Gareth JAMES
Paris, FRANCE
cv@bemused.org
06 60 99 82 25
Date of Birth: 1st May 1973
Nationality: British

 

Principal Areas of Expertise

 

Employment History

1999 - present Yahoo! Europe, Paris (France).

Launch of Yahoo! personals in UK, France and Germany. Porting of US personals from proprietory language to PHP/MySQL.

Work with European Infrastructure group. Development of platform to migrate data from Oracle to MySQL DB

Launch of european Weather Platform (Java/Oracle)

1998 - 1999 Calvacom / PSINet France, Velizy (France). Responsible for application development (C, Perl, SQL, CGI, Javascript). Web site creation. Maintenance of UNIX (Solaris) and Linux servers. Administration of web server (Apache). Pre-sale and after-sale contact with clients.
1997 - 1998 Ecole Active Bilingue, Paris. Installation of TCP/IP network - SMB print server, file server, firewall and Internet proxy server. Student IT training.
1997 Cybion, La Defense, Paris. Conception and implementation of an on-line catalogue and payment system via internet, and other PERL/C scripts. Administration of web server (Apache/FreeBSD).
1996-1997 Zetnet Services, Manchester (England). PERL, C Programming. Management of a UNIX network for an internet service provider.

 

Education

1995-96: University of York, England
Masters of Science, Music Technology. Studies included signal processing, software development (C/UNIX), hardware design, microprocessor programming.

1991-94: University of Sheffield, England
Bachelor of Engineering. Course included French and Spanish for engineers

 

Sport and leisure activities

Rock climbing around Europe, cycling, hill walking and swimming.
Paragliding.
Development of oubouffer.com, directory of restaurants in Paris. The site is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database.

 

Languages Spoken

English (Mother tongue)
French (Bilingual)
Spanish (School level)
German (School level)

 

REFERENCES

Available on request
Text version - Version Française