• Marital status: Single

• Nationality: French

• Age: 48

A position of patent drafter for software and business method patent applications where my knowledge and experience can be used.

• Windows NT 4, 2000, Linux, Solaris.

• WLS, Oracle 9iAS, WLE and Tuxedo. Tomcat, Resin, Java Embedded Server, Cocoon. .NET, IIS (ASP), Apache, OpenCms, Oracle iLearning.

• ANSI SQL, SOAP, WSDL, CORBA, TCP/IP, SNA.

• COM programming with the API and ATL.

• Encryption, certificate authorities, directory services.

• Java, C++, C#, PHP, Visual Basic, Word VBA, JavaScript, WSH, awk, shell.

• J2EE (JSPs, servlets, EJBs).

• Graphical environments JFC, Windows.

• HTML, XML (SAX, DOM), XSL, CSS.

• Patent writing (eight patent drafts for one year), search and analysis. Knowledge of the European and American regulations and databases.

Technical manager

• Reviewed patent proposals, wrote patent applications and replied to examiner objections and rejections.

• Analyzed competitor patents and made business intelligence work.

• Checked if a product developed by a third party met the specification requirements.

• Reviewed public presentations to identify involuntary disclosure of Intellectual Property.

• Managed the installation and the configuration of a fault-tolerant iLearning environment (Learning Management System of Oracle).

• Managed a Grid study (Grid farm using MPI, NWS, Netsolve).

• Designed algorithms to exercise the Grid farm (Face recognition, finding routes between an origin and a destination).

• Wrote a spell checker using a ternary tree.

• Designed and wrote a XML authoring tool using Word VBA. This tool acts as a Content Management Editor and is used to create the Amadeus online documentation and Web based trainings.

• Designed an EDIFACT to Web services gateway using Tomcat and Cocoon.

• Designed and wrote the core of a WLS prototype involving JSPs, EJBs. Then Amadeus chose this solution for the reengineering of its End Consumer product.

• Designed and wrote a multiplexer with data based routing, plug-in support, load balancing, encryption (DES and RC4) and JFC graphical administration. The core product was written in C++ and used an object framework, ACE, and SSLeay for encryption. Growing teams still develop new versions of the product.

Senior consultant - Presales for south of Europe

• Answered the France Telecom RFP (50000 PCs) for a corporate middleware with Tuxedo.

• Defined the architecture and programmed core COM components for Société Générale office business reengineering (an Intranet architecture with 2000 IIS, 23000 PCs).

• Wrote an object transfer solution in C++ using Tuxedo and Rogue Wave Tools (40 days and 9000 lines of code).

• Designed a mock up for an API allowing inter-applications exchanges (6 programmers during 1 month, 12000 C and C++ lines). Then the API has been written (100 consulting days for BEA) and put in production.

• Managed a successful Early Adopter Program for WLE with Java. Wrote COM proofs of concepts (an ASP gateway for WLE and a OLEDB provider using WLE as a source).

• Ported Host/Connect (SNA LU 6.2 and TCP connectivity product developed by BEA France) on NT.

Consultant

• Answered RFPs.

• Designed and programmed solutions for UNIX integration with mainframes (STK tapes libraries use, 3270 devices support).

• Started big UNIX sites.

System Engineer

• Supported MVS and UNIX.

• Started a MVS Oracle site.

System Programmer on a file transfer product, CFT

• Wrote system components (X25 and VTAM).

• Integrated purchased components in the product.

• Responsible of the component integration, tests and qualification for the portable version (rewritten in C).

System engineer

• CICS and MVS support.

• MVS system and VTAM programming.

System engineer

• CICS/DL1 support. CICS system programming.

Numerous publications on Internet, including:

• http://pagebox.net/patent.html entitled “Patent search,”

• http://pagebox.net/businessmethod.html entitled “Software and business method patents,”

• http://pagebox.net/businessview.html entitled “A business view of software and business method patents,”

• http://pagebox.net/examination.html entitled “Patent examination,”

• http://pagebox.net/trademark.html entitled “Trademark,”

• http://pagebox.net/copyright.html entitled “Copyright.”

Inventor and writer of a patent application WO0230085/EP1323277/2004062255 for the Amadeus multiplexer, called MULTIPLEXING UNIT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION IN A COMPUTER NETWORK.

Published a three-part article in Java Developer Journal (http://www.sys-con.com/java) and named "A Practical Solution for the Deployment of JavaServer Pages". You can find the three parts in:

• Volume 6, issue 1. Class loader.

• Volume 6, issue 2. Servlet support, administration and page caching.

• Volume 6, issue 5. Security, sandbox, certificate authorities and revocation lists.

• Computer science engineer en 1980.

• French, English.

• Main designer and programmer of the PageBox Open Source project (http://pagebox.net/ and http://pagebox.sourceforge.net).

• Photography, theatre (as an actor).

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