Development of websites and IT tools, travelling in deserts, African wildlife, associative life, sports...
Extra curriculum activities
Sports & Leisures
Road and off-road race association
- President and founder of a road and off-road race association (over 150 competitions performed since 1987, including the Marathon Championships of France in 1994, 1995).
- The entries vary between a hundred to several thousand of runners per race.
- Developed the software, which processes the race results.
- Assistance to the organisers: management of the arrivals, training to use the software and the method to manage the race, technical support and management of the data, network and results on site.
- Photography of the races; these pictures are added in real time to the race results.
Sports
- Until 1998 and during several years, track and field sprinter at a National level. I participated at the Championship of France, relay and individual category. Trainer of the regional track and field team in Lower Normandy, France.
- Paragliding and biking.
Travelling
- Travelled to Canada, USA, Dominican Republic, European countries, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and deserts (Namib, Sahara, Karoo).
Digital photography and video
- African landscapes (see the Galleries section).
- Creation of interactive DVD Rom from personal digital footage.
Member of associations in South Africa
- Webmaster of www.lesfroggies.net (meetings between French business people in RSA)
- CNISF - Conseil National des Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France
Other personal IT Developments
Web sites development
I also developed completely numerous Internet and Intranet websites (both personal - such as this web site - and commercial projects).
IT projects
- Software to process road and off-road race results
- Development of software to process results for Athletic races.
- This involves: recording all the entries, printing barcodes, processing the results, issuing Diplomas, providing links with the computer systems of local newspapers, publishing the results on Minitel.
- Subsequently used at over 150 competitions since 1987, including the Marathon Championships of France in 1994, 1995.
- Oxygene, C++, Windev, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop
- Interactive CDRom
- In collaboration with Shiva Designs, creation of a CD ROM with an interactive database, designed for the South African film Industry (1999-2000).
- Windev, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, Corel Draw

- Interactive CDRom
- Created an interactive CD ROM (DID'J - High Normandy, France 1998).
- This project places CV's and videos of students in a database on CD ROM, a total of 350 copies was negotiated with POLYGRAM. The CD ROMs were sent to recruitment companies, local council and region bodies.
- Windev, Video Première, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, MS Word
- Various system utilities or applications such as:
- Development of a system tool, to capture bitmap image of complete web pages independently of their size or height.
- Development of a system tool, to scan and rename recto-verso scanned files by batch.
- Development of a system tool, to scan by batch the content of source code to generate automatically documentations.
- Development of software to simulate and display banking environment (1999).
- Development of business and proposal management software (1995).
- Development of software to manage maintenance: proposal, types of maintenance, invoices (1995).