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Silvain Toromanoff, 32
Engineer wannabe designer. Passionate about innovation and new technologies.
Timeline
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Self-teaching guitar
• Regular autonomous practices since 2019
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Frihetsbröderna
• Adult all-male choir singing traditional finlandssvensk (Swedish-speaking Finnish) songs
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Sayduck
• Shaped the company's strategy, with a pivotal role in joining the Bublar Group family
• Managed the evolution of Sayduck's services: 3D & AR Platform, Dynamic 3D/AR Viewers, ...
• Led the Product Team and planned future product development
• Developed Sayduck's first responsive 3D Viewer and Product Configurator with Three.js
• Researched and developed cutting-edge implementations of web AR technologies
• Developed ARKit & ARCore apps using Swift & React NativeSkills: React Native, ARKit, Three.js, GraphQL, Swift
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Making energy consumption smarter
• Third place (out of fifteen) at a hackathon by Nokia and Fortum
• The brief was to find ways to make energy consumption more engaging and smarter
• Designed and implemented a vision to bring instant energy consciousness to people through a wearable deviceSkills: Arduino, Internet of Things
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Hacking the Smart Home
• Winner of a hackathon with Iittala over the course of a weekend
• The brief was to hack the smart home to bring people closer together using Iittala products and values
• Design and implementation of a smart vase prototype with Internet of Things technologiesSkills: Arduino, soldering, electronics
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Getting my heights on
• Biweekly bouldering indoors (6C level)
• Indoors climbing, top rope or lead climbing of routes up to 30 meters -
Design agency Agency Leroy
• Developed multiple responsive websites using current technologies and frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Craft CMS)
• Collaborated closely with designers regarding the user interface and user experience of the websites
• Took part in conception workshops for innovative projects for several customersSkills: SCSS (BEM), Foundation, Ruby on Rails, Craft CMS
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Founding Globshop, first step in entrepreneurship
• Designed and developed a collaborative platform for crowdsourced international deliveries
• Co-developed the concept and user experience of the service
• Implemented the frontend and backend of the beta version website using Django and Twitter BootstrapSkills: Django, Twitter bootstrap
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First Taste of Finnish culture
My first sauna ever, Finnish style - in one's birthday suit, 80°C+ and of course skinny dipping in the freezing sea!
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Studies at Aalto University
• International Design Business Management
• Coursework: One-year industry project in a multidisciplinary team. Business modelling, project management, product development, design thinking, user interface construction, wearable technologySkills: Design thinking, wearable technologies, machine learning
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Managing mobile app creation
• Supervised mobile applications development and client relationships in several projects
• Drafted and presented business proposals to prospects answering call for tenders for new mobile applicationsSkills: Project management, customer relationship
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Bringing new eyes to a startup
• Contest gathering volunteers to help startup facing challenges related to UX or UI
• Won the "Audience Prize" with a team heping the startup OleaPark
• Redesigned the UX and visual atmosphere of the mobile app -
Protoyping innovative interfaces
• Conceived prototypes of new designs for GPS on Smartphone
• Implemented the prototypes, using web technologies (HTML5/CSS3, jQuery, PhoneGap)Skills: HTML, jQuery, PhoneGap
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Learning drawing techniques
• Weekly drawing classes, using several tools and methods for art creation (pencil, watercolor, paint, charcoal...)
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Humanitarian mission with Gawad Kalinga
• Helped building houses in Philippine slums
• Coordinated the exchanges with the organization during the mission -
Télécom ParisTech, Engineering School in the French Grandes Ecoles system
• Coursework: software and hardware security, software programming, web technologies
Skills: C, Java, PHP, Python
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Specialization in mathematics and physics
• Post-secondary program leading up to competitive nationwide entrance examination to state-run engineering schools in the Grandes Ecoles system
• Course work: advanced mathematics and physics, algorithmic, French, English, philosophy -
First programming steps
• Design and programmation of games on my graphing calculator TI-83
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Highschool at Lycée Jean-Zay
• Coursework: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, English, history, philosophy, French, German
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Orléans Conservatory
• Ten years at Orléans Conservatory
• Weekly private lectures studying the classic methods (Méthode Arban...)
• Member of the Junior Brass Band and of a baroque trumpet ensemble
• Weekly music theory classes
• Various adult wind orchestras in France & Finland -
Moving
• My family moved to Orléans when I was 7
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Birth
• On the 7th of May, I was born in Rouen