My name is Stephane Boyera. I am a 36 years old engineer. I joined the W3C in July 1995 as System Administrator for the European part of the W3C. From July 1997 till 2001, I was project manager for the Web Mirroring Activity related to the W3C-LA project. Since January 2001, i'm the staff contact of the Device Independence Working Group. Since September 2003, i'm the Activity Lead for Device Indepence Activity. Since 2004, i've been working on setting up the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, and i'm staff contact for the Device Description Working Group since june 2005. From January 2005 till December 2005, i was also in charge of part of the Interaction domain management (Device Independence, Multimodal Interaction and Voice Browser activities), and coordinator of the IST funded project MWeb.
After a six month sabbatical in 2006, I'm now in charge of the futur work on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries, and how W3C can help bridging the Digital Divide. I'm also in charge of the Training activity of the IST funded project 3GWeb.
Before W3C, I worked in Artificial Intelligence (knowledge acquisition and modeling)h at INRIA. I have an engineering degree from ESSTIN (telecommunications and network engineering school in Sophia-Antipolis).
On my spare time and for personal interest, i'm now involved in kiwanja.net. Meeting Ken Banks, the incredible founder of kiwanja.net, i've been more than amazed by the amount of work he is doing, and by his approach. So i'm more than happy to try to help at my little level.
You may also want to have a look at my personnal home page.