About Me

Born in the UK, lived in France, worked around Europe...

Born in England, I moved to France when I was 12. Following schooling in France and obtaining a Baccalaureate, I studied International Business and majored in International Marketing at Aston Business School, Birmningham in the UK. After creating a company in France I moved to Paris and started working as a consultant and project manager in interactive Ad agencies, working in Paris, London and Hamburg. I love building high-end web sites, photography, designing and enjoy a good meal with a good bottle of red wine.
 
 

The things that make me tick...

Music : Songs (specific songs I like)

• Bliss "Kissing" & "Wish U Were There", Listen to the extracts on Amazon
• Pinback Fortress, Link to Video on YouTube
• Katie Melua Just like heaven, from the film's soundtrack, based on 'Just like a dream' (Cure)
• Natalie Walker, Waking Dream
• Bent, Always

Music : Albums (groups I like)

• Natalie Walker, No One Else
• Coldplay, Rush of blood to the head

Sports (that I practice)

•   Badminton
•   Handball
•   Rollerblading

TV Series (the ones I like most)

•   The Closer (US series)
•   ReGenesis (Canadian Series)
•   Spooks (UK Series)
•   CSI Las Vegas (US Series)

Trivia & trivial

• When I was 5, I left school (without the teacher knowing) and walked home, supposedly having decided that being at home was more fun.
• I created a newspaper at high school and a brochure for a careers day, both led to articles in the local press.
• I taught badminton to teenagers when I was seventeen (and the following year), at a local summer camp.
• I taught English to children and adults in France one summer; one adult insisted that I was too young to know English better than him (funnily he was the worst at English) !
• My photo was used on the back of a bus for a student pass advertising campaign.
• I started using the Internet in 1992 for email and Gopher in 1993 before the Web existed. I created my first web page in 1994.
• The first web site I created professionally was for TOIEC (France) in 1996. What was unusual was that I registered toeic.com for TOEIC France before TOEIC in the US even thought of it.
• The second website I created professionally was with a friend Paul while we were at Aston University end of 1996, the site was for the Aston University Careers Advisory Service as you can see here (awful & unbelievable but true, thanks to the web archive).
• The archive for UbiKann looks better, sorry, way better (the page needs some time to load).