Specialist in Information and Documentation Management
Skills
- Information processing: DocBook SGML/XML, XSL/XSLT, troff, LaTeX.
- Using a wide range of highly technical information processing tools and programs including: Linux, Solaris, Windows, Web tools, Perl scripts, configuration management tools.
- Writing and editing (French, English): articles, reviews, guides, procedures, meeting minutes.
- Languages: english (language at work).
Work Experience
Independent consultant
2004
Promotion and support of DocBook for technical publishing
Jaluna, SA
2002 to 2003
Documentation Project Manager, Co-founder
- Creating a DocBook XML open-source technical publishing system well suited to the resources and quality objectives of the company.
- Coaching the developers in writing technical documents by promoting simple style guidelines and templates, and leveraging on a cooperative authoring and publishing system.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
1997 to 2002
Documentation Project Manager
- Elaborating the schedules and action plans to produce full product documentation for regular product releases of the ChorusOS operating system.
- Converting the product documentation source files inherited from Chorus systèmes to SGML, and adapting its production to the Sun Microsystems documentation production tools and process.
Chorus systèmes, SA
1989 to 1997
Assistant to the Board of Directors
- Responsible for an information and documentation system on Unix-based, distributed and real-time operating systems.
- Responsible for the ISO 9001 documentation quality management in the company overall quality system.
- Technical and administrative management of European reasearch and development projects in the field of telecommunications and information services (ESPRIT Program, European Community).
AFNOR (Association Française de Normalisation)
1978 to 1989
Standardization engineer
- Technical secretariat of French standardization committees for information technologies (telecommunications, data bases, information coding, documentation).
- Technical secretariat of the international standardization committee on Open Systems Interconnexion (OSI) architecture.
- Setting up a standardization cell at the Centre National d'Etudes des Télécommunications to promote and support the deployment of OSI protocol standards and regulations within France Télécom.
- Responsible for an information system on the international standardization projects in the field of Information Technologies.
AFDAC (Association Française de Documentation Automatique en Chimie)
1972 to 1978
Information engineer
- Responsible for a selective information dissemination service in the field of Chemistry.
- Training of information specialists to new information tools and information database technologies.
Education & Qualification
- 1973 - Diplôme d'ingénieur documentaliste de l'Institut National des Techniques Documentaires, Paris / Master in Information Science.
- 1971 - Maîtrise de Chimie de la Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay (option Informatique Appliquée) / Master of Science in Chemistry, degree in Applied Computing.