Claude Vedovini

Claude Vedovini is an IT expert with 15 years of professional experience and a broad IT culture.
Passionate about his job and recognized mentor, Claude will tailor the latest technologies and trends to your very own needs.

Claude is currently interested in localization and documentation management, social networks and the semantic web.

Claude is the founder of the DITA Open Platform, a free, open-source project which goal is to provide an enterprise platform for the edition, management and processing of DITA documents.

Claude Vedovini’s Specialties:

- Architecture, design and development of enterprise solutions.
- Security and systems integration.
- Development methodologies, processes and tools.
- Model Driven Architecture and Design.

Claude Vedovini’s Experience

Software Consultant

NOUVO|TSR

(Media Production industry)

November 2009 — Present (2 months)

Nouvo is the multimedia magazine from the Swiss Romand Television channel, the TSR. I have been in charge of redeveloping their website nouvo.ch using the Drupal CMS and various modules involving media management.
Founder

The DITA Open Platfom project

(Computer Software industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

The DITA Open Platform is a free, open-source project which goal is to provide an enterprise platform for the edition, management and processing of DITA documents.
Software Consultant

Self Employed

(Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Software Consultant

Télévision Suisse Romande

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Appointed by the "New Technologies and Innovations" group, together with Nicholas Wolff and Pierre Auslaender, I participate in the design and implementation of the intranet application enabling the management of the TV shows' production processes.
This JavaEE application runs on JBoss ASE and uses various frameworks such as jQuery, Spring, Restlet, JBPM and the MULE ESB. Other systems such as Apache Solr, Apache Sling and Jasig CAS have also been used.
Software Consultant

SwissMedDev

(Medical Devices industry)

June 2009 — November 2009 (6 months)

SwissMedDev is a start-up company specializing in the manufacture of connected medical devices designed to simplify the self-administration of medication.
Software Consultant

FONTSELF

(Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — September 2009 (1 year )

Fontself SA is a startup company which provides a revolutionary new experience of text, through digital text personalization. It provides digital fonts that preserves the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, etc.).

Together with Nicholas Wolff I have been mandated to design and develop the font distribution service.

Based on Amazon's cloud Infrastructure, the service is written in Python, using the Django framework.
Member

OASIS DITA Adoption TC

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Educating the global marketplace on the value of DITA for document creation and management
Lead Software Architect

Odyssey Financial Technologies

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2005 — April 2008 (3 years 1 month)

Member of the Research & Development Department, member of the frameworks team and lead software architect for the Odyssey Design Studio, an Eclipse based, Model Driven development tool and Odyssey's Private Banking Platform, OCS, a J2EE based enterprise solution for Portfolio and Relationship Management.

As an architect I covered the following activities:
• Identification of technologies
• Recommendations for development methodologies and frameworks
• Provision of the overall design and structure of the solution
• Identification of the implementation tasks for the project manager
• Mentorship of developers
• Estimation of project costs and benefits for the management
• Recommendations about management decisions regarding developer positions
• Provision and enforcement of the quality assurance plan
Senior Software Engineer

DALIN

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2004 — March 2005 (7 months)

Design and development of a Java knowledge activation platform for business intelligence using natural language as a user interface.
Team Lead, Senior Software Developer

Odyssey Financial Technologies

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2001 — September 2004 (3 years )

Member of the Advisor development team, responsible for the CIMS and HEART sub-components.

Advisor is a front office client relationship management tool dedicated to private banking and including capabilities such as rich data monitoring through comprehensive multi-criteria queries and alerts, collaborative advice and contact management, encrypted client data management and investment profiling. It is a component-based, service-oriented solution, highly integrated, configurable and customizable, built upon the J2EE standard platform and a distributed data-cache and search engine.

As a senior software developer I took an active part in the development of various key components such as: security, messaging, workflow management, document repository, model-driven infrastructure and generation tool, audit, O2XML and O2R mapping, IOC container, configuration repository, management infrastructure and administration
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Senior Software Engineer

Singularis

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 6 months)

Lead of the PC application development team, responsible in the design and development of the personalized TV agenda and personalized video recording services to Internet users.
Product design and packaging, together with the marketing team, of the Singularis TV Personalization Platform for DTV operators.
Writing of technical papers analyzing and describing the possible integrations of the platform with Ad management software, TV set top boxes/CE boxes and Digital TV operators platforms.
Project Manager

Universal Postal Union

(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

February 1999 — October 1999 (9 months)

Project management and development of the web site and CD-ROM of the Direct Mail World Guide, several other Intra/Internet applications and the modeling of a new version of the Internet sites of the UPU.
Software Engineer

Praxis

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1995 — January 1999 (3 years 6 months)

Architecture design and modeling of Intranet, Extranet or Internet solutions in the scope of several miscellaneous projects.
Technical management of the IPS (International Postal System) project developed for the Universal Postal Union. This application, world widely distributed, enables the postal administrations of the Union to follow their exchanges of international mail.
Software Engineer

SIPP

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1994 — July 1995 (10 months)

Management of a project of Geographical Information System and management of the patrimony with AutoCAD in a client/server environment.
Specification of the development axis, writing of the schedule of charges, contacts with the sub-contractors.

Claude Vedovini’s Education

EERIE

Computer Science, Electronics 1988 — 1993

Activities and Societies:

President and founder member of JEDI ("Junior Enterprise" of the EERIE) from 1992 to 1993.
Ecole des Mines d'Alès

1988 — 1993

This is a proxy, since then the EERIE has been integrated into the "Ecole des Mines d'Alès"