Boris du Reau
Redhill RH1 1AT
United kingdom
Email: bdureau@bigfoot.com
(Mobile) (+44) (0) 956-538-457

Personal Information

Education

1995 Honours Degree in Information Technology
at Staffordshire University, England.


1993 BTS Electronic mentions Economics and English
at LSI Gustave Eiffel (Cachan France).




1990 Baccalaureate F2(electronics) grade AB
at LSI Gustave Eiffel.

Languages

French: mother tongue
English: fluent (spoken and written).
Spanish: intermediate.
 
 
 
 

Technical knowledge
Operating Systems: UNIX/Linux, DOS, MS Windows (3.1, 95,98 and NT), VMS, XWindows.

Programming Languages: C/C++, Pascal FC, SQL, UNIX shells (sh, bash), PowerBuilder, Assemblers.

Databases: Sybase 10 and 11, Postgres95.

Networking: Intranet and Internet: I have configured Windows and Unix platform to
communicate using samba. I familiar with the following protocols TCP/IP, FTP, SLIP,
DIP, PPP...

Electronic: Assemblers, hardware projects-analysis and design.

Additional information

Car and lorry driving licence.
 
 

Travelling: Lived and studied in England for nearly 6 years.
Holidays in Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Portugal and other European countries.

Other activities: Building model kits, stamp collecting, computer networking and electronic design hobbyist. Open source development on the Internet.  

Work experience

Cigna and ACE (September 97 - present time):
Crawley United Kingdom

Senior Analyst programmer

During those two and half year I was involve on several projects with 3 different countries (Germany, France and the UK). While at Cigna which then became ACE, I have learn a lot technically and also on the business side:

On the technical side

- I have improved a lot my Power builder development working in a team with good coding standards and in an application with more than 400 screens. I have coded from scratch some part of the application (I have design a generic Insurance policy document generator to produce MSWord document with data from our Sybase Database using Rich Text templates).

- I have also done a lot of Sybase development; our application is a 2 and ½ tier which mean that most of our logic is in stored procedure.

- C++ development (porting and improvement of all our backend programmes from an NT platform to a Linux platform). Those programs were originally written with Borland C++.

- Installation and configuration of several Linux server. Those servers were running Samba, Sybase SQL server and all our backend program written in C++.

- Some Web development using HTML, JavaScript, Colfusion and SylverStream.

- Used some technology like OLE.

- I have used versioning system like PVCS and the Lotus Notes database to track our bugs? report.

On the business side

- Good knowledge of the insurance business, I have followed all the internal training that I could get

- I had the opportunity to see the business from 3 different countries and work closely with them. I have participated to the Euro project.

- I was also involved in project design.

Training

- Went on some Power Builder courses and seminar.

- Did some user training especially in France and the UK.

BAII Asset Management (January 97 - August 97):
Swan Gardens, 10 Piccadilly street
LONDON W1V OEE, United Kingdom

Analyst programmer

- Development of front office applications under Windows 3.1 using MS Visual C/C++ and PowerBuilder. The main aspects of my duties involved writing Windows DLLs (in C) used by PowerBuilder in order to display some financial graphics.

- Sybase development on SQL server 10 and 11 (went on a Sybase course).

- Frequent use of the HP UX as a user or eventually as a system administrator to customise the machine to my needs (compilation and installation of the Bourne Again Shell).

- Was involve in the maintenance of the database feed.

- Had an introduction to finance.

The project I have been working on was covering a vast aria, gave me the opportunity to work on a big database and show me how to solve day to day problems especially with historical data which are not always accurate. My job was to design some tools to correct them and make them available to the user. It
 

Placement at Schlumberger (July 96 until October 1996):
PARIS FRANCE

        - Reorganisation of laboratories.

        - Designing configuring and applying protocols analysers.
 
 

National Service (August 95 until May 96) :
BITCHE FRANCE

        - Work on a network of PCs (Windows, Linux, C,...).

        - Secretary and occasionally English translator for the officers of the regiment.

As a corporal I was technically in charge of the computers in the regiment, I was also asked for my opinion when they had to by some new computers and software. I was training people to use various software.
 
 

Little placement after the first year of my BTS at Staffordshire University:
STAFFORD UK

        - Conception and realisation of a Wien bridge oscillator.

        - Practical use of ORCAD (PCB, PSPICE, DRAFT).

       - Started to realise the importance of programming.
 
 

Manager of Cachan?s electronic club (2 years):
PARIS FRANCE

- Teaching practical electronics to teenagers.

- Introduction to computers, by connecting some external home made devices on parallel port and using Basic programming.