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Yann Larrivée

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Yann Larrivée

Yann Larrivée

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Career Goal

Help business achieve their goals by understanding their business needs and translate this information into clear specifications and task that programmers will be able to follow.

Professional Experience

Founder/Consultant

June 2009 - ...

Union des Producteurs Agricoles (UPA)
Create an application to track animals (pigs) movements between stakeholders and premises in order to prevent lots contamination. Build the core of the application so it can be reused to track various animals and apply different traceability rules.

Zip Conferencing
Build the billing process and customized various tools (CRM, ERP) for an American conferencing service provider.

Technology used :

PHP5,Oracle,MySQL,Symfony,Zend Framework,Web Services,SOAP,PHPUNit,SVN,GIT,Trac,Linux,Apache

President

February 2002 - ...

Founded the PHP Quebec association. Created the Quebec City & Montreal PHP Quebec user group and helped organize monthly meetings.

Director of the 2003-2010 annual PHP Quebec Conference, helped searching for sponsors & speakers, promoting the event and making sure all task are completed according to the schedule.

Director of the PHP Quebec DVD & CDROM 2003-2007

Team Leader & Architect

May 2008 - May 2009

Defined customer needs and distributed task among team members. Established a development process based on Agile development methodologies such has SCRUM & FDD.

Created an API to generate ActionScript in order to interact with Flash charts generated with PHP without modifying the core of the Ez Components.

Build wap site, admin section & web services to enable Nantes Airport customers to check parking availability & securely download their boarding pass (barcode) onto their cellphone.

Build a robust survey system to help political parties to track the evolutions of their popularity among Quebec citizens listed in the DGE list.

Technology used :

PHP 5,MySQL 5,PostGreSQL,Action Script,Typo3,Drupal,Symfony,Ez Components,WAP/WML,SVN,Trac,Mercurial,Git,VIm,Linux,Map Server,Apache

Team Leader & PHP Programmer

May 2006 - May 2008

Defined internal customer needs and distributed task among team members. Established a development process based on Agile development methodologies such has FDD (Feature driven development) in order to increase software quality.

Secured, optimized, revised the work flow of the ERP/CRM for a more user friendly experience. Build a Dashboard wish monitored the customer usage and automatically assigned them into a specific category, which helped the sales team focus on customers with a decreasing/increasing usage.

Build tools to migrate BudgetConferencing customer database to Premiere Global web services.

Technology used :

PHP 4,MySQL 5,HTML,XML,XSL,CSS,Javascript,CVS,VIm,Linux,Apache

Programmer Analyst

October 2004 - March 2006

Optimised and secured the web applications.

Wrote the web development standards, security guides and the documentation for the new architecture.
Developed a plat-form enabling the purchase of cell phone games trough SMS and WAP download.

Technology used :

PHP 4,PHP 5, MySQL 5,XML,SOAP,Javascript,XHTML,WML,WAP,SMS,CVS,SVN,VIm,Linux,Apache

Programmer Analyst

March 2003 - July 2004

Build a plate-form maintain/create of multiple e-commerce sites with the ability to customize templates, depending of the origin of the customers (domain name, country, google search,...) or the category they belong too.

Technology used :

PHP5,ASP,MySQL 4,MSSQL,HTML,CSS,CVS,VIm,Linux,Apache,IIS

Programmer Analyst

April 2002 - March 2003

Participated in the development of a Medical Research application intended to facilitate the form creation by researchers, user data validation rules, apply many clinical research randomization techniques.

Technology used :

PHP4,Oracle,HTML,CSS,EditPlus,Certification ISO-9001,Apache

Other Experience

Education

Web Specialist

2001
Multihexa

Mining Engineering

1998-2001
Université Laval & Laurentian University

Sciences

1995-1998
Collège de Valleyfield

Qualifications

Programming

  • PHP5 / PHP4
  • XML, XSLT, XPath
  • Web Services (Soap, REST, XML-RPC)
  • HTML 4, XHTML 1 / CSS (1,2)
  • WAP/WML SMS
  • ActionScript
  • BASH

Frameworks & CMS

  • Symfony
  • Zend Framework
  • EzComponents
  • Typo3
  • Drupal

Databases

  • MySQL 5,4,3
  • PostGres 8
  • Oracle
  • MSSQL

Server

  • Apache
  • Zend Server
  • MapServer
  • IIS
  • Linux (Red Hat,Ubuntu,Debian)

Software

  • VI
  • SVN,Git,CSV,Mercurial
  • PHP Unit
  • Eclipse
  • Trac
  • MS Office, OpenOffice

Spoken Languages

  • French (spoken & written)
  • English (spoken & written)
  • Spanish (basic)
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