I am a Web Architect with over 10 years of experience as developer, strategist, entrepreneur and teacher.
A lifelong student across disciplines, I have learned over the years to bring value by addressing the business, design and technology contexts simultaneously. And as a proud multicultural generalist, I am at my best when bridging between cultures, teams, and individuals.
I have formerly lived and worked in Paris, Tokyo – now in Montreal. Have ziploc, will travel.
Skills Highlights
Transdisciplinarity: known to take projects from idea to success with a unique mix of technical expertise, user experience flair and business sense. Comfortable acting as a bridge between roles and people.
Multilingual– and multiculturalism: bilingual French-English, I can also converse well in Japanese and Spanish (Castellano). Notions in other languages (Catalan, Mandarin Chinese, Italian) and a love for discovery make me at ease in most cultures and countries.
Public Speaking: happy and at ease on a conference stage or in a lecture classroom.
Leadership and Mentoring: as product and tech lead, led several 2-10 strong teams of developers and designers. Taught and mentored many juniors and students.
Community Management: led and listened to user communities of 1k to 1M+ users.
Web and Code: gained deep knowledge of Web Architecture at W3C; also have hands-on experience building Web sites and services from back-end to front-end.
What I do
Given a set of business goals,user research and brand values, I produce product, design and tech strategies with their associated implementation tactics illustrated by wireframes, prototypes and agile-friendly documentation. I also work closely with production teams through their iterative design and development process. I help create or enhance a culture of collaboration, innovation and excellence in any team I join.
Experience and Education
Web Architect at Pheromone (Montreal, Canada)
2009 – Present: With a team of experts from this Montreal-based agency, I define product strategy, design direction and technological architecture of our internal and our clients' Web products and services: social networks, online communities, web sites and mobile applications.
Co-Founder, Technology Architect at Art Beat (Japan, USA)
2004 – 2010: As volunteer endeavour, I co-founded Art Beat, an international network of multilingual web sites providing information and services on the Art and Design scene in major cultural cities, and built its entire technical architecture. From January 2010 onwards, I remain an advisor to the ArtBeat management team.
Technical Staff at W3C (Japan, World)
2000 – 2009: as part of the core team of the World Wide Web consortium for over 8 years, my role evolved from Systems Developer, Evangelist for Web Standards to being Product/Dev Lead for W3C's Open Source Services (including the massively popular validators).
Intrusion Testing activity lead at MasterSecurity (France)
December 1998 – September 2000: Within a team of security, IT and process consultants, I launched and led the Intrusion Testing lab.
Education: Ecole Centrale Paris (France)
Graduated in 2000 with an engineering/MSc degree from Ecole Centrale Paris, one of France's elite campuses for international top industrial managers. Specialized in IT and Telecommunications. As a student, I served as webmaster and general secretary of VIA, the NPO managing what was then one of the largest educational computer networks in the world.
Details on work experience, notable achievements and lessons, recommendations and more are available on LinkedIn: in/olivierthereaux.