Paul Batoum

PAUL BATOUNGOCK Senior Software engineer SUMMARY Hands-on, dedicated professional with over 14 years of experience in IT positions. With more than 5 in an IT management Role (2 As CTO of a 1000 employee call center where the information system is the key and 3 as manager of a software as service company and one in creating an information system department for a state company which has none). But on top of gaining management skills, I am a software engineer in the roots. I have been developing software projects and leading distributed software teams on various projects (Large to small) since I started working and essentially using opensource tools an python as language. Personal Details: Tel: - Email:-Nationality: Cameroonians Date of Birth: 08 August 1983 single, 1 kid +14 years of working experience References: M. Issa Oumarou CFO AER Email:-Tel: - Those experience have given opportunity to develop: • Ability to deliver leading edge solutions that consistent meet complex business requirements • Ability to build strong relationships with IT staff, customers, vendors and thirdparty contractors. • Solid understand of application development, computer programming and architecture design (Mainly in python) • ERP and information system integration (Odoo) • Agile project management 14+ years on the field have given me the possibility to work on large projects as developer, project manager, alone for venture capital, Chief Technical Officer, IT consultant. Working Experience IT manager for a government owned company Cocoa and Coffee sub sector development fund M. Tolen Myriam HR Manager CARE Email:-Tel : - (January 2018 - ) at Yaoundé, Camerouon. • • M. Antoine Brenner CTO Founder of Gymglish Email:- • • • M. Cameron K. Brown Founder of Amit Consulting Senior Industry Principal, Digital & analytics at BBC Email:- Languages: Anglais (Courant) Francais (Maternelle) Centres d'intérêt Sport Opéra Multimédia Jeux vidéos • • • Initiated and built the IT department, not existing before (procedure, recruitment, definition of profile and needed work skills according to the company vison) Trouble shooting and fixing of an information system based on Tomate Tompro suite and MSSQL Server Setup an ERP based on SAGE ERP X3 Elaborate an IT master plan for the next 5 years for the company Budget management Setup a company mail server under Postfix/MySQL/spamassassin/ClamAV/OpenDKIM with OpenXchange client, on centos server Built a Drupal based website for the company Worked on a python based software for GIS for the cocoa and coffee over the country Main Skills: Python Zope Plone Django SQL(free and open) Windows Project Management Training and empowering it staff Docker Nginx Celery-rabbitmq Agile LDAP/AD Drupal Backend development openXchange Voip ITIL Odoo ERP SVN GIT Linux SAGE X3 ERP Cfengine 1 Budget Management Apache Paul Batoum | - /- Project Manager for a French software and consulting company Anybox (March 2018 – September 2018) Remote. • • • • • • • In charge of development of SEPA module for an insurance company Automatization of insurance broker commission through SEPA credit transfert (SEPA SCT) Automatization of direct debit payment solution through SEPA Direct Debit (SEPA SDD) Agile Development under python3/Django/PgSQL Docker for deployment process Celery-rabbitmq, for tasks management Git for version control CTO for a French group, call center based in cameroon Groupe VIPP Interstis (December 2015 - May 2017) at Yaoundé, Cameroon. As the new CTO take over the former CTO of a 1000+ employees company (call center) with an 8 people team, develop and empower the division, be the guarantee that the information system will never fall. • Managed information technology and computer systems (81 servers on 5 locations, Paris – 2 and Cameroun – 3, linux and windows based – Voip, AD, LDAP, Firewall, Proxy, Ticketting system....) • Managed IT staff by recruiting, trained and coached employees, communicated job expectations and created a performance appraisal system (recruited 2 more staff to get the team to 8, proposed new salary structure) • Designed, developed, implemented and coordinated an ITIL V3 based internal support procedure for the 800 computers parc • Ensured security of data, network access and backup systems, by automating alert through python script to avoid crashing on simple problem like storage. • Initiated and implemented various development project (Odoo based production intranet, tracking system to make sure, employee are using tools….) • Audited systems and assessed their outcomes (documented every server and services of all the company, elaborated a classification per level of sensibility, planed upgrade or change of non-used services) • Budget management and planning • Managed relationship with partners IT team (MTN, CAMTEL....) IT Consultant in partnership with Promotion agency of SMEs -UASG Advisors-MICROSOFT in the program for the modernization of Cameroonians SMEs (February 2016 – Dec 2016) at Yaoundé, Cameroun. • • • • Trained 2 supervisors in monitoring and guiding SMEs managers in the use of Microsoft tools (office365, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics CRM) In partnership with a Dutch consultant train managers in Microsoft tools administration Built a platform for easy website creation for SMEs Setup an OHADA accounting system platform for SMEs as SAAS based on odoo IT Consultant for wild life school in Garoua (Since September 2009) at Garoua, Cameroon. • • • • • • Participated in the 10 years strategic plan for evolution of the school for it to become a full university Overlook third-party IT contractor work Built a python/Plone/Zope web application Trained users on website publication process Built a Library management system based on php/mysql Built an Odoo based material accounting system Used Technologies: Paul Batoum | - /- 2 • Python, Zope, Plone, Linux, PHP, MySQL…. IT Consultant for Rural Electrification Agency / Rural Electrification Fund (October 2010 – December 2016) at Yaoundé, Cameroon. AER is a Cameroonian organization focused on rural electrification. The work was to build an all new collaborative platform (CMS) and also research and suggest solution for the financial management of the organization, Relook the CMS and suggest and implement and intranet solution • • • • • • • Project Management Team management Installation of a new centos server for hosting Python/Plone/Zope CMS development Training users to use the new systems Research on python written ERP (openERP, ERP5) Intranet development functionalities in python Used Technologies: • Python, Zope, Plone, OpenERP, CentOs, ERP5…. Software engineer for AMIT consulting (February 2010 – October 2012) New Jersey, USA • • • • • • Built an openCore (Python/Plone based framework) collaborative platform for department of health in US Troubleshooting and new functionalities building Python 2 development Replaced ZODB by MySQL for performance Python development for a poll application, bullitics Python development a dating application based on astrology IT Consultant for COMIFAC (Jul 2009 – Dec 2009) Yaoundé, Cameroun COMIFAC is an international organization focused on forest and wild life protection in the Congo basin. The work is to move their old website comifac.org to an all new collaborative platform and also, research and suggest solution for the financial management of the organization. • • • • • Project Management Installation of a new centos server for hosting Python/Plone/Zope development Training users to use the new systems Research on python written ERP (openERP, ERP5) Used Technologies: Python, Zope, Plone, OpenERP, CentOs, ERP5…. Software engineer for e-healthcaresystems Inc (March 2009 – October 2010) Texas, USA - Remote • • • • • • Built and EMR (Electronical Medical Record) System (Heart Beat) Project management redhat linux server administration and devops (SVN, LDAP, mantis, security management) PHP/MySQL development Research and development 3 Part of a distributed team over the world. Software engineer for Curbs your cravings LLC (February 2008 – February 2009) New York, USA - Remote Paul Batoum | - /- Media Company, plan to move their entire system from Perl to Python Act as python consultant: Instruct other developers Build foundation for the porting work Research and prevent future problem under the project manager supervision Take care of some Perl tasks System administration task (LDAP, Calendar server ....) Learn Smalltalk and Seaside for future use in the company Act as Perl developer: • Fix bugs and upgrade existing software • Be ready for moving some part to Smalltalk • Enhance the existing IS and Database Used Technologies: • Python, Perl, MySQL, PostgreSQL VN, trac, Smalltalk, LDAP… Software engineer / Business analyst for TAAM (March 2007 – December 2007) Bobigny France Contractor position for a French company TAAM (half remote, half on site). The company needed a complete renewal of their IT system. The jobs is about discussing the needs of the company, installing, developing the adequate product, training the employee for the use of the software, make needed changes, fix bug, install, setup, administration of the company server on centos 4. Major line of work include: installation and training of the use of OpenSi for accounting management. Development of a collaborative website using Plone/Zope. Development of an intranet for internal use of the company using Plone/Zope + MySQL as backend (Employee management, customer management..., little CRM), SEO tasks (advertising on internet), Take part to major decisions in company, install and administration of the UNIX server and soft needed for work... Software engineer for A9 SARL – Gymglish (march 2004 – December 2006) Paris, France Started with A9Sarl 2 months after his creation this gives me opportunity to Test different roles - ) Software design A9SARL is a software editor. The software (Gymglish) is an AI to help people to learn English on a daily mail basis. The work was done in direct collaboration With the CTO, cofounder of the company. Find between some web applications servers working with python, which one will the best for the software (Zope, CherryPy, Quixote tested) according to performance, customization. System administration on UNIX system (RHEL4, CENTOS4 and MANDRAKE9.2) (Security, performance...with free Software) involve Mail management, network efficiency, LDAP based Authentication …. Use of Cfengine to make new server deployment easy. Software development in python + MySQL in UNIX environment with Extreme programming principle (Unit test, Development, reviewing, Exploitation), for the core of the AI. Use of Subversion for versioning Web development in Python/ Zope + MySQL (ZopeTestCase, Formulator, Internationalization…). Development of an online workbook for the Users and an online store including performance tuning and security matters. SEO tasks Google and other major search engines ranking, for internet advertising. BackOffice/ FrontOffice development for office purpose using Python, Zope and MySQL… As an associate developer discuss needs with sales team and other Pole, look for solution, and develop if needed. Paul Batoum | - /- 4 R&D for the use of a CMS (Content management System): Zope/Plone for Website, intranet, extranet. 1- Using Plone 2.1.3 to prepare the migration of the static website (www.gymglis.com) to a Plone system: Create the template, chose the more suited product (FCKEditor over Kupu for page edition, use of LDAP for authentication…) 2- Keep up to the date with the latest technologies, research product and tools. Education Global Executive MBA (running) IAE, Sorbonne Paris 2016MSC in information system management (stoped at Post graduate certificate) Online Msc with university of Liverpool- IT engineer (specialized in systems, network and security) Equivalent to a graduate level in computer sciences School of computer sciences and advance technologies (EPITA) in France- Deug SM (specialized in Mathematics, physics and IT) Equivalent to Bachelor’s degree specialized in maths, physics And Computer sciences. University of Angers in France- BACCALAUREAT S with specialize in mathematics Equivalent to a High School Diploma specialized in mathematics French college fustel de coulange in Cameroon. 2000 BATOUNGOCK BATOUM Paul G. 5 Paul Batoum | - /-