Curriculum Vitæ – Pierre-Etienne Paradis

ITC and New Media

Frequently used applications

  • MS Office (Word, Power Point, Excel) and Open Office.
  • Adobe Creative Suite (Acrobat, Photoshop, ImageReady, InDesign, Illustrator).
  • Miscellaneous Web and multimedia tools (FTP, CoolEdit, Audacity, Dreamweaver, Flash).
  • Free and Open Source CMS such as Drupal, SPIP and WordPress.
  • Wikis (applications such as MoinMoin and MediaWiki – I am also a regular contributor to Wikipedia).
  • Easy PHP and other LAMP emulators.
  • Translation tools (PoEdit, OmegaT).

Technical skills

  • Advanced knowledge of Windows 2000/XP operating systems and networking tools.
  • Working knowledge of Mac OS X and Linux (Mandriva, Debian and Ubuntu).
  • HTML and CSS scripting.
  • XML, ASP, PHP and JavaScript editing.

Related Work Experiences

  • Beginning: 
    September 2007
    End: 
    September 2007

    Lecturer at Laval University’s weekly Professors’ Development Sessions. The topic was "copyright issues with regards to the educational use of Web publishing tools".

  • Location: 
    Réseau Koumbit inc. (Montreal)
    Beginning: 
    June 2007

    Lead member of the Communications and Advertising Committee in Koumbit, a Montreal-based nonprofit organization providing a wide array of Free and Open Source ITC services.

    I've been responsible of the writing, translation and proofreading, in English and French, of most of the organization's external documents (press releases, news articles, monthly newsletters, website portfolio items). I've also been responsible of the advertising campaigns and the budget elaboration and monitoring, in partnership with the Comité de travail (Steering Board).

    These tasks require fluency in communication tools and protocols such as wikis, IRC, Drupal, Request Tracker, etc.

  • Location: 
    Réseau Koumbit inc. (Montreal)
    Beginning: 
    March 2007

    This is an ongoing mandate as a Web designer for the Réseau Koumbit.

    Most frequent tasks include: 1) the installation and multilingual configuration of content management systems running under Drupal free software; 2) graphic adaptation (through php and css file editing), to suit the needs of the client.

  • Beginning: 
    May 2005
    End: 
    April 2006

    Research Assistant to Professors Bruce Broomhall and Bernard Duhaime at the Centre for the Study of International Law and Globalisation (CEDIM). This position involved: data collection and analysis; the setup and maintenance of an online database; the preliminary writing and final proofreading of the International Justice Needs Assessment report.

  • Beginning: 
    August 2004

    Installation and maintenance of the PatWhite.com cultural blog, powered by Drupal. This ongoing job involves the design of layout and navigation structure; the integration of syndicated advertisements (from two providers); content publishing, referencing and statistical analysis. (This website garnered 31,000 unique visitors in July 2008.)

  • Location: 
    Alternatives
    Beginning: 
    March 2002
    End: 
    September 2002

    International cooperation expert in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo). As a member of the Montreal-based NGO Alternatives, I developed a Web portal for the local civil society, set up a computer lab, trained the future administrators of the Portal and did promotional presentations.

  • Location: 
    CinéGroupe Education and CogniScience
    Beginning: 
    March 2002
    End: 
    January 2001

    This position involved the following duties: updating the contents of three educational websites on a monthly basis; creating promotional animated banners; testing, localizing and debugging interactive educational CD-roms; creating print material (retail packages, CD covers, display units); managing a 7,000-member mailing list and an online store; keeping up-to-date statistics; doing the general m

  • Location: 
    Office Québec-Amériques pour la jeunesse (Quebec City).
    Beginning: 
    July 2000
    End: 
    October 2000

    Creation and maintenance of the very first website of OQAJ, a Quebec Government agency specializing in youth foreign exchange programs. The graphic design was based upon a few basic elements (fonts, pictures and files) already used in the printed brochure.

  • Location: 
    Agence Rebelles.com (Montréal)
    Beginning: 
    April 2000
    End: 
    July 2000

    Website design and maintenance for the Rebelles.com advertising agency and its various digital marketing projects (such as Toile des Communicateurs, see link below).