Communications - May 2008

– Since July 2006 ACM secretary/ treasurer

– Since July 2005 ACM SIGGRAPH past president

– 2005 - 2006 SIG representative to Council

– 2002-2005 ACM SIGGRAPH president

– 2002-2004 SGB past chair

– 2000-2002 SGB chair

– 2001-SIGGRAPH Conference International Resources Chair

– 1999-2000-SIG Governing Board (SGB) Vice Chair for Operations

– 1999-ACM EC Nominating Committee

– 1998-ACM Executive Search Committee

– 1998-SIGGRAPH Nominating Committee

– 1997-SIGGRAPH Conference International Chair

– 1995-1999-ACM SIGGRAPH Vice Chair

– 1993-1995-Member at Large ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters Committee

– 1993-1995-ACM Director of Professional Chapters

– 1993-1995 - ACM Local Activities Board/SIG Board Liaison

– 1992-Organized the local groups’ booth for the SIGGRAPH 92

conference

– 1991-1995-Chair of the Paris SIGGRAPH chapter

– 1993-1996-Rendering Manager, Wavefront Technologies

– 1992-1993-CG Consultant

– 1987-1992-CTO, Studio Base 2
– 1983-1987-Research Scientist,
Centre Mondial Informatique

– 1982-1985-Research Assistant, CNRS

Education

– 1981-lÉcole Normale Supèrieure de l´Enseignement Technique

– 1980-Diplome d´Etudes
Approfondies, Université de Paris XI
– 1979-Maîtrise Structure Mathéma-
tique de l´Informatique, Université de
Paris VII

– 1979-Maîtrise de Mathématiques, Université de Paris VII

Awards/Achievements

– Articles in various journals and conferences

– Systéme particulier selected for film show SIGGRAPH 87.

– Opening Sequence selected for film show SIGGRAPH 91.

– Participant in the SIGGRAPH Future Search conference in Snowbird, 1994.

– Participant in the SIGGRAPH strategy meetings in 2000, 2001, 2005 and 2006.

Professional Experience

– Since June 2007 CTO at SceneCaster.com

– July 2005-May 2007 Vice President Product Development at Tucows Inc

– March 2004-July 2005 Director of Engineering at ATI

– May 2000-November 2003 Vice President, Engineering at TrueSpectra

– 1996-2000-Director of Engineering, Alias|Wavefront

STATEMENT

■ I was first introduced to ACM through ber of our organization. I believe that I the annual SIGGRAPH conference over 20 can use that experience to help ACM truly years ago. I immediately joined the local become the international organization SIGGRAPH chapter in Paris, France and it should be. I also believe that we need started volunteering for various activities. to do much more in terms of expanding I haven’t stopped since. Throughout my our online presence to better cater to the volunteer career I have focused on many needs of younger researchers and practi-aspects of ACM activities, ranging from tioners. Recently at SIGRRAPH, I created a chapters, to SIGs, to Council. I have Facebook group for SIGGRAPH members also been a very active volunteer in SIG- to be able to exchange ideas and com-GRAPH, our largest SIG. With over 20 municate with each other using the social years of management experience in the networking opportunities that Facebook software industry, I feel well equipped to provides. I believe that there is much more tackle the issues that the vice president that we can do along these lines to further of this organization is expected to man- raise the level of awareness of ACM and age. In my role as SIG Governing Board significantly grow our membership by chair, I led the task force that proposed becoming more relevant to the needs of and implemented a new allocation model students as well as young researchers and for the SIGs, anticipating the technology practitioners. downturn that was to come when the bubble burst and the impact we expected it to have on ACM finances. That model was adopted by the SIGs and helped the organization weather the storm despite multi-million dollar losses engendered by our largest SIG. I then focused my efforts on ACM SIGGRAPH, after being elected president, and took the SIG’s finances from a 2 ½ million dollar loss when I came in, to generating a modest surplus in my last year.

Today, ACM is a healthy organization that has weathered the tech downturn and currently sees membership rising. The key challenge that I see for ACM in upcoming years have to do with our becoming a truly international organization and attracting younger members into the organization.