Frederic Marand
Expert performance Drupal
61 years old
Paris Area France
Professional Status
Entrepreneur
Open to opportunities
About Me
Web application development lead and auditor for security and performance. Specialized in program-to-program communications, especially REST APIs, XML-RPC and SOAP since 1999, and earlier RPC-based systems over TCP/IP and other network stacks (1986-1994).
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 retailers (1994-1996) .
Created one of the very first e-commerce sites in France (1997), converted to Drupal in 2005.
Specialties: Drupal 7 core maintainer, XML-RPC subsystem.
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.
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 retailers (1994-1996) .
Created one of the very first e-commerce sites in France (1997), converted to Drupal in 2005.
Specialties: Drupal 7 core maintainer, XML-RPC subsystem.
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.
CEO / CTO
OSInet
Since December 1993
- Development lead on large web sites based on the Drupal CMS, including:
- 2015-2018: Drupal 8 coach for France Télévisions teams
- 2016-2018: Full-stack developer on Meteor.JS for the cross-site back-office at LeFigaro.fr
- 2017 : Drupal 8 architect and coach for Rue du Commerce
- 2016 : Drupal 8 architect and coach for Carrefour.fr
- 2015 : Drupal 8 architect and lead dev for at 70-site digital factory at ARS.sante.fr
- 2014 : Drupal lead on a mixed Drupal/Java extranet project at PMU.fr
- 2013: Architect and development lead of the new cross-site commenting system at LeFigaro.fr, on MongoDB
- 2012: Architect and infrastructure development lead on a very large multilingual Drupal 7 Commerce project in the luxury business, via Publicis Dialog.
- 2011: Architect on the new social network services at LeFigaro.fr on MongoDB. Data migration of the new FranceInfo.fr
- 2010 : Development lead on Madame.LeFigaro.fr. Varnish driver extensions and custom integration.
- 2009/2010 : Architecture of and development lead for the first generation social network and freemium content at LeFigaro, including mobile support.
- 2015-2018: Drupal 8 coach for France Télévisions teams
- Expert consultant on Drupal performance and development best practices, including :
- 2014 : Performance, quality and security audits: Secours Populaire Français, Groupe Revue Fiduciaire, Alcatel-Lucent
- 2013 : Performance coaching on Drupal Commons for Linagora.fr
- 2012-2013: Resident Drupal expert in the "SWAT" (cross-project experts) team at France Télévisions
- 2012: Performance, quality and security audits: Public Sénat, Atout France
- 2010/2011 : Performance and security audits: FranceCulture.com, FranceInter.com, France.FR, FranceSoir.fr, Petzl.com. Code and database tuning.
- 2014 : Performance, quality and security audits: Secours Populaire Français, Groupe Revue Fiduciaire, Alcatel-Lucent
- More genenerally, consulting engineer and teacher on web, system, and storage technologies :
- Drupal 4.6 to 8.0, inclusive
- MongoDB, REDIS, MySQL, PHP,
- AIX, Netware, Solaris (until 2008)
- ASP / ADO / IIS (until 2006)
- GroupWise and Exchange messaging suites, Border Manager and Watchguard firewalls, Paradox databases (until 2008)
- Drupal 4.6 to 8.0, inclusive
Managing Director
Agorus
September 1988
to April 2008
- Perform the company management tasks: answer RFPs/public tenders, purchase, find new suppliers, prepare accounting and tax information.
- 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.
- IPX/SPX/IP network for the Centre National d'Etudes Vétérinaires et Alimentaires (1994-2000)
- distributed statistics data entry for the Ministère de l'Agriculture (1990-2000)
- Design national networks and distributed applications:
- Architect software: system management suite, NFS clone, DRI GEM clone, SNA/DECnet-DNA gateway, Apollo/DECnet-DNA gateway.
- Lead and manage software development team of engineers and developers.
Teacher, network programming
Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
September 1990
to January 1992
- Teaching MS (engineer) students about network programming : network API (sockets, streams, TLI), transport protocol properties.
Professor, Information Systems
ESIEA
September 1989
to January 1992
- Teaching students at the MS (engineer) level information systems, from modeling to security.
Research group leader
CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
August 1986
to 1988
- 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
October 1984
to January 1986
- Teaching undergraduate and graduate students about business automation software. Practical cases and hands-on labs.
Public Relations Manager
H2Ondes
July 1981
to March 1984
- Manage administrative/financial aspects of the radio station.
- Developing partnerships within the upstream local news and media sources, in order to provide broadcast content.
