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Olivier CrĂŞte

3946 rue Saint-André
Montréal, Québec
Canada H2L 3W1
olivier.crete@ocrete.ca


Work experience

Collabora Ltd
Montréal, Qc February 2007 - Present
Working to improve the Farsight audio-video conferencing framework and the related GStreamer elements. Work on the integration of video-conferencing for our customer Nokia.
See www.collabora.co.uk.

Maximum Throughput Inc
Montréal, Qc Summer 2004 and 2005 - February 2007
Since 2005, development of the InfinARRAY cluster file system. It runs on Linux and is part user-space and part kernel-space.
During summer 2004, progamming improvements to the MAXmin! PHP/Perl administrative interface and various other work for the intranet including integrating LDAP login functionality to various in-house applications.
See www.max-t.com.

Cyberlogic Inc
Montréal, Qc 2003

Programming improvements to the Adelie Linux HPC cluster management solution;
Programming PHP/MySQL intranet applications See www.cyberlogic.ca.

Centre de recherche en calcul appliqué (Cerca)
Montréal, Qc 2002 - 2003

Being part of the HPC research group.
Creating a paper and electronic documentation system using LaTeX, DocBook, XSLT and various scripts.
Writing and translating documentation.
Software creation of a cluster used for bioinformatics applications.

Le Centre de téléformation VITES Inc
Québec, Qc Summer 1999

Progamming the main Vites web remote learning application.
Designing and implementing an internal intranet timesheet system.
Helping with network administration tasks.

Ermitage Group Limited (London, UK)
London, UK Summer 1997

Helping programming and documenting the fund and client files management software.
Various other technical support tasks.
See www.ermitagegroup.com


Education

École Polytechnique de Montréal
Montréal, Qc 2001 - 2005

Baccalaureate in software engineering

Institut national polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)
Grenoble, France 2003 - 2004

École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble (Ensimag)
Exchange student

Collège François-Xavier-Garneau
Québec, Qc 1999 - 2001

International Baccalaureate Diploma


Free Software

GnomeICU, the GNOME ICQ client 2000 - Present
Developer, then co-maintainer. Author of the support for ICQ protocols 7-8 (oscar).
See gnomeicu.sourceforge.net.

Gentoo Linux 2002 - Present
Original author of the AMD64 port, x86 security liaison, founding member of the x86 architecture project. Member of the net-im (instant messengers) and amd64 groups.
See www.gentoo.org.

Farsight2 2007 - Present
Maintainer of Farsight, the Free video conferencing framework, based on GStreamer and used in Maemo/Meego devices, Empathy, aMsn and Pidgin.
See farsight.freedesktop.org.


Computer skills

Strong knowledge of Linux, its kernel and environment.
Programming in C, C++, Java, Ada, Python, Bash, PHP, Perl, ColdFusion and Javascript
Knowledge of SQL and relational databases
Knowledge of the GNOME programming environment.


Languages

French, English, some Spanish.


References provided on request

Canadian citizenship