Florent Messa

Current

PHP Developer at Octave & Octave
Trainer at Gobelins, l'école de l'image
Multimedia developer at Freelance (Self-employed)

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Past

(Apprenticeship) PHP Developer at Fullsix
(Fixed-term contract) PHP Developer at Fullsix
(Trainee) Junior PHP Developer at Fullsix

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Education

Gobelins, l'école de l'image
Université Paris V René Descartes

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Florent Messa’s Summary

In the past few years, I have discovered how to develop community websites in PHP5 and improved my JavaScript skills.

Thanks to new web development techniques such as AJAX or the architectural pattern Model-View-Controller, I can produce interfaces which are light and powerful at the same time for the user and maintainable applications for developers.

Well-aware of the fast evolution of my profession, I keep working on software development techniques like Test-driven development and REST software architecture using a web application framework.

Being a former GOBELINS, l’ecole de l’Image student, I have tried to apply these skills through my one year project called #milkshape.

#milkshape is a collaborative creation experiment on the Internet which brings users an online workshop and allows graphic designers, illustrators and others to produce huge collaborative creations with their workmates.

Event if it is still under development, this project puts together ActionScript3, with the Lowra framework, and Python, with Django framework, and will be Open-Source.

For companies, I mainly use PHP with Zend and symfony frameworks to build powerful web applications, to improve performance and to avoid waste of time on important developments.

I really appreciate development teams who aim at providing original experiences for the customers.

Florent Messa’s Specialties:

PHP5 OOP (Zend Framework, Symfony framework, Standard PHP Library), ORM (Propel, Doctrine), Python (Django, zc.buildout, pip), SGBD (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Analyze (UML, Merise), Unix systems, Apache server, JavaScript (MooTools, jQuery, Dojo Toolkit), ActionScript3 (Flex, Lowra Framework), Versioning (SVN, Git)

Florent Messa’s Experience

PHP Developer

Octave & Octave

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

November 2009 — Present (2 months)
Trainer

Gobelins, l'école de l'image

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2009 — Present (2 months)
Multimedia developer
Freelance (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Internet industry)

September 2009 — Present (4 months)

One day of training for CGPLand on the symfony framework:

• helping CGPLand to choose between a custom framework to power the platform and an Open Source framework,
• introducing of the fundamentals of the symfony framework,
• demonstrating of its features and how an application can be decoupled with the architectural pattern Model-View-Controller,
• showing how to use Doctrine on symfony and how to avoid waste of time on repetitive tasks such as build form, build admin generator or database manipulation.
(Apprenticeship) PHP Developer

Fullsix

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

September 2008 — June 2009 (10 months)

Lead developer of the Twingo Total Perso backend based on Zend Framework for Renault:

• generation of XML feeds (manipulated with the XMLWriter/XMLReader API of PHP5) on the disk (performance choice) to internationalize and localize (i18n) the website which was based on Flash technologies in frontend,
• utilisation of jQuery UI to manage the translation of the website into 7 languages.

Collaborative development to build a backend which managed a shopping cart on symfony framework for Lejaby:

• deployment of the symfony framework with sfGuard plugin and AMF which is used to exchange data between an Adobe Flash applicaiton and a web server language (PHP here).

Integration of new templates based on Flash technologies for Vania :

• rewriting from scratch most of the old templates to allow differents rendering: Flash or pure HTML.

Integration of a store locator through Google Maps API for Playtex.
(Fixed-term contract) PHP Developer

Fullsix

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2008 — August 2008 (2 months)

Collaboration with SixandCo France (Fullsix subsidiary) for Maison de biarritz:

• increasing performance of the CMS by adding full publication of documents,
• updating to the latest version of Zend Framework,
• enhancing the upload component via Adobe Flex framework.
(Trainee) Junior PHP Developer

Fullsix

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 2008 — July 2008 (4 months)

• Managing massive recruitment campagn (crisp, 6thsense) with emailing and Flash websites for Whirlpool.
• Handling instant win game for Nokia.
• Implementing CMS components for Vania, SNCF (Francerailpass, railteam) and the french Brain Research Federation (FRC).

Florent Messa’s Education

Gobelins, l'école de l'image

3 , Multimedias, Internet , 2006 — 2009
Université Paris V René Descartes

2 , Informatique , 2006 — 2008

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Florent Messa’s Interests:

training, new technology, php, web development, zend framework, symfony, sql, web, python, flex, actionscript, web standards, django, code conventions, javascript, open source, RIA, optimization, webdesign, graphics