Laurent Thevenet
Interactive Director / Partner, BENCH by RightBrain Pte Ltd
An entrepreneur/inventor/creator by nature, i keep having ideas. I have launched two startups, build many teams for different kind of projects. I have trained hundreds of students.
I have this passion to guess and anticipate what could be to be the next disruptive tools and technologies. But also this need to learn, test and apply any upcoming technologies on clients projects or company ventures as soon as they available.
68 contacts http://rightbrain.asia / http://awan-awan.com
Web & Entertainment Industry – MDA iJAM Company (part of Thymos Capital Portfolio).
RightBrain Pte Ltd is my second startup. In May 2009, we have launched awan-awan.com, an Online Television Channel with exclusive broadcast quality programs targeting the Malay Community in Singapore.
Company Incorporation
Accounts (weekly) & Administrative tasks
Business Plan
Online marketing (SEO, viral marketing, social networks)
Online Video Distribution (Scalability, Multi-devices, Podcasting)
Market Intelligence (competition, industry evolution, new solutions)
Outsourcing web development in China (team of 4).
RightBrain is now an interactive agency (BENCH by RightBrain) since awan-awan.com was stopped end of 2009.
We have served numerous clients since delivering high quality online applications, websites, video production (clients include Singapore Ministry of Communications Youth and Sports, Pascal Morabito, Fatimah Mohsin, DUA M for Suria Channel, WIngard, ...)
2008 - 2009Monitoring the European Shopping Engines Industry
Handling the first contact with potential customers
Working remotely from Singapore.
2006 - 2009Development of fonZz.com, a shopping engine with more than 500,000 products listed. Website is down since June 2009.
Sold the startup in January 2009 (minor amount).
My work at 7Theories:
Company incorporation (training, business plan)
Accounts (weekly) & Administrative tasks (taxes)
Sales (using sugarCRM)
Online marketing (SEO, Adwords, viral marketing with social networks)
Project management (37signals)
Development (Java, SQL, PL/pgSQL, PostgreSQL, Hibernate, XML, Ruby on Rails using FreeBSD, Ubuntu and MacOS X)
Market Intelligence
“Why it might be a killer!
fonZz.com has an attractive interface. The site is easy to navigate and use. It is nice that fonZz.com lets you control your settings. You can change the language, location, currency, and shipping country. fonZz.com can be used no matter where the user is located. It is nice that fonZz.com also addresses shopping offline, many sites only address online shopping. The social network aspect of the site is fun because you can get advice on products from reading the reviews that other users have written. The downside of shopping online is that there is no customer service, no one to answer your questions, but with fonZz.com you can be informed by the users on the site.”
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/fonzz-com-o... (March 2008)
2002 - 2006Java (J2EE, J2SE) and Database (SQL/PLSQL) lecturer (about 1,000 hours of courses - 30 to 60 students per class).
Development of a fully integrated students management software (desktop and web, 500+ students to manage along the years). Built with Java (Swing, J2EE, RMI, XML-RPC), PHP and PostgreSQL. Use of concurrency tools live CVS, Subversion and Arch.
Recruitment of the new students.
Linking students and companies.
“Mr Laurent THEVENET got into our school in 2000 and has obtained the Chef de Projet en Système d'Information degree, among the first ranked. During the two years, he has shown, in addition to his technical skills, some management responsibilities that have driven us to offer him an engineer position that he has occupied until 2006 inside our structure. During these years, he has internally developed a tool which allows us to manage the school and our client servicing department. This tool is entirely developed in Java and can be used remotely without any platform constraint. Mr THEVENET is a computer science lover and has wished to work on a personal project to set up his own company taking the risk to do something on his own while his engineer position was fully comfortable.”
Ahmed Mebkhout – e-cml director mebkhout@e-cml.org
2001 - 2003Open-source Merise modeling software written in Java (under GPL license).
International team (up to 5 people).
Hosted on Sourceforge.net.
Transformation of Merise models into XML feeds to simplify the use of different RDBMS using the Apache
Torque API.
Development of the whole user interface (Swing).
In charge of most of the 2D engine & responsible for the project structure.
CVS used as the version control system.
2000 - 2002Technical support (Southern Europe) for big PTC accounts (EADS, Ferrari, Universities).
Development and worldwide deployment (US, Europe and Asia) of a Java based application internally certifying PTC technical support engineers.
In charge of a set of Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, Digital Unix and Windows NT workstations.