Étienne Savard, Eng.

École de technologie supérieure — Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Bachelor's degree : Automated Production Engineering (Industrial Computing)

Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Databases, Linux, XML, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Android, C, C++, Qt, Eclipse, Qt Creator, QMake, Mercurial, Git, Subversion, bash, Open Source software, Open Source licensing and integration.

9250-2780 QUEBEC INC. President & Founder —  2011 - Present

• Define the architecture and integrate proprietary or free software in your software development process
• Improve your software development process through the use of open source tools combined with best software engineering practices such as agile methodologies.
• Provide training and knowledge transfer to your in-house team
• Develop customized software based on your requirements

THS Senior Software Engineer —  2009 - 2011

• Defined and maintained the company C++ software development environment (on Windows) which is built 100% using Open Source software tools.
• Collaborated in re-writing a legacy VisualBasic.Net application in C++ (Qt), while preserving the compatibility with existing test equipments and all existing features.
• Managed and coordinated the R&D team (4 people) on all tasks related to software development (PC & embedded).

Maya HTT Software Developer —  2008 - 2010

• Developed and maintained a legacy C/C++ sound analysis software application used notably in the automotive industry.
• Ported a legacy C application from X-Windows/Motif to Qt on Windows.

Solvision Software Engineer — 2005 - 2008

• Collaborated in the migration of the company's source code from Visual C++ 6.0 toward Visual Studio 2005.
• Managed the integration of 3rd party software (commercial, Open Source) in all the company products.
• Was the instigator of many initiatives to improve the software development process using Open Source tools (Ruby, MediaWiki, Mercurial, Netbeans).

Hatch Intermediate Engineer —  2002 - 2005

• Achieved several innovating projects in heavy industry and energy fields by integrating and customizing off-the-shelf data historian products into customer's production processes.
• Collaborated in the analysis, design, development and deployment of an inventory and warehouse management system for a metal powder producer.

MindReady Solutions Software designer — 2000 - 2002

• Developed and coded various GUI applications on Unix for Mindready's customer : statistical process control (surface mount assembly lines), workshop guides visualization software, databases conversion (Ingres to Oracle).

Bombardier Aerospace Method agent —  1998 - 2000

• Designed testing tools — electronic, computerized and mechanical — for aircraft functional tests (brakes, flight controls, etc.)
• Was responsible for functional testing tools design during all stages of production of Bombardier's CRJ-700 aircraft (from prototype to first flight).

UbuntuTranslator — 2009 - On going

• Member of the Ubuntu French Canadian Translators team.

Cygwin Portable Maintainer — 2008 - On going

• A Unix-like environment for Windows running from a USB key.
• More than 36,000 downloads on SourceForge.net as of October 2011.

POSS Translator — 2007 - On going

• Co-translator for the French version of the book “Producing Open Source Software” by Karl Fogel.

NetBeans Community Contributor — 2009 - 2010

• Was part of the plug-in verifier team.

Open BRR Translator — 2005 - 2006

• Co-translator for the French version of the RFC “Business Readiness Rating for Open Source” (This project appears to be dormant now).

Other Projects Maintainer — On going

• Visit my company's website :  projects.symbiosoft.net