Telecommunication and artificial neural networks options.
Graduate work: Java adaptation of a fault tolerant server system. Implementation with redundant web server.
Responsible of leading the development of the databases, access tools and management-supporting tools for the project and it’s extension to international nodes.
Computer science teaching program definition and management and Bologna process adaptation.
Financial and Human resources management.
Courses quality control and student candidates review.
Teaching and examination at Bachelor and Postgraduate (MAS) degree in the following fields:
- Programming: Java, C, C++ et Ada
- Software engineering, advanced software engineering, advanced information systems
- Distributed computing, DataBases
Students tutor.
Diploma projects supervision.
Management, planification and staffing of five collaborators for the elaboration of twenty something web tools for academical management in the process of Bologna modularisation.
Different refactoring, new technologies integration (SAJAX) and fifteen something new modules have emerged in an ergonomic platform well appreciated by student and professor users.
Rewarded in 2000 for "exceptional personal involvement in his contributions"
IBD (DataBase Engineering) teaching and coaching students.
Research (Ph.D. Thesis) on Internet Proxys aiming to improve caching and adding services with added perceived dimensions for the intermediary agent.
As Prof. Stefano Spaccapietra's assistant, teaching to MSc classes (about 40 attendees). In charge of the complete preparation and program for a very popular semester practical course involving Databases and Internet technologies (Java, JMS, RMI, PHP, Jabber and XML-RPC). Direction of a dozen of students' semester and diploma projects with successful results. Teaching outside of EPFL to the World Health Organization (WHO).
System manager for UNIX system networks (HP-UX and SunOS), products evaluation and tools development.
Co-founder with three people from the DataBaseLaboratory, EPFL. The company is a spin-off base on the SIRANAU project for the commercialisation of the academic prototype.
After two years, the company moved from multimedia storage to custom service and development. That shift had started in 1999 already with many differents mandats for the UN.
In 2001 take over 100% of the shares.
In 2003, the company got involved in bank tools with the arrival of a new partner and co-director. Simple Data publish many software with different architecture. One of them - tariff eye - is a very smart tool in bank procuts cost management.
Conception and marketing of management, decision support tools for financial activities.
Project manager for the operations on the academic prototype, SIRANAU, moved into production for the National Library.
In charge of all technical infrastructure management.
Development and product managemenet for a GSM communication system. The service was designed as an entertainment and meeting application. Project leader of a team of three developpers.
Development of a system for goods localization. The system is based on GPS and GSM technologies. Participation in commercial negociation for deployment in South Africa.
Manager of a three technicans for the development of a system that imports weather data and mesures based on a captor network with GSM technology.
The system is based on web services and an XML DataBase.
In charge of setting up the tools and technologies to be used in the company.
Advanced web solutions development for the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade And Development).
Member of the IBM-UNIPOWER team in charge of academic market. The team also proceeded to large scale deployment at CERN and EPFL with high performance servers installation.
Development of the first web site for the OFIAMT (Federal Office of Work And Industry) and teaching the people in charge there.
Management of the entire computer system for the Swiss French headquarters. My final report lead to the creation of a full-time job.
UNIX (SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Linux)
Windows NT and Windows 2000, DOS
Apple Macintosh MacOS
IBM OS/2
AmigaOS
C/C++, Java, SQL, HTML, AspectJ (+AOP), PHP
Ada, Pascal, Smalltalk, Perl, Python, Shell-scripts, XML(-RPC), UML
Proxy, Jabber, JMS, JMF, Sendmail, DNS, Firewall, Tomcat, Apache and various Intranet/Internet technologies, Oracle, Informix, Tamino,PostgreSQL, mySQL, msql, HSQLDB, LaTeX, Junit, LDAP, Postfix
Publications
Sabina Di Gregorio, Bernard Reber, Philippe Rochat, "L'éthique du virtuel: Apocalypse contre Platon ", Virtual worlds 98, premier Colloque international sur l’image de synthèse et le virtuel, March 1- 3, 1998. (Russian publication by "Académie des Sciences de Moscou").
Philippe Rochat, Stuart Thompson, "Proxy caching based on object location considering semantic usage" Fourth International Web Caching Workshop, WCW'99, San Diego,
March 31 - April 2, 1999.
Emmanuel Buff, Yves Dennebouy, Philippe Rochat, Stefano Spaccapietra, "Mass Archiving of Multimedia Data", Advances in Multimedia and Databases fort he New Century, a Swiss/Japanese Perspective, Kyoto, Nov 30 - Dec 2, 1999.
Philippe Rochat, "Proxys Internet Avancés", thèse No 2762 (2003), EPFL.
mother tongue
read and written fluently
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Member of the commission in charge of the setting and controlling the application of the communication rules for EPFL intern and external press and on the Internet.
On air with a scientific vulgarisation performance.
Co-founder and president of the association in 1993. Fréquence Banane is the first campus radio in Switzerland.
IASTAR (International Association of Student Television and Radio) Switzerland foundation.
Creation of the "Paleo Live" concept for Philip Morris (Festival Sponsor) as a web animation built on site. The concept was then sold to a major telecom company.
Balélec is the biggest student event in Europe with an attendance of over 15'000 in 1993 already and more than 20'000 in 2000.
Association president, accounting back in the black numbers.
Set up the big stage project with success, Balélec being raised to the rank of music festival.
In charge of animation which consists of organising and planning of all artistic performances and technical logistic (stages, sono, covers, etc.) With seven stages, a hundred artists and profusion of different styles, the public is definitely acquired.
In charge of Comics and Games. Organisation of stage performances. Organizer of game night parties and artists exhitibits.
Co-organizer of exhibit "de brüsel à Lozan" by two famous comics artists, Peeter and Schuiten, in 1994.
MUD (Multi User Dungeson: multi user role play game on the Internet) creation called "MUME". Still online today, it counts more than 500'000 characters created and thousands of active players.