Romain Eude
MSc in General Engineering from Institut Catholique d'Arts et Metiers and part of an MBA from Temple University. Currently working as Chief Technology Officer at Gekko.com
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Website: | http://blog.thecodingfrog.com |
| Industries: | Travel |
| Skills: | Business, C/C++, Engineering, English, French, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Marketing, PHP, Rails, Software Engineering, Spanish, SQL, Web Development |
| Location: | London |
| Visas: | any EU |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | chief technology officer |
| Schools: | Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers Lille, Temple University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Gekko.com , London, UK |
| Position: | Chief Technology Officer |
| Time period: | January 2010 - Present |
| Description: | Heading all technology things in the Company, to help make Gekko.com a major player in the travel online industry. |
| Employer: | Touch Local Ltd., London, United Kingdom |
| Position: | Head of Web Technology |
| Time period: | October 2008 - December 2009 |
| Description: | Direct report to CEO, in charge of all technical aspects at TouchLocal, both for www.touchlocal.com (4 million unique visitors per month) and internal systems (Navision, Salesforce.com and Google Adwords integration platform).
* Identify and drive strategic enhancements and new features to platform products, based on business and market needs. * Create and communicate product technology roadmaps by identifying emerging technologies that are likely to impact the systems, services and products. * Manage the execution of the global online and offline product roadmap. * Identify, architect, develop, implement, and maintain technology solutions to meet TouchLocal’s strategic business objectives * Implement process and procedures in software development and operations management, ensuring quality and short time to market for new products. * Provide technical advisory and due diligence in the evaluation of acquisition targets, vendors, distributors and advertiser partnership. * Responsible for the design and implementation of http://beta.touchlocal.com * Overall management responsibility for TouchLocal IT resources (12p.) |
| Employer: | Touch Local Ltd., London, United Kingdom |
| Position: | Web Technical Lead and Scrum Master |
| Time period: | October 2007 - October 2008 |
| Description: | * Software architecture and development of new web platform for www.touchlocal.com (UK's fastest growing business directory and online business community. Provides online advertising solutions in display, vertical and performance based advertising and provide highly specialized SEO and SEM solutions). 3 Million businesses listed, 10 Million page views/month, 4 Million unique visitors/month.
* Database modelling and components design using Agile Process (Scrum methodology). * Development in Ruby on Rails and J2EE hybrid platform, including Solr/Lucene search engine and Adobe Flex rich user interface. * Leader of development team for B2B and B2C, using agile methodology (SCRUM) – 8 people. * Complete rebuild of site’s search engine using a mix of Ruby on Rails, Apache Java Lucene/Solr and MySQL GIS functions. |
| Employer: | European Medicines Agency, London, United Kingdom |
| Position: | Software Architect / Team Lead |
| Time period: | January 2004 - October 2007 |
| Description: | * Software Architect (supervising a team of 6 developers) for a pan-European project, involving data entry from 25 countries, in 21 languages and exchange of XML documents via a message oriented middleware (MOM) with each European Union Member State (applied Rational Unified Process Methodology, Java J2EE platform - JSP / EJB / Struts, LDAP/SSO integration, integration of CMS EMC Documentum 5, design of database E/R model on Oracle 10g Database, design and specification of XML format via XSD).
* Design of LDAP Schema for a european user management project (10000 users). * Software Architect (supervising a team of 4 developers) for the design and implementation of a Data-warehouse allowing patterns detection on drug adverse reactions (RUP Methodology, Oracle 10g database and ETL builder, Microstrategy Business Intelligence suite, design of Database model with Dimensions, Facts and Star schema. ETL handling 10 million records) * Design and development of a corporate application for the management of regulatory framework contracts (development in Java on J2EE Platform with JSP, EJBs and MVC Struts framework; deployment on Oracle Application Server 10g, LDAP/Single-Sign-On integration, MS Outlook integration). Complete design, development and maintenance of the application. * Lead developer of Ruby on Rails & Adobe Flex RIA pilot developments for internal web applications. |
| Employer: | Proges Ltd., London, United Kingdom |
| Position: | UK Business Manager & Product Manager |
| Time period: | December 2001 - December 2003 |
| Description: | * Managing Director of Proges Ltd (Company registration, account management, billing and accounting).
* Board Member and Strategy Advisor to CEO of Proges-Plus. * Responsible for UK business growth: Sales, CRM and Marketing. * Design & development of 'artIFActs', an innovative CRM software solution for Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs) in the UK Market (Client-Server 2 tier vertical application including XML data exchange with online service providers, reporting on products, commissions and clients portfolio with Crystal Report; MySQL as back-end). * Implementation of 'Synoptic' ERP/CRM solution for 2 SMEs. * Development of an Internet-based solution for a major European Clothing Company, Okaidi, allowing sub-contractors in Asia to prepare orders and remotely enter information (bill of material, packing list) in a central database located in the French headquarters (PHP front-end using MySQL database back-end, dynamic PDF generation and synchronization of an Oracle Database). * Development of 'Plug-it', data acquisition and time tracking system, consisting of iButton tags and smart controllers TINIs (Java-based real-time OS embedded programming with strong resource limitations) and distributed GUI dashboard application on Single Board Computers. |
| Employer: | Proges-Plus, Willems, France |
| Position: | Product Manager / Software Engineer |
| Time period: | July 1999 - November 2001 |
| Description: | * Board Member and Strategy Advisor to CEO.
* Development of a complete new software product line 'ThermoTrack': Temperature tracking solution on PC, Mobile PDAs (PalmOS and PocketPC) and Internet Platforms (Web-based PHP/MySQL). Definition of marketing strategy, product pricing and scoping, in relation with Sales Manager. Pre-Sales support and RFQ answers. * Development of 'Synoptic Mobile Edition': Mobile CRM software with embedded database and synchronization with central database via Internet remote access (Java Swing GUI with PointBase database on SymbianOS platform). * Software architecture consultancy on n-tier developments for 'Synoptic' ERP implementations (including Virtual Private Network design and setup, as well as intranet solutions based on Sun Cobalt Qube). |
| Employer: | Gemplus Corporation, Philadelphia, USA |
| Position: | Smart Card Production Manager |
| Time period: | January 1998 - June 1999 |
| Description: | * Direct supervision of 15 employees and 3 technicians in a Visa/Mastercard certified plant. Operational budget: $1,400,000.
* Installation and start-up of new mobile phone GSM card and banking cards production and personalization line ($500,000), including card software programming and testing. * 'Oracle Manufacturing' ERP software implementation in production area. |
| Employer: | Gemplus Corporation, Philadelphia, USA |
| Position: | Project Engineer |
| Time period: | October 1996 - January 1998 |
| Description: | * Responsible on US side for Smart Card technology transfer from France (new equipment installation, facilities layout, operators and technicians training, production line start-up and qualification). Project budget: $ 1,000,000.
* ISO 9002 certification team member, in charge of 'control of inspection, measuring and test equipment'. |
| Employer: | ICAM - CSc Lab, Lille, France |
| Position: | Software Developer (Intern) |
| Time period: | January 1996 - April 1996 |
| Description: | * Responsible for modelling and programming a production scheduling software using constraints solving methods (Prolog). Adaptation of the software to the Printing Industry. Prototype software sold to Peugeot Automotive. |
| Employer: | Procter & Gamble, London, UK |
| Position: | Process Engineer (Intern) |
| Time period: | July 1995 - December 1995 |
| Description: | * Responsible for data acquisition systems, standardizing work practices in the Palletizing Dept, for the production of soap detergents.
* Accountable for measurable improvements on Process Reliability (downtime reduced by 50%) and success through changes of people's work practices. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Temple University |
| Time period: | 1999 |
| Degree: | Marketing, MBA |
| University: | Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers Lille |
| Time period: | 1991 - 1996 |
| Degree: | General Engineering Diploma, specialty in Computer Science, MSc |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Painting (Oil and Watercolour), Golf. |
| Memberships: | * Responsible for 'cultural development' in the ICAM Students Association in 1994-1995.
* Founder of the Students Association 'ICAM 96' and President in 1993-1994. |
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Gekko
Gekko is a unique online service that will help you find spots you love - starting with hotels, based on your profile and preferences of other like-minded people in the community
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Tom Allason
London based serial entrepreneur: Founder & CEO Shutl + eCourier.co.uk. Passionate about using technology to disrupt markets.
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Oren Greenberg
Pursuing BSc in Psychology through The Open University since 2005, Graduated in Arts from Metro-West High School (2002), Business Products Manager at Touch Local Ltd (2007-2009), Online Marketing Manager at Spacebar Media (2006-2007).
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