Francois Ghoche - Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

J. François Ghoche www.fghoche.com
Consulting Expertise ATON consulting The European Xbase Institute MK Organisation Bibliothèque nationale de France L'Entreprise industrielle SETEN La lettre de Xbase La lettre de Windows Training and Education CEPIA GERA Operational management dBASE France LEVI Strauss & Co. Gardisette Author, writer and speaker Articles published Livres published Speaker Additional references on the Web
	Contact: 5 bis, rue de Bel Air 45700 Villemandeur France Phone: +33 (0)2 38 98 07 08 Fax: +33 (0)2 38 98 07 09 E-mail: fghoche @ fghoche.com Web:www.fghoche.com
	Born on 12 October 1947 at Meknes (Morocco) French and Egyptian citizen Married
	Languages spoken: Mastered: French, English, Arabic (litterary) Fair knowledge of Italian Some German

I - A consultant expertise

1984 - 2000: ATON - Guyancourt

Activity

Consulting, training, support, development, market research on information technology, management and business administration
Import and sales of Far East products

Function
Consultant, Managing Director

Experience and achievements

Founder and manager of an incorporated enterprise
Systems analysis and requirements analysis, application development, implementation, training and support
Team building and management (virtual corporation)
Authoring of books and articles, translation, conference presentations in French and English
Business projects and speaking engagements in Europe and US
Design and execution of an Internet World Wide Web site
Import, sales, advertising and marketing

Hardware and software
PCs all brands, PC/Macintosh networks, Windows environment (including 3.1, 95 and NT), Novell Netware, Multimedia, database, accounting, invoicing, electronic publishing and other desktop publishing applications, telecommunications, e-mail (workflow and workgroup), Internet (intranet and World Wide Web) ..

1992 - 1996: The European Xbase Institute (TEXI)

Activity
Users organisation for Xbase language professionnals

Function
President and founder
European representative to ANSI / X3J19 Xbase language standard committee
Member of the experts group, languages internationalisation (ISO / SC22 / WG20)
Member in the AFNOR / CN22 Languages and system environments standards committee

Experience and achievements

Coordination of professional users European wide
Active involvement in preparing an international standard
Maintained communications with members throughout Europe and correspondents worldwide
Presentation and conferences in several European countries and the US

Hardware and software
E-mail, network based team work on CompuServe and the Internet

1994 - 1995: MK Organisation - Paris

Activity
Consulting, training, development and services on database products

Function
Consultant

Experience and achievements

Creation of a new division focusing on Visual dBASE
Creation and audit of training courses for Borland France
Public presentation, seminars and conferences for Borland (French and English)
Consulting projects

Hardware and software
Object oriented design and programming tools, Client/server, relational databases, presentation software

1995: L'Entreprise Industrielle - Paris
1993: SETEN - Paris

Mission
Study for the definition of the management of the Audiovisual media department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Experience and achievements
Large bandwidth networks for data, sound, images and video - compression techniques and standards - multimedia

1991 - 1993: La lettre de Xbase - MEV/IDG
1991 - 1992: La lettre de Windows - MEV/IDG

Activity
Bimonthly technical newsletter

Function
1. Executive Editor
2. Associate executive editor

Experience and achievements

Writing, editing, desktop publishing, print production, mailing list management and distribution
Authors and vendors coordination and management

II - Training and Education

1979 - 1983: CEPIA - Versailles

Activity
Computer science and user skills training

Function
In charge of a curriculum development (computer science concepts as applied to business)

Experience and achievements

Introduction of PCs in active education
Organisation of international courses
Building courses on new technologies

Hardware and software
Multics, COBOL, Pascal, CP/M, multiple hardware platforms, MS-DOS, Basic, networks, state of the art business administration and desktop software

1978 - 1982: GERA - Paris

Activity
Training, development and support

Function
Consultant, trainer, developer and founder

Experience and achievements

First PC user group in France
First standalone and networked PCs in France
First training courses on the use of PCs and related software

Hardware and software
Intel 808x, Z80, NS-SC/MP, Apple II, IMSAI, TRS-80, Sanco 7x & 8x, etc., CP/M, Assembler, Basic, business applications

III - Operational management

2000-... dBASE France - Villemandeur

Activity:
software distribution and services

Function:
general manager & technical director

Experience and achievements

launch and setup of the company
coordination France / USA
distribution for France, Benelux, Switzerland and francophone Africa, Middle-East
web site and online e-Boutique
setup technical support, consulting services and training (French and English)

Hardware and software
PC et servers - networks and intranet - Internet and the Web - dB2K and dBL - businnes management software, Publishing, Office, etc. - webmaster

1977-1978: LEVI Strauss & Co - Palaiseau (+ San Francisco, additional locations)

Activity
Sportswear

Function
Data processing director, France

Experience and achievements

Creation of the EDP department in France
France /USA coordination and adaptation of US specifications to French environment

Hardware and software
IBM 3/12 and 3/15 minicomputers - RPG - COBOL

1970 - 1977: Gardisette - Rungis (+ Switzerland, Germany, etc.)

Activity
Curtains and house consumer textiles

Function
Chief accountant, and subsequently: administrative and financial manager, project leader, EDP manager

Experience and achievements

Reorganising the bookkeeping department
Computer science education (IBM, FIDES, MDS, etc.) in France, Switzerland and the UK
Managing and implementing EDP projects
First data communications projects connecting IBM 3 series minicomputers in Europe
Successful export mission to liquidate products in the Middle East

Hardware and software
IBM 6400, IBM 3/10, IBM 360, MDS 400, RPG & ASM, Asynchronous data communications