Xavier Lacot

I do not search for a new job, I am very happy with my current life :-) Would you need my services, for instance as a consultant or a Symfony or Titanium expert, you may contact JoliCode, the company I created in 2012.

Computer knowledge

• Web developement
  PHP, XHTML/CSS, Javascript

  My favourite Web developement platform is the LAMP one, about which I often publish articles. I am keen on good developement practices, and have animated sessions during major conferences: Forum PHP 2006, symfony Live 2009, symfony Day Cologne 2009, Forum PHP 2010, Symfony Live 2011, Symfony Live 2012, etc.

  I am most notabily an expert in the field of Rapid Application Developement frameworks - symfony 1 and Symfony2, Zend Framework, etc. I am in 2012 the President of AFUP, the French PHP Users Association, and I am involved in AFSY, the French Symfony Usergroup.

• Mobile developement
  Appcelerator Titanium

  I use Titanium since 2009, and have since launched a bunch of native mobile cross-device applications built on this platform. I published a javascript ORM for Titanium, which I presented during the CodeStrong conference, in 2011.

  I took part in several Titanium conferences as a speaker (CodeStrong San Francisco 2011, TiConf Valence 2013, TiConf New York 2014, TiConf Amsterdam 2014, etc.). I am also a Appcelerator Titanium trainer.

• Standards
  XML, XSLT, RDF/OWL, SVG, XUL/XBL.

  I have a great interest in the respect of Web Standards, and in all kind of developements in relation with the Semantic Web. That is the reason why I am involved in the translation of some W3C Recommandations, as well as the promotion and the implementation of these new technologies.

• Ops and adminsys
  Linux/Debian servers admin, deployment, provisionning, monitoring, vistualization and containerization tools.

Professionnal Experiences

• since March 2012
  JoliCode, Paris. Founder, PHP and mobility expert. I offer my expertise through JoliCode, a team of highly skilled Web and mobile developers.
• February 2012 - February 2013
  AFUP, Paris. President of AFUP, the French PHP Usergroup. AFUP organizes two major conferences each year: the Forum PHP and the PHP Tour.

• December 2005 - February 2012
  Clever Age, Paris. Director of the expertise group, and PHP technical lead of the company.
• May 2005 - November 2005
  Internship, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Poissy (France).

  XHTML/CSS Web standards switch of the "Configurator", an online tool that allows PSA clients to configure their vehicle on the different websites of the group. Conception, developement and responsability of the Configurator of Citroën.

• October 2003 - July 2004
  Internship, DaimlerChrysler Research Center, Ulm (Germany).

  I took part to the developement and the tests of a car-embedded vocal Dialog system. Developement of the CAN-bus interface and of cognitive workload assessment software.

Education

• 2004 - 2005
  Mastère IDL (Specialization in Software Engeneering) at ENST (Télécom Paris).
• 2003 - 2004
  One year of study in the University of Ulm (Germany), as part of the european exchange-program ERASMUS.
• 2001 - 2004
  Three-year Ingenieur Cycle at ENSSAT, Lannion. Major: Software and Computer Systems.
• 1999 - 2001
  Two-year "Grande École" preparatory cycle. Lycée Michel Montaigne, Bordeaux.

Foreign languages

• French
  mother tongue
• German
  fluent
• English
  fluent

Conferences

• June 29th, 2014
  Everything Titanium using the CLI, TiConf 2014 Amsterdam.
• May 10th, 2014
  Monitor Your App: A complete panel of Titanium monitoring solutions, TiConf 2014 New York.
• February 24th, 2013
  Better Faster Stronger: how Alloy daftpunks your Titanium projects, TiConf 2013.
• June 7th, 2012
  Symfony2 components to the rescue of your PHP projects, Symfony Live Paris.
• September 11th, 2011
  Abstracting databases access in Titanium Mobile, CodeStrong.
• March 3rd, 2011
  RESTful avec symfony et Symfony2, Symfony Live. Co-written with Damien Alexandre.
• November 9th, 2010
  Les frameworks, essentiels dans l'écosystème PHP, Forum PHP. Co-written with Bastien Jaillot.
• September 4th, 2009
  symfony vs. Integrating Products, Symfony Day.
• June 12th, 2009
  Symfony pour gérer des médias, Symfony Live.
• June 11th, 2009
  Construction d'un réseau social avec Symfony, Symfony Live.
• November 9th, 2006
  Des briques Open Source pour refondre un site internet en PHP (Trac, SVN, Symfony, architecture), Forum PHP. Co-written with Tristan Rivoallan and Hervé Schmitt.

Last publications

• December 6th, 2013
  Best practices pour vos APIs REST HTTP avec Symfony2, AFSY avent calendar.
• November 14th, 2013
  Titanium mobile : genèse, principes et aléas d’une solution de développement mobile Cross-Platform.
• August 3rd, 2008
  RDF, OWL, SPARQL : visite des coulisses du Web Sémantique. TV4IT, la WebTV des architectes de l'IT.
• May 14th, 2008
  Frameworks php pour l’entreprise. White paper, Clever Age. In collaboration with Tristan Rivoallan.
• May 9th, 2008
  RIA, RDA : sur quelle technologie miser ?. TV4IT, la WebTV des architectes de l'IT.
• March 1st,2007
  Géolocalisez vos photographies avec PHP . PHP Solutions n°20, pp 9-17.
• December 21st, 2006
  Classer, trier et taguer pour retrouver : les enjeux documentaires du web (2.0).
• November 1st, 2006
  Trois frameworks PHP passés au crible : Cake PHP, Code Igniter et Symfony. Linux Developer's Journal n°1, pp 70-79.
• June 26th, 2006
  Votre blog sous Symfony, pas à pas.
• June 12nd, 2006
  Le Web Sémantique en entreprise : comment et à quels niveaux ?
• June 2005
  Introduction à OWL, un langage XML d'ontologies Web.

Open-Source

• GitHub
  Please check my GitHub account.