Olivier Hallot
Founder and Board of Director member of the Document Foundation
Graduated Electronic Engineer in 1982, MSc in Digital Signal Processing in 1985 and MBA in Oil & Gas industry in 2001. He initiated his career as Associate Researcher for digital signal processing in the IBM Scientific Center in Brasilia, Brazil, for the Oil & Gas industry in seismic data processing and high performance computing. Later he moved to marketing and sales for the same industry all over Latin America. In 1998 he joined Oracle Brazil in sales for the Oil & Gas industry and later as Alliance relationship manager for large hardware manufacturers as well as with the Oracle Academic Initiative. Since 2002 and on his own, he participated actively in FLOSS projects notably in OpenOffice.org as Community Council member and as one of the translators for Brazilian Portuguese. He is now senior consultant in LibreOffice technology for large corporations on migration projects.