Sciences applied to Corporate Management
University of Lille 1, France. 2004 – 2007

Languages

I’m fluent in French and English.
I can also understand and get myself understood in German and Swedish.

Interests

I have a strong interest in Photography, Music, Typography and Programming. I used to sail a lot and I’m a sailing instructor.