Web Professional
Proficient Web developer with 6 years of experience in all aspects of Web sites and applications development: server configuration, databases, application architecture, HTML integration with CSS, client-side applications with Javascript and development lifecycle. Creator and sole developer on Élément Santé, a social network for heal\ th professionnals.
Proficiences:
- Programming: PHP, C/C++, C# .NET, Java, Javascript, SQL procedures and database development
- Servers: Ubuntu Linux server, MySQL, Apache 2
- Web: broad knowledge of Web development and technologies, HTML integration with CSS, XML+XSL, SEO and front-end performance optimization, media encoding (ffmpeg and imagemagick)
- Creativity: high quality user interfaces, navigation and functionality defition of an application, prototyping and rapid application development
- Misc: Smarty, Memcached, Zend Framework, Regular expressions
Current status: Looking for Web development contracts.
Freelance Web developer
I am looking for freelance or consulting contracts in Web development, integration, SEO, front-end optimization, database development and training. Contact me for requests.
Status: available
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur in Web application research & development for the LAMP platform. Projects include application prototyping, rapid application development and productivity tools for Web professionals.
Writer and philosopher
Philosopher of democratic and information theories and the future role of technology in political culture and economy activity. I have spent a few full-time months and hundreds of hours in deep reflexion on the dynamics of democratic societies. I am mostly interested in the role of communication in politics and the potential of information technologies to evolve the ancient principles that govern our political institutions.
I have written many essays, although negligence on my part has lost a lot of them. I am rebuilding my writing base on this site, which currently has about 20 essays, about half in French, my first unpublished book, The tools society (French), and details on my two current book projects. Many more essays will be added over time.
Author of the Manifeste pour un Québec moderne (French), a social project for a Quebec embracing modernity and prosperity.
Musician
Drummer for Chucks Nation, a punk rock band that released its self-produced first album, Supper's Ready, in January 2007 and is working on its second album.
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