1, rue de l'Amiral Courbet, 94160 Saint Mandé, France
Tel: +33 (0) 6 20 41 40 94
E-mail: nicolas.hognon@gmail.com
Web: http://nicolas.hognon.com/
Born 30th October 1975 - French Nationality

Profile

• System, network and web developer.
• Strong software development background: define, conception, production management, ....
• More than of 10 years of C++ development.
• Used to working with a team of developer and can be completely autonomous when necessary.

Professional Experience

R&D Project Manager


• Manage deployment team
  • Multiplatform low level libraries to port Total Immersion technologies to different Operating System (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows Mobile)
  • and adapt it to mainstream computers (through a web plug-in).


• Manage an write the Build System used by the R&D team
  • Build System
  • Source Control (SVN)

Technologies : Microsoft Visual C++/GCC/XCode, Win32/POSIX, HTTP, HTML, Javascript, Source Control.

Senior Software Engineer / Project Manager


• Since January 2007: Web Product Manager (3D Life Player and next generation products)
• Manage a team of 3 people: maintenance and evolution of 3D Life Player based on current Virtools products (Virtools 4).
• Define and development of Web applications based on next generation of Virtools products (Virtools MP).


• Since January 2006: Project Manager of Virtools 4 software suite (Virtools 4, 3D Life Player and Virtools Multiuser Server)
• Manage a team of 6 people: planning, define new features, management of tests and debugging (using Mantis), public beta test and update of products (Service Pack).
• Manage relations between development team and technical support team.


• Design and development of next generation technology of Virtools
  One of the main developer of the next generation of Virtools tools (codename Virtools MP: preview as seen at GDC 2007 on YouTube):
  • multiplatform low level libraries (system, network, operating system),
  • libraries and tools to establish communication between authoring and runtimes tools (used for remote debugging),
  • prototyping of a tool used to automatically bind Virtools MP C++ SDK to its script engine (using gcc-xml).
  Technologies: Win32 API (Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360) / POSIX API (Mac OS X, Linux), Microsoft Visual C++ (.NET 2005), TCP/IP (Winsock / Socket BSD), Multithreading (Win32 / libpthread).
  


• In charge of the Build system
  Design, development and maintenance of the Virtools product workflow:
  • Compilation and build (Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 / .NET2003 / .NET2005)
  • and automatic setups creation for all Virtools products (Macrovision Installshield) using scripts (batch and Windows Script Host (JavaScript)).
  • Source Control Management administration: Microsoft Visual Source Safe and NxN Alienbrain.
  • Integration of a license manager (Macrovision FlexLM).


• Developer on Virtools Web Player
  One of the developer, then lead developer of the Virtools Web Player (now called 3D Life Player) for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS 9/X.
  • Virtools Web Player is a plug-in for web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape) used to execute/play, in a web page, applications build using Virtools Dev.
  • In charge of the online architecture used to deploy, maintain, update the Virtools Web Player efficiently (using d'Akamai EdgeSuite Delivery)
  Technologies: Microsoft Windows, C++, Microsoft Visual C++ (6.0 / .NET 2003), COM/ActiveX, Firefox/Netscape SDK (XPCOM/XPConnect/XPInstall), HTTP (WinInet), HTML/Javacript, Akamai EdgeSuite Delivery, Code Signing & Digital Signature (Verisign), Java (JNI).
  


• Design and development of the Virtools Behavioral Server
  Main developer of the Virtools Behavioral Server, a modular server for the authoring platform Virtools Dev, allowing to:
  • download/upload media (images, sounds, 3D objects, behavioral objects, ...),
  • download component/plug-ins for the Virtools Web Player,
  • Databases access (using ODBC),
  • create multiusers applications (distributed objects and dead reckoning).
  Collaborate to the user guide (and other documentation) with the technical writers team.
  Technologies: Microsoft Windows / Mac OS 9 & X / Linux, C++, Microsoft Visual C++ (6.0 / .NET 2003) / CodeWarrior / GCC, TCP/IP (Winsock / Socket BSD, Multicast), Thread (Win32 / libpthread), Proxy (HTTP 1.1, Socks 4 & 5), SQL (ODBC), Dead Reckoning.

Software Engineer


• Development of an application using C++, Ilog Views et Ilog Server. I worked on the server of a supervision system for the subway of Hong Kong. Project for SMS CSEE Transport..
  Technologies: UML Rose, C++, ILOG VIEWS, ILOG SERVER, Windows NT.
• Ilog Server training.
• Project to port an application made with C, FORTRAN and Open Interface to C++ and Ilog Views. I worked on the GUI part of the application. CCL is used to calculate parameters of plan reactor. Project for CCL SNECMA..
  Technologies: UML Rose, C, C++, ILOG VIEWS, Windows NT, UNIX (Irix).
• Ilog Views training.

Development of a multiuser API (TCP/IP) used for 3d real time applications. (keyworkds: TCP/IP, Dead Reckoning, Multicast)

I worked on PHAROS project inside of the Webtools team. I build components and graphical tools using Swing (mainly to edit and manipulate thesaurus) (keywords: GUI, MVC).

Computer Skills

• Languages: C++ (very good level, 10 years of practice), Javascript/HTML/CSS/ASP/PHP, XML, C, Java, VB Script, SQL.
• APIs and Libraries: Win32 & MFC, POSIX, TCP/IP (Winsock / BSD Socket), OpenSSL, SOCKS 4&5, HTTP (REST, SOAP, XML-RPC), ActiveX/ATL, Gecko/Netscape Plugin SDK (NPAPI, XPCOM, XPConnect, XPInstall), Microsoft DirectX, OpenGL, Swing, RMI, JNI, Ilog Views, Ilog Server.
• Programming Tools: Microsoft Visual C++ (6.0, .NET 2003 and .NET 2005) (used daily for 7 years for coding and debugging), GCC (3.x/4.x), Source Control (Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, NxN Alienbrain, CVS), Makefile (gmake), Doxygen, Bug Tracking (mantis), Rational Purify and Memory Validator et GNU and Unix tools (emacs, gdc, vi, latex, shell, ...).
• Operating system: Development and basic system administration under Microsoft Windows (9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista), Unix (Linux: debian et fedora) and Apple Mac OS X.
• Theory: Algorithmic, language theory (automaton/compilation), operating system, database, networks, computer architecture, geometrical algorithmic, image processing.

Languages

• French: mother tongue.
• English: daily read and written at work, average speaking.

Education

• DESS CRI, in Computer science: Image, Communication, Netwok - option Image (mention bien)
• Maîtrise in Computer science (mention assez bien)
• Licence in Computer science
• DEUG MIAS: Mathematics and Computer sciences.

Hobby

• New technologies: read papers and news about web, video games and new technologies: Slashdot, Gamasutra, Gamekult, Kotaku, Pompage, Standblog, ....


• Reading: Novels and cartoons (European and manga): J.G. Ballard, Maurice G. Dantec, Bret Easton Ellis, Ryû Murakami, Jean-Jacques Reboux, Norman Spinrad, Neal Stephenson, ... Loisel, Moeius, Otomo, Vatine, ...


• Photo: some of my photos on Flickr.


• And of course movies and concerts.