If I discovered, as a young adult, my passion and respect for the sea through the discovery of sail cruising in the Mediterranean Sea, it was by leaving my native Var at 23 years old to follow a university training in Oceanography that I began to fully invest in this profession. Little by little, after many phases of learning (obviously longer than common …), I have the feeling that I have built up a modest but solid and varied experience with time.
My boys made me grow up, life taught me a lot and continues to do so; I have been for several years particularly interested in the mechanisms allowing (or preventing) the implementation of collective functioning, i.e. a conjunction of human behaviors, in the respect and control of their emotions, which can eventually lead to exceeding the laws of arithmetic, 1+1 being able finally to do much more than 2. Catalyzing constructive energies, deconstructing various injunctions to better reconstruct inter-individual functioning, is certainly an important part of my research approach both in my work and in my daily social life.
As far as the world of work is concerned, and after an initial failed attempt late and painfully, we have been initiating with Virginie from our different experiences a new cooperative project since mid-2021 named POKAPOK. I am now fullfilled with the enthusiasm, human intelligence and energy that my colleagues at POKAPOK are investing in their turn in this promising new cooperative project in which we aim to shape our well-being at work and modestly increase our productive strength for the benefit of the major environmental issues of our time.
Born in a land of volcanoes, I like looking at the sky and the clouds, trying to catch suitable conditions for flying. Thus, I started studying atmospheric sciences and I ended with a PhD in cloud modeling. I like playing with data, coming either from numerical simulations or measurement devices. I can spend hours developing procedures and tools to visualize, compare and study data in detail, trying to get out of them the most information I can. Today, I started to improve my knowledge about the whole earth system by working on ocean related topics. A motivating new challenge !
A mission to Benin, campaigns at sea in the Great South, a thesis on the Carbon cycle in Paris, etc. In the end, I settled down in Brittany where I started working on the ArGo floats and the Coriolis database. After spending a Bit of time Gaining experience as a research engineer, I decided to Co-found the SCOP POKaPOK with Jérome. Excited by this new project, I am now ready to take up many Beautiful and Great Challenges ! And, when I’m not busy with ancillary tasks (Business stuff, Administrative Management, General assembly of various projects, Coffee Supply), I like Building Gorgeous sand Castles at the Beach, talking about my Garden, and reading Comics. In short, all this would almost make me believe that I was really destined to specialize in Bio Geo marine Chemistry ;-)!
Newly landed in the adventure, I come in support of the construction and exploitation of the in-situ measurement database developed at POKaPOK.
Coming from a theoretical training in physical oceanography begun in Paris and completed in the Great West, I have finally more often my hands in technical issues than my head in research. Indeed, although my previous mission sent me into space with Earth observation satellites (Sentinel), it is with the ocean that my heart comes alive. I particularly enjoy studying it and, for example, learning more about the circulation, current and sargasso or plastic drift.
But as swimming is not only reserved for algae and other petrochemical derivatives, it is not impossible to meet me in good weather, floating happily a few meters from the shore as well.
I’ve always been from Brest at the western end of Brittany, like a “Brennig” shellfish stuck to its granite rock. I am curious by nature. I am quite a handyman and I really love giving a second life to old things. I have a mainly self-taught background in various techniques related to systems and software development. I felt good vibes coming from the technopole, I had the same wave lenght, so .. I knocked at Pokapok. My mission is to improve my collaborators cosiness. I intend to do so by cooking a sweet work environment with sliced onions and a drizzle of cloud sauce on top of that. Also on the menu: code refactoring toasts, reusability jam, pair programming cream, and so on…
Yann Reynaud
Dorian Fouquier
After a 6-month mission abroad to design and implement a real time data storage system and 1 degree from exia.cesi, I was quickly recruited by Altran.
This French company will offer me great opportunities, including a long mission at Intel to develop a custom desktop application for the company’s thermal engineers.
After several years in this consulting company, the desire to develop my own business is growing, I decided to take advantage of a new experimentation with POKaPOK before launching my own project..
For this new mission at POKaPOK, I am responsible for both development of the in-situ measurement database and their exploitation in a visualization tool, which has ability to edit/backup updated data to database or new files.
I spend most of my free time walking with my two bitches, Pixel and Toffee, who love water and the great outdoors.
Stiven Guillaume
Brendan Hennebaut
Demat ! Mat ar jeu ?
I introduce myself, Brendan, Ty-zef, and proud of it! Passionate about the marine environment, I have always had this desire to discover and understand this ecosystem still unknown to the general public! I have focused my young career on this vocation/this desire/this objective and I obtained a Master’s degree in Marine Sciences at the University of Caen. I am currently involved in a project that aims to set up an information system (database) capable of managing the traceability, in time and space, of biological samples kept at Ifremer (MORSE project).
This project, very lively and stimulating, allows me to meet the Ifremer laboratories in order to analyze the existing situation and the needs in terms of banking services. I also have to define the data flows and support users in banking the traceability metadata associated with their biological samples. Finally, I also assist project leaders in the regulatory processes (APA, CITES, etc…). I was going to forget…. As soon as I’m not taken up by MORSE, you can meet myself along the coastal path! Kenavo ar wech all!