Patrice SECHERESSE
I am a service provider for Small and Medium Business. I offer help and support for advanced solutions that can grow with your enterprise and increase your efficiency
Web site: www.opensourceview.com
Professional Experience
AUSTRALIA
02/2010 - now: self employed
Analyst Programmer.
Creation of a business dedicated to Enterprise Open Source Software (ERP, Business Intelligence, Group-ware, Cloud Computing).
03/2008 - 01/2010: Ordermate – Melbourne VIC
Analyst Programmer.
Responsible for developing new features for Java based advanced Point Of Sale application, including a stock control. The position involves design, development, testing and implementation. A large panel of technology is used with Java SE, Swing and RMI. I am currently working on the Enterprise version using EJB, JPA and JMS. I did also some small projects using Web Services and simple Web pages. (Java SE/EE, Swing, RMI, JMS, JPA, EJB, JSF, JAX-WS, Tomcat, GlassFish).
05/2007 – 03/2008: Woods Accident Repair Centres – Melbourne VIC
IT Officer.
My main duties were IT support, troubleshooting computer hardware, software and network, on site (20 branches) or over the phone. This position was an excellent first step in the Australian workplace and contributed to improve my English skills. I was also using my Java EE programming skills to create statistical and geographical data analysis (Java EE, JSF, JPA).
FRANCE
10/2005 - 11/2006: AMI-WEB - Nice – France
Project Manager.
Management of the full activity of a Real Estate software edition. Responsible for customer relations (300 agencies), sales, hot line, programming (Windev), billing, advertising and a team of one sales representative, one programmer and a Web designer.
One key achievement was putting into production a new version of the software including many improvements with an extremely positive feedback from customers. This project was an excellent opportunity to be involved in Web technologies and marketing with successful new offers. The in-depth work involved in this position brought more dynamic and structured commercial methods.
My duties included some missions as Technical Project Manager and RPG expert for:
SODEXHO : maintenance of a financial reporting software (SAP integration with RPG)
Unilog (LogicaCMG group) for ESCOTA - highway operator: operational project manager, analyst programmer with a team of 3 analyst-programmers (RPG, RPG ILE).
These missions gave me a chance to work with large companies where my abilities were appreciated.
NEW CALEDONIA
08/1990 - 03/2005: ORUS Informatique - New Caledonia (IBM Business Partner)
Project Manager (since 1995), Analyst Programmer (1990 - 1994)
Associate in the company.
Responsible for a team of 2 to 7 analyst-programmers, a system engineer and a training manager. My main duties were the design and the implementation of customer solutions including numerous associated tasks: pre-sales, quotation, specification, planning, analysis, architecture, conception, implementation, training, maintenance, support and consulting.
This experience was extremely valuable and gave me a broad understanding of Software Engineering in a Small and Medium Business environment. I have acquired the ability to understand customer needs, as well as a good ability to manage a team and drive a quality project within time and budget constraints. I had contacts with all levels of business including executive management.
These positions lead me to many successful projects such as:
International freight and custom clearance software development. It included two customer sites, one in New Caledonia and one in French Polynesia. After many evolutions from 1992 to 2004 and new customers, a new version with n-tiers technology was my last project (RPG, RPG ILE then Progress).
Car dealer software development including: sales of new and used cars, spare part inventory, after sale and workshop. Used by most of New Caledonian car dealers in 2005. Many evolutions from 1990 to 2004 (RPG / RPG ILE).
Hospitality software support: Hogatex Front Office (now Amadeus), Infogenesis (Point Of Sale) in 6 hotels (3 with over 100 rooms), from 2000 to 2004.
Coastal trade shipping (freight and passengers) software development with a team of two analyst-programmers, 9 months in 2000 (Progress v9 GUI & Db).
Hypermarkets and supermarkets software maintenance between 1992 and 1997. Development of new modules for items centralisation between the sites and import price computation (RPG II, RPG III, RPG ILE).
I was also involved in various smaller projects from accounting to private hospital management.
FRANCE
09/1988 - 05/1989: IC2S – Aubagne - France
Analyst programmer
Design and implementation of a point of sale software.
This was my first position as an analyst programmer. The product was deployed successfully on two customer sites (C with DOS).
Interests
Volunteering:
volunteering database software for SPW Australia http://volunteerbase.sourceforge.net/
Activities:
sailing, swimming, bushwalking, computer (Java http://psecheresse.spaces.live.com , http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp/graduates.html, http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/J2EEProgrammingGraduates.html , (French) http://psecheresse.developpez.com/ )