Florian Cauvin

CONTACTS AND INFORMATIONS

Nationality:       French

Gender:            Male

Marital Status:  Single

Birth date:        03/03/1976, (27 years old)

Address:Oikokatu 1 E 31, 00170 Helsinki

Phone :       +358 40 776 9964

Email :        fcauvin@yahoo.fr

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1996 - 1999

 

E.S.S.I – Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques.

Engineering school of the University of Nice/Sophia Antipolis (France)

 

Engineer in computer science (Master’s degree),

Specialisation in scientific computation.

 

 

1994 – 1996

 

Math Sup and Math Spé.

International Center of Valbonne/Sophia Antipolis.

 

A two-years competitive mathematics and physics program for entering the French engineering schools.

 

 

1994

 

Baccalauréat (high school graduation)

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2000 - 2003

 

STONESOFT (Helsinki/Sophia Antipolis)

 

STONEGATE - High Availability Firewall and VPN

 

  • StoneGate Firewall administration platform
    • Large-scale collaborative Java development
    • Development with network security in mind

 

  • Testing of the StoneGate Firewall
    • Features testing
    • Network security testing
    • Attempt of tests automation through scripts

 

OPTIWISE - Product definition software.

 

  • Java and J2EE development

 

 

2000

 

PEUGEOT/CITROËN (Paris, France),

Consultant from the company GIST

Study for the migration of an application launcher to an intranet environment.

 

  • Realisation of several prototypes based on different internet technologies (trusted applets / CGI / Servlets+JSP)
  • Delivery of a report comparing the aspects of the various technologies from the company’s perspective

 

 

1999

 

DASSAULT AVIATION (Paris) - 6 months internship

Prototype of a mission planning system for the Mirage2000-5 aircraft.

  • Conception with UML and usage of the Design Patterns
  • Development with C++ under a UNIX environment
  • User interface with the UIM/X toolkit and OpenGL
  • Experience of a military environment

 

 

1998/1999

 

E.S.S.I (Sophia Antipolis)

Real time 3D engine for virtual visits of buildings.

  • Research work on fast visibility algorithms
  • Use of efficient data structures (BSP trees) from the video-game Quake
  • Implementation with Visual C++ and OpenGL
  • Add of scriptable entities (using the TCL language)

 

 

1998

 

 

INSYS GROUP (Sophia Antipolis) – 2 months internship

Printing module of thermal diagnostic software.

  • Implementation of the printing module with Visual C++ and the Crystal Reports APIs
  • Creation of templates for reports to be printed
  • User interface and integration into the main software

 

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English             fluent

French              native language

German             medium

Finnish              basics, currently learning at the Helsinki University

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Like travelling, reading, cinema and downhill skiing.

Member of the Helsinki University Debating Society.