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Samuel HOCEVAR - CV
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Personal details
Address:
14 rue de Plaisance
75014 Paris (France)
Phone: (+33) 681 122 062 |
E-mail: <samuel@hocevar.net> |
Single, born on 5th August 1978 in Forbach (Moselle)
French nationality
French driving licence |
Languages
| French: |
fluent (mother tongue), good grammar and spelling |
| English: |
fluent (TOEFL score: 647 in 1997), numerous stays in England, can
tell the difference between it’s and its |
| German: |
good knowledge and practice |
| Spanish: |
good knowledge |
Professional experience
| 2006 - present |
Director of R&D at Uniways
(surveillance systems, video streaming solutions, intelligent vision)
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| 2003 - 2006 (not defended
yet) |
SNCF - Direction de l’Innovation et
de la Recherche, ENST - Laboratoire Informatique et Réseaux: Computer
Science Industrial PhD ("Generation of realistic railroad simulations from
video images") (image processing, computer vision, 3D reconstruction,
video coding, HDTV, C, Unix)
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| 2002: |
SNCF - Direction de la Recherche
et de la Technologie, unité Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information et
de la Communication (Paris, France), 8 months : work on a showpiece for
at-seat multimedia services and video streaming research (C, C++, Unix,
Win32, WinCE, MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, WiFi)
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| 1998 - 2002:
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VideoLAN, video streaming
solution and cross-platform DVD player: major project contributor for
several years (C, C++, Unix, Win32, MPEG, MPEG2, DVD) |
| 1999: |
Claranet France (Paris,
France), 7 months: systems team - Unix administration,
network tools development (C, PHP, MySQL) |
| 1998 - 2000: |
École Centrale
(Châtenay-Malabry, France), 3 years: system administration
of the students network (10 servers, more than 800 computers) in
the VIA Centrale Réseaux
non-profit organisation |
Training
| 2003 - 2006 (ongoing): |
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris:
Computer Science Industrial PhD
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| 1997 - 2002: |
École Centrale of Paris: engineer’s diploma, electromechanical
systems and applied mechatronics speciality, project management
specialisation, graduated with honours (mention bien)
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| 1995 - 1997: |
Lycée Fabert, Metz (France, Moselle): preparatory classes |
Personal knowledge
| Operating systems |
- GNU/Linux (administration well-mastered, part of the Debian
project)
- good knowledge of Solaris, most BSD Unix systems, GNU/Hurd
- experience with Mac OS X, AmigaOS, Windows NT, 95, 3.x |
| Networks |
- LAN (Ethernet, ARP, RARP, Token Ring), ATM
- Cisco IOS, SNMP aministration and monitoring
- low-level Internet: IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP
- high-level Internet: HTTP, NNTP, SMTP, DNS, DHCP, NFS |
| Administration |
- 9 years of Unix administration experience, excellent knowledge
of the common tools
- examples of well-known server setups: INN, Apache, BIND,
Postfix |
| Programming |
- low-level: NEC/Saturn assembly NEC/Saturn (mastered), Z80 and
m68k assembly, x86 assembly (notions, some MMX), reverse-engineering
- high-level: C (excellent knowledge, several personal and team
projects of more than 5,000 lines), C#, Java, C++, Scheme (good knowledge),
bases in Pascal and Caml
- libraries: Xlib, GTK+/GNOME, SDL
- scripting languages: POSIX shell, PHP, sed and awk well mastered,
good knowledge of Python, Perl |
| Other |
- databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
- markup languages: LaTeX2e, SGML, HTML, XHTML, CSS
- good knowledge of the MPEG and MPEG2 standards (especially the
system layer), excellent knowledge of the DVD format
- excellent image processing skills (various projects, from
robot guiding to captcha decoding) |
Miscellanea
| Sports: |
- practical experience of judo for 8 years, soccer, badminton,
coneball
- chess competitions (current ELO: 1860) |
| Culture and leisure: |
- Scrabble, bicycle, modelling, drawing and painting, reading,
cinema, XXth century artistic movements, Japanese culture, cooking
- active contributor of the Wikipedia project (French and English
versions) since 2004 |
| Computers: |
- part of the Debian
project since 1999 (Project Leader 2007-2008), various activities amongst
the OpenSource community, mostly development |
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