Frederic Marand

Current

CEO at OSInet

Past

Managing Director at Agorus
Teacher, network programming at Université de Caen Basse Normandie
Professor, Information Systems at ESIEA

Group leader at Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique
Teacher, business automation software at Université de Caen Basse Normandie
Exterior Relations Manager at H2Ondes

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Education

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Université de Caen Basse Normandie
Ecole nationale supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen

ISMRa - ENSICAEN - Institut des Sciences de la Matière et du Rayonnement
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

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Connections

48 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Frederic Marand’s Summary

Looking for an opportunity to lead new integration projects in web space, preferably around the Drupal CMS.

Application development lead. Specialized in RPC-based systems over TCP/IP and other network stacks (1986-1994), then web-based systems.

Lead support and training team of engineers for government networks (1989-1994)

Develop front-office/back office integration and lead UNIX (Solaris) support team for mass distributors (1994-1996) .

Created one of the very first e-commerce sites in France (1997). Developed since then, based on Drupal since 2005.

Frederic Marand’s Specialties:

Drupal CMS and other web technologies. XML applications PHP to .NET bridging, Web services, SOAP, XML-RPC, DCE RPC. Middleware: network programming (TCP/IP, UDP/IP), user-space system administration data. Architecting software and managing development engineers teams.

Frederic Marand’s Experience

CEO

OSInet

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1993 — Present (16 years 1 month)

Performing engineering assistance and giving courses on :

- Drupal development and integration
- Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP
- Zend tools
- ASP / ADO / IIS
- AIX, Netware, Solaris
- GroupWise and Exchange messaging suites, Border Manager and Watchguard firewalls, Paradox databases

Sales and distribution deals with national and international customers and suppliers.

Brand creation and development, web site data and back office integration. Running RFPs and managing web designers.
Managing Director

Agorus

(Computer Hardware industry)

September 1988 — April 2008 (19 years 8 months)

Lead and manage software development team of engineers and developers

Architect software: system management suite, NFS clone, DRI GEM clone, SNA/DECnet-DNA gateway, Apollo/DECnet-DNA gateway

Write device drivers: avionics card (Arinc 429) for PC, data acquisition card (DT1492) for Sun/Solaris

Provide technical assistance to the server design team for multiprocessor servers.

Perform the company management tasks: answer RFPs/public tenders, purchase, find new suppliers, prepare accounting and tax information.
Teacher, network programming

Université de Caen Basse Normandie

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 1990 — January 1992 (1 year 5 months)

Teaching MS (engineer) students about network programming : network API (sockets, streams, TLI), transport protocol properties.
Professor, Information Systems

ESIEA

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 1989 — January 1992 (2 years 5 months)

Teaching students at the MS (engineer) level information systems, from modeling to security.
Group leader

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

August 1986 — August 1988 (2 years 1 month)

Help system administrators under hacker attack protect their systems.

Lead research projects in computer security: risk assessmment software, EMC/EMI analysis, Tempest zoning, RF digital signal processing.
Teacher, business automation software

Université de Caen Basse Normandie

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

October 1984 — January 1986 (1 year 4 months)

Teaching undergraduate and graduate students about business automation software. Practical cases and hands-on labs.
Exterior Relations Manager

H2Ondes

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

July 1981 — March 1984 (2 years 9 months)

Developing partnerships within the upstream local news and media sources, in order to provide broadcast content.

Manage administrative/financial aspects of the radio station.

Frederic Marand’s Education

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

DEA , Information systems methodology and architecture , 1986 — 1987

Summa cum Laude (très bien avec félicitations du jury). Majoring in distributed systems.

Activities and Societies:

Vacation at INRIA working on the SOMIW kernel C++ implementation.
Université de Caen Basse Normandie

DESS , Business Administration , 1984 — 1986

Followed the courses for the DESS "Certificat d'Aptitude à l'Administration des Entreprises" along with my engineer degree, but did not take the degree to avoid a conflict of interest with my position as assistant teacher to my own class.

Activities and Societies:

Assistant teacher, business software tools
Ecole nationale supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen

Ingénieur , Computer Science , 1983 — 1986
ISMRa - ENSICAEN - Institut des Sciences de la Matière et du Rayonnement

Engineer , Computer Science , 1983 — 1986

Ranked first in my specialty: robotics and artificial intelligence
Ranked second of the whole school

Activities and Societies:

President of the Computing Club
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

PNDS , German economics , 1985 — 1985

Programme called "Soziale marktwirschaft für die 80er Jahren" (social market economy for the 80s), covering the german economics model, cultural background, and german language.

Additional Information

Frederic Marand’s Websites:

Frederic Marand’s Interests:

program-to-program communication, distributed systems, RPC: XML-RPC, SOAP/WSDL, DCE, RPC/XDR, NCS, object brokering, system programming, performing on stage, bass, keyboards