Laurent Pontier

Laurent Pontier

Project Manager, Senior Software Engineer at SAP

Paris Area, France

Current
  • Project Manager, Senior Software Engineer at SAP
Past

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Education
  • Ecole d'Ingénieurs des Technologies de l'Information et du Management
  • Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
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Laurent Pontier’s Summary

Software engineering, research and management. SDLC process and prototyping, project leadership, architecture/design and development.

Laurent Pontier’s Specialties:

Languages:
Java, Flex, C++, C#, some Objective-C.

Mobile:
Created Marvin for the Android Java stack. Extensive usage of location, network and 3D OpenGL ES api to explore new ways of presenting user centric and geo centric information.
http://marvinreloaded.com/blog
http://marvinreloaded.com/round2

Servers:
Websphere, JBoss, Tomcat.
Marvin Geo Content Delivery System written in PHP on custom mySQL servers (LAMP) then rewritten "in the cloud" in Python on Google AppEngine.

Laurent Pontier’s Experience

  • Project Manager, Senior Software Engineer

    SAP

    (Public Company; SAP; Computer Software industry)

    June 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

    SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center, oCTO.
    Software Architecture
    - Enterprise Social Network
    SaaS/RIA for Social Network Analyser and Relationship Analysis Server administration (Flex Builder 3, Prefuse flare, Tomcat, J2EE).
    - GeoBI server to stream dynamic kml to Google Earth.
    - IBM WebSphere Business Monitor: Business Activity Monitoring applied to BI Events and dashboards.
    - ILOG Business Rules: Forward Chaining Inference Engine applied to BI Trends and Forecast.
    - IBM OmniFind Enterprise Search and BI meta-data indexing.

  • Project Manager, Senior Software Engineer

    4D SA

    (Computer Software industry)

    September 2000 — May 2006 (5 years 9 months)

    Paris, France:
    - Software specification, design and implementation in C++ using Win32 on Windows and Carbon on MacOSX.
    - Design & Coding of a crossplateform vectorial library from scratch.
    - Merge native UI & Vectorial Editing concept into the same component on MacOSX and Windows.
    (Layers/Zoom/Groups/GuideLines/XML parsing for SVG Import/etc.)
    - Highly visual database schema editor.
    - All rendering done with Quartz on MacOSX and gdi+ on Windows.
    - Full or partial shared Tree concept and implementation.

  • Graphical Application R&D Manager

    BeatWare, Inc (Aquired by Hyperion Solution, now Oracle)

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    August 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 2 months)

    Redwood City, California:
    e-Picture 2.0
    - Design and Implementation in C++ of e-Picture 2.0 on MacOS and Windows (PowerPlant and MFC)
    - Winner of the "Macweek Best of show" at MacWorld 2000 New York.
    - Animation Engine (Keyframes/time or frame based multi dimentions interpolations)
    - Native user interface implementation on MacOS and Windows.
    - Quicktime encoding and decoding on MacOS and Windows.
    - Involved in complete product cycle from specifications to beta testing and release.
    - Speaker during MacWorld San Fransisco and NewYork and Apple Expo Paris.

  • Software Engineer

    BeatWare, Inc (Aquired by Hyperion Solution, now Oracle)

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 1 month)

    Redwood City, California:
    e-Picture 1.0
    - Design and Implementation in C++ of e-Picture 1.0 on BeOS and MacOS.
    - Winner of the "Best of show" at MacWorld 1999 New York.
    - Involved in complete product cycle from specifications to beta testing and release.

    Author of Kftp / Get-It (BeOS multi-threaded C++ FTP client)
    - Winner of the Be Master Award during the 1997 Be, Inc developper conference in Santa Clara California.
    - Kftp aquired by Beatware, Inc and distributed under the name "Get-It".

  • Software Engineer, Scientifique du contingent

    Matra Marconi Space, now EADS Astrium

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; EAD; Defense & Space industry)

    October 1997 — June 1998 (9 months)

    Paris, France:
    Matra Marconi Space
    - Helios 1 military project: design and Implementation in C on HPUX of a cloud detection software.
    - Various database software modification on Vax/VMS systems.

  • Software Engineer

    France Telecom

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FTE; Telecommunications industry)

    August 1996 — December 1996 (5 months)

    Grenoble, France:
    Service National Informatique de France Telecom.
    - Idea, specification and implementation in C of a specific TCP/IP Protocol to access and manage not directly accessible remote servers through a chain(X25/IP) of Unix workstations running AIX.
    - Internal deployment and tests, users feedback, fixes and improvements.

  • Software Engineer

    Ecole Normale Supérieure de Biologie, INSERM

    (Biotechnology industry)

    September 1995 — December 1995 (4 months)

    Paris, France:
    Ecole normale supérieure de biologie
    Laboratoire de biologie cellulaire de la synapse normale et pathologique (Inserm U497)
    - Design and implementation in C on a Silicon Graphics Indy of a SCSI CCD Camera Application to edit CCD Microscope settings and grab pictures from biological samples.
    - Various task of system administration on SGI Irix 5.3.

  • Hardware Engineer

    STMicroelectronics

    (Public Company; STM; Semiconductors industry)

    April 1994 — July 1994 (4 months)

    Grenoble, France:
    - Designed the next generation of ST6 micro controller hardware emulator.
    - ALTERA Programmable Chips design
    - Board design and layout

Laurent Pontier’s Education

  • Ecole d'Ingénieurs des Technologies de l'Information et du Management

    Software Engineer , Computer Science, Management , 1994 — 1997

    Activities and Societies:
    Engineering Institute for Information Technology and Business Applications

  • Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)

    University Diploma of Technology , Micro Electronics, Surface Mounted Components , 1992 — 1994

Additional Information

Laurent Pontier’s Websites:

Laurent Pontier’s Interests:

Biking, serious home improvements, the country side, lava lamps, repairing, building and creating stuff.

Laurent Pontier’s Groups:

  •    InterFrench
  •    SAP People(9000+ Member)
  •    EFREI Paris, Alumni Group
  •    Business Objects Alumni
  •    SAP Professionals (Globally).
  •    Mobile Telecoms industry group
  •    Google Android
  •    BOBJ Alumni
  •    Android
  •    Google Android France
  •    Linkin Android Developers
  •    SATURN
  •    Android-ADC1-Top50
  •    The Cloudsters
  •    Android Apps
  •    Mobile Games and Applications
  •    Silicon Valley Alumni

Laurent Pontier’s Honors:

- 2008 Top 50 Winner of the 2008 Google Android Developer's Challenge with “Marvin” a 3D based application for the Google Android Mobile platform.
http://tinyurl.com/4wthac
http://tinyurl.com/5uj23j

- Reviewer of the "Hello, Android" book by Ed Burnett.

- Macweek Best of show at MacWorld 2000 New York for e-Picture 2.0
http://tinyurl.com/6lopgp

- Best of show at MacWorld 1999 New York for e-Picture 1.0
http://tinyurl.com/4pp7x8

- Be Master Award during the 1997 Be, Inc developer conference in Santa Clara California for "Kftp" aquired by Beatware, Inc and distributed under the name "Get-It".
http://tinyurl.com/45afdm

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