Yohan Launay
Software Architect : Prototyping and Concepts (RADIOactive.sg)
New Technologies / IT engineer [EFREI Engineering Institute in Paris '2006], I did my final masters year in McGill University in Canada and I hold a business certificate in IT management from University College London.
French Engineering Award in 2004 decreed by Microsoft, 2 years of experience in R&D during my studies + software modeling lab in McGill (Master Project in optimization of multi-threaded architecture).
Created my own consulting business before I graduated (in 2006) - ConceptSL (see http://www.ConceptSL.com ), specialized in emerging new technologies (3D-internet, Virtual Worlds and Avatars, and mixing all this with the web).
The global economic crisis hit me, emerging technologies lost the hype they gained in 2007/2008 with the rising of Second Life. I took a daytime job while pursuing my consulting business evenings and week-ends (mainly publishing papers on Avatar topics and assisting startups with their tech strategy). Worked as a software architect & business developer of the content generation chain for visual services in Digital Radio ( http://www.Vizionr.fr ), after contributing to the launch of Altran Technologies Innovation Labs and R&D work in in-game advertising for Orange Labs. I saved enough money to move to Singapore look for a job there. And here i am fully settled in Singapore and working in Internet and 3G radio.
In the past 6 years, being part-time or full-time I have been in touch in various domains, from digital radio to security, video surveillance, gaming, advertising, virtual reality, PR, marketing, communication, R&D, product development, business development, law, partnership deals and contracts writing, and even charity business or optical stores. I have been through a lot of jobs in the technical side : tester, programmer, lead programmer, fellow researcher, software architect, R&D engineer, Commando Engineer, project manager, professional trainer and/or "coach", teacher, Lecturer, Consultant, IT auditor, partner/co-founder, association's president.
Being for a couple of days (commando, consulting or training) missions, or part-time and even several months (R&D missions or president mandate), all my missions and work experiences have been highly enjoyable even in hard times. Specially hard times. They have been the moments I remember the most, moments that made me progress quicker than people that didn't have the chance to experience them. Sometimes my mistakes cost me a lot both in time and in money. I learned the hard way from my mistakes and my own experiences, I adapted and moved on to more challenging missions everytime. I like to experiment new things, I consider myself creative at least in thinking and I like to think I see things differently.
Some say I am a workaholic, some say I am passionate, I would say I believe you can't work hard if there is no passion. And if passion there is, work becomes pleasurable and is no longer a constraint maybe not for your family though...
From all these short or long experiences, there are three things that really stood out :
1) I discovered I like to share (teaching, training, consulting, etc.) everybit of knowledge I have because I believe in a society of knowledge workers
2) I like technical stuff but more importantly I like to understand how and WHY things are made in general that involves understanding the design constraints (experience, product design) as well as business and financial constraints.
3) Being in a lot of places in different countries, I know I am meant for International Business and meeting people from different cultures.
And that's for the first 6 years of my short work experience. I can't wait to see the remaining 40 !
Want to know more ? Why don't you contact me directly life is much better when its real : Yohan.Launay at GMAIL.com
Please take a look at my short papers (3-5 pages) on the topic if you want my idea of the Internet of tomorrow : http://www.ConceptSL.com/papers/
110 contactsSoftware Architect : Prototyping and Concepts, RADIOActive - SEA Leaders in Radio Streaming Solutions
Responsible for designing and prototyping innovative solutions for Radio stations. My mission is focused on internet and mobile services.
2009 - 2009Prototyping of the first content generation chain for visual services for Digital Radio broadcast
Along with high-quality audio, the digital radio TDM-B standard enables Radios to broadcast visual services using high-end 2D and interactive graphics (like small websites). My role was to quickly design (concept, architecture and programming) a first working prototype of the content-generation chain (mixing JAVA, PHP and Javascript) including content aggregation tools (servers, scripts and standalone applications), MPEG4-BIFS content generators, Plug-in systems, Control and Configuration XML/RPC protocols, and Control web-interfaces and radio audio stream/information system glues and synchronization.
I was also in charge of identifying and exploring partnership opportunities with content providers (weather, cinema, stock quotes, sports and world news, etc.). I reported directly to the CEO – French digital radio expert.
2008 - 20091st mission with Altran Innovation Labs: proof of concept of dynamic mobile+web in-game advertising injection. (Team of 2 Commando engineers)
2008 - 2009Contributed to the launch of Altran Innovation Labs designing innovative solutions using new technologies
Directly reporting to the deputy-CEO of Altran Telecom and Media, I was part of the team of 5 people who launched Altran Innovation Lab in France. I have been in charge of designing and deploying the Technological Watch system, the 3 website portals using CMS (front-end, technical news portal and customer-oriented watch portal), participate in brainstorming sessions (submitting concepts and ideas of new services for Telco & media customers) and participate in prototyping of innovative solutions (Orange Labs, Citypulse Consortium, Orange Business Services, etc.)
Topics processed by the lab include gaming, gambling, mobile, web, m-payment, e-sports, augmented-reality
2007 - 2008Teaching software project planning to international students from Japan, Singapore (NTU) and USA - 4x1month
Emerging Technologies Consultant / Concept Designer (co-founder), ConceptSL : New Techs, Web 3D et Virtual Worlds specialists
2006 - 2008ICT & Web technologies Consulting, Proof of Concept + Prototype design and Implementation, Technical Watch
- Case studies Feasibility studies, Technical Cost Studies, Technical Constraints studies (for ICT & Web projects)
- Products / Solutions Prototyping
- ICT Project / Web Project coordinator
- Sourcing of technologies and people required to perform / develop a specific technical project
- Requests/Calls-for-proposals, Requests-for-comments: writing and validation
- Negotiating partnership deals (technology providers, IT companies, potentials business partners)
- Sourcing and deploying technologies that would add value to a company’s products or services
- Propositions of concepts / brainstorming sessions for new products or services mixing or relying on ICT/Web
technologies
- New Technologies evaluation
- Sharing knowledge through white-papers and documents tailored for decision-makers or technical teams
2004 - 2005A junior enterprise is a professional association hosted by an engineering school (or business school) developing software for Small and Medium Businesses. I have been elected by former association members after several
months of campaign and testing. I was in charge of managing 40 developers and 10 administrators. SEPEFREI has been elected several times among the first 10 junior enterprises in France and during my mandate we won the
Engineering Award decreed by Microsoft for the quality of our work in a project with Scutum R&D I was also Lead Programmer in (project completed before I have been elected for President).
Remark: The president of the junior enterprise is a highly recognized position in French engineering schools
2004 - 20044 months internship as a Graphical User Interface Programmer in Java for a team project rebuilding Lafarge Logistic
system (Ships and Trucks logistic)
2003 - 2006During 3 years I have been working part-time with studies in R&D for Scutum Video-Surveillance R&D Lab. I built 75% of the professional & industrial software suite they were using and selling at the time. Languages and technologies involved include MPEG4, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Javascript, XML, OpenGL, GTK, Client-Server architectures.
I used this work as a base for my master project pursued in McGill Modeling, Simulation & Design Lab. Software I have developed include: SVG Creator and Editor (drawing software generating SVG), MPEG4 video-archives viewing software including motion detector technology (using sensors placed on picture stream), 50+ cameras viewing software (Multi-vision) in multi-clients - server technology (software used by banks, government institutions and other critical industries), MPEG4 Video-Stream router for mobile video-surveillance clients, Multi-videos archivesviewing software.
I was also in charge of maintenance, installation and assistance on-site or remotely (even from Canada)
