Stephane P.

## BIO Guru e-commerce architect & developer. Have run my own web developer business between 1996 and 2001 in Canada, sold it off, now working from home on contractual projects. Born in a R&D environment working for BCE Emergis back in its days of glories, where I was developing, leading and supporting the first payment gateways in my very young days. (1990s) Evolving in the e-commerce field; I have dealt mostly with high volume transactional systems. Also experienced (solo) in emergency responses for some companies in the Wall Street area, sometimes cloak&dagger projects. Been coding since I was 8, never really got caught in gaming, I live a very well-balanced life now, relatively stress-free, with my wife in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Bilingual since my pre-school, I master the French and English languages quite fluently. I currently speak Spanish as well, now learning it's writing intricacies. Very good communicator and writer, I normally end up with the tasks of building massive specifications, and managing the execution. I am quite versatile when it comes to coding, administering, servicing, maintaining and offering professional advice and input. ## Area of Expertise Web --=> - high volume sites and applications - web services (from OS to WebApp) - hosting environments (unix and windows) - LAMP setups; PHP programming is really my favorite right now. Quite familiar with OpenBSD+MySQL+PHP Prog --=> - cluster programming - multi-tier programming and architecturing - revolutionary development (electronic coupons, PDF composing/decomposing/editing, image analysis, super-redundant apps, systems and sites) - master of : PHP, VB, Pascal, PL/SQL - proficient in : C, c#, Java Databases --==> - databases; mysql, posgres, oracle, mssql. - Procedures, complex queries, load balancing issues, replication, hacking for lost passwords, recovery, backups, monitoring, security, emergency responses. OS --==> - OpenBSD is one of my favorites, will work with free/netBSD,Linux,Solaris,SGI,VAX if forced to, will reject any new implementation on MS code, but will happily reverse engineer or "fix" anything running on MS. Technical --==> - handling customer expectations - estimating programming workloads, writing specifications. - writing specifications, English and French (really have to mention it twice.) - maths, stats, stocks, accounting, transaction reports. - implanting and maintaining PCI compliance, both at the enterprise and system levels. - business and technical management, quite at ease with the Canadian system. Teamplay --==> - formed in group psychology - very good communicator & listener - no problem running a one-man-show, but I prefer really involved projects. - inter-enterprise liaison - inter-department liaison - business mergers and acquisitions (technical, politics, security, some legal expertise, technical lead on more than 5 mergers, 2 in the Fortune1000 category) - business partnerships, technical management and new product developments.