Eric La Rocca

Eric
La Rocca

  • Business Analyst
  • UML Modeler
  • SPA/RIA Developer

For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best.

Blaise Pascal — Thoughts (1670)

Profile & technical skills

For over twenty years, my multiple experiences in IT have enabled me to expand and improve my skills in areas as wide as the formalization and management of enterprise solutions, as well as application and multimedia design.

In addition, my personal interest in the evolution of these areas allows me to update my knowledge and to follow, and even anticipate, the needs of the market.

This continuous learning and all these experiences allow me to promote best practices acknowledged by the industry while realistically considering the constraints that companies usually face.

Some tools of reference

  • UML
  • Eclipse
  • Sparx Enterprise Architect
  • IBM Rational
  • PureMVC
  • Adobe
  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • amfPHP

Skill levels

Business analysis (IIBA)

Good level

Object modeling

Good level

Project management (PMI)

Fair knowledge

MS Office management tools

Good level

OOP and patterns

Good level

RIA programming

Good level

Web programming

Fair knowledge

Web design

Fair knowledge

Work experience

Business analysis

Pôle Média

Knowledge update. Compliance with IIBA. Study of the business analysis body of knowledge (BABOK). Preparation for the IIBA CCBA certification exam.

Business Development Bank of Canada

As part of the A&E project:

  • review of more than 70 use cases
  • modelling environment setup
  • building of the UML analysis model
  • design of robustness diagrams (ICONIX) for critical use cases

Nter Technologies (CGI — Loto-Québec)

As part of the Iris project:

  • determination of use cases, actors and business objects in RUP inception and elaboration phases
  • requirements specification with Rational Requisite Pro
  • UML modelling with Rational Rose
  • programming of Rose/VB procedures for model automation
  • setting and building of RUP-based artefact templates with Rational SoDA

RIA development

Gemalto Canada

For the Mexican bank Banamex:

  • development in Flex of a network configuration console
  • UML modelling with the Sparx Enterprise Architect modeler
  • Ant scripting for generating and updating versions

Multiwebcast (eMedHosting)

In the field of continuing medical education for health practitioners (CME):

  • design and development in ActionScript of a module for presenting medical conferences
  • implementation of a module to archive and monitor the activity of the practitioner user
  • UML modelling and documentation with the Enterprise Architect tool

Clients & employers

Recognized users

  • Business Development Bank of Canada
  • Gemalto Canada
  • Aptilon Health
  • NDI Media
  • Rogers Communications
  • Radio-Canada
  • Neoxo
  • Pfizer
  • Multiwebcast (eMedHosting)
  • Nter Technologies (Loto-Québec)
  • Association of Employees of Northern Quebec
  • Ministère de la Famille du Québec
  • Ministère du Conseil exécutif du Québec
  • Pro&Format — Québec
  • Sanofi (Rhône-Poulenc)
  • TOTAL
  • Black Sea and Baltic Insurance — Paris
  • STVA Group — Paris
  • ACSIA — Moscow
  • A.U.2I — Moscow
  • City Council of Paris
  • CPAM of Paris

Education

McGill University — Montreal, Canada

Certified IIBA business analysis course (2014-2015)

Certified PMI project management course (2007-2008)

These courses cover the basic principles of business analysis and project management. They provide an understanding of the roles of the business analyst and the project manager, of their skills, and highlight techniques to plan, manage, analyze, document and communicate progress or project requirements at all levels.

These programs teach current best practices and comply with the bodies of knowledge of the industry in the respective areas of business analysis (IIBA BABOK) and project management (PMI PMBOK).

CNAM — Paris, France

1989 — DEC eq. in computing science

Personal profile

Member of the IIBA Montreal chapter.

Former board member of the Montreal Visual Basic User Group. Lecturer on the following themes:

  • “Alternative to the Microsoft Common Controls” (Microsoft Canada, December 1998)
  • “Introduction to UML” (Microsoft Canada, February 2000; Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, June 2000)

Member of the Adobe User Group of Montreal.

Interested in concepts and methodologies, tennis, chess, flight simulation and impressionist painting.