Cedric de La Beaujardiθre

3153 Stelling Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94303; cedric.jobs@pitot.org; (650) 494-3747

 

OBJECTIVE:

To work towards ecological, economic, and equitable sustainability, including ecological building, smart growth, improved public, bike and pedestrian transportation, environmental restoration, and information sharing.

 

SPOKEN LANGUAGES:       Fluent in English and French

NATIONALITY:                      US Citizen

 

EDUCATION:

1992, September – 1996, May

        University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering

        •       BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

2001, September – 2002, June

        Leadership Midpeninsula, Palo Alto, California

Leadership Midpeninsula works to build collaborative leadership in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and surrounding communities by developing effective local leaders.

        •       Organized "Lead Toward Sustainability," the first public forum of a Leadership Midpeninsula class, which focused on what our local communities are doing to move towards sustainability, and what more we could do to further this necessary goal.

2004, January – March

Santa Clara County Community College District, Foothill College

        •       Perl for Programmers

2005, January – May

University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design

        •       Building Science Course, “The Secret Life of Buildings” – Post Occupancy Surveys, Measurements

2006, January – May

        San Mateo County Community College District

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

        •       Survey of Contemporary Architecture

        •       AutoCAD

 

EMPLOYMENT:

1990 – 1993

SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

1995, Summer

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

1996 – 2002

Harris Corporation, Microwave Communications Division, Redwood Shores, CA

Harris MCD engineers high-capacity radios for internet backbone, phone, and emergency response networks.

        •       Software Project Manager: determined, prioritized, and assigned tasks, tracked progress.

        •       Specified, designed, and developed software controlling real-time embedded distributed radio hardware

        •       Developed user interfaces, database services and objects, hardware configuration and control.

        •       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, made builds and verified or sent them to testers.

2004 – 2005

University of California, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

The BSL operates the Northern California Earthquake Data Center, a regional database of seismic and GPS data.

Primary responsibility: maintaining integrity of GPS data archive.

        •       Solaris UNIX network programming in Perl, C, C-shell, ftp, teqc

        •       Developed software for large real-time streaming GPS data sets

        •       Import, quality control, trouble shoot, archive, and process data for the NCEDC

        •       Developed processing programs for San Andreas Fault Observation at Depth seismic data

 

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT HISTORY:

1998, March - Present

        Palo Alto Bicycle Advisory Committee

        Reporting to the city's Chief Transportation Official, PABAC’s reviews all issues related to bicycling in the areas of traffic engineering, enforcement, education and encouragement

        •       In June 2002, I was elected by PABAC to be Palo Alto's representative to Santa Clara County's Valley Transit Authority's (VTA) Bicycle Advisory Committee.

        •       In 2006, I was elected Vice-Chair of PABAC

1999, July - Present

        Santa Clara Valley Resource Team on Air Quality/Palo Alto’s Try Transit Committee

        •       I recently initiated an effort to encourage VTA, SamTrans, and CalTrain to post schedules and maps at all their stops, thus facilitating transit use and transfers.  We provided seed money to publish a map on taking transit to trails.  We are now preparing to conduct high school focus groups to understand teenagers' views on riding transit.  We will document our methods to enable other communities to do the same, and we plan to publish a report on our findings.

1999, July - Present

        Acterra (formerly Bay Area Action)

        Stanford Open Space Alliance

        The Committee for Green Foothills

        •       I have participated in a variety of campaigns over the years to discourage sprawl, to preserve open space and native habitats, to plant Oak trees at the Arastradero Preserve, to pass bonds for clean air and clean water, and to encourage the city of Palo Alto to adopt a sustainability policy.

1999, October - Present

        Ecocity Builders

        •       I have learned about such city planning tools as Transfers of Development Rights, and their use to preserve or re-create open space and concentrate development in a pedestrian-friendly center, and I have learned about such well planned cities as Curitiba, Brazil.  My involvement with Ecocity Builders, attendance of their talks and seminars, and reading books by their founder, Richard Register, has, I believe, shaped my ideas and understanding of how increased densities can be achieved in my community while retaining and even promoting a pleasant, nature-filled environment.

1999, November - Present

        Canopy, Trees for Palo Alto

        •       I have led and participated in numerous tree plantings.

        •       I have participated in yearly city-wide surveys of the health and needs of young street trees.

1999, November - 2001, June

        Eco-Tech project team

        •       A part of Stanford University's Persuasive Technology Lab, we were designing a software product to asses a person's energy use, convey the environmental, social, personal, and economic impacts of that energy use, and suggest ways to reduce it.  It is possible that we will resume this project in a few months.

2000, January - 2003

        Sustainable San Mateo County – Business Task Force

        •       We promote sustainability among San Mateo County Businesses.  Recently we organized a Green Building forum that showed developers, builders, and civic planners the economic benefits of including ecological design features in buildings.

2000, January - Present

        Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition

        •       We promote smart growth, affordable housing, a better regional transportation plan, transportation justice, and bicycle and pedestrian access.  This is done through a broad range of activities, including, policy analysis and recommendations, public education, research, grassroots action, and more.

2001, January

        •       I applied to fill Liz Kniss' empty seat on the Palo Alto City Council.  Though I was not appointed (a former Council Woman was), several Council Members encouraged me to apply to one of the city's Boards and Commissions.

2001, June

        •       I applied to the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission.

2001, October

        Association of Bay Area Governments

        •       Participated in the Smart Growth planning workshop, Round 1, for Contra Costa County, where I sought to balance jobs and housing, and to concentrate new development around transit centers.

2002, May

        Association of Bay Area Governments

        •       Participated in the Smart Growth planning workshop, Round 2, for Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Alameda Counties, where, as in Round 1, I sought to balance jobs and housing, to concentrate new development around transit centers, and to prevent development in agricultural and open spaces.

2002, June – 2003, May

        Santa Clara County and Valley Transportation Authority Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee

        •       Representing Palo Alto in the VTA and County BPAC, I strive to improve conditions for bicyclists, pedestrians, transit riders, and the community as a whole.

2002, June - 2003

        Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society

        San Francisquito Watershed Council

        Acterra (formerly Bay Area Action)

        •       Monitoring Matadero Creek from the Bay Lands to Middlefield road, recording the locations of native and invasive non-native plants and animals, and reporting any problems such as pollution, excessive trash, or fish kills.

2002, August - September

        Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society

        •       Used GPS units to map the locations of Non-Native Invasive Plants in San Francisquito Creek.  

2003, March - September

        Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society

        •       Used ArcView to analyze, merge, split themes, and correct data layers of Non-Native Invasive Plants in four local creeks.  Plant data layers are overlaid onto aerial photograph TIFF images of the creeks.

        •       Recognized as 2003 Volunteer of the Year for mapping contributions

2003, October – 2004, January

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 Digital Elevation Map of Madagascar overlaid with GPS points color coded by date and linked to websites of photos taken there.

        •       Developed a Perl program to analyze two files containing GPS and photo information, and automatically generate an ArcView import file and web pages for the GPS points and photos.