My practical knowledge
Technologicals skills
- HTML Maybe the most important technology for the Web. I know it since HTML 3.2 and its XHTML version. The HTML 5 evolution is now my daily tool.
- CSS CSS 2.1 is my dog food and I write about my CSS 3 experiments
- Javascript I'm really used to AJAX, DOM 2 et 3, a bit less comfy with E4X but still. My favorite framework is jQuery.
- SVG This image format is about to rise as a mainstream technology thanks to IE9 and the new HTML 5 parsers. I'm currently exploring the way it works with HTML and I write about it.
- HTTP Basic tool to build WebApps, I'm really used to the REST architectures
- PHP I prefer front-end technology but PHP is the language I used to get my first programing skills in my early days. Even if I have not used them all, I know what to do and what to expect from the main PHP frameworks: Zend Framework, Symphonie, CakePHP, etc.
- SQL
- and more... All those technologies are my best skills, but I am curious ans I love to play with other technologies : Pyton, Ruby, RDFa, XUL, XSLT, XPath, etc.
Software & Working Environnements
- Browsers My main tool is Firefox and it is required to know all the behaviors from the others: Chrome/Chromium, Safari, Opera of course Internet Explorer from 6 to 9. However, who can call himself an expert if he does not know the strengths and weakness of each rendering engine. So, I open bugs on Gecko and I follow closely the development process of Webkit, Presto and Trident.
- IDE I only need a good text editor. gEdit on Linux, Notepad++ or Notepad2 on Windows. When I need some stronger IDE, I like to use Eclipse (generaly Eclipse PDT or Aptana Studio)
- Design No surprise here, my tools are the Adobe's Web Premium Suite and espacialy Photoshop (since version 2.5!), Illustrator (amazingly good for SVG) and Fireworks. As a Linux user, I tried Gimp or Inkscape, but... I do not think it will be possible!
- OS To be simple, Ubuntu Linux at home, WindowsXP/7 at work or in a virtual machine at home, and MacOSX... Well... no sorry, not this one! I have also some knowledge on server admin, espacially Apache 2.2
- CMS I like small CMS such as Dotclear and Wordpress, but when it's necessary to build more complex web sites, I prefer to advise my partners about strong and smart framework such as Django, Rails, Symphony or Zend Framework
Knowledge
- Client relationship
- Project management
- Team management
- Mastering Web architecture
- Mastering Web graphical requirements
- Mastering Web quality standards
- Integrating accessibility concerns into the workflows and building process.
What I have done with others
Since 2006 : Web Team Manager
BNP Paribas Personnal Finance - Paris, France
Managing the technical Web team for the French part of the company. This team is made of 8 people working on 20 Web sites dedicated to sell loan and mortgage.
My position is consisting in planning the work and ensuring that the good skills are used to the right projects: Schedule, management, teaching. I also focus my action on building a Quality Assurance process for Web projects, from the first draft of our quality recommendations in 2006 to the uprising of a quality manager in 2009.
2003 - 2006 : Web Developer
Polyêdres - Montelimar, France
Basically I designed and developed web sites, I defined the way they have to be build, and I administrated the existing web sites.
In that position, I was strongly involved with the back-end part of web sites: PHP and SQL Developement, server administration and web applications' design. But, it were also the place I learned the most about the true CSS' potential by working with print designers that had absolutely no idea of what the web was.
Because it was a small company and because client relationships were important, the quality of the projects management was one of my main concern.
2000 - 2002 : Web Designer
Cap-on-line - Bourg-en-Bresse, France
Graphical design and HTML/CSS developement of web sites. I was in charge of managing the Art direction: Client relationship, Design, Schedule, prototyping.
What I learned at school
1997 - 1999 : Centre National des Arts et Métiers, Ecole Supérieure Estienne - Paris, France
DSAA Art et Technique de Communication
College graduate in Art and communication. This diploma is about how communication strategy is used to improve graphic and art projects or events.
It was the place where I confirmed my appeal about the Internet. Indeed, to be graduate, I worked on an event to promote Internet to elected officials.
1995 - 1997 : Lycée André Argouges - Grenoble, France
BTS Communication Graphique
This diploma is about printing. It gives knowledge in graphic design, typographie, printing process and project management.
It was the first time I met the Internet. My final project study was partly web oriented. I created my really first web site to this occasion.
What I'm doing to myself
My blog
http://jeremie.patonnier.net
My personal Web site where you can find some small thoughts and my technical articles about Web technologies (especially SVG and CSS which are my favorites). Some of my articles were noted:
"Le modèle de boîte flexible en CSS 3" It's the first French article which is going that deep inside the CSS3 Flexible box model. Thanks to Mozilla, I translated it and it was published on hacks.mozilla.org (which mean that it is also the first full article about that subject in English).
"SVG et HTML5 font bon ménage avec Firefox" is an article about how SVG et HTML 5 can interact with Firefox 4.
Design & Typography
http://typographisme.net
This is my new baby. Today, typographie is injured and badly used on the Internete. With some enthusiastic friends, we want to promote the use of fonts, building best practices, inform about what is possible and what is not with Web fonts to make the Web a font first citizen as well as with the print.
There is some english ressources about that, but nothing in French. That where we act by making those ressources more clear and accible to the French designers.
Talks
I have the opportunity (and the tast) to give some talks. More specifically, I gave two talks and perform a workshop to the French event Paris-Web.
- In 2008 a talk about "A company can use Web standards" (watch the video on Dailymotion (FR))
- In 2009 a talk about "Webdesign business oriented" (watch the video on Dailymotion (FR))
- In 2010 a workshop about "CSS3 Today" (video available soon)