Guillaume Prévost

Creation and direction of a company helping entrepreneurs and small business owners transmitting their business, assets, know-how and innovation they created to others willing to keep it going.
2020 - Created the company, designed and built a full web application with algorithms to estimate the value of businesses, a marketplace connecting buyers and sellers, and all the tools to help transmission be as simple and affordable as ever.
Project supported by the French Tech and BPI France.

Direction of technology at a new e-commerce start-up for 4 months. Fairily provides access to unique luxury and lifestyle items and limited series from French creators using an offering system similar to blind auctions.
Surveyed the requirements and market with the CEO, defined required features and the software design to support them, and built the minimum viable product from the ground up alongside a UX designer.

Creation and direction of a start-up facilitating travel experiences and accommodation between friends of friends.
2017 – constructed alone an API and website which quickly grew to 20k users.
2018 – built and managed a 5 people agile product team, developed mobile application and improved infrastructure.
2019 – transformation of the solution into a growing social network / communication tool for student groups.

1 year full-time work at the eResearch office and AICAUSE research centre at RMIT University.
Research, architecture and development based on a previous architecture imagined in 2014 to lift up a previous toolkit into a generic, cloud-based and data-backed platform. It is aimed for archived or real-time data visualisation, story-telling and risk assessment, bringing data from various sources.
Oriented initially for research data visualisation, analysis and presentation, the platform also provides probabilistic risk assessment components that are of interest for automated manufacturing industry partners.

1.5 year full-time work at the eResearch office of RMIT University.
Designed and developed an online decision-support toolkit for climate change adaptation aimed to the Australian seaports. Project developed in collaboration with climate change adaptation experts and researchers at the U.N. Global Cities Program.
Successful project, fully accepted in 2013 by the funding organism ANDS, and extended to the South Pacific area in 2014 through a USAID grant.
Research in distributed computing and data flow visualization: design of a multi-model evaluation and visualization in the cloud architecture with Pr. Heinrich Schmidt.

10 months full-time work in Pau (France) at AtoS Worldgrid, a multinational IT services company.
Designed and developed an Oil & Gas fields monitoring application for Total EP. Successful project using C#.NET, ASP.NET MVC and SharePoint technologies, now deployed on offshore fields in Africa.

Managed a team of 8 developers to accomplish a 2 years long end-of-study project at Epitech.
This augmented reality application, based on C#.NET and WPF technologies, displays virtual items over reality using glasses. It has been presented to the 2012 Microsoft’s French Imagine Cup and an Innovation symposium at Airbus in Toulouse.

8 months part-time work on an Artificial Intelligence research project in the Agent group of RMIT University.
Designed and developed an intelligent system based on Java, helping organizations assessing and improving their sustainability. As part of the U.N. Global Cities program, this project was in partnership with Fuji-Xerox, the City of Melbourne, Microsoft, etc.

4 months training period at Nematis, a web agency and audit company in Perpignan, France.
Created and enhanced many websites using a company-made PHP framework and various third party CMS.

3 months training period at Cynetic, a web development company in Pau, France.
I created a PHP framework to ease the creation of several websites for the company and developed websites using it.