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        CPI sells touch screens which can read images, movies and present slide shows. These touch screens do not use HTML but a proprietary language. As I have mostly been working with scripts (with DOS shell, Python, VBA and command-line tools for images), I could generat each time the result in a HTML format and in a format adapted to the touch screen.


        This first work presented below is a display model of the touch screen for Renault car dealers. I did it on CPI demand, adapting to the touch screen the Mégane Berline presentation on Renault's website. Thanks to this work, I learned how to use the touch screen proprietary language and how to work on images with command-line tools. It also was an opportunity to developp my own programming methods and tools that I used during the whole project.

Display model of the touch screen for Renault car dealers

        The aim of my project for CPI was to build a catalogue editor for the touch screen. An example of such a catalogue is presented below. I made it for CPI's stand during the "Journées de l'Institut Français du Merchandising", a major event in Paris for Merchandising companies. This project was part of my studies in my Engineering School and occupied me one day a week from september 2008 to january 2009. I led a team with 2 other engineer students. On CPI demand, the user interface was to be an Excel File. I wrote the Excel procedures that permit to edit and update the catalogue. These procedures need parameters extern to the Excel File. One of my fellows wrote a user interface in Visual Basic to edit easily those parameters. The other fellow had to develop a two-way SMS solution for our client : it permitted customers to receive on their cell phone the description of one of the catalogue's products.

Demonstration of a film catalogue on CPI stand during the "Journées de l'Institut Français du Merchandising"

        Nothing simpler than editing or updating your catalogue. If you want to add or remove an item which is in the Excel File, you just have to put or remove a cross in front of it and the procedure will do the rest. If you want to add a new item, you just have to add a new line in your Excel File, add the product presentation in the procedure ressources, and put a cross.



        During this project, I had the opportunity to lead a small team, to determine and plan the different phases of our project. I learned how to find the appropriate programming tools to reach my goals : for instance, to build my catalogue editor, I needed to vizualise easily the whole structure of any catalogue I generated, so I used a command-line tool to draw graphs. The Flex application below illustrates these graphs for a simplified catalogue. I improved my knowledge in VB and VBA, Python and PHP. It also was for me an opportunity to be in interaction with CPI commercial team who gave me a better marketing point of view on our product.