DAVID CLEMENCEAU
DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT
OF MULTIMEDIA SERVICES 		 


Age: 41
(born 02/08/65)
Nationality: French
Married, three children


146, rue du Chemin Vert
75011 Paris, France
e-mail: david.clemenceau@opsomai.com



Opsomai: Founder-Manager
Since January 2001
Consultancy for Internet operators, regional authorities and television stations, in the fields of management and distribution of audio/video and multimedia content.
 
 Designing audio/video and multimedia services suited to broadband Internet access providers (xDSL, cable, urban networks, etc.), as well as the technical platforms required to implement these services
 
 Optimising Internet access networks for distribution of audio/video content
 
 Designing automated control rooms for television networks (digitising, archiving, post-production and transmission)
 
 Assistance with drawing up invitations to tender and tender submissions
 
 Assistance with project initiation and management
 
 Operations in France and abroad (including UK and New Caledonia)
 
e-vod: Managing Director and co-founder
2000
Setting up and marketing the first French electronic distribution platform, aimed at television and film catalogue owners’ requirements.
 
 Managing a company of 13
 
 Designing and marketing fully-automated, multi-format video digitising services
 
 Designing and marketing secure, multi-channel video distribution services (satellite, Internet and on-demand media)
 
 Designing and marketing an information system to exploit television catalogues (web-based), and for management of rights and clients (intranet)
 
 Putting several catalogue-owners’ programmes on-line
 
 Technical management of the French La Cinquième channel’s "Bank of Programmes and Services" (BPS)
 
La Cinquième: Technical Director of BPS
(Banque of Programmes and Services)
1998 - 1999
Setting up and deploying the first French VOD (video-on-demand) service, accessible via the Internet, aimed at schools and social centres.
 
 Setting up and training a team of 12
 
 Designing and implementing a fully-automated, multi-format video digitising platform
 
 Creating an on-line catalogue of 5,000 TV programmes
 
 Transmitting 24 hours of programmes a night by satellite, from a DVB server
 
 Designing and deploying satellite reception PC workstations for 400 establishments
 
 Transmitting programmes on-demand via the Internet (streaming)
 
 Implementing an on-line system for customer billing and television rights management
 
INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel):
Multimedia Manager for the Inathèque de France
(Radio & Television Copyright Library)
 1993 - 1997
Setting up the largest French library of television and radio programmes, with search facilities.
 
 Refining methods for archiving and indexing the 70,000 hours of programmes collected each year
 
 Designing the multimedia workstation for browsing and analysing programs (SLAV)
 
 Creating the Inathèque reference centre
 
 Putting the programme library on-line
 
 Organising more than 200 publicity events (demonstrations, press conferences, seminars, etc.)
 

Doctorate in Computer Linguistics
1990 - 1993
LADL (Laboratoire d’Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique - Documentary and Linguistic Automation Laboratory, Paris 7)
Supervised by Maurice Gross
Subject: Lexicon structuring and recognition of derived words
Thesis presented 7/4/93 "with distinction and commendation"

TELECOM PARIS (ENST)
1986 - 1989
User Interface Option
Final project : Creation of a morphological analyser running under Unix, and its application to Internet news

Preparatory scientific studies at Louis le Grand School, Paris
1983 - 1986

Running numerous professional training courses
Subjects: Unix, OS/2, C., Pascal, LAN administration, networks and multimedia, digital television, etc.
Companies including Canal+, Bull, CEDFI, 3IS and INA.

AAVS (Advanced Audio Video Systems):
Sales engineer, automation systems
September 1997 - February 1998
Responding to invitations to tender for television and radio automation systems, costing between F4,000,000 and F25,000,000.

University of Marne la Vallée:
Lecturing in computer studies in the science faculty (SSM)
1990 - 1993

NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone):
End of studies work placement at ENST
August 1988 - January 1989, Yokosuka (Japan)
Creation of document search software for the Internet, running under Unix.
Working language: Japanese
 

Computers
Systems: DOS, Windows, OS/2, MacOS and Unix
Languages: C., C++, Pascal and Ada

Databases
Oracle, Informix, Verity, 4D and BASISplus
Oracle Trophy 1998

Networks
Heterogeneous local networks (NT, Novell and AppleShare)
Intranet, Internet, interconnection and remote access

Internet
Static and dynamic sites (Oracle and ColdFusion)
E-commerce and video-on-demand (VOD) solutions

Multimedia
Video digitising, compression, archiving and streaming (MPEG, RealVideo, etc.)
Integration of multimedia content into Web sites, CDs and DVDs

Television
Presentation automation (acquisition, digitising, archiving and transmission)
DVB and IP/DVB broadcasting by satellite
 


BPS, une vidéothèque accessible sur le Web
(Accessing La Cinquième channel’s Programmes & Services Library via the Web)
Informatiques magazine, issue 64, 15 January 1999

A La Cinquième, la vidéo passe par Internet
(Internet video at La Cinquième channel)
Décision Micro & Réseaux, issue 367, 25 January 1999

La BPS de La Cinquième expérimente le watermarking vidéo
(La Cinquième channel’s Programmes & Services Library experiments with video watermarking)
Broadcast, 5 April 2000

e-vod gives lowdown on digital distribution
MIP-TV 2000 Daily News, n° 3, 12 April 2000

e-vod : la distribution à l’ère du numérique
(e-vod: distribution in the digital technology age)
Satellifax, 18 April 2000

La gestion en ligne des catalogues selon e-vod
(e-vod approach to on-line catalogue management)
Ecran total, issue 318, 19 April 2000

Digital archiving and electronic distribution of television programmes
(Archivage numérique et distribution électronique de catalogues audiovisuels)
Dossiers de l’audiovisuel, sept.-oct. 2000, n° 93: «Les archives télévisuelles à l’heure du numérique»

QuickTime opens up TV archives
MacAndCo, Mai 2004