SOFTWARE  ENGINEER

Curriculum Vitae - Jean-Marc Vanel

Semantic Web, rule based programming, XML, Object Oriented programming, Graphical User Interface, e-commerce, biology, numerical algorithms, computational fluid dynamics.

tel. home +33(0) 1 39 55 58 16 , portable +33(0) 6 89 16 29 52 French nationality, Married, 4 children Home page: http://jmvanel.free.fr/ PROFESSIONNAL EXPERIENCE TRAINING COMPETENCES PERSONNAL INTERESTS Curriculum Vitae in french

MAIN SKILLS

• knowledge and semantics engineer, but one that also knows software development
• Scala and Java platform development
• Prolog and other logic programming (N3 rules)
• ability to apply novel vision of software development, semantics based, to various contexts

PROFESSIONNAL EXPERIENCE

2009 - present: Creator of a software company : Déductions SARL

We offer: consulting, training, and tools for sustainable, rigourous, multi-platforms and quicker software development, leveraging on innovative blend of Semantic Web and Artificial Intelligence Technologies: Drools, ATTEMPTO, EulerGUI, Apache Jena, Protégé, Neo4J, etc.

Our OSS projects and personal skills, competence and academic network.

• OWL model design and business rules and SPARQL Controlled English for a Web for site barter services
• urbanization of Information System based SPARQL to the Semantic Web; Assistance with writing requirements & project management
• expertise, selection and training on open source tools (semantic search, import semantics, language tools, ...)
• knowledge engineer: experts examine and write rules + ontologies
• adaptation of a Java client for the banking EBICS protocol
• semantic music player with Java Swing interface
• work on Open Source framework EulerGUI to run, translate, check, transform and process in many ways rule formats ( N3, Drools, SWRL, Prolog, RuleML, RIF, etc)
• extract from dbPedia Semantic Web data source from Wikipedia, history and geography data for teaching helper project
• teach practical AI in engineering school
• architect for an intelligent rule-based and Semantic Web based musical player
• consulting for a software vendor in numerical identities management

2006-2008: senior developer

MathWorks, editor of the MatLab and Simulink scientific software, is perhaps the number one of the sector.

• translator UML --> Simulink in XSLT 2
• development of an infrastructure UML - MOF - OCL in Java, C++ and Prolog

2002-09-01 - 2006 : Independant consultant - training

• Linux
• Apache-MySQL-PHP
• technical Introduction to XML
• UML :  basics
• Cocoon 2
  

2001-09-01 – 2002-07-30 : Senior Consultant

Information et Document makes consulting about Information Systems architecture and is specialized in the application of new WEB technologies (Internet and Intranet), document and knowledge management .

• Training received: INRIA Summer School "Publication de Documents Synchronisés Multimedia"

• Training given : sensiblization to the new corporate architecture, for the 200 developers of a Social Security organization ( Application Servers , J2EE, Directories, EAI, XML, OO Techniques )

• free software development : XML Publication , a set of tools to generate Web pages from desktop documents or other structured documents, using cutting-edge XML techniques and particularly XSLT.

• Seed to Seed (www.seed2seed.net), a projet aiming at publishing of informations collected worldwide about biologic agriculture; a site 100% XML Publication

• 6 months for Electricité de France - Research division : design and implementation of a simulation software optimizing maintenance of Civil Engineering Buildings in concrete ; Java GUI; XML data; easy to add and recombine physical models . Technologies used : Java, Perl, Xybrix, Castor, XSLT, DOM events, free software

2000-12-18 - ... :  R&D and industrial catalogs

IndustrySuppliers.com  was a market place for  industrial equipments.

I developed techniques to manage e-catalogs before publication on Oracle Exchange. Technologies : Perl, XSLT, Makefile, Cygnus Cygwin bash, WinCVS, Apache Jakarta Tomcat, etc

2000-09-04 - 2000-11-03 : Consulting and training

Business Design Consulting   Consulancy about XML and Java technologies .

1998-2000 : Development Engineer

EFFIX, a division of Reuters, making systems for the bank people

• development of a C++ framework for renderer-independant formatting of tabular data

• development of a series of sorters and filters for tabular data, using Standard Template Library

• maintenance of an Intranet site on XML technologies (see partial mirror here)

• consulting on XML technologies

• development of a Corba-XML bridge for a financial computation server

1994-1997: Engineer, department Systèmes Dynamiques et Automatique -

Simulog, Guyancourt 78286 France, a society specialized in scientific software.

• OMT Analysis and Design of a framework for operationnal simulation of image recording with optronic embarked cameras; link beetwin tactic, visual, and strategic environment subsystems.

• Restructuration/porting on Visual C++/Windows NT of a software for piloting and collision avoiding of a radiotherapy/radiography table. · the existing software was in Turbo-Pascal · specification of the communications with the GUI part · introduction of multi-threading · coupling with acquisition and control cards

• Participation to development of a software for simulation/optimisation of a ultrasound flowmeter for EDF/DER · computational part Object Oriented designed and writen in Fortran 90 · use of an optimisation module

• Development of a GUI and of a data base for composite materials in the context of a BRITE European project · Object Oriented design · implementation in TCL/TK (GUI)

• Development of a software for simulation of instationnary flows in an hydraulic network for CNES. · modelisation in C++ of the network components · use of the GRAPHMOD library for the graphic network editor

• Participation to development of an environment for simulation of liquid ergols rocket engines for CNES: dimensioning and fonctionment modes; dimensioning of components (pumps, etc.) from the synoptic (GUI), parametric study with Open Modline. · computational part in Fortran with structures · network editor in C++ with use of the GRAPHMOD library

1989-1994: Engineer - Fluid Mechanics department

Simulog, Guyancourt

• Participation to development of the N3S software for Fluid Mechanics (turbulent Navier-Stokes in finite elements) for EDF (Electricité de France)

  • turbomachines version

  • fluid-structure coupling

  • case studies with N3S: electromagnetic brake, ball bearing, etc.

  • parallelisation of the N3S software on Cray

• Participation to specification and design of a software for simulation of parachute opening for the French Army (under Quality Insurance).

1988-1989: Engineer SEDI (Neuilly)

Case studies and development with the N3S software for Fluid Mechanics for EDF - DER - Chatou

1981-1983: teacher of math. and physics

secondary school 

TRAINING

1975 - 1981: Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique - Mathematics section

1984-1988: Thesis at the University of Nice in Computational Fluid Dynamics Languages: English, German (fluent); Polish and Spanish (notions). 

COMPETENCES

Semantic Web

Design of vocabularies and OWL ontologies, Linked Open Data (LOD)

Notation3(N3), OWL, RDF, SWRL, SPARQL, Protégé, API (Jena, OWL API, EulerGUI, Banana-RDF),

SPARQL databases: Jena TDB, BigData(R)
Semantization tools: DataLift, Web Karma, EulerGUI

Information System
     MDM (Master Data Management), semantic urbanization of data and applications

Business rules (BRMS)

Drools, ATTEMPTO, Notation3 (N3), Euler, Fuxi,

Artificial Intelligence

Prolog, First order logic, Constraint Logic Programming, CHR

Software tools

Maven, Jemmy(functionnal GUI tests), SBT, Subversion, Git, CVS

XML

Extensive expertise in XSLT, XML Schema, CSS, DHTML, Javascript

Programming experience with XML parsers: Xerces, expat

Programming Languages:

Scala, Java, Prolog, C/C++, Visual Basic, Fortran 77/90, Tcl and shells, Ada, Pascal, Eiffel

Software Engineering:

OWL ontologies, UML, OMT, Jacobson, Meyer, Design Patterns.

Systems:

Linux, Silicon Graphics, HP, Cray and Sun under UNIX, PC/Windows

GUI:

Java Swing, Apache Wicket, TCL/TK, MFC, Visual Basic

Numerical analysis:

solving PDE: finite elements, finite volume, spectral methods ; dynamical systems and solving ordinary differential equations, stability and perturbations, optimisation.

Physical modelisation:

fluid dynamics, structure dynamics, statistical and quantic mechanics (licence of physics).

PERSONNAL INTERESTS

Botany (collection of rare plants, in relation with botanical gardens, hypertext document describing collection), music, litterature, economy.