Cherif - Architecte MPEG

Expériences
Rédacteur technico-fonctionnel, consultant indépendant
Janvier 2018 – aujourd’hui
Rédacteur technique et fonctionnel en freelance : montage de dossier CIR, JEI, CII et concours d’innovation
pour le compte de clients de type start’ups, TPE, PME et grandes entreprises avec activités R&D
Coordinateur du centre de service – validation portail STB, Davidson Consulting pour Bouygues Télécom
Août 2017 – aujourd’hui
▪ Coordination des activités de l’équipe validation de Davidson Consulting
▪ Concertation avec le management Bouygues Télécom management pour le reporting
▪ Identification et gestion des besoins du centre de service (installation, lignes DSL, hardware, équipements,
facturation)

STB UI quality validation consultant, Davidson Consulting for Bouygues Telecom
January 2016 - Current position
 Writing and deploying functional and technical tests for STB firmware validation (correctives, non-regressive features, new functionalities, new release notes)
 Anomaly analysis and investigation (products and IPTV/OTT service platforms)
 Setting up testing environments and specific tools with corresponding documentation
 Validation campaigns assessment through testing strategy enhancement and qualifying user experience.

Workspace services coordinator – STB UI validation, Davidson Consulting for Bouygues Telecom
August 2017 - Current position
 Coordinating Davidson Consulting validation team activities
 Liaising with Bouygues Telecom management for reporting purposes
 Identifying and managing workspace needs (installation, DSL lines, hardware, equipment, billing issues)
Technical environment:
o Products: Miami-class STB and upper products
o Services: Live, VOD, Replay, Android Apps, Rec
o Network and distribution: IPTV (ADSL and FTTH), DTT, OTT
o Monitoring: ACS, SmartVision
o Analysis and investigation: Wireshark, ADB
o Test management: HP Quality Center
o Google TV / Android TV


STB UI validation consultant, Davidson Consulting for Canal+
November 2015 - December 2015
 Validation of a lowcost DTT STB for francophonic African countries and G5-class satellite STB for New Caledonia:
o Updating test maps integrating new constraints from Canal Over Seas (COS) specifications
o Conducting these tests with bug escalation via Mantis
o Result validation with the rest of the team.

Media/IT business development consultant, Davidson Consulting
September 2015 - Current position
 Participating to the development of Media department at Davidson Consulting and elaborating Media offers
 Contributing to Media/IT RFP reply by providing technical and functional key answers
 Representing Davidson Consulting at international key events (IBC, SATIS Paris)
 Setting up partnerships and collaboration opportunities with Media market actors
 Liaising and identifying internal worksites (training sessions, workshops, technological watch, communication)

 
Media/IT system engineer, Mesclado
February 2013 - August 2015
 Setting up complete production, post-production, distribution and archiving video architectures, including:
o Studying entry level platforms
o Architecture for a sport WebTV production
 Project management of framework studies for the urbanization of workflows and architectures (Orange Cinema Series, Télébruxelles): animating workshops to define customer needs, analysis of the existing framework, elaborating target workflows and architectures, functional and technical spec redaction, RFP redaction, selecting best proposal, initiating solution deployment and integration
 Management of objective quality measurements of HD and 4K/UHD codecs (objective performance comparison between new video codecs)
 Delivering training sessions (a/v codecs and formats, IMF, HD and Beyond HD ecosystems)
 Editing promotion and training video contents using FCP and Adobe CC tools
 Contribution to standardization efforts:
o B2B file exchange format called Interoperable Master Format (IMF)
o Deploying IMF for Mikros Image France
o FIMS project (Framework for Interoperability Media Services) within AMWA/EBU workgroup for
o SOA-based architectures
 Technological watch activities for customers, resulting in technical framework studies and training sessions in the following topics:
o IP contribution systems
o 4K/UHD: Business reality or Technical speculations?
o Interoperable Master Format
o Media Asset Management systems


Participating Member, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE)
February 2013 - August 2015
Participating Member of the 35PM-50 workgroup on the standardization of the Interoperable Master Format
(IMF) – representing Mesclado


R&D Intern Engineer, Technicolor R&D France
March 2012 - August 2012
Final Year Project at the Security & Content Protection Labs, Technicolor R&D France in Rennes, Bretagne, "A Sneak Peek into the Camcorder Path": study and characterization of the capture path (display/camcorder), study of the luminance-related transformations that undergoes a pirated video, identification and isolation by an experimental protocol of 3 types of video content alterations (C/C++, Matlab, mplayer, ffmpeg, Linux), article publication during SPIE Conference on February 2013 in San Francisco.