Francis
Brassard

FR/EN
McGill University student in Computer Science and
Integrator,
Developer and
Webmaster
83 Boutin St., Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada, J2Y 1K3

Education

  • CEGEP Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

    2006 to 2008
    DEC in Pure Sciences
  • McGill University

    2008 to present
    BA (Hons) in Computer Science
    Minor in Management

Computer Skills

  • Softwares

    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Adobe Illustrator
    • Adobe Dreamweaver
    • Zend Development Environment
  • Languages

    • Object-oriented PHP programming
    • ASP
    • mySQL databases
    • CSS/XHTML 1.0 Strict, cross-broswers compatibility and respect of accessibility standards
    • Javascript

Interests

Skiing, biking, web development, cooking and listening to any kind of music!

Employement

  • Canada Border Services Agency

    • 2008 to present
      Webmaster and integrator for their Intranet website. Tasks include small designing projects and mostly integrating new content to the website while validating Strict XHTML 1.0, and respecting accessibility standards, for Internet Explorer 6.0.
    • Summer of 2008
      Administrative clerk for the Montérégie District. Tasks included ensuring the Agency's bills for the region were paid on time and verifing and processing the agents' travel expenses claims.
  • Prysmian Canada

    • Summer of 2007
      Coiling machine operator at their cable factory in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Tasks included ensuring the 600 to 1000 volts cable-coiling machine was working properly and also ensuring the cables' quality was higher than the industry's standards.
  • Freelance Work

    • 2005 to present
      Freelancer developer and integrator for various companies. Tasks include integrating designs to different content management systems, developing various tools in PHP and fixing websites so that they validate using the Strict XHTML 4.0 standards, met accessibility requirements and are cross-broswers compatible . I also own several websites which arevisited by more than 2 million visitors monthly.