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CV de Fabrice Pasquier

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Male, single, born in 1979, leaving in Fribourg, Switzerland

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Education and language

1998-2004	EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Communication Systems division, Master Degree in March 2004
1994-1998	High school, Collège du Sud, Bulle (Switzerland) Scientific section, A-level in 1998
Language	French (native), English (Cambridge BEC Higher), German (basics)

Professional experience

Search engine consultant, BI specialist, solution architect at VenTek International
2010, 2011	Business Intelligence Design and deployment of Cognos BI in several Swiss companies part of the Richemont luxury group. Intensive usage of Cognos Reports and Metric Studio. Creation of dashboards, usage of various Cognos caching mechanisms to accelerate reports display. Experience with Cognos Business Insight.
2008, 2009	Data cleansing and data monetization Design and deployment of 2 projects for large companies in South Africa. Creation of processes to improve and assess data quality. Creation of automatic and manual criteria to measure data quality. Usage of the ETL tool BusinessObjects Data Integrator and of the search engine Microsoft FAST formerly known as FAST ESP.
2007, 2008	Design and deployment of a Search Engine for the Yellow Pages in South Africa and in Singapore Architect and part of the developers team of the project. High-availability solution with worldwide visibility. Use of a highly customized Search Engine cluster with hardware/software redundancy. Advise and implement business rules, including products strategy (ranking, pricing model). Design and deployment of a news aggregation portal for the Singapore market. Involved in all project phases, including negotiation phase with news providers.
2008, 2009	Search engine for enterprise (Intranet) search Manage and implement a project to enable a centralized search engine for a United Nations organization in Geneva. Connection to the existing back-end systems, such as Lotus Domino, Novell file shares and to the security gateway.
IT Expert at United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
2004-2006	Expert and technical adviser for several projects led by the UNECE Responsible for the design and development of the web portal Clearing House of THE PEP. It is an exchange platform used to disseminate best-practices (electronic documents) related to Transport, Health or Environment. Understanding of the business requirements and their translation into an IT solution. Development using .Net technology (XML, XSL, Web services, SQL Server) Multilingual portal (Russian, French and English)

Academic and research experience

Sony Technology Center, Tokyo, Japan
2004	6-months internship. Understanding and characterization of Film Grain Noise. Used to create a digital model to generate articial noise and add it to high-resolution digital movie frames, compressed with MPEG algorithms (HDTV). Master Thesis work
Philips Research, Natlab, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2004	6-months internship. Work related to the improvement of FFT algorithm's speed when using fixed-point numbers. Application in the field of watermarking in MPEG framework.

Computer skills

Application	Expert in FAST ESP (entreprise search engine) Expert in SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator Expert with Cognos BI 8 (certified specialist, see below)
Programming language	C# .NET, Python, JAVA & JSP, PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Visual Basic, Javascript, C, C++
Operating System	Windows XP/2003 Server: strong knowledge in configuration and administration Unix (Solaris): basic usage Linux Redhat: strong knowledge in configuration and administration
Databases	Microsoft SQL server 2005/2008: Stored procedures, advanced SQL queries, Reporting Services, .Net DataSet MySQL 5: good knowledge Oracle: good knowledge
Networking	TCP/IP v4, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, routing, FTP, HTTP, web services, load balancing systems
Others	Joomla, LaTex, Open Office, Microsoft Office, Symantec Backup Exec

Other interests

Engineering	Understanding and usage of cutting edge IT products
Hobbies	Ski touring, Badminton, Photography, Music

IT Certifications

Microsoft	TS: Configuring Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
IBM	IBM Certified Designer - Cognos 8 BI Multidimensional Reports IBM Certified Developer - Cognos 8 BI Scorecards IBM Certified Specialist - Cognos 8 BI IBM Certified Administrator - Cognos 8 BI