Freelance consultant

I develop and market my own products for Mac OS X and Palm OS, and also do custom software design and development, working remotely for clients worldwide. I'm seeking short- to mid-term contracts (up to a few months). Past and ongoing works include:

• Developing Ultrasoft Datashield (Palm OS), Ultrasoft NotSync (MacOS) and modules for Ultrasoft Money (Palm OS) available from www.ultrasoft.com
• Updating my own products: FindHack for Palm OS 5 (C, ARM assembly and x86 assembly for Windows simulators), Sync Buddy for Mac OS X (Cocoa/Objective-C/Palm OS) available from www.florentpillet.com
• Updating my PowerGlot localization tool for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X (C++, Carbon APIs), available from www.powerglot.com
• Maintenance and improvement of the open-source pilot-link library with protocol stack work and Mac OS X USB driver code, ongoing work on the 0.12 release I use in Sync Buddy for Mac OS X (www.pilot-link.org)
• Developing a perl module for data parsing using a Yacc-like recursive descent parser, for BeNomad (www.benomad.com)

Software Architect

Co-architect on the development of the opt[e]go product (client/server solution for geo-dependant applications targeting mobile users with PDAs, cell phones and other mobile devices):

• Designed and developed the portable core of the Opt[e]way technology,
  ported to 9 client and server platforms (Linux, Solaris, Tru64, Windows, Mac
  OS, Palm OS, Pocket PC, Symbian/EPOC32).
• Designed the high level public APIs
• Designed and developed the company’s first map viewers for Palm OS and UNIX,
  as well as several internal and prototype tools.
• Provided design, development and debugging help to other team members,
  as well as a set of coding rules.
• Technical interface with customers (help and advice in technology
  evaluation, technical assistance during sales meetings)

Freelance consultant

As a freelance consultant and developer during 5 years, I worked on numerous projects for my customers: development of Oracle and 4^th Dimension databases and 4D plug-ins, maintenance and optimization of existing databases; porting software from Windows to Mac OS (primarily games); development of custom software in many areas (genetic research, education, transportation, video analysis, etc). I also developed my own software and marketed it on the internet.

Software engineer

Developed optimized libraries to speed up the company’s server. Provided training to developers in South Africa to the use of the server product, and the development of Minitel services using this product.

Software engineer

Joined Liaison Microsystems, a company focused on developing Oracle client applications on the Macintosh. I developed several successful projects there for customers in the education and publishing areas. I also worked with other developers on bigger projects for real estate client companies. Development was done in C, with an in-house framework that we constantly improved to answer to our customers’ needs.

Software engineer

Joined CPIO, a French company developing Minitel services. I was in charge of C language development on the Unix machines we used to run the servers. I’ve worked with several flavors of Unix System V r3.2. I also developed a few program running under DOS on PCs (a serial driver, a terminal emulator and a file cataloging program).

Freelance author

Developed a number of telecommunications-related products which were marketed by French companies. These products were closely related to the French “Minitel”: videotext screen compositing tools, videotext terminal emulators and servers, etc.