Olivier Bruchez

Current

Software engineer / consultant at ELCA Informatique

Past

Software engineer / consultant at Self-employed
Senior Software Engineer at GE Security
Software Engineer at VisioWave SA

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Education

Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Collège de l'Abbaye de Saint-Maurice

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Olivier Bruchez’s Summary

I'm a software engineer living and working in the French part of Switzerland. I have experience in Java / C++, on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, especially in the security field (audio/video solutions) and Web development.

Olivier Bruchez’s Specialties:

Java, C/C++, Windows, Mac, Linux, distributed/multithreaded/real-time programming, networking, audio/video, Web.

Olivier Bruchez’s Experience

Software engineer / consultant

ELCA Informatique

(Computer Software industry)

September 2009 — Present (4 months)
Software engineer / consultant

Self-employed

(Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 2 months)

• Added a REST interface to an already existing Web application and developed the corresponding Java client API (REST, Java, Orbeon Forms)
• Modified several visual elements of the Summary Page of Form Runner in Orbeon Forms (Orbeon Forms, CSS, YUI)
• Added features to an XForms-based Web application for network audit reports management (Orbeon Forms, XForms, XQuery, XSLT, eXist)
• Developed a desktop application to launch E-Prime psychological tests/games for children with test results analysis/upload
Senior Software Engineer

GE Security

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Financial Services industry)

May 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 2 months)

Developed and maintained the company cross-platform software (core services and SDK) for real-time acquisition, transmission, storage, and retrieval of digital audio/video for security applications. Worked on more than thirty releases, service packs, and hotfixes. Fixed hundreds of customer/QA-reported bugs. More specific tasks:

• Design and implementation of a hardware-agnostic XML-based health monitoring framework, as well as of various hardware-specific monitoring modules (motherboards, RAID systems, etc.)

• Test and maintenance of an H.264 codec (mainly rate control and entropy coding modules) and development of an AVC multicast multiplexer prototype

• Development and maintenance of a video/audio rendering component, using pixel shaders for deinterlacing and color conversion, including MPEG-2 PS parsing

• Design and implementation of a distributed alarm/event management system

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Software Engineer

VisioWave SA

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2002 — April 2005 (3 years 1 month)

More specific tasks (cont'd):

• Development and maintenance of an interactive graphical timeline for video/audio storage representation

• Maintenance of a Web-based configuration tool (PHP/SQL)

• Development of various test/performance tools

• Maintenance and administration of the company build system (PHP/Perl) and revision control system (Perforce)

• Installation, customization, and maintenance of an internal knowledge base for software engineers using MediaWiki

• Technical advisory of pre-sales, support, and QA engineers

• Collaboration with local hardware, driver, and firmware engineers, as well as remote software development teams

Olivier Bruchez’s Education

Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Master , Computer Science / Software Engineering , 1997 — 2002

Optional courses: artificial intelligence (AI), artificial neural networks (ANN), bioinformatics, computer graphics, document engineering, natural language processing, pattern recognition, virtual environments.

Academic projets:

• 2001-2002 - Distributed video archival and streaming system using CD/DVD jukeboxes, as part of a 3-person team (C++, parallel computing, video streaming, 3D, drivers)

• 2001 - Utility for converting between ICC profiles and XML (Java, XML, color management)

• 2000-2001 - Exploration of new types of Turing neural networks (C++, ANN, evolutionary algorithms)

• 2000-2001 - Control software for an MC68331-based mobile robot (C, assembly language)

• 2000 - DNA sequence classification using artificial neural networks (Lisp, bioinformatics, ANN)

• 1999-2000 - Multiplayer network game, as part of a 5-person team (Java, Swing, RMI, UML)

• 1999-2000 - Compiler for a simplified version of Java (Java, compilation theory, bytecode)
Collège de l'Abbaye de Saint-Maurice

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Olivier Bruchez’s Interests:

Mountain hiking/biking, skiing, blogging, music (jazz and more), reading, cinema, theatre, photography, Getting Things Done (GTD), technology/futurism