Benoît GANNE
137 avenue de Choisy
75013 Paris
France
Phone: +33 1 53 79 92 96
e-mail: benoit.ganne@gmail.com
French National
Age 26
IT Engineer

Networks R&D
Experience
Since November 2008  

Research engineer at QOSMOS ( http://www.qosmos.com/).

September 2006-October 2008  

Research engineer at Motorola Edge Mobile Networking Lab (France).
Participation to internals, RNRT and europeans research projects about network and transport layers in the mobile networking field.
Solutions definition, architecture, prototyping, evaluation and tests on embedded Linux platforms.
Networking technologies watch (IETF, WiMAX Forum, 3GPP, IEEE).

February-August 2006  

Training placement at Motorola Edge Mobile Networking Lab (France). Development and tests of mobile IP solutions, over various network access technologies, like Ethernet, Wifi, GPRS or Bluetooth. Port and tests of these solutions on embedded Linux platforms.

April-August 2005  

Training placement at Motorola Edge Mobile Networking Lab (France). Development and tests of TCP/IPv6 performance optimization algorithms, for mobile environments. Realized on GNU/Linux (kernelspace and userspace).

Academic Achievements
2004-2006  

Specialized degree in networking computing for engineers at the EERIE Institute of the École des Mines d’Alès.

2001-2004  

French generalist engineer degree at the French engineering school École des Mines d’Albi-Carmaux.

English  

fluent (IELTS: 7/9, TOEIC: 910/990)

IT skills  

Programming languages: C, C++, Python.
Networking: TCP, UDP, IP (v4/v6), ICMP (v4/v6), Mobile IP (v4/v6), IP multicast (v4/v6), on Ethernet, Wifi, cellular or Bluetooth.
Embedded systems : OpenWrt, OpenEmbedded, Symbian.
Operating systems: GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows.

Hobbies and interests
Non-profit and free software  

Active member of the non-profit organization French Data Network ( http://www.fdn.fr/).
Participation to various free software projects such as OpenWrt ( http://openwrt.org/).
Personal free software projects available at http://www.benou.fr/~ben/.

Reading  

Newspapers, Fantasy, SF and scientific and computing magazines.

Sport  

Roller, Wii.