Cedric de La Beaujardière

3153 Stelling Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94303; www.pitot.org/cedric cedric[at]pitot.org; (650) 494-3747

 

EMPLOYMENT OBJECTIVE:

Seeking employment in the fields of Green Building Development, Architecture, or Construction, furthering a career change from software development towards applying professional practice to ecological values.

 

KNOWLEDGE OF:                 Green Building principles and materials; Passive Solar design; New Urbanism; Zoning; Transportation modes and needs; Roof Gardens; Waste Water Treatment; Sustainability

DESIGN SKILLS:                   Drafting, Drawing, Sketching; CAD; Creativity; Detail Oriented

DESIGN TOOLS:                    Internet Space Builder; learning AutoCAD 2006, TurboCAD, Chief Architect

SOFTWARE SKILLS:           Perl, C, UNIX shell programming, HTML, LISP

SOFTWARE TOOLS:           Microsoft’s Developer Studio, Visual SourceSafe, Project, Word, Excel; GPS; ArcView

COMMUNICATION:              Fluent in English and French; Community Advocacy; Listening

 

EDUCATION:

Architectural courses at San Mateo County Community Colleges – January 2006 to Present

               Basic Architectural Drawing – how to draft a blue print including construction, electrical, plumbing

               Survey of Contemporary Architecture

 

BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science – 1996

University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering

 

EXPERIENCE: (see also community activities resume, at www.pitot.org/cedric/resume/comm_res.html)

Vice Chair of the City of Palo Alto’s Bicycle Advisory Committee – January 2006 to Present

               Committee member of PABAC since 1998

 

Staff Research Associate II – May 2004 to November 2005

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

               Developed and Maintained software to import, QC, and archive continuous and campaign GPS data for the Northern California Earthquake Data Center (NCEDC).

               Developed a C program to convert seismic data formats of the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth.

Volunteer – October 2003 to January 2004

Malagasy Encyclopedia, Madagascar, and Palo Alto, CA

               Located digital photos taken in Madagascar, using a Garmin eTrex Vista GPS unit connected to a PDA, as part of a data collection effort for a web based encyclopedia of the Malagasy language.

               Created an ArcView 8.3 map of GPS points in Madagascar linked to websites of photos taken there.

Volunteer 2002 and 2003

Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, Cupertino, CA

               Located non-native invasive plants in San Francisquito Creek using Trimble GPS units.

               Analyzed this and other plant data covering four creeks using the ArcView 3.x GIS software.

Software Development Engineer – 1996 to 2003

Harris Corporation, Network Management, Microwave Communications Division, Redwood Shores, CA

               Developed software controlling digital microwave radios which transmit signals of T1 or T3 lines.

               Created system specifications and designed modules.

               Designed and implemented applications for a real time embedded platform.

               Developed user interfaces, database services and objects, card configuration, and CAN module.

               Managed project: determined, prioritized, and assigned tasks, tracked progress.

               Interfaced with customers, senior management, engineers, system testers, and manufacturers.

               Saved millions of dollars by creating a software solution which avoided tech field visits.

               Maintained version control environment, regularly made builds and verified or sent them to systems testers.

Supervised Independent Study – Summer 1995

RISC Robotics Group, Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Student Associate – Summer 1993                Information and Telecommunications Sciences Center

               Coded in Lisp & an object oriented language to extend an applied artificial intelligence planner’s capabilities.

Student Assistant – Summer 1992                Molecular Physics Laboratory

Student Assistant – 1990 to 1991                  Materials Research Laboratory