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Damien CHOIZIT

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FRANCE

5th September 1985

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http://www.damienchoizit.com

French nationality

Career Objective



Having reached my objectives in term of studies, I would like to invest myself in a company on a long term perspective, for testing and proving my value by bringing my knowledge and experience.
My fields of expertise are directly related to the position of Business analyst, Project manager or for some atypical positions where my versatile profile can be an asset; moreover, I feel ready to embrace an international opportunities.
To get to know me better, I suggest you to visit my website: http://www.damienchoizit.com

Work Experience – (3 years and 10 months)



July 2009 – December 2009
(6 months)

DDNS in Melbourne, Australia
as a Junior Project Manager

  • Accomplishment of several major projects
  • Micro-management of a 3-developers team
  • Requirements, specifications, architecture & testing
  • Respecting commitments (quality , delay, perimeter and cost)
  • Client relations
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 Concrete projects (in order of completion):

May 2006 – September 2008
(2 years and 4 months)

Soft Computing Technologies in Paris, France
as an IT Software engineer, and IT Consultant

  • Assisting project manager
  • Major developer (dotNet, J2EE, PHP)
  • Participating in invitation to tender responses and “pre-sales” phases
  • Research & Development on new EAI, SOA and MDM products
  • Server administration (Apache on Linux and Microsoft IIS)
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Concrete projects (in order of completion):

  • Onyx POC for R&D (4 months): Experimentation of the EAI product Microsoft Biztalk through the realisation of a pilot project (automatic integration of invoices)
    Technologies: Microsoft Biztalk 2006, dotNet (C#), Web services, SQL and XML
  • Gefis R2I for Palatine bank (7 months): Major developer on a large website of property profitability calculation
    Technologies: ASP .Net, SQL, IIS installation & administration
  • PSA e-prêt for Peugeot automobile manufacturer (7 months): Major developer for building an intranet website for managing the loaning of equipment
    Technologies: ASP Net, SQL, Web Services and Excel
  • R&D (3 months): Tryout and deep investigation of the SOA product “Centrasite Governance Edition” (creation of test scenario and regular reporting to the manager); then experimentation of the MDM product, EBX.Platform 4.3 after a 3 days training course.
    Technologies: J2EE, Web Services, XML with SOAP
  • Distrib 2.0, for the Italian insurance company Generali (6 months): Major developer in a social & community website for connecting the insurance representatives and allowing them to communicate and have access to a global knowledge base
    Use of SCRUM from AGILE methodologies.
    Technologies: Joomla 1.5, PHP 5.2, Apache, Oracle

November 2005 – April 2006
(6 months)

Centrapel (French ISP call center) in Paris, France
as a Multimedia Helpdesk, on weekends and public holidays

This job has an interesting assistance part, where teaching skills (no script) and patience are key elements for client satisfaction.

  • Call taking and technical problem solving
  • Technical and communication trainings (during three weeks)

July 2004 – December 2004
(6 months)

IMC (InfoMedia Communication) in Paris, France
as a IT Software engineer

Realisation of concrete projects for its subsidiary E .net, publishing house specialized in the use of new technologies.

  • Participation in the publication of the new version of the historical French dictionary “Le Littré”
  • Creation of several part of the system generating the whole layout in PDF
    Technologies: QT, C, XML and Latex

Education



January 2010

 

  • 2010

University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business, Washington D.C, USA
Georgetown University

Student exchange programme of 1 month to study & experience the American culture

  • Obtaining a “Certificate of completion” with “High Distinction”
  • Lectures by “Star Professors” in two prestigious universities
  • Emphasis on Communication, negotiation & leadership, project management and unconscious behaviours in marketing

2009 2010

  • 2010

RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), in Australia

Obtaining the diploma “Master of Business Information Technology”

  • IT-oriented MBA
  • Graduated with honours, in the Top 2%
  • GPA (Grade Point Average) of 3.87/4

2003 – 2008

  • 2006 – 2008
  • 2006 – 2007

 

  • 2003 – 2006

EPITECH (European Institute of Technology), private school in Paris

Obtaining the diploma “Master of Information Technology”

In parallel, passing the degree-related exam of IFIP, partner school of EPITECH

  • Obtaining “Master of Project Management in Computer Science”

Obtaining the certificate “Bachelor of Computer Science”

2003

“Baccalauréat S” (equivalent to 12-year degree), with an emphasis in maths

Skills



Languages

French – Native French speaker
English – Fluent (2 years in English-speaking countries)

Personal

Rigorous mind & perfectionist
Versatilist with very fast adaptation to projects and work environment
Good communication ability
Leadership skill for driving a team
Key team player

Business

Evidence-based management
Effective change management
Project and team management (Prince 2, Scrum from AGILE methodologies)
BPM, BPR (management & optimization)
Management of ICT and operations (ITIL, Cobit, ISO)
Business Intelligence (design of an infrastructure, optimization and implementation)
Knowledge management (Strategy creation and implementation, Flow analysis, Community of practice)
Risk & recovery (incident response, disaster recovery, business continuity)
Outsourcing (risks, profitability analysis, lease management)
End-user computing (strategy creation and implementation with user support, effective training, hidden cost analysis)

Computer literacy

Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel)
Process modelling (UML, Merise)
Data modelling (Power Designer, Power AMC)
Project management (Microsoft Project)
SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL)
Programming:

  • Microsoft dotNet 3.5 (Winform, ASP .Net)
  • J2EE and Java EE 5 (EJB3, JSF, Ajax)
  • PHP 4, 5, 6 (Symfony, Zend, Ajax)
  • Other: C, C++, Perl, Latex

EAI and SOA:

  • Microsoft Biztalk 2006
  • Webmethods 6.5, 7.1
  • Centrasite Governance Edition 7
  • OrchestraNetworks EBX.platform 4.3

Referees



Rod KEYS
Company director
DDNS
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Phone: +61 3 9815 6868
info[AT]ddns.com.au

Fabrice TERRADE
Project director
Generali
Paris, FRANCE

Phone: +33 1 58 38 24 18
fterrade[AT]generali.fr

Philippe Hebert
Manager EAI department
Soft Computing

Paris, FRANCE

Phone: +33 1 73 00 55 00
phb[AT]softcomputing.com



Extra-curricular Activities



Passion for cooking (in particular French and Asian)
Practice sports regularly: rollerblade and swimming.
Former volunteer for the city of Melbourne and RMIT

Tennis, Aikido and Basketball player for 5 years