Philippe Bonneau

My Calyon's golden parachute

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

One year ago, when leaving Calyon, I got a gift, what I would say, a "golden" parachute. It was in fact a real jump in parachute, at the airport of Le Havre. Because of the deal I did with Axa in Brussels in September 2007, I didn't have the time to go there at the autumn of last year. During the Winter, it was the season for ice climbing and all free week-ends were already reserved for this activity. Second, jumping at 200km/h in the cold air is not really interesting.

During this Spring, I got work at home, thus, it was really difficult to find a week-end, and almost all week-ends were wet.

Finally, since the ticket I got to jump had an expiry (20th September 2008), I decided to jump last week-end. I took an extra option on it, in order to filmed...

Nice weather and what a beautilful Channel! Finally, I put the video on the events page.

Renovation in my apartment

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT

As explained in this subtitle of this blog, it is my personal blog on it-quants... Personal, it means that I will use it on items not necessary professional. For instance, considering the renovation of my apartement, I will put there a link to the pictures of my apartment and the results of the use of a company specialised in the parquet flooring service, in French, in order to be well referenced in France, on www.google.fr.

Les photos correspondent à l'état de mon appartement après travaux réalisés par la société DPRB, domiciliée à Montreuil. Les photos sont disponibles sur http://picasaweb.google.fr/pbonneau68/travaux.

Coordonnées de l'entreprise ayant effectué les travaux:

SARL DPRB
278, rue de Rosny
93100 MONTREUIL
Email: dprbat@orange.fr ou dprbbat@orange.fr

Acompte non rendu suite à travaux non finis: 9 000 euros. La facture finale n'a pas été envoyée par cette société non plus, en conséquence, pas de garantie décennale.

Gerant et associé à 50% : Mr Scandher Majeri, 25, rue Vaucouleurs, 75011 PARIS
Associé à 50% : Mr Max Lomba, 3 rue Girardot, 93170 BAGNOLET
Directeur commercial : Mr Paul Florian Hilderal

Toutes les relations - devis, suivi des travaux etc.. - ont été managées par Mr Paul Florian Hilderal.

Back from Bolivia

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

After 3 weeks in Bolivia, I'm back. The management of this website can continue: the roles of the in between registered users were updated today.

Concerning the holidays in Bolivia, after 2 weeks of altitude acclimatation - one week around the Titicaca lake and one week of trek in the Cordillera Real -, I had 2 peaks to climb: the Pequeno Alpamayo (5370m) and the Huyana Potosi (6088m).

Because of an edema of the face the last day, I could not climb the Huyana Potosi. The following picture represents the Pequeno Alpamayo, picture taken at 7am and just before final assault.

Holidays...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

After one year without taking one day of holidays, it is time to take some and to go somewhere in South America. After three years without visiting these countries -I was already in Peru, Chile and Argentina -, I will go back there, in order to climb two little peaks (5400m and 6100m). During my absence, it could be that some rights will not be given as expected.... I will be back the 25th July.

For those who want to see more pictures of climbing and want to wait a little new pictures, they can go on the site of Poudre-Glace, a mountain guide agency, there: www.poudre-glace.com/albums/2008chamcogne/index.php.

Ice climbing in Chamonix

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:00:00 GMT

If you have some problem to contact me on Friday or during the week-end, it is normal. On January and Februray, this is the Ice climbing season, it means that I am training some week-ends in the French Alpen, sharing my time between Brussels, Paris and Chamonix or Grenoble.

So don't be impatient to get some answer on the week-ends, I can answer only during the week.

Living in Brussels

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:00:00 GMT

For those who want to contact me or meet me, I'm working now in Brussels for an assurance/bank, making the migration of an Opics Misys system to the Sophis one.

That was not really the expected case when I left Calyon: I should have to work in fact for an english/chinese investment bank in Paris, but, because of some ununderstanding signature process and because of some budget reduction related to the subprime crisis, the intern project manager prevent me that I could not work for them the morning of the starting day of the mission, after two months of negotiation.

The contract in Brussels is a one-year contract, I will be free again at 30th september 2008, so, please, don't contact me before for other missions.

Leaving Calyon

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT

After 3 years at Calyon, London then Paris, working on Sophis toolkit in the IT FO Equity Derivatives team, I left this French investment bank. Yesterday was my last working day there. I will start a new mission in another bank on next week and will continue to work on Sophis products.

Looking at the logs of the web site yesterday, I wonder of the number of banks and funds, worldwide, which are now connected. Even if people don't participate really in forums as I will - only few people are asking for information -, most of them are taking a look each day.

I left Sophis in 2000, working on Sophis Risque since 1998 and after the migration of this software from Mac platform to the Win32 one. Like other independent workers who left this company at the same time, like Hubert de Monts or Sam Lessani, I think that I should have to start this site for 7 years. We were at the beginning not really interested to share our experience, in order to avoid concurrence and increase our price.

In fact, now, first, on the desk, I am tired out to answer to the same questions each time, to teach to people who should be my backups and who leaves the bank before me...

And secondly, after 15 years working for investment banks, forums and the question/answer system is a good instrument for people like me, who left a lot of neurons because of hard-working or altitude...

Back from Ladakh

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT

Yeah, beautiful weather when rising the Stok Kangri, just a little sick at the beginning of the treck because of altitude illness, getting nausea and vomiting during the first three days: sure, directly sent at 5000m, I never saw such acclimatation, even in Peru or Nepal.

Preparing the Stok Kangri (6121m) rising

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT

This blog entry is certainly the last before taking some holidays in Ladakh (Indian Himalaya), from 11th July to 28th July. But not the last post on this site: I will surely publish some resources before my departure.

During my absence, I will give administrator rights to Guillaume Leroy, in order to maintain a good reactivity on all subjects, from user registration to posts on forums.

Concerning the trip in Ladakh, I hope that I will have better weather than last year, in April 2006, in Nepal, when I attempted to reach the Mera Peak (6476m), but forced to turn back at the base camp (4900m), due to 3 days snow tempest. We got no news from people blocked at high camp (5500m). These persons were finally repatriated to Katmandu, with serious gelures. Concerning our group, we were very happy to meet an australian team which was trying to reach the base camp and opening us the Zartrow La pass (4600m). With 300 sunny days per year in Ladakh, it should be good.

Hope that we will get no politics trouble like last year in Nepal too, where we were obliged to stay at hotel during 2 days, because of cover fire.

Enable DNN Help module

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT

Quite done. After looking for the right DNN modules that could give me a good looking on articles, I discovered and choosed the Help one. It does not permit to separate articles from different authors - note sure, to be tested - , but the navigation tree gives a good feeling.

Posting articles is quite easy too: just need to edit them with MS Word, copy them in clipboard and paste them in the Rich Edit control provided with DNN.

I just get some problems with the headers and formatting. Inserting pictures from Winword should be manually done.