Gareth JAMES
Paris, FRANCE
Principal Areas of Expertise
- Programming Languages: C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Javascript
- Operating systems: FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux (Debian, RedHat), OS X, Solaris
- Databases: MySQL, Oracle
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
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
Paragliding.
Development of oubouffer.com, directory of restaurants in Paris. The site is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database.
Languages Spoken
French (Bilingual)
Spanish (School level)
German (School level)