Technical Manager at Newsweb
Paris Area, France
- Current
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- IT Manager at Newsweb
- Past
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- IT Manager at Upper Web Sites
- Developer at Vol Protection
- Developer at Les Films des Tournelles
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Chris Apers’s Summary
Chris Apers’s Specialties:
Mainly focused on Microsoft technologies and PalmOS expertise
- .Net / C# - ASP.Net / FW 2.0/3.5 (VS 2005/2008)
- C / C++
- PalmOS development specialist (Code Warrior 9.3)
- Mobile development
- VB / VBScript (ASP, admin scripts)
- SQL Server (7.0 - 2000 - 2005)
- Assembly (68k, x86, ARM)
- HTML / XHTML specifications / CSS
- Javascript (OOP) / Ajax / DOM
- IIS
- Windows Server (NT - 2000 - 2003)
- Photoshop
Chris Apers’s Experience
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IT Manager
Newsweb
(Internet industry)
December 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)
Result of the merger between Boursier.com and Newsports, now a Lagardère Group company, linked to the Lagardère News entity.
Mainly in charge of developing Boursier.com, the leading financial information website in France. It provides news on various markets, financial and investment advices, stock prices of French and U.S. markets and many users–oriented services. The mobile versions are also available at major operator portals such as i-mode, Gallery, Vodafone Live!, iPhone… It also provides white label web sites to major companies.
• Recruitment and management of the development team
• Participated in the definition of functional and architectural requirements for user experience, hardware and software (high scalability, capacity planning)
• Designed the whole architecture and development of the current Boursier.com platform
• Redesign of Sport4fun web sites and derivatives using PHP and OOP as well as new .Net (C#) projects and future migrations -
IT Manager
Upper Web Sites
(Internet industry)
January 1999 — December 1999 (1 year )
Responsible for the development of Internet applications, e-commerce solution, CGI (mainly with Perl), user interfaces, data access (mySQL, mSQL, ODBC…), and computer graphics, mainly on the UNIX platform but also on Windows NT with ASP server side technology.
Main customers: Caisse des Dépots et Consignations, Inserm, Logic Instrument, Tetra Computer, … -
Developer
Vol Protection
(Computer & Network Security industry)
April 1998 — December 1998 (9 months)
Vol Protect specialises in hardware and peripherals physical and logical security. Worked on the development of surFrance.com which provided a global directory, organized by region, to small and medium-sized enterprises (craftsmen, shopkeepers…) and a web presence to them through the creation of pre-formatted mini-sites. Participated in the validation of new security products and some missions as IT technician at Bull-Integris (Louveciennes – France).
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Developer
Les Films des Tournelles
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
July 1997 — August 1997 (2 months)
Developed the web site for the film “ La Patinoire ” (The Ice Rink) by Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Les Films des Tournelles (production) in collaboration with FranceNet sponsored by Miko.
The objective was to provide the public with a vision of a real-time filming. The site included the presentation of the film crew and actors (CV included), real-time broadcasting of shooting images through several cameras placed on the film set. The end of the day also brought the visitors a video of the shooting carried out by the film set photographer. Prepared under Avid Videoshop then broadcasted with RealMedia technology.
The web site was a great success with many press and TV relay (Canal+, M6 …). A poster contest at the international level was also organized.
Awards: Yahoo Net Events ! (cool site to visit), NB News Editor's Choice, and one of three finalist for the best audiovisual communication award.
Additional Information
Chris Apers’s Websites:
Chris Apers’s Interests:
New Technology, Aviation, Gaming
Chris Apers’s Honors:
PalmOS:
ScummVM: 2007 - SourceForge.net Community Choice Award : Best Project for Gamers
ScummVM: 2003 - PDArcade Best Freeware Emulation Game
Internet:
Website : 1997 - Yahoo Net Event! (cool site to visit)
Website : 1997 - NB News Editor's Choice
Website : 1997 - One of the 3 finalists for the award of the best audiovisual communication
Credits:
- Book: 2008 - iPhone tips & trucs (ISBN 978-90-456-4666-0)
- Game: 2008 - Platypus PalmOS version (Astraware)
- Film: 1997 - La Patinoire by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
- Game: 2005 - Broken Sword PalmOS version (Astraware)
- Open Source Project: ScummVM
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