Short bio
bmt was born in the night of Tuesday September 19th 1978, in Tours, France.
Due to his parent's work constraints, he soon moved to several places including Chateauroux, the tiny island of St-Pierre-et-Miquelon—twenty miles off the coast of Newfoundland—, Lyon and Nantes. These early travels gave him a pronounced taste for exploring the world and going to random places.
His centers of interest, besides traveling and immersing himself in other cultures include:
- LEGOs—of which there are four crates at his parent's home—thanks to which he discovered multiplication at age 5, finding out that on that particular brick with 3x2 plots there was a total of 6 plots. Mmmhhh...
- Comic books, on which he learned to understand funny jokes through pictures long before he learned how to read. Of course, he was blessedly raised in one of the temples of comics and graphic novels: french-speaking Europe.
- Computers, on which he had enjoyed programming, be it in BASIC, assembly or C since he first owned a Commodore 64 in the early '80s.
- Playing the piano, which he has done for more than 12 years, and he wishes he would keep doing...
- Motorcycling, which he has been enjoying on and off—off being while his license was suspended—since early 2001.
In 1998, he entered a telecommunication engineering school,
ENST de
Bretagne, where he managed to satisfy his traveling cravings.
After a year and a half of rainy Breton
weather, he finally left
for better skies, first moving to Madrid, Spain, where he stayed
and studied for six months, while on an exchange semester with
ETSIT de Madrid.
Following the madrilene journey, he had the opportunity to spend a full year in California while on an internship at a Silicon Valley based company. There, he also met love, for better or for worse. After a short interlude in the deserts of Central Morocco, he bounced to another exchange semester in the UK, at Aston University in Birmingham. Finally, he spent his master's project in Guadalajara, Mexico, thanks to an exchange programme sponsored by his french school.
He finally returned to California in 2002, following the love mentionned above. The particularly bad state of the economy, combined with his unattractive—at least as far as hiring companies are concerned—immigration status, let him looking for a job for roughly a year. In May 2003, he made the big step and married his love interest—which incidentally solved the latter job seeking issue.
In the summer of 2003, his networking efforts finally paid off, and he joined a budding startup, nexB. After five months however, he had managed to single handedly empty the company's cash reserves, and, having bills to pay and a wife to support, he moved on.
In 2004, he therefore joined Sigma Designs, a multimedia processor maker. There he first worked on supporting the toolchain for the company's hardware, then moved on to implement AACS, the Blu-Ray DVD copy protection system.
In the spring of 2007, getting itchy, he sought the opportunity to join Apple and develop FairPlay, the iTunes store proprietary DRM solution.
created: tue 2002-12-31
updated: fri 2009-02-05
bmt online is moving
As sad as it might be, bmt has finally come of age. He is now a fully graduated telecom engineer. As a consequence, bmt online will not be hosted by ENST de Bretagne any more.
Fortunately, Da Pleasure
Lounge, the famous home entertainement company, whose self-claimed
vision is to help customers ensure that entertainment performance
leads to measurable social improvements
, has gracefully accepted to
host bmt-online on their domain.
So here it is, please note that from now on, and strictly from Jan 10th on, you will find bmt online at:
http://bmt-online.dapleasurelounge.com
I will try to have my sysadmin at ENST de Bretagne set up a redirection from the old location to the new location at Da Pleasure Lounge. In any case, please update your bookmarks to the new location.
created: tue 2002-12-31
updated: fri 2004-04-16
