François SUTER
1, rue Edouard-Vallet
1232 Confignon
SWITZERLAND

E-mail: francois@monpetitcoin.com
World Wide Web: http://www.monpetitcoin.com/francois/

I am now working freelance under two different names. Under the label Paragraf (http://www.paragraf.ch/) I offer services in the creation of web sites and more traditional desktop publishing (page layout, offset printing, etc.). Under the label SOFIAE (http://www.sofiae.com/) I develop software for industrial or scientific applications with a preference for projects involving ecology or sustainable development.

marchFIRST was a professional services company, active in information technology, branding and strategy. I worked as a senior consultant on web-related projects. I know all aspects of a major website, from the back end to the front end, although my specialty lies with the latter. I often led teams of developers into the task of integrating the elements that make up a website: the design on the one hand and the dynamic components on the other hand. I performed or supervised the design of page layouts, the definition of style sheets and the coding of dynamic elements. I was also sometimes sent alone on sensitive client assignments for my capacity at working out difficult problems by myself.

On top of this, I regularly organised internal trainings, raising the technical knowledge of my colleagues. I have written many training supports myself, on topics such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. My expertise was often requested on those three subjects.

This unit is the desktop publishing (DTP) support for the whole bank. On top of this main assignment, it is also responsible for establishing (and enforcing) standards for publication on any kind of media, as well as providing users with standard templates. Taking a big leap from amateur to professional status in the DTP business, I worked on a whole range of publications, including high quality brochures. I helped transform the unit from an obscure team into a customer-oriented, highly qualified marketing support.

I also became responsible for establishing an Intranet within the Bank. It started with just the look and feel of it, but I ended up being the actual project manager, defining the architecture and the policy of the Intranet.

This laboratory is concerned with all the problems related to solidification processes and laser surface treatment for metals. A large team had developed 2D FEM simulations of metal solidification. My job was to start the expansion of the programs into 3D cases. I had the opportunity to modify an existing set of code and to develop my own program. It was an extensive follow-up of my diploma. This work was done in co-operation with the Swiss industry.

As an assistant, I also had the opportunity to help students, a job I found very interesting and gratifying.

1994

Programming languages: very good knowledge of FORTRAN and PASCAL; basics of BASIC, Visual Basic, C, C++, Objective-C and Java.

Web scripting languages: ASP, JSP and PHP

Databases: SQL query language, Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Operating systems: mainframes (CRAY), workstations (Unix/Linux), IBM PCs and compatibles, Macintosh (Classic and Mac OS X).

Desktop publishing/graphic design: Quark XPress, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop.

Web publishing: extensive experience in HTML, CSS1 and 2, XML, image formats for the WWW, JavaScript, Microsoft Visual InterDev, very good knowledge of Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Web applications: experience in integrating osCommerce, Dolibarr, phpBugTracker, Typo3

• Designing Data Services and Data Models (2001)
• Auditing an Internet Strategy (1998)
• Developing an Effective Intranet (1998)
• HTML and JavaScript (1997)
• "Opérations bancaires I", introductory course on banking and finance (1996)
• Advanced HTML course (1996)
• DEC Ultrix Utilities & Commands (1992)
• SDRC Solids Based FEM (I-DEAS users course) (1992)
• Short Course on Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis by Thomas J. R. Hughes and Ted Belytschko (1992)

• Science-fiction;
• Publishing of a science-fiction amateur magazine;
• History and Heraldry;
• Bird Watching