> BACKGROUND
| Stéphane de Luca |
| 2, rue Pouchard |
| 94160 Saint-Mandé |
| France |
| Telephone: | +33 (0) 6 13 510 966 |
| Email: |  |
| Web Site: | http://iSdlAir.com |
| LinkedIn: |
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> GENERAL INFORMATION
- 42, born in 1966
- French
- Married, 3 children
- French, native language
- English, fluent
- World-wide Business trips (USA, Japan, Europe)
> RECOMMENDATIONS
" Stéphane stands out through his wide ranging knowledge and development skills. He combines a unique entrepreneurial attitude to getting things done within the organisation with the techhical ability to translate complex and speculative concepts into polished demonstrable products. I saw this happen on three projects (3D engine, more impressively still a massively multiplayer infrastructure and lately mobilezoo) during which I had the pleasure of working with Stephane. A definite recommendation."
January 4, 2007
Giles Corbett, co-CEO, In-Fusio
managed Stéphane indirectly at IN-FUSIO
"Stephane brings a lot of knowledge and a real ability to push forward projects while understanding and even promoting the business impacts of the projects he was working on."
August 27, 2006
Thomas Landspurg, CTO, In-Fusio
managed Stéphane at IN-FUSIO
"Few years ago, I hired Stephane de Luca as a project manager. Then he became a chief of a technical department. After that, he helped to rescue a 6M€ project. He redefined the product problematic. He reorganized the tech team and put the technology side back on track. He personally helped to coach important team leaders. He impressed me with his skills in communication, leadership and technology."
January 5, 2007
Daniel Cohen, COO, Kalisto Ent.
hired Stéphane as a technical in 1999
"I have worked with Sdl for long. He is a great world-class technical manager with an entrepreneurial mind. Pragmatic, and rational, he led large interactive projects to success by proposing and executing innovative management methods. I everyday measure the acuity of his advanced vision and management style which I still haven't found the equivalent in today's other projects.” March 31, 2006"
Stephane Le Dorze, Technical Director of Heroes BU, kalisto
reported to Stéphane at Kalisto
> CONFERENCES, EDUCATION
2007 — Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP):
Passed Microsoft Professional Certification for .NET, C# et Visual Studio .NET (Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET nd Microsoft Visual Studio .NET).
2004 — Orange Conference:
Speaker at Orange's Code Camp Event "3D on Java and J2ME" at Futuroscope, France.
2000 — Chicago University, Barcelona, Spain:
Strategic Sales Management.
1993 — GPA Assurances, Marseille, France:
Sales school dedicate to insurance products of the Athena/LLoyds Group.
1990 — ENISE, Saint-Etienne, France:
Engineer in mechanics & production
1990 — École Centrale, Lyon, France:
Advanced Study (DEA) in Physics
1989 — Digital Equipment Corp, Toulon, France:
Intensive courses of administrator on Dec Vax VMS (Cluster 750 + Microvax 3200 + 3600)
1985 — Lycée Girard, Avignon, France:
Baccalauréat E, mathematics
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CTO/Senior Manager/Project Director
Telecom / Web / Wireless
> BIO
In May 2007 I have joined the startup MobiLuck.com as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) which is focused on geolocalized social network for mobile phones. This LBS friends finder service has attracted more than 150K users since its launch in August 2007 and currently recruits an average of 1000 users per day as per the current trend. Our technology is carrier-independant and the service works worldwide as it is available in more than 10 languages.
Before and for about 4 years, I was the In-Fusio/MobileScope's Advanced Technology Manager where I created a mobile phone massive cross-platform multi-player technology and service for the Group and designed and developped a Google Earth-like technology for UMTS and HSDPA mobile phones for Orange.
Before, I've been in the video game industry for 10 years where I successively developed titles, created and sold realtime 3D technologies and, finally, took in charge one of the business unit of Kalisto Entertainment to handle two 4M€-budget games.
> PROFESSIONNAL EXPERIENCE
2007—today
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Mobiluck, France — Mobile phones and Services - Mososo — 20 people
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2007
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— Mobiluck: Closer to my friends. Launch of a mobile service focused on geolocalization and social networking. Users are geolocalized automatically so that they benefit from advanced features such as find the nearest indian restaurant or meet handsome people close to them. Users receive SMS alerts when their friends come close. Traffic is currently 90K pages/day in average. The business model relies on ad distribution based on users' profile and geolocalization |
2006—2007
(1 years) |
Freelance, France — Mobile phones and Services - International Environment — 1 people
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2006 — 2007
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— Publisher of mobilezoo.biz and Consultant for M&A operations.
Provide help and advisory to companies facing changes in their business and/or for the sake of mergers & acquisition operations as a free-lance consultant. |
2006—2006
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Mobilescope (In-Fusio SA), France — Mobile phones and Services - International Environment — 200 people
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2006
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— Mobilescope is a commercial split from In-Fusio.
In charge of the advanced technology, create and develop cutting edge technology for the mobile industrie (client and server side) and prototypes that prove them, white papers, product definition, API & marketing requirements, consulting.
2006 — Design et development of an interactive 3D video streaming technology based on satellite-based hires photographs (Google Earth™-like) for UMTS and HSDPA. |
2003—2005
(2 years) |
In-Fusio SA, France — Mobile phones and Video games - International Environment — 200 people
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2005
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— White papers, product definition, API & marketing requirements for advanced technologies.
2005 — Design and development of Project X the massively multiplayer online (MMO) technology and hardware accelerated 3D for wireless gaming over UMTS/2G networks (Clients et servers).
(See press release)
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2003 — 2004
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Consultant and Technology Project Manager —
- 2004 — Project director of In-Fusio cross-platform multi-player service (GPRS/UMTS, HTTP).
- 2003 — EGE/MIDP2 : Embedded Real time 3D engine for ARM processors for extending Java VMs.
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1998—2002
(4 years) |
Kalisto Entertainment SA, France — Video games and hi-tech - International Environment — 350 people
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2000 — 2002
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— Management of 30 to 50 people - 3 to 4 M€ (26MF) budget per products. (See Nightmare Creatures 3) |
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1999
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Technology Sales Manager — 3M€ (20MF) sales (See Press release) |
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1998 — 1999
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In-House Consultant Manager — Put technical development back on its feet.
Reschedule technology.
Propose and adopt solid plan to complete development.
Team coaching. (See Nightmare Creatures 2) |
1994—1998
(4 years) |
Virtual Studio SA, France — Video games and hi-tech - International Environment — 100 people
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1997 — 1998
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Project Manager / Japan — Budget: 1M€(6MF) - Namco Ltd / Japon (See Commando) |
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1998 — 1998
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Consultant — Mission consulting - Canal + Multimedia / France |
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1996 — 1997
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CTO & project manager — US$1,4 M / 20 people - GT Interactive / US (See Angel Quest) |
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1994 — 1996
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CTO & project manager — US$1M / 31 people - American Softworks Corp./US & Electronic Arts/Europe (See STORM) |
1994
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Groupe Athéna / GPA Assurances SA, Avignon, France — Insurance — 2000 people
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— Sales - Insurance dedicated to middle/small businesses |
1993
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dse, Cavaillon — Software development — 5 people
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— Company founder & CEO, Cavaillon, France - Development of networked application for PC for small companies (C++/DBMS Paradox for DOS & Windows) |
1992
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Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA) - DCN/SDET/CERTSM, arsenal de Toulon — Contingent Scientifique — 50 people
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— Failure diagnostic software for nuclear submarines (SNA/SNLE) (Macintosh and engine simulation interop) |
1990—1991
(1 years) |
PCSoft SA, Montpellier — Software development — 50 people
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— High Screen 5 : Development of tools dedicated to application developers:
- HSMAQ : tools for Rapid Application Development.
- HSGen : source code generator for HSMAQ (Basic, C, Fortran, Cobol, etc.)
(See PCSoft) |
> TRAINING PERIODS
In 1989
(6 months)
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Direction Générale de l'Armement DGA DCN/CERTSM, arsenal de Toulon, France
R&D Software Engineer — Modeling of the behaviour of actual underwater wired-on torpedoes used in nuclear attack submarines (SNA/SNLE),
— Development of the related non-linear finite-element application using FORTRAN 77 & C in conjunction of ABAQUS and EUCLID/IS (VAX VMS)
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In 1987
(6 months)
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CNRS, Saint-Etienne, France
R&D Software Engineer — Development of a EUCLID/IS application used to set and compute mechanicals constraints on top of an automatic 3D meshing application - CAO/CFAO (FORTRAN 77/IBM) |
In 1986
(6 months)
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EADS, MatraDatavision, Les Ulis, France
R&D Software Engineer — R&D Software Engineer Development of an application dedicated to optimizing metal cut nesting for EUCLID/IS - CAO/CFAO (FORTRAN 77/VAX 8800) |
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