Ludovic TISON
4402 Coolbrook Avenue
Montreal (Quebec)
H4A 3G2
Tel : (514) 489-7866
Email : ludovic.tison@sympatico.ca
Software Engineer
Software Development and Quality Assurance
Excellent organizational skills – Strong team player
French, English
Employment:
2000 to Today
ToonBoom Technologies Inc. (Canada), design and sales of USAnimation,
animation software for animation industry and Toon Boom Studio, standart
animation software to produce animation in Flash format for Web animation
industry.
Quality Assurance Team Leader.
Task and responsibilities:
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Organization of the quality assurance of the new product Toon Boom Studio.
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Testers team management.
Achievements:
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Evaluation of the regression tests softwares and choice of the best suitable
tool.
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Integration of Rational Robot software: general architecture design and
scripts design fully parametric and reusabled.
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Conception and design of a new Test Cases Database on Access.
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Development of several new features in the intranet bugs database.
Computing environment:
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Windows NT, 2000, XP, 98 and Me, Mac os X, Rational Robot (former SQA Partner)
, Visual Basic for Access, My SQL, PHP, HTML and Flash5.
1990 to 1999
BATISOFT company (France), design and sales of PCBAT, CAD software
for the building industry, and PEN-MANAGER, equipment management software.
Software Developer of PCBAT.
Task and responsibilities:
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New functionality designs among a team of 6 to 8 engineers.
Achievements:
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Software transformation in ActiveX tool to be interfaced with AutoCAD software.
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Design of the new User Interface for Window.
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Design of many new features for the graphical software.
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Customizations of the equipment management software for new clients.
Computing environment:
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Windows, APL+Win, APL*PLUS, APL2, Access, C, and on 98/99, Windows NT,
Visual Basic, Visual C++ and ActiveX.
Quality Assurance and Support Management.
Tasks and responsibilities:
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Development and release planning, with the technical manager, launch of
new developments, and presentation to clients and distributors.
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Planning and implementation of testing (automatic tests, ? tests, ? tests).
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Ensuring accuracy and completeness of releases and support, and increasing
customer satisfaction.
Achievements:
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Time frames met for all releases.
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Strong increase of customer satisfaction while decreasing of support resources,
resulting in many new sales while freeing resources for development.
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Design, with the technical manager, of graphic user interface for Windows.
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Transforming software into ActiveX tool, connecting with AutoCAD and managing
its objects.
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Graphic and equipment management software development.
Computing environment:
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Windows, APL+Win, APL*PLUS, APL2.
Documentation Management.
Tasks and responsibilities:
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Ensuring editing, accuracy and completeness of documentation for each release.
Achievements:
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Drafting new documentation and help, for software upgrade to Windows.
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Creation of a self-training manual, allowing for large scale sales of the
product without training.
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Management and editing of the Batisoft client newsletter: Batisoft Contact
(4 pages twice yearly).
Computing environment:
1987 to 1990
BATISOFT company (France), design and sales of PCBAT, CAD software
for the building industry..
Junior Software developer of PCBAT.
Task and responsibilities:
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New functionality designs among a team of 4 to 6 engineers.
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End-user support (from 300 to 2000 customers).
Achievements:
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Software network working design (many users on the same project).
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Design of a module that calculate contours intersection (used in perspective
computing and thermic applications).
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Designing and carrying out the errors and solutions reports application.
Computing environment:
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DOS, APL*PLUS, APL2, Fortran.
Education:
Graduated in 86 from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (engineering school).
(equivalent to a master’s degree in Quebec)