Curriculum Vitae

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Mathieu Gagnon
2692 Pie-IX #2, Montreal QC H1V 2E7
mathieu@gagnon.name Phone: 514-256-9437

OBJECTIVE

To work with a small team for one technical lead, leveraging my skills.
(XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, SQL, UNIX)

EDUCATION

2005 Certificate in Computer Sciences
University of Montreal
2002 Analyst-Programmer Internet Oriented
CDI College, Montreal

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009 Hibernum
Maintain the Facebook Scrabble EA game and port to iGoogle et OpenSocial.
2008 Canoë
Perl Programmer for the Jobboom website.
2008 LVL Studio
Artists collaborative website prototype (Python). Minerva IPTV skin debugging.
2008/
2006
Freelancer
Contractual work on different projects and on different levels: web frontend, programming and sometimes conception and design. Les Boys TV Show, Frédérick Back, Les Éditions 400 Coups, myTelus Games, La Coop Vidéo de Montréal, Au Pain Doré, ...
2006/
2005
Nurun
During this period, I have worked as a frontend web developer on java projects. I've also assumed the role of principal integrator for Pleasant Holidays, an important californian travel agency. I have also contributed to Imax, Tembec, Bombardier and Euro Disney.
2005-2003 Freelancer
While completing my studies at university of Montreal, I worked as a freelancer. I had the chance to make different web and maintenance jobs for several clients: Martial Graphics, CPA Laval, Yang family tai chi chuan association, etc.
2003/
2002
Net Communications
I have learned the Perl language in order to join the development team. Our primary job was to maintain the evolution of a CMS while providing support to the current clients. During this period I have worked also had the opportunity to work on several other projects; including the Téléfiction's shopping cart, and among others, the web sites of: Cornemuse, Uniboard, Québec Loisirs.
2001/
1999
Net Communications
Web frontend

PORTFOLIO


EA Scrabble , 2009

We mainted and ported the Facebook EA Scrabble game to the iGoogle platform. I was focused on JavaScript but had to work with variety of other technologies.

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, OpenSocial, Ant, PHP


Les Éditions 400 Coups , 2008

A Personal favorite, this was the first step for the first website of the 400 Coups editor. I did from back to frontend and also involved in the graphic design.

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, CakePHP


Frédérick Back , 2007

I realized the front-end integration of the Frédérick Back website. The website consisted of a large amount of pages with different styles and must followed WCAG and add Dublin Core metadata.

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP


myTelus Games , 2007

Part of there portal redesign, I was asked to do the front-end integration of the games section. The section was the first of the redesign and to be served as guideline.

HTML, CSS


La Coop Vidéo de Montréal , 2007

The website of the Coop Vidéo, a small group of inflent filmmakers. The main challenge was to implement a design made for Flash in basic HTML/JavaScript. A compromise strategy was choosen to match best the desigh while keeping good SEO.

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash


Montreal Film Journal , 2000

This is the first "real" website I made; from graphic to database. Now containing more than 1300 movie reviews, the site is still updated and in good shape.

HTML, CSS, ASP