Curriculum Vitae
(Long comprehensive version)
Career Management Document
Project Management of commercial software development and R&D services and products,
specialised in data management and Business Intelligence
f.a.fournier@gmail.com - +44 7981812754 - francoisfournier.tel
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Professional Experience
October 2011 – Present: Software Engineer, IHS Inc., Aberdeen
Project Managing and Leading the development of offshore drilling rig operations models and modelling algorithms for oil rig efficiency forecasting and user recommendation in the process of business decision making
October 2008 – September 2011: Knowledge Transfer Associate, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and ODS-Petrodata Ltd, Aberdeen (acquired by IHS Inc., April 2011)
Project Manager, Leading the development of offshore drilling rig operations models and modelling algorithms for oil rig efficiency forecasting and user recommendation in the process of business decision making
Project development and management, team coordination and management, software architecture, Software and Embedded computing developments.
- Delivered the project, based on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) award in excess of £200k, on time and 2.5% under budget
- Developed a durable cooperation relationship between international education/academic and corporate worlds, leading to the creation of 8 placement and student projects
- Managed the relationship on behalf of the project with the public funding body
- Volunteered to project manage additional short term projects: product quality procedures audit, environmental projects, interns guidance, data covariance and pattern analysis
- Led and Managed the specification process and the creation of a generic framework for data input applications development, led the development within a small team (3), advocated the use of the framework for other projects within the company
- Designed, deployed, tested and integrated a worldwide distributed file sharing and synchronisation system
Project development and management, team coordination and management, software architecture, Software and Embedded computing developments.
- Computing department manager (acting), streamlined the projects developments
- Managed a specification process and the product software designs
1999-2005: Various computing support and deployment positions, web development, retail, financial control (La Poste), internships, projects and placements, in France (1999-2004), Mexico (2004) and Scotland (2004-2005)
Personal and university projects include: Carer scheduling (MSc project), automatic language identification using stopwords (BsC hons project, 99.95% accuracy), piloting system of an observation drone, surface computing multi-touch coffee table , car dashboard PC system with touch screen interface, CMS from scratch, computerised light controlling system, embedded piloting system of an observation drone using Intel 8051 microcontroller (ONERA Drones Competition)
Publications and Talks
Performed a range of public, scientific, training and corporate talks such as: "Searching on the Internet: Using Google and its tools", "Recommender Systems", "Evolved Bayesian Network Models of Rig Operations in the Gulf of Mexico", "Talking Science: A superficial introduction to the subtle art of academic talks" and various executive management corporate presentations and demonstration.
Published a small range of conference publications and technical reports on Recommender Systems, Evolved Bayesian Network Models and Oil Rig Operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Education
October 2008 – April 2012 (pending): PhD Computing, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Data modelling for business decision making and business intelligence, using probabilistic models and artificial intelligence-based metaheuristics in a commercial environment (part-time research project)
November 2008 – September 2011: Level 5 diploma in Management and Leadership from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
September 2006 – September 2007: MSc Computing: Information Engineering, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
(Obtained with distinction)
September 2004 – June 2006: BSc (hons) in Computing & Information, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
(First class, class prize, class representative)
September 2002 – July 2004: Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie (DUT) in Computing, Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT), Université d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Industrial Systems Specialisation)
July 2002: Baccalauréat S, Lycée de Presles (03), France (Main subjects: Engineering Sciences -Electronics and Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry and Maths-)
Continuous Professional Development
MCMI, CMI Level 5 Management and Leadership Diploma, TOGAF, PRINCE2 ...
Key Competencies
Management
Business Intelligence, Project Management, Team Leadership and Development, Software Architecture, Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF), Strategic Planning, Project Finances, Soft Skills, Agile development, Government and processional Ethics, Green IT/Green Management, Change Management, Motivating and Influencing, Systematic Thinking, PRINCE2, TOGAF
Computing
Java, SQL, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, notions or former experience in other languages (Voice-XML, JSP, UML, ASM, C, C++,G, TB, MO5-BASIC), Object Oriented Programming, 3D reconstruction from 2D scanning and 3D data processing, web development, voice recognition, layer programming, relational and object oriented databases, information security, knowledge management, UML analysis, embedded computing, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, constraint search (notions), information retrieval, data mining, probabilistic models, e-commerce, research skills, statistics
Languages
English: fluent (main working language) - French: mother tongue - Spanish: self-taught basics - German: school basics
Personal Interests
D.I.Y., Engineering and Technology, Design, Show techniques, Music, Culture and Traditions, Rugby, Climbing, Mountaineering
Additional info
- International/EU Driving Licence obtained in March 2003 in France
- Associative Committee member in Aurora Scottish Country Dancing 2007-2009, University Scottish Dance Society 2009-2011, Shelterstone Mountainering RGU Student club 2007-2011, IVFDF2012 Treasurer (University Festival) 2011-2012
- First Aid certificate, specialised on mountaineering, obtained in April 2006
- Volunteer Webmaster for multiple associative, personal and professional websites.