--- title: "Certifications, Awards & Patent" source: "https://sebastien.morel.me/certifications.md" description: "Industry certifications, honors and awards, and a US patent." --- # Certifications, Awards & Patent Industry certifications, honors and awards, and a US patent. ## Certifications - **Github Foundations** — Github (Mar 2024) — [credential](https://www.credly.com/badges/97455fcd-ae30-44f6-a159-ac03c844dc34/public_url) - **Symfony 5 Certified Developer (Advanced)** — Symfony (Dec 2021) — [credential](https://connect.symfony.com/profile/plopix) - **Slack Certified Developer** — Slack (Aug 2021) — [credential](https://badges.slackcertified.com/8267b81f-d24e-42e9-82b2-f2bf66bc2162) - **Slack Certified Admin** — Slack (Jul 2021) — [credential](https://badges.slackcertified.com/7c8de791-09e6-4e9c-91f6-b293d50b821b) - **Contentful Certified Professional** — Contentful (Oct 2020) - **Ibexa DXP Sales Certification** — Ibexa (Jan 2021) — credential ID: CGYDDNDQSY-VGTTZLLQ-XHRWWTYWHM - **eZ Platform Sales Certification** — eZ Systems (Jan 2020) - **eZ Platform Developer** — eZ Systems (Sep 2018) - **eZ Publish 5 Developer** — eZ Systems (Jul 2013) - **eZ Publish 4.7 Advanced Developer** — eZ Systems (Jul 2013) — credential ID: 120908529 - **eZ Publish 4.4 Developer** — eZ Systems — credential ID: 383618 - **eZ Publish 4.3 Developer** — eZ Systems — credential ID: 346206 - **eZ Publish 4.1 Developer** — eZ Systems — credential ID: 285521 - **eZ Publish 3.8 Developer** — eZ Systems — credential ID: 180010 - **Varnish Admin** — Varnish Software ## Honors & Awards ### Ibexa Best Cloud Provider of the year 2021 *Ibexa · Jan 2021* Awarded to Novactive's team in France and U.S. for their outstanding skills using and managing customers on Ibexa Cloud. ### Most Successful Co-Marketing Activity of the Year 2020 *eZ Systems · Jan 2020* Awarded to Novactive's team in France and U.S. for the Most Successful Co-Marketing Activity to sale, promote and propulse eZ Platform Enterprise 2.x ### eZ Connector of the year 2018 *eZ Systems · Jun 2018* For the innovative idea and implementation of "Novactive eZ Slack Bundle" which is an eZ Platform bundle that provides a complete Slack integration allowing a 2-way communication between your Slack workspace and your eZ Content Repository. You can, for instance, build custom publication workflow and use them from your mobile through Slack! ### eZ Innovation of the Year 2017 *eZ Systems · Jun 2017* When it comes to developer experience, the most important factor in evaluating and learning new technologies is time to first success. In the CMS world, the first success happens when you get your development environment working and able to create content in the back-office and view it in the front. eZ Launchpad is one of the solutions for making this time as short as possible. Installing and configuring a complete stack for eZ Platform can be challenging and time-consuming if you have not done it many times. With eZ Launchpad you can get this stack up and running, and ready for real development in just a few minutes. ### eZ Award : Innovation of the year 2016 *eZ Systems · Oct 2016* We won this award because of the new e-commerce subscription system implementation of "The Economist" using eZ Platform as the Content Marketing CMS, as the journey builder, and as the Product and Campaign tool to empower the Marketing. The implementation also uses the power of Symfony 2.x stack (provided by the CMS) to manage millions of orders and users in a noSQL database. It is our biggest e-commerce project based on eZ, it shows the extensibility of the product and the robustness. The challenges were multiples and what we have done is a small part of a large ecosystem of tools that are used at The Economist to deliver their contents and subscriptions. The project is not done yet and as the CTO of The Economist said before winning this award: "The product is born when the project is launched; it's not finished". A lot more challenges are coming! And we are ready! ### eZ Award : Innovation of the year 2012 *eZ Systems · Feb 2013* We won this award because of the development of the website "La Nouvelle République". This eZ Publish website was developed in partnership with eZ Systems. We have combined eZ Tags, eZ Find, eZ Flow and eZ Accelerator to manage a high performance website. Also, a big particularity of this combination is the virtual tree of content based on tags (themes and locations), contexts and contents. "La Nouvelle République" is a newspaper website with a lot of contents imported from paper and created via eZ Publish(around 2000 each day). ### 1st Prize of the "Startup Academy" 2011 *Startup Academy · May 2011* Won with Fidall, we reached the Top 10 in the AppStore in the LifeStyle category. More than 25k downloads per day in 2010! More than 2M users the first year, 800k-1M active users every weekend. ## Patent **US20150248394A1** — Automatically uploading user profile information (May 2015) Techniques for automatically transmitting user profile data over a network are provided. In one technique, a browser displays a form and a QR code (or other form of encoded data) on a webpage. A mobile application scans the QR code, which causes the mobile application to identify user profile data (that may be stored locally with respect to the mobile application) and send the user profile data to a Campaign server. The Campaign server causes the form that is displayed by the browser to be filled in with the user profile data. The browser than transmits the filled-in form to a partner server that provides the webpage. In another technique, a mobile application scans a QR code, which may be displayed on a flyer, a poster, a computer screen, or a television screen. The mobile application identifies and transmits user profile data to a Campaign server.