Laurent Farcy

Current

Cofounder - Software Architect at eCairn
Web Application Consultant at Argyl

Past

Senior Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems
Architect Consultant at Akazi
Software Engineer at HP

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Education

ENSIMAG
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble

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Computer Software

Laurent Farcy’s Summary

Software design and development of innovative web applications using efficient technologies and agile practices.

Laurent Farcy’s Experience

Cofounder - Software Architect

eCairn

(Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Software technology start-up specializing in social media marketing.

Our Software as a Service application puts in control your social engagement initiatives and aligns marketing team towards specific objectives like : promoting brand, gaining consumer insights, increasing customer satisfaction, gaining influence over key influencers.
Web Application Consultant

Argyl

(Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Argyl is a small consulting firm specializing in software develoment for web 2.0 projects.

Located in the French Alps, Argyl supports companies that have web 2.0-flavoured projects by offering its technological know-how and its capacity of transforming a rough idea into a working system at a fast pace.

Argyl's offering puts the emphasis on Ruby on Rails, Rich User Interfaces, (HTML-based, CSS-styled, AJAX-driven), web 2.0 ingredients and the principles and practices of Agile Software Development as partially described by the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

Argyl can contribute in all the essential phases of your web software lifecycle, from gathering requirements to deploying the application on the appropriate infrastructure.
Senior Software Engineer

Sun Microsystems

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

February 2004 — April 2007 (3 years 3 months)

Developed key features for and ensure adoption of the software infrastructure used internally for building system management applications. Emphasis on security aspects (data protection, authentication, access controls).

Drived the integration of this component in Solaris 10 (type cacaoadm on the command line) and started the process for its open-sourcing.
Architect Consultant

Akazi

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

January 2001 — January 2004 (3 years 1 month)

Improved FlowMind, the Business Process Management System built up by Akazi, by developing new core components and integrating customer's requirements and feedbacks.

Analyzed, designed and built the Java Interaction API and JSP Form tag library that permitted the OEM business. Coordinated a development team, up to 4 people. Defined the integration architecture for more than 10 pre and post-sales projects. Received very positive feedbacks from both customers and Akazi's managers.
Software Engineer

HP

(Public Company; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)

August 1997 — December 2000 (3 years 5 months)

Defined, developed and deployed the software applications supporting the outsourcing services sold by HP to Fortune 500 customers.

Designed and built the end-user interface for the eSupport program.
Managed a development team composed of 5 engineers distributed between Grenoble and Budapest. Proposed and tested several secure web-based solutions for hardware e-procurement, business reporting and helpdesk management

Laurent Farcy’s Education

ENSIMAG

Engineering Degree , Computer Science, Distributed Systems , September 1993 — June 1996

Activities and Societies:

Organization of INPG Party in 1994
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble

1993 — 1996