Julien Ricard

Technical Director, Internet

Hello, I'm Julien Ricard, technical director at Webedia

Julien Ricard's Bio:

Julien Ricard's Experience:

• Technical Director at Blue Media

  December 2007 - May 2008

  Relaunch of the publishing activity of the company Activities : Building the team Creating new ad formats for the online network of websites of the company

• Directeur technique / CTO at Les Publications Condé Nast

  May 2005 - December 2007 | Paris

  Technical direction, project management Vogue.com, Glamour.com

• Project Manager / Network and sytems administrator at auFeminin.com

  September 2000 - May 2005

  Developement, project management, systems administration, network administration... lots of things Managing the projects along the exponential development of the European startup Cost management, efficiency (only 3 people in the technical team) Internalization of every service (web development, emailing, adserver.) Activities : Building a highly scalable technical platform Designing the framework used by every website of the company Developments of back-office and front-office applications Administration of the servers and of the network SEO optimization A few projects : Chat, webmail, online dating, social network, new ad formats. Teemix.com (website for teenagers) Flash games, multiplayer games (Shockwave, Java) Adserver (Smartadserver) used across Europe now.

• Trainee 3D Developer and 3D Artist at Geo Vision Avenir

  April 2000 - September 2000

  Development with Autocad LISP of a 3D transformation of topographic data (IGN) into real landscapes (trees, houses, roads.) for rendering in Maya

• Trainee - Web developer at INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research) - IT (Paris)

  July 1997 - August 1997

  Webdesign and developments for the INRA's Intranet INH - IT Department (Angers) Web and Windows Developer, Freelance

• Directeur technique / CTO at Webedia

  May 2008

  Purepeople.com, Puretrend.com, Purefans.com, Ozap.com, Aboutdesign.fr, ... Major projects : adserver, multiple international websites, CRM, analytics, hosting, MVC framework, ajax CMS... Technologies : php, mysql, linux, apache, nginx, hadoop, couchbase, redis...

Julien Ricard's Education:

• ENITHP

  1998 – 2000
  Ingénieur

• Lycée Saint-Louis

  1996 – 1998
  Classe préparatoire
  Concentration: Biology, General

• Ecole Alsacienne

  1989 – 1996
  Baccalauréat

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