PDF version)Freelancer, London, UK
‘A potted history of sections 43 and 44’ published by Black Mental Health. August 2010
‘Halting section 44 stop and search powers’ published by Black Mental Health. July 2010
‘Exposing
MI5 blackmail’ published by the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities. October 2009
‘Secret
evidence undermines right to fair trial’ published by the Coalition Against Secret Evidence. June 2009
‘Stop
and search under the Terrorism Act’ published in Red Pepper. June 2009
‘The
mobile phone as self-inflicted surveillance’ published in The Register. April 2009
‘Three
months on, you still can't get off the DNA database’ published in The Register. March 2009
‘Stop'n'search
gets touchy-feely’ published in The Register. January 2009
‘Don't
delay: Delete your DNA today’ published in The Register. December 2008
‘The
DNA database and you’ published in The Register. November 2008
‘How
to delete your DNA profile’ published in The Register. January 2008
‘Fighting torture with copyright’ published in The Register. March 2007
‘Suspicious behaviour on the tube’ published on the front page of The Guardian. September 2005
‘Why
is a different operating system needed’ published in CutterIT Journal. June 2000
(Adapted and republished in the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Computing & Control Engineering magazine. December 2003
Republished as a chapter of How
Smartphones Work. March 2006.)
EXE Magazine, London, UK
Editor of EXE Magazine and EXE OnLine (Centaur), the UK-based software developers' magazine and website. Started as Features Editor, promoted to Editor in October 1995. Responsibilities included managing team of five, full editorial and production responsibilities, sourcing and managing industry contributors, ensuring EXE is at the forefront of the software industry. June 1994 - December 1999
Freelancer, London, UK
Freelance contributor to a number of newspapers and magazines. British publications: The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, PC Direct, What Personal Computer. French publications: 01 Informatique, Le Journal du Téléphone. European publications: Byte European Reseller, Eurotrade. July 1993 - June 1994
PC Expert, Paris, France
Senior Editor, PC Expert (Ziff-Davis). Responsible for surveys on new technologies, operating systems and telecommunications. Special features included communications transfer protocols, PCMCIA technology, networked fax and processor technology. December 1991 - January 1993
Freelancer, Paris, France
Freelance contributor to PC-News, Info-PC and Décision Micro. Work included Comdex news writing and review of development tools. August 1989 - November 1991
Regular freelance contributor to Soft & Micro. Work included feature articles, software and hardware tests and exhibition coverage. November 1987 - July 1989
Freelance contributions to Génie Logiciel, Que Choisir, Goupil Revue and Microtel-Infos. 1982 - 1986
UIQ Technology, London, UK
Editor - Developer Program, Developer Community team. Managed the UIQ developer portal. Primary visible interface of UIQ Technology on the developer portal. Forums contributor and moderator. Managed the commissioning budget. Developed and implemented editorial projects, and defined portal improvements.
Managed the participation of UIQ Technology to the UIQ 3: The Complete Guide book project and launched a wiki site to provide an online version. Published the booklets ‘Essential UIQ 3 - Getting started’ and ‘Building Blocks - Preview to UIQ 3: The Complete Guide’. Wrote news stories on the UIQ developer portal and for partners' newsletters.
Led discussion sessions on mobile user interfaces and user experience at the Mobile Jam Session during the Mobile World Congress 2008 and at Over the Air 2008. Represented UIQ Technology at events such as the Symbian Smartphone Show, the Mobile World Congress and Motorola MOTODEV Summits. May 2006 - July 2008
Symbian Software, London, UK
Developer Evangelism Manager, Developer Community team. Created a developer strategy. Edited the monthly Symbian Community Newsletter and commissioned articles for the Symbian Developer Network. Managed the relationships with two partners and independent community sites. Created and launched the Symbian OS Team, an initiative to recognise individuals sharing their deep understanding and knowledge of Symbian OS development with the developer community. Co-chaired the Security Alert team - part of Symbian's Computer Security Incident Response Team. February 2004 - April 2006
Technology Outreach, Developer Partnerships team. Open sourced Symbian's OPL interpreted language. Supported the port of Simkin, a high-level lightweight embeddable scripting language, to Symbian OS. Edited the monthly Symbian Community Newsletter. Commissioned articles for the Symbian Developer Network. Organised more than twenty-two internal seminars. December 2002 to March 2006.
Manager, Marketing Strategy department. Worked closely with partners and account managers to define, communicate and validate joint messages, and develop co-marketing plans. Broad remit to drive brand recognition and corporate messages to key audiences included writing and placing articles, and production of key corporate brochures. Contributed to the Developer Network newsletter. May 2002 - November 2002
Technology Editor, Media Group. Defined key audience messages and processes for engagement. Created content. Developed relationships and commissioned content across a broad number of departments in the company. Participated in the redesign of the symbian.com website. Created a scheme for Symbian's engineers to develop open source applications to be published on Symbian's website. Line management responsibility included handling a redundancy. May 2001 - April 2002
Technical Communications department. Co-created and implemented a media plan. Created an editorial process. Wrote and commissioned several technology white papers and articles. Wrote ‘Why is a different operating system needed’. January 2000 - April 2001
P.N.B., Paris, France
Software engineer at modem manufacturer P.N.B. Developed a DOS fax software in C and assembler. Project leader of a contract with France Telecom (project Service d'Acces Micro). June 1990 - December 1991
Microformatic, Paris, France and Moodus, Connecticut, USA
Research and Development engineer at Microformatic, a software house specialising in communications software on OS/2. Spent two months at US subsidiary (Moodus, Connecticut) in charge of the adaptation of the product to the American market. Promoted to Project leader. August 1989 - March 1990
Euratec, Paris, France
Technical Director at Euratec, a software house specialised in Ada. Participated in a mission to Iceland looking at transferring the development operation to Paris. Negotiated with manufacturers (DEC, Data General, Bull, Atari and Apple) and prepared a videotext information service. September 1986 - February 1987
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France
University projects: development of a task manager and memory manager in C on Bull Mini 6, of a compiler (a subset of Algol for a virtual machine target) in Pascal on Multics, of an emulation of a subset of MC68000 instructions in 8086 assembler, and of a Lisp interpreter in Pascal on Multics. 1986 - 1987
Téléinformatique, Paris, France
Developed a terminal emulator resident in a PAD X.25, in 6809 assembler, for the Crédit Agricole bank. April 1985
Caisses Centrales de Mutualité Sociale Agricole, Paris, France
Software development, in Basic, for insurance company Caisses Centrales de Mutualité Sociale Agricole (CCMSA). August 1984 - March 1985
IBM, Paris, France
Lecturer in telecommunications (OS/2 Communication Manager). August 1989 - March 1990
Institut de Gestion Sociale (IGS), Paris, France
Examiner for the computer exam. September 1985
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Paris, France
Lecturer in computer science to second-year graduate students in DEUG AES. 1984 - 1986
City of Paris (InterClub 17), Paris, France
Computer instructor. October 1984 - May 1985
Conferences
Speaker at a workshop on Fighting the law and winning for the ten years of Indymedia (UK). 2010
Keynote speaker at the public debate ‘Surveillance, Politics and Civil Society’ (UK). 2010
Guest speaker at a public meeting of the Pan African Society Community Forum on civil liberties (UK). 2009
Discussion leader at Over the Air (UK). 2008.
Discussion leader at an improv session at the Mobile Jam, Mobile World Congress (Spain). 2008
Television interviews
Sky News Sunrise (UK). 2009
Mega TV (Greece), The Files. 2007
BBC One, Politics Show (UK). 2006
Sky News Today (UK). 2005
Radio interviews
Dissident Island Radio (UK). 2010
Radio Adelaide (Australia), Breakfast with Peter Godfrey. 2005
ABC Radio National (Australia), Late Night Live. 2005
BBC Radio Four (UK), Broadcasting House. 2005
BBC Radio Five Live (UK), The Way Forward. 2005
RampART Radio, Indymedia (UK). 2005
Print interviews
Colors Magazine (Italy), ‘Cease-Fear’. 2009
I fought the law, Bantam Press (UK), ‘Britain's Ten Worst Laws’ chapter. 2007
The Dallas Morning News (USA). 2005
CCJO.RenéCassin, London, UK
International human rights law training day. 2009
City University, London, UK
Human rights law continuing education course. 2007
Symbian, London, UK
Training courses: Symbian OS Essentials, Symbian OS Internals, Symbian OS Application UI, Symbian OS Platform Security Workshop. 2000-2005
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France
Attestation d’Etudes Approfondies (first year of MPhil without thesis) in languages, algorithmic and programming;
majors: object-oriented programming and Lisp dialects semantic. 1988
Maîtrise (MSc) in computer science; majors: operating systems, telecommunications and software engineering. 1987
License (BSc) in computer science. 1986
Diplôme d'Etudes Universitaires Général (undergraduate degree) in mathematics, physics and computer science. 1985
Computer Camps International; Banner Lodge, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Certificate. August 1982
Ecole Alsacienne, Paris, France
Diplôme du Baccalauréat S1 (baccalaureate) specialised in mathematics. 1982
Independent Custody Visitor, and member of the Islington Borough Police Stop and Search Monitoring Group. 2010 -
Member or friend of Amnesty International, the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, Genewatch, Liberty, No2ID, Privacy International, Statewatch. 2005 -
Apparent Correspondent of the College of 'Pataphysics (Sous-Commission des Esprits) and of the London Institute of 'Pataphysics.
Participated in the creation of Mobile Monday London. 2005
Associate member of the Free Software Foundation. 2003 -
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (1987 - 2009) and of the Association Francaise pour la Cybernétique Economique et Technique (1987 - 1989).
Co-founder and co-sysop of the OS/2 MANiA association. 1990 - 1992
Active participation at local, regional and national level in the Microtel and Adémir associations. 1980 - 1987