• Status
• Employment
• Education
• Web Site Author
• Software Author

• Software Expertise
• Publications
• Affiliations
• Languages

• 1997-2007: Lescasse Consulting. - General Manager and Owner
  • 1997: founds Lescasse Consulting SARL
  • Imports and distributes APL+ products in France
  • Imports and distributes ForeHelp products in France
  • Distributes Dyalog APL in France
  • Designs and develops "APL+Win Objects"
  • Designs and develops "wBackup"
  • Designs and develops "AntiSpam"
  • Designs and develops "CHM Builder"
  • Designs and develops "NetAccess" (2006)
  • Gives lectures at various APL2000 Conferences in Florida
  • Sets up an Internet Server and hosts Web Sites for various customers
  • Designs and develops various Web Sites using ASP and APL+Win
  • Project Manager with a team of 5 APL developers for a large financial APL application at Credit Lyonnais (1998-2003)
  • Develops several APL+Win applications for TF1 (1997-2006)
  • Ports an APL+Win application to C# for TF1 (2006)
  • Does high level consulting for many customers

• 1984-1997: Uniware S.A. - General Manager (co-owner) and Independent Software Author
• Development of Uniware Web Site (http://www.uniware.fr)
• Uniware General Management
• Technical Management of Uniware Developers Team
• Marketing, sales and support of the following lines of products:
  • APL*PLUS, APL+Win, Dyalog APL
  • ForeFront Help Author
  • Formula One DLL-VBX-OCX, Delphi, WISE Installation System & other tools
• Development of over 50 computer applications, including:
  • 1995: EUROSPORT - TV Audiences Windows Relational Database
  • 1992: DARTY - Expenses Budget Relational Database
  • 1991: ELECTROLUX - Cash Management System (100 companies, 60 banks)
  • 1990: DARTY - Outstanding Debts Relational Database
  • 1989: DARTY - Sales Analysis Relational Database
• High-level consulting to more than 50 customers
• Seminars (APL, Delphi, Web Site Construction)
• International Teacher (France, Sweden, Holland, England)
  • over 50 Statgraphics users trained
  • over 200 APL developers trained
  • over 15 Delphi users trained
• International Speaker in APL Conferences (USA, England, Russia)

• 1982-1984: Independent Consultant - APL Specialist
  • Consulting for several companies (Renault, CNCA Bank, Drouot Insurances, ...)
  • Development of SAM, an RDBMS software product for Renault
       
• 1979-1982: STSC France - Technical Director
  • Management of the APL developers team
  • Conception of tools and utilities
  • Many APL*PLUS Mainframe Application Developments
       
• 1976-1979: CISI - APL Engineer
  • Support and consulting to a dozen Mainframe APL (VSAPL) time-sharing customers
       
• 1975-1976: SERETES - Engineer
  • Development of traffic plans for several cities in France
  • One year in Bahia (Brazil) as computer expert on a mass transit economical study project

• 1975: University of California, Berkeley (USA)
           Master of Science (Civil Engineering-Transportation)
• 1974: Ecole Centrale Lyon - Engineer Diploma
• 1973-1974: Ecole Centrale Paris - City Planning Department
• 1967: Baccalauréat C (mention AB)

• 1997-2007: Lescasse Consulting Web Site (http://www.lescasse.com) (ASP)
• 1998-2006: ISAPS Web Site (ASP)
• 1998-2004: O'Clock Web Site (ASPX)
• 1998: FHA Entreprises Web Site
• 1997: SOFCEP Web Site
• 1996: Uniware Web Site

Here are a few Web sites created by attendants of my 2-days "Web Site Construction" classes:

• 1997: APERIA Web Site (http://www.aperia.fr)
• 1997: QUADRATURE Web Site (http://www.windal-conseil.com)

• 2006-2006: NetAccess v2.0 (a C# Code Generator for APL+Win users)
• 2005-2005: CHM Builder 1.2 (an HTML Help Generator freeware)
• 2004-2004: AntiSpam 1.0 (an AntiSpam freeware for Outlook 2000,2002,2003 users)
• 2002-2004: wBackup 1.11 (a general Backup utility)
• 1999-2004: APL+Win 6.0 Objects (a collection of 157 APL+Win Objects for APL+Win developers; 3995 €; 52 copies sold)
• 1997-1998: APL+Win Training (1050 pages book, 27 APL+Win Tutorial Workspaces; USD 600; 110 copies sold)
• 1995-1996: Uniware Toolkit/W (an RDBMS product for Dyalog APL for Windows; 5900 €; 32 copies sold)
• 1995-1996: Delphi Forms Translator (converts Delphi forms automatically into APL forms; 150 €; 15 copies sold)
• 1994-1995 APL*PLUS Compatibility Pack (tools for converting APL*PLUS applications to Dyalog APL; 430 €; 15 copies sold)
• 1994-1996: DLL Parser for APL (helps use DLLs from Dyalog APL, APL*PLUS III & APL+Win; 220 €; 41 copies sold)
• 1993-1994: WinPlot (graphics utilities for APL*PLUS III for Windows; 1500 €; 3 copies sold)
• 1986-1994: Uniware Toolkit PC & II (an RDBMS product for DOS APL*PLUS developers; 5900 €; 82 copies sold)
• 1986-1987: Etatgen (a Report Generator for DOS APL*PLUS users; 450 €; 21 copies sold)
• 1986-1987: Menus (a set of DOS Menu utilities for DOS APL*PLUS users; 600 €; over 100 copies sold)
• 1985-1986: The APL Debugger (a debugger for DOS APL*PLUS users; 450 €; 450 copies sold)
• 1984-1985: Unitab (an APL spreadsheet for DOS APL*PLUS users; 1000 €; over 115 copies sold)

• OS
  • MS DOS, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, IIS 5, IIS 6
  • Windows 2003 Server
• Languages
  • APL+PC, APL+Dos, APL+Unix, APL+Win (expert)
  • C# & Framework .Net
  • Dyalog APL 7,8,9,10,11
  • Visual Basic (ASP)
  • Delphi
  • SQL
• Other development expertise
  • Excel.Application , Word.Application, Outlook.Application
  • ADO (ActiveX Data Objects)
  • Formula One DLL, ActiveX, First Impression OCX
  • SQAPL Pro, APL+Link Pro
  • API Windows 16 & 32-bit
  • ForeHelp 5, ForeHelp Premier 2001
  • Inno Setup & IStool, WISE InstallMaster
• Web Development
  • Windows 2003 Server & IIS 6
  • HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, XPath, PDF
  • Dreamweaver Studio 8
  • Fireworks
  • Visual Basic (ASP)
  • ColdFusion (Studio & Server)
  • CuteFTP Pro
• Application software
  • Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
  • Internet Explorer, FireFox
  • UltraEdit

• 2006: "NetAccess: Using C# DLLs from APL+Win as if they were ActiveX" APL2000 2006 User's Conference Proceedings (33 pages)
• 2005: "A Simple Source Code Management System" APL2000 2005 User's Conference Proceedings
• 2004: APL+Web Component (part 2): how to deploy a more complex APL application on the Web
  
• 2004: APL+Web Component (part 1): how to deploy a simple APL application on the Web
  
• 2001: APL+Win Grid Object Helps Sell Ads on French TV
  (23 pages article in APL2000 2001 Conference Proceedings)
  
• 2001: A Grid Object for APL+Win
  (24 pages article in Vector, Vol. 17 No. 3 January 2001)
  
• 1999: Développement Objet en APL+Win 3.5
  (42 pages article published on this Web Site)
  
• 1998: Object Oriented Programming with APL+Win (Part 2)
  (23 pages article in Vector, Vol.14 No.3 - February 98, - ISSN 0955-1433)
  
• 1996-1997: Monthly Advanced APL+Win Training
  Since November 1996, it is available (by subscription) for download from Uniware Web site
  on Internet (http://www.lescasse.com) and includes each month:
  - 60 to 100 pages WinWord document
  - several APL+Win workspaces full of reusable code
  Chapter 1: The Main MDI Window
  Chapter 2: The Main MDI Window (continued)
  Chapter 3: Improving Your APL+Win Environment
  Chapter 4: APL+Win and VBXs
  Chapter 5: APL+Win and VBXs (continued)
  Chapter 6: APL+Win and VBXs (continued)
  Chapter 7: A Template Function for APL+Win Dialogs
  Chapter 8: An APL+Win Spy
  Chapter 9: Error Handling in APL+Win Applications
  Chapter 10: A Functions Lister
  Chapter 11: A General Multi-Purpose Printing Function
  Chapter 12: Resizing Forms and Dialog Boxes
  Chapter 13: Object Oriented Programming with APL+Win
  Chapter 14: Introduction to OCX: an OCXPrinter Object
  Chapter 15: Object Oriented Programming with APL+Win (continued)
  Chapter 16: Accessing ODBC databases from APL+Win
  Chapter 17: Understanding Nested Arrays
  Chapter 18: Developing a Relational Database System in APL+Win (Part 1)
  Chapter 19: Developing a Relational Database System in APL+Win (Part 2)
  Chapter 20: Cross-Tabulations
  Chapter 21: Shortcut Keys
  Chapter 22: Developing a Relational Database System in APL+Win (Part 3)
  Chapter 23: Tree structures and the Tree object
  Chapter 24: Formula One OCX Tutorial
  Chapter 25: MDI revisited with OOP
  Chapter 26: The 32-bit Windows API
  (these 26 Chapters represent 1070 pages of APL+Win Training)
     
• 1997: Object Oriented Programming with APL+Win (Part 1)
  (23 pages article in Vector, Vol.14 No.1 - July 1997, - ISSN 0955-1433)
  
• 1997: APL+Win and VBXs
  (20 pages article in Vector, Vol.13 No.3 - January 1997, - ISSN 0955-1433)
  
• 1996: BOOK Advanced Windows Programming with APL and Delphi
  200 pages book with companion disk, describing many ways to interface APL & Borland Delphi
  (covers Delphi 1 & Delphi 2, APL+Win & Dyalog APL)
  
• 1996: Advanced Windows Programming with APL and Delphi
  (19 pages article in Vector Vol.13 No.1 - July 1996 - - ISSN 0955-1433)
  
• 1995: BOOK Advanced Windows Programming with APL and Formula One
  100 pages book with companion disk, describing how to use Formula One VBX from APL
  
• 1995: Interfacer Dyalog APL/W et Borland Delphi
  (20 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°17 - December 1995 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1995: Quelques techniques de programmation APL
  (7 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°16 - September 1995 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1995: Soyez plus productif avec Dyalog APL/W
  (5 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°15 - May 1995 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1995: Namespaces
  (17 pages article in Vector Vol.11 No.3 - January 1995 - ISSN 0955-1433)
  
• 1995: Les Espaces de Noms
  (23 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°14 - January 1995 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1994: APL et les outils VBX
  (15 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°12-13 - Sep.-Dec. 1994 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1994: Windows Development in APL*PLUS III (Part 1I of II)
  (14 pages article in Vector Vol.11 No.2 - October 1994 - ISSN 0955-1433)
  
• 1994: Windows Development in APL*PLUS III (Part 1 of II)
  (10 pages article in Vector Vol.11 No.1 - July 1994 - ISSN 0955-1433)
  
• 1994: Développer sous Windows avec APL*PLUS III
  (28 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°11 - June 1994 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1994: Les Contrôles de Structure
  (22 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°10 - March 1994 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1993: Première application en APL*PLUS III
  (16 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°9 - December 1993 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1993: Améliorez votre productivité avec APL*PLUS II
  (12 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°8 - October 1993 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1993: APL*PLUS II version 5 et les liens DDE
  (10 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL' - n°7 - June 1993 - ISSN 1664-4699)
  
• 1993: Programmer une application Windows avec APL*PLUS II version 5
  (16 pages article in "Les Nouvelles d'APL" - n°6 - March 1993 - ISSN 1664-4699)

• Member of ACM, SIGAPL
• Member of BAA (British APL Association)
• Formerly President, then Vice-President of AFAPL (French APL Association)

• French (fluent)
• English (fluent)
• Portuguese (spoken)