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Contact : Christopher Torrent
Work Experience

Recent Positions

July 2001 ~ Today
Morningstar France

Morningstar is a leading provider of investment information worldwide

As part of a European network, Morningstar launched its services in France with www.morningstar.fr on September 26, 2001

Chief Technical Officer

Provided fund vendors such as Meeschaert with web hosted fund selectors and HTML + PDF fund fact sheets

Designed and developed an XML driven fund report publishing infrastructure

Customized a full-fledged clone of the Morningstar France web site for Investir’s fund analysis section with the help of my good friend Fabio Carrère - Project Manager

Modularized and improved an existing ASP (Active Server Pages w/VBScript) presentation layer to accomodate interchangeable CSS styling rules, thus expanding dramatically the system’s customizable options

Provided MSN Money and Amadeis with live news feeds

Built a multi-schema XML news formatter using XSLT

September 2000 ~ June 2001
LVMH / D·i group / D2i

LVMH: World Leading Luxury Products Group · D·i group: Press, Publishing, Web Publishing, Online Services

D2i: Web Project Development

Upholding D·i group’s continuing effort to increase its internet presence, D2i is currently preparing its first financial news web site with streaming media.

Webmaster · Web Developer

The webmaster’s task is to design, build, maintain and upgrade comprehensive web-publishing information systems.

Designed and developed a fully functional test site

Implemented a three-tier architecture with .NET framework

Built presentation tier templates

Wrote XSLT style sheets to produce HTML + client-side JavaScript

Integrated workflow into business components

Developed an Application Programming Interface (API) supporting XML serialization using the C# language

Organized the data tier and its connection to workflow components

Developed data-access components in order to update the SQL Server database with changes from the business components

February 1999 ~ September 2000
Roche Pharmaceuticals

Leading research-based healthcare group developing, producing and marketing drugs

Information Systems Department

In order to boost its position in the pharmaceutical industry, Roche provides its employees with intensive training and with up-to-date information systems.

Technical Instructor

The Technical Instructor is dedicated to improving staff productivity by the means of computer training, software deployment and case-based technical assistance.

Increased end-user computer literacy

Designed and hosted training courses on MS Office applications

Increased individual user productivity on key processes

Provided case-based assistance and custom training targeted at user’s custom needs

Extended help desk’s field of action

Trained help desk technicians to MS Office advanced features

Provided new tools to further extend software functionalities

Developed VBA enhanced Office Templates and various utilities such as an Outlook-based Siebel CRM Client and local web forms

January 1997 ~ July 1997
Reader’s Digest

Global leader in publishing and direct marketing

Marketing Department, Condensed Book Series (CB Series) and Illustrated Series product lines

To acheive and maintain its position as a global direct marketing leader, Reader’s Digest improves its unique marketing tools by integrating new technology.

VBA Developer

The Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) developer builds product line management tools over Excel spreadsheets.

Built marketing models for the CB Series and Illustrated Series product lines

Provided custom functions, procedures and interfaces

Increased Marketing Model Reliability

Identified and removed errors from previous models

Extended the Illustrated Series Model from two to six years

Replicated relational database behaviors with Excel Workbooks

Additional Information on Work Experience :

Morningstar France
Meeschaert : Mutual Funds (this section is delivered by Morningstar)
MSN Money France : displays Morningstar News Feeds
Amadeis : displays Morningstar news headlines on its home page
Investir : Fund Analysis (this section is delivered by Morningstar)
D·i group
Roche
Reader’s Digest