Skills

Versatile

Fluent in French

C++, JavaScript

MS Office suite

Web design and maintenance

Photoshop

Illustrator

Experience

Administrative Coordinator

Pittsburgh, PA

From Nov. 2003

interACT, Carnegie Mellon University

interACT is a research institute located jointly in Pittsburgh and Karlsruhe, Germany.

My duties as assistant to the director and the institute coordinator are as follow:

§     Coordinating the institute activities

§     Arranging travels and meetings for interACT members

§     Demonstrating our projects during international event as ACL in Barcelona.

§     Organizing international workshop

§     Purchasing, filling reimbursement files

Conference Coordinator

Pittsburgh, PA

Jun. 2002 to Oct. 2002

4^th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

Held in October 2002 with more than 150 attendees. The post conference survey revealed that it was a successful event.

My responsibility as local arrangement chair were to:

§     Select the conference site

§     Negotiate the hotel contract for food, rates, equipment

§     Design the conference material such as daily program, call for papers, posters

§     Organize events during the conference including a gala event and demonstration at Carnegie Mellon University.

Visiting Researcher         Pittsburgh, PA     
Jan. 1999 to Jun. 2002 

Interactive Systems Labs, Carnegie Mellon University:

As assistant to the director my duties and responsibilities included:

§     Designing and maintaining the lab’s web sites (www.is.cs.cmu.edu)

§     Handling purchases and reimbursement files

§     Scheduling meetings and workshops

§     Arranging travel

§     Coordinating communication between the lab and other departments, our sister lab in Germany and national agencies.

My tasks for the European Nespole! Project were:

§     Recruiting subjects for the speech data collection

§     Recording the participants

§     Evaluating the system conducting a multimodal experiment

The International C-Star consortium asked me to:

§     Create a realistic online travel catalog including hotel pages, flight schedules, airport maps, tourist sites.

§     Design and maintain the consortium web site (www.c-star.org)

Consultant                             Grenoble, France      
Feb. 1998 to Sep. 1998 

RBI Instrumentations et Mesures

The company was launching a new product at the 1998 Geneva Respiratory Convention, my tasks were to:

§     Design a 4 pages commercial brochure in English

§     Demonstrate the product which was a jacket visually monitoring respiration

§     Contact the various prospects.

ST Microelectronics

This 2 months mission was to:

§     Create a personal database

§     Design and print access cards

Meissner+Wurst

This company set up an off-site office for few months while building a white room in a local electronic plant. My duties were to:

§     Administrate the office

§     Keep track of the time spent and the work progress

§     Translate documents from their international suppliers

Technician                       

la Forteresse, France     
May 1996 to Dec.1997        

Electronique et Systems Industriels

§     Tested and repaired electronic card

§     Wrote technical procedures

Summer Internship                            Allevard, France     
Aug. to Sept. 1995                 

Hotel du Curtillard***  

§     Tended the reception desk

§     Organized professional meetings and conventions

Pierrelatte
May to Sept. 1993

Travel Agency, Selectour MNV

§     Sales and Ticketing

§     Wrote tourist documentation

Education

BTS tourisme-loisirs

Cours Pascal, Grenoble, France

1992-1993

§     This is an official technical degree. For 2 years, students focus on: Sales, ticketing, guiding, history, art, negotiation, economy, French law, and accounting.

Géographie

Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

1995-1996

§     Classes mainly about topology, ecology, sociology, scientific English

Programming

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2001-2002

§     C++ and Java

Statistics

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2001

References

References are available on request.