Rudi Sordes
18, Rue Etienne Collongues
F-31770 COLOMIERS
France

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00 33 5 61 78 50 22
00 33 5 34 61 30 90
00 33 5 34 61 30 92
rudi.sordes @ premieracte . fr

Versatile Music Composer With Exceptional Background in Technology Check out
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OBJECTIVES

I am looking to score films, trailers, videos and video games, while leveraging my extensive background in relevant technologies.
PERSONAL AND PROFESIONAL SKILLS

Creative. Open-minded. Self reliant. Versatile music composer. Strong scientific and technical background. Software development training and skills (C, Visual Basic, ASP, SQL). Fluent in French, English and German. Business management experience.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1979-00 Composer

Compositions include:

  • Theme music for the French 1998-99 Rugby season CD-ROM
  • 5 Songs for Lovely, a French artist
  • 1 composition and 2 arrangments for Isabelle Fabien (signed with French label, Images-5 million records sold)
  • Musical direction for Jacques Cardona (french producer: Johny Halliday, Michel Sardou) and Condorcet Music
  • 5 songs for Kacem, French R&B singer
  • 5 Songs for XL, French rap group which has been featured on an MTV-style music channel
  • 30 songs for Léon, a French groove singer
  • 5 songs for Fatima, French R&B singer
  • 5 songs for Improov, new-jack band
  • 10 pieces for "Dessous de Fric" (circus-like, orchestral music)
  • 10 songs for Rap band "Sursson 31"
  • 15 songs for Rap band "DSP"
  • Compositions for the opening of anniversary exhibit for Raymond Poïvet (french cartoonist)
  • 12 songs for George Modebelu, African dancer (funk)
  • 3 self-produced albums
2000- Canam Computers (former editor of Quartz Audio Sequencer)

Architect of the new broadcasting tools software serie  (media databases, diffusion scheduling, profiling of users).

1999-00 Be inc. (BeOS, BeIA)

Evangelist in charge of developing the partnerships in the multimedia field for Europe.

1994-99 Premier Acte

Self-employed as founder of Premier acte, a consulting and service enterprise

  • Project management for the design of an insurance company's entire business software (my customer manages US$15 million per year income with our software)
  • Trainer, developer and consultant in Web related projects (Motorola's mass training of 1200 persons to learn Netscape. AI(R)-Airbus Intranet project management support, media streaming projects and various web-sites)
1992-93 Sigma International, Toulouse, France

Software engineer.
Led small team of software developers. Designed and developed innovative software in Visual Basic and Object Pascal :

  • Recruitment software including various tests, and progressive values queries.
  • 3D rendering of metal structures
  • Software for loading and unloading of the DC8 cargo plane in a way that optimizes energy consumption while verifying all structural safety constraints.
EDUCATION AND MISCELANEOUS INFORMATION
1991 Second Degree in computer science at RWTH Aachen, one of the top 3 engineering universities in Germany. US equivalent of Master in science in electrical engineering degree. Thesis : Design and prototyping of a 36 bits per pixel video card in an industrial printing color control system (Technische Elektronik Labor. Pr. Hill)
1989 Degree in general engineering at Ecole Centrale Paris, one of the top 3 engineering universities in France. US equivalent of Master of Science in engineering.
1986 At 19 years old, ranked in the top 500 students of the annual French science examination competition ("Concours des grandes écoles"). Only the best 15,000 students under age 21 are allowed to participate.
1984-86 Two year preparatory program for the "Concours des grandes écoles" in "Lycée Saint-Louis", Paris (16 hours of math lectures per week, 14 hours of physics and chemistry per week. This very intensive program consists in the theoretical parts of all three bachelor's degrees in math, physics and chemistry.
1977-83 Classical education in percussion . Conservatoire régional de Bordeaux, France.
1979 First musical compositions

REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST