Pascal Vuylsteker

Current

Information Systems Manager at CEMS

Past

Senior IT Consultant at Opsomai
IT Lecturer (Computer Graphics, VR, New Media) at Australian National University
IT Lecturer (Computer Graphics, VR, New Media) at ANU

INA Internet Project Leader at INA
DEA at UNIVERSITÉ DE MARNE LA VALLÉE, Paris, France
DEA Training course at the Computer Graphics Laboratory (C.I.G.) at Marne la Vallée University
Computer programmer at SYSECA

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Education

Université de Marne-la-Vallée
Polytechnique, Ecole Normale Supérieure d'Ulm
ENSPM

Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille
Ecole centrale de Marseille
Faidherbe
Lycee Faidherbe

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Pascal Vuylsteker’s Summary

Extensive knowledge of the Internet : 14 years' experience encompassing all aspects of web sites management and deployment of other internet tools.
Strong engineering background. Experienced in research and teaching.

Willing to relocate : keen to work in Grenoble, Chambéry, South of Paris, Paris, France, Australia, California, Japan, other parts of the world.

Next possible career move : switch to the field of renewable energy or more generally, sustainability. Use of GIS, IT... to improve efficiency of energy or transport usage could be an interesting way to do so.

Pascal Vuylsteker’s Specialties:

Project management. Research/Expertise/Consulting in Internet/Ajax/prototype/Web2.0, IT, VR, panoramic images, media geolocation (GIS), MacOSX (Cocoa/Objective C). Lecturing/Teaching.

Pascal Vuylsteker’s Experience

Information Systems Manager

CEMS

(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

May 2009 — Present (8 months)

CEMS is a Global Alliance in Management Education. In practice, the association manage information coming from 28 academic institutions, 57 corporate partners, thousands of Alumni and more than 800 new students a year. I am in charge the full information systems : from the back office, to the complete revamping of the outmoded web site. This job implies interactions with the alliance various stakeholders, and prioritisation of the requests. On the production side, there is the management of a developer and dealing with various providers.
Senior IT Consultant

Opsomai

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

October 2006 — April 2009 (2 years 7 months)

Expertise: NewMedia (Web2.0, Ajax, Prototype ...), Video archives management, MacOSX/Cocoa programming, panoramic imagery and media geolocation Technical research. Proposition of an reasoned shortlist of web based solutions for the B2B and B2C video delivery platform of the French Broadcasting Institute (INA). Selection of an open source ECM (Enterprise Content Management) platform for INA's intranet. Project Manager and Ajax developer for Orao : a QuickTime based web video player that fully emulate a professional video tape recorder user interface (jog shuttle, frame by frame...).
IT Lecturer (Computer Graphics, VR, New Media)

Australian National University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

June 2001 — August 2006 (5 years 3 months)

Academic at the Australian National University (ANU) in the eScience group of the Department of Computer Science (in charge of the first Depatment's Masters)
Creation, management and teaching of courses : "NewMedia" (Web2.0), "Computer Graphics" and "Networked Virtual Reality".
Management of Masters student's projects.
Research interests : panoramic imagery and media geolocation (GIS : Geographic Information System)
IT Lecturer (Computer Graphics, VR, New Media)

ANU

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2001 — August 2006 (5 years 3 months)
INA Internet Project Leader

INA

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

September 1994 — August 2000 (6 years )

Technical team leader for the portal "MediaPort" and INA's web site (supervised a staff of 4 technicians.)
INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) is the French National Broadcasting Institute (government organization). Main activities are Video Archiving, Teaching, Research and Production related to Broadcasting.
Launched the Internet and web activity within INA from the very first web site in 94 to the intranet.
Participated actively in organizing international conferences (Imagina, Monaco).
Designed and implemented large web site production tools.
Strong vision in the selection of technologies used and developed by the team (Apache, Perl, MySQL, QuickTime...).
Involved in internet training program for French broadcasters.
Lobbyng to develop the Internet in France. Technological survey on Virtual Reality
Involved in various publications and manifestations
DEA

UNIVERSITÉ DE MARNE LA VALLÉE, Paris, France

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1993 — September 1994 (1 year 1 month)
DEA Training course at the Computer Graphics Laboratory (C.I.G.)

Marne la Vallée University

(Educational Institution; Internet industry)

April 1994 — August 1994 (5 months)

Scientific visualization : How to represent abstract data in 3 dimensions
How to introduce the 3rd dimension to the Web : VRML
Computer programmer

SYSECA

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

July 1993 — September 1993 (3 months)

Develop a Producer-Injector of messages with intent to validate a software package.

Pascal Vuylsteker’s Education

Université de Marne-la-Vallée

DEA/PhD , Virtual Reality / Computer Graphics , 1993 — 1995
Polytechnique, Ecole Normale Supérieure d'Ulm

Diploma of Advanced Studies in Mathematics and Computer science , Computer science, Computer graphics , September 1993 — August 1994

One-year postgraduate university degree required before doctoral studies, equivalent to Master of Science in Maths and Computer Graphics (MSc).
ENSPM

1988 — 1991
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille

1988 — 1991
Ecole centrale de Marseille

Engineer , Physics, Optics, Computing , 1988 — 1991

ENSPM was incorporated into the Ecole Généraliste d’Ingénieurs de Marseille (EGIM) in 2003 and should be known now as Ecole Centrale Marseille.

Activities and Societies:

Member of the Student Council.
Person in charge of the Photo Club, School newspaper chief editor. School club treasurer.
Faidherbe

CPGE , Maths Sup, Spe P' Physique , 1986 — 1988
Lycee Faidherbe

CPGE , Math Physique , 1986 — 1988