Yann Larrivée

Career Goal

• Help business achieve their goals
• Positively influence the IT market by:
  • Offering Advice & Coaching
  • Organizing a World class conference

Qualities

• Customer oriented approach
• Straight to the point
• Deliver value
• Problem solver
• Respect deadlines
• Positive
• Efficient & Pragmatic
• Professional

Experience of interest

ConFoo

Role

• President

Objectives

• Give the best conference experience
• Increase the knowledge of developers
• Promote the web development best practices
• Encourage local and Canadian talent
• Promote the collaboration between technologies and communities
• Train the next generation of programmers

Challenges

• Time sensitive
  • Live event: fixed deadline
• Non profit
  • Financial constraint
  • Based on volunteers
• Satisfy over 600 attendees

Responsibilities

• Ensure financial health
  • Define financial goals
  • Define sponsor plans
  • Define rates for training/conference
  • Manage budget
• Relations
  • Customers
    • Sponsor
    • Speakers
    • Attendees
  • Service providers
• Project management
• Ensure on time execution
• Marketing
  • Define the organization’s
    voice
  • Review marketing material

Tasks

• Identify risks
• Make decisions
• Execution

 

Sunmedia

Objectives

• Create a document management platform
• Migrate the content from existing database
• Feed content to 200 websites
  • Toronto Sun
  • Journal de Montreal
  • Journal de Quebec
  • Regional news papers

 

Challenges

• Unknown technologies
  • Documentum
  • FatWire
• Performance

Responsibilities

• Risk assessment
• Define
  • Migration process
  • Data quality
  • Editorial process &constraint
  • Web publication process

Tasks

• Analyzed
• Prototyped technology connectors

Technologies

• Documentum
• FatWire
• UML
• PHP
• Oracle

 

ViaCapitale

Objectives

• Project salvage
• On time delivery

Challenges

• Late project
• High visibility project
• 2 development teams
  • Locations
    • Quebec
    • British Columbia
  • Skill levels
    • Junior
    • Senior
  • Languages spoken
    • Only French
    • Only English

Responsibilities

• Ensure transparency
  • Developers
  • Product owners
• Bring a positive attitude
• Increase team productivity
• Ensure on time delivery
• Lead by example

Tasks

• Eased the communication between teams
• Followed up on project progress
• Mentor/Coached junior programmers
• Optimized code
• Reviewed code
• Tested application

Technologies

• PHP5
• MYSQL
• SVN
• Apache
• Linux

 

Autonet

Objectives

• Project salvage
• Build a new development team
• Deliver key features for marketing

Challenges

• No knowledge transfer
• No developers on current project
• Time sensitive project

Responsibilities

• Lead the team
• Build and train a team of 5 developers
• Define customer needs

Tasks

• Created the development environment
• Documented part of the code
• Trained a 5 man team
  • Developers
  • Integrators
• Project Management
  • Sprint Planing
  • Held the daily status meeting
  • Evaluate the customer needs
  • Established a release schedule
• Coding
  • Implemented newfeatures
  • Fixed bugs
  • Analyzed performance
  • Optimized Code & Database

Technologies

• PHP5
• Symfony1
• Zend Framework 1
• MySQL
• Apache
• Linux
• SVN
• Jira

Zip Conferencing

Objectives

• Enable the owner to be autonomous
• Implement billing solution
  • Manual
  • Automated

• Implement various customer plans
• Customize a CRM/ERP solution

Challenges

• No way to invoice customers
• Fast growth
• Financial stress

Responsibilities

• Risk assessment
• Evaluate customer needs
• Prepare release schedule

Tasks

• Developed the solution
• Deployed the application

Technologies

• PHP5
• MySQL
• Linux
• Apache
• SVN

 

TVA

Objectives

• Launch a new version of the TVA website
• Build a content repository to feed other websites

Challenges

• Time sensitive project
• High visibility project
• Large number of websites to feed

Responsibilities

• Implementation

Tasks

• Build a television schedule module
  • TV show profile page
  • Artist profile page
  • Reusable components for multiple websites

• Live broadcasting of some shows

Technologies

• PHP5
• Drupal
• MySQL
• Linux
• Apache
• SVN