Francois LeDroff

Current

Software Architect at Adobe Systems
OSS Geek at OSSGTP

Past

Software Engineer / Consultant at Adobe Systems
J2EE expert, and technical team leader at Atos Origin
J2EE Community Leader at Atos Origin

Software Architect at Atos origin
K.M. Leader (Technology Evangelist) at Schlumberger
Software Architect at Schlumberger
Software engineer / architect at Schlumberger
Software engineer at Schlumberger
Research Assistant at Kansas State University

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Education

Kansas State University
Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Francois LeDroff’s Summary

J2ee software architecture and expert. Open Source Software Geek.

Francois LeDroff’s Specialties:

Architecture: proficient distributed application architect and programmer.
Integration: especially of open source j2ee software such as apache's (struts, httpUnit, cactus, ant, maven for instance) as well as many others: spring, JBoss, jUnit, quartz, roller, xwiki
Technology Evangelism: early adopter and knowledge sharer.
Process/Design: RUP and XP processes believer: always trying to mix the best of both world. Knowledgeable about UML, Use-Case and Design Patterns.

Francois LeDroff’s Experience

Software Architect

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year )

Software Architect in the Technology Experience Innovation Team
OSS Geek

OSSGTP

(Think Tanks industry)

July 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

I joined the Paris Open Source Software group at its start,
happy to find a place for French OSS (Open Source Software) addicts (a.k.a. OSS geeks ;-)), glad to meet up, brain storm, learn and discuss ideas.
Software Engineer / Consultant

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Consultant for all kinds of projects as long as Adobe Flex, AIR and/or LiveCycle products are involved.
J2EE expert, and technical team leader

Atos Origin

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

April 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 5 months)

Expertise, technical coaching and support in the development of an order management system made for OCP/Celesio, the leading pharmaceutical distribution company in Europe.

This project features an end-to-end Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on web services (JBoss and Axis). Electronic orders received through automatic channels are handled by a BPM (Business Process Management) based system (powered by SeeBeyond's ICAN) which delegates critical decisions to a business rules engine (Ilog's JRules) that supports dynamic rules modification.

Technology involved: Java, J2EE (JBoss), jakarta apache libraries (to name a few : struts, maven, and axis), ILog JRules, DHTML, XML, Oracle 9i, SQL.
J2EE Community Leader

Atos Origin

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 8 months)

Co-leader of the J2EE Technologies Special Interest Group within the Atos Origin knowledge management community.
In charge of knowledge and best practices management, as well as technology watch.
Software Architect

Atos origin

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 4 months)

Software Architect, Atos Origin, Paris, France.
Architecture, design and development of electricity network monitoring system for EDF-RTE.
Technology involved: Java, J2EE (Tomcat), apache packages (struts and maven for instance), quartz open symphony framework, JavaMail, DHTML, XML, Oracle 9i, SQL, PL-SQL.
K.M. Leader (Technology Evangelist)

Schlumberger

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

January 2003 — December 2003 (1 year )

Co-leader of the Web Technologies Special Interest Group within the Schlumberger knowledge management community (Eureka), and member of the Schlumberger-IT J2EE expert circle.
In charge of knowledge and best practices management, technology watch and workshop organization.
Software Architect

Schlumberger

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

June 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Software Architect, NetSeenergy (a Schlumberger-IT EDF joint venture), Montrouge, France.
Architecture, design and development of web based real time energy management services and automatic reporting for major international utilities.
Technology used: Java, J2EE, open source products and frameworks like most of the jakarta apache packages (struts and ant for instance), jUnit, httpUnit,
as well as: HTML, DHTML, XML, (IIS) ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, php, perl, (Oracle) SQL.
Software engineer / architect

Schlumberger

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

December 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 6 months)

Software Engineer, Data Management Services, Schlumberger RMS, Montrouge, France.
[This project has now evolved into NetSeenergy a Schlumberger-IT - EDF joint venture, see above]
Software engineer

Schlumberger

(Public Company; Oil & Energy industry)

February 1999 — November 2000 (1 year 10 months)

Schlumberger Western-Geco, Oslo, Norway
Architecture, design and development of several internet/intranet business applications: online productivity, gain share and revenue monitoring tools. Use of UML and Design Pattern.
Technology used: Java (Applet/Servlet), object oriented database (C++), Netscape Server on Unix Solaris.
Research Assistant

Kansas State University

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

June 1997 — January 1999 (1 year 8 months)

Research Assistant, parallel processing/performance team, Department of Computing and Information Science, Kansas State University, USA.

Parallelization of a chemical engineering numeric simulation for multi-processor workstations and conception of a cross language interface, a Java2C2Fortran bridge.

Francois LeDroff’s Education

Kansas State University

Master of Science , Computing and Information Science , 1997 — 1999

Master of Computer Science, Department of Computing and Information Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.

Activities and Societies:

KSU European Club,
Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine

ENSEM (École Nationale Supérieure d'Électricité et de Mécanique) Graduate Engineering school , software engineering, real time programming, control system engineering, digital electronics. , 1995 — 1998

During the first engineering school year : 1996 : Mechanic B.S. with honors (Licence de Mécanique), Université Nancy I, Nancy, France.

Activities and Societies:

"Junior Entreprise", ENSEM travel club

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Activities/Hobbies ------------------ Sports (rowing, running, swimming, sailing, volleyball, squash), photography, movies, concerts, music, web publishing, reading, cooking and (back bag) traveling.