Jean-Michel BESNARD

Santa Cruz, California [random pic]

[ NOTE: This Web Site has not been updated in a VERY long time. Most of its content is old/deprecated... ]

Welcome to this small webpage where you may find :

my résumé,
documents and software I wrote as part of my studies or at work
a lot of pictures taken over the past years

	In English: PDF
	In French: DOC

	Some tools I developed to debug telecom applications/equipments at work
	SMS Center Simulator : developed in Perl using Net::SMPP. It features an SMPP interface and uses MySQL as a database backend to store the SMS. Message delivery is simulated by removing the SMS from the database and sending a delivery receipt to the ESME after a random amount of time. The code is not really clean so I did not want to put it online as-is. If you'd like to have it though, please send me an email.
	Low Level SMPP PDU Analyzer : a command line packet analyzer written in Perl, using Net::Pcap. It captures TCP packets exchanged between ESMEs and SMS Centers as they go through the IP network and shows the SMPP traffic in a human-readable way. Not as complete as ethereal but it has the advantages of a CLI and has proved to be very handy when it comes to capturing huge traffic over a long period of time to make statistics and evaluate the quality of service. Code available upon request.

	Some of my work, while in the M.Sc. Biometrics (2003/2004) at the University of Westminster, London, U.K.
	2BIO799 : "Master Thesis"
	Thesis: "Towards Establishing the Authenticity of Fingerprint Images with a Digital Watermark"
	Implementation: Code, Documentation
	2BIO706 : "Penetration Testing"
	Pen. Test Simulation: Business Report
	Eigenfaces: Source Code
	2BIO705 : "Visual Recognition"
	Fingerprint Matching Techniques: Litterature Review
	Eigenfaces: Source Code
	2BIO704 : "Artificial Intelligence for Biometrics"
	Hillclimbing Algorithms: Source Code, Documentation
	2BIO703 : "Cognitive Science in Biometrics Design"
	Voice Recognition for a School (Business Report/Case Study)
	2BIO702 : "Programming for Biometrics"
	Audio Processing: Source Code, Documentation/Report
	Image Processing: Source Code, Documentation/Report
	2BIO701 "Biometrics Security Systems"
	Biometrics in Prisons (Business Report/Case Study)

	Single Sign On (2003)
	File System Integrity (2003)

	Some pictures taken during my stay in California and Arizona (2001)
	Loads of pictures (2001-2005)

Last update: September 2007.
Jean-Michel Besnard <besnard @ tekkno.net>