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David Rollert
David Rollert
has nearly 30 years of experience with interactive design and UX, beginning in 1981 as a designer and editor at Time Inc in New York where he contributed to an ambitious teletext information system. He was vice president of software development at Lexica Corporation (1984-85), creating PC and videotex applications. Starting in 1985, he was VP and humanware director at Citibank’s development division, where he founded and led Citibank’s central user interface design group. In 1991, he joined Ziff-Davis, where he was design director for a pioneering graphical online service that influenced much early web design. From 1997-2002, he established the worldwide UX practice at the agency Digitas in Boston. From 2002 to 2006, he was VP and design director at Fidelity Investments in Boston, leading major web and financial advice tools design teams. He founded his independent design firm, designtangible, in 2006. Working primarily in Montreal since 2008, he joined Phéromone in November 2009, where he leads the design team.
The team
The team
Pheromone is a multicultural team of 50 people in over 15 fields of expertise, working together in synergy and in close collaboration with customers.
Xavier Vincent
Xavier Vincent, web developer and integrator
With a master’s degree in computer science from the Université d’Aix-Marseille I (2000), Xavier Vincent started his career as a developer analyst with Forum Trafic (Marseilles-Paris logistics chain tracking). From 2006 to 2007, he was a consultant for a Parisian computer services company, Datavance. He then returned to work as a developer analyst at AT Internet (a Bordeaux publisher of audience measurement on XiTi Internet). In April 2008, Xavier became a developer and team manager in Montreal for AT Internet. In July 2009, he joined the Pheromone team. Xavier has mastered many web and programming languages (ASP, ASP.NET, Ajax, C, C# 2, Caml, CSS, JavaScript, JSF 1.1, HTML, PHP, XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, XPath and XSLT) as well as the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 and Oracle 10g databases.
Martin Vallière
Martin Vallière, senior web developer
A computer graduate from the Collège Ahuntsic (1996), Martin Vallière has been part of VDL2’s interface development team since 1998. An HTML user from the way back and confirmed multimedia designer, Martin has developed many prototypes of interactive applications. He has also spent a number of years researching the combination of programming languages PHP and AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a free solution for developing web applications). Key skills include HTML interfaces, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, MySQL, portability and referencing.
Olivier Théreaux
Olivier Théreaux, web architect
With an engineering degree from the École Centrale Paris, Olivier Théreaux started his career in computer security with MasterSecurity (France, 1998-2000). In 2000, he joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Japan, where he created web applications, before turning to improving web standards. Beginning in 2004, Olivier was in charge of free software at W3C, in particular validation services. The same year, he founded the international network Art Beat in Japan, the multilingual websites of which are one of the main sources of information on the arts and design scene from Tokyo to New York. Olivier joined Pheromone in April 2009.
Céline Semaan
Céline Semaan, interactions designer
Céline Semaan has a bachelor’s degree in multimedia communication from UQAM and a minor in intermedia and cyber arts from Concordia University (2005). Her artistic and professional career has gravitated around culture, human experience and interesting and intuitive usability. She has designed a variety of interfaces, both for portable media and on the web. Her portfolio includes interfaces for Openskies.com, iVillage.com, Annarbor.com and Startcooking.com. Céline worked with the Vidéographe team at the beginning of her career, and she taught Linux interfaces in digital imaging at Studio XX. Her Teevx.com project won first prize for a co-production at the Banff New Media Institute in 2006, was selected for MIPTV in Cannes and was chosen as a finalist in the category New IPTV concepts for the BBC. She has also worked with the team of interaction designers for Brooklyn’s HUGEinc. Céline joined Pheromone in the summer of 2009.
Julien Seguin
Julien Seguin, vice president of operations
A student in computer engineering, Julien Seguin has a number of strings to his bow: a master’s degree in computer engineering, research on neural networks, and management training at the Linköping University in Sweden. Julien arrived in Quebec in 2001 and developed one of the first broadcast system cartography applications for Miranda, which won an award from the magazine Broadcast Engineering at the NAB 2002 expo. As a manager, he took part in the implementation of the systems integration group at Miranda. This group deployed Verizon’s and Radio-Canada’s television distribution network supervision system. Julien joined Pheromone as a director of production in 2007 and then became vice president of operations, managing the company’s operations.
Mathieu Savage
Mathieu Savage, integrator
Mathieu Savage started his career in 2007 as an intern with Studio Blak Kat. He then became a functional tester for Bug Tracker and a multimedia integrator at e-Med Hosting and Tribal Nova. He joined Pheromone in February 2009. Mathieu has mastered CSS, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL PHP and XHTML programming languages and databases. He is also a 3D artist, working with software such as Autodesk Maya 2009, Motion Builder, Mudbox and others.
Louis Tremblay
Louis Tremblay, Web analytics specialist
Louis Tremblay holds a college diploma in management computing with a specialization in information systems development (2003). His range of skills caught the attention of Québec’s Ministère des Ressources Naturelles in 2003, where he was working as a webmaster and web statistician optimizing analysis structures and automating their processes. Louis joined the ranks of Pheromone in 2006 with the mandate of developing a web analytics department on a solid foundation. He reinforced and standardized the measurement environment for the agency (which has one of the largest facilities of this type in Quebec), while developing collection methods suited to web 2.0 technologies.
Stéphanie Simard
Stéphanie Simard, director of consulting
With a master’s degree in information sciences, Stéphanie Simard was responsible for the development and management of the La Toile du Québec directory websites, operated by Netgraphe beginning in 1996. She recruited, trained and oversaw a team of over 30 people that managed the directory and related sites. In 2001, Stéphanie co-founded AgentSolo.com, a transactional website for exchanging professional services; she was the vice president of operations for the company that operated the site, Netsym communication. From 2006 to 2007, she was web sector head for Radio-Canada’s Zone Jeunesse (sites for youth shows, online games and contests), managing its complete redesign. Stéphanie joined Pheromone in September 2008.
