Philippe Boudreau
Founding Partner
Since the availability of Apple’s iOS platforms in 2008, Philippe has shifted the focus of his 16year career towards mobile development and has been the technical lead and a key developer
of Fasterre’s three published App Store apps.
Terrapad, was the first mobile GIS to be released on iOS in 2009. Woodcraft was released in
2011 and has been acclaimed by professional and occasional woodworkers alike as a revolution
in CAD on touch devices. Vest, released in 2016, is a stock investment companion that is
actually enjoyable to use, while being powerful enough for advanced investors.
His disciplined approach, enjoyment of a challenge, dedication to his clients, and high levels of
productivity contribute to make Philippe an outstanding software engineer. Throughout his work
experience, Philippe has shown a remarkable talent for analyzing and solving complex
problems with solutions meeting the requirements of his clients.
iOS and other relevant experience
Objective-C
8 years
Swift
1.5 years
Mobile Application Architecture, Apple
Frameworks
8 years
Oracle and Relational DBMS Experience
16 years
Object Oriented Programming Experience
16 years
RESTful APIs and Cloud development
6 years
Work Experience
2016-
Fasterre
Senior iOS Developer
Architected and developed Vest, a stock
investment companion that is enjoyable
to use while being powerful enough for
serious investors.
2015-
Tink (Fasterre)
Senior iOS Developer
As lead iOS developer, helped Tink
future proof, develop and enhance
multiple applications for their clients.
- Tröv (Fasterre)
Senior iOS Developer
Architected and developed an iOS app
for Trov’s “cloud for your things”.
Architected and realized a
synchronization engine enabling offline
usage.
2012
General Electric (Fasterre)
Senior Smallworld Consultant
Designed and developed a product for
Smallworld users to analyse and
optimize their electrical networks.
- Fasterre
iOS Designer and Developer
Designed and implemented Woodcraft,
a CAD application for woodworkers.
This project makes extensive use of
OpenGL, UIKit and Core Data
technologies.
2011
BC Hydro (Fasterre)
Project and Technical Lead
Managed and implemented an interface
between PowerOn and a new DMS
system.
- BC Hydro (Fasterre)
Technical Lead
Provided technical organization and
coding for a large-scale CIM interface
between BC Hydro’s existing GIS system
and a new DMS system, completely
implemented by Fasterre.
2010
General Electric/Florida Power and
Light (Fasterre)
Senior Smallworld Consultant
Participated in Florida Power and Light’s
upgrade of their electric transmission
and distribution Smallworld GIS to
Smallworld 4.1. Migrated various
network integrity tools as well as data
cleanup modules.
- Fasterre
iOS Designer and Developer
Implemented Terrapad, a Geographic
Information System for Apple’s iPhone
and iPad. Major design tasks included
creating a powerful GIS engine, multiuser data model support, multi-user data
syncing, and data import/export to
various geospatial formats.
2010
Accenture Business Services for
Utilities (Fasterre)
- Hydro-Quebec (Fasterre)
Senior Smallworld Consultant
Joined the PowerOn maintenance team
and developed multiple bug fixes for their
web and mobile interfaces, network
build, Control Window, Call Processor, …
Senior Smallworld Consultant
Performed evaluation, analysis,
prototyping and coding of bug fixes and
enhancements to Hydro-Quebec’s
Design Manager implementation. Also
contributed as a code reviewer.
Developed an extensive set of
automated tests for Smallworld
environment comparison.
- Accenture Business Services for
Utilities (Fasterre)
Senior Smallworld Consultant
- Hydro-Quebec
Senior Smallworld Application Developer
Performed the upgrade of BC Hydro’s
PowerOn implementation from version
3.1 to version 4.0.
In addition to the tasks listed in the
previous GIS product experience,
implemented an interface between
Design Manager and Hydro-Quebec’s
outage management system, carried out
various proof-of-concept projects,
implemented automated testing of core
application components with Munit,
mentored junior developers, and
performed regular code reviews for his
department.
- Hydro-Quebec (Accenture)
Smallworld Magik Programmer
Maintained and enhanced HydroQuebec’s Design Manager
implementation by customizing various
components including Design Layout
Tools, the Job Server, VTK, PNI, and the
Cornerstone data model.
- IBM Canada –Bromont Plant
Lotus Notes Application Developer
Provided development and support
services for 40 Lotus Notes applications
used by the Information Technology and
Quality groups. Performed all software
development tasks, from analysis to
production delivery.
- Accenture Business Services for
Utilities (formerly Westech Information
Systems)
Geospatial Information Systems
Consultant
Maintained and enhanced the BC Hydro
PowerOn implementation, using various
programming languages including
Smallworld Magik, Visual Basic, and PL/
SQL. Acted as team leader
replacement. Co-authored and
presented a technical paper on how to
optimize PowerOn at the “2002 GE
Network Solutions Americas User
Conference & Exhibition”.