Mr.Nice
Work & skills
By nature, most of my projects are covered by confidentiality clauses — I can name neither the brands nor the exact locations. What I can show is how it works: the problem, the solution, and why it holds up over time.
Skills
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AV & digital signage
LED walls, LCD video walls, OLED panels, bespoke displays, sound systems, DALI lighting, BrightSign players, NovaStar controllers. From design study to commissioning and sign-off.
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IT, networking & systems
Servers, NAS, VPN, telephony, AV networks, Linux, Windows, WSL, self-hosting, automation, monitoring and on-site troubleshooting.
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Web development
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Astro, Python, Java on occasion. Static sites, internal tools, accessibility and technical SEO.
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R&D & prototyping
Sensors, detection, customer interaction, test benches and prototypes hacked together before being industrialised. Plus layout and sober art direction when the content has to fit the set.
Work
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Object recognition
A detection system able to identify which one, among several fragrance bottles of identical shape, had just been picked up — not just the position, the object itself — automatically triggering dedicated visual content on an LED video wall.
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Virtual line crossing
Crossing detection triggering content or an interaction when a line defined in space is crossed.
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Object-on-surface recognition
Detection of a visual or an object placed on a surface, triggering the associated content.
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Beauty salon
A system driving the visual content, audio and lighting of a space, with a configuration interface based on the treatment being carried out.
A few numbers
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- Managed a digital signage estate of over 100 retail locations.
- Content deployments on an international scale, across multiple locations.
- Assignments carried out in Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, the Netherlands, Scotland and Portugal — not counting projects exported beyond those on-site deployments.
- Ran the IT and network of an entire company single-handedly: servers, NAS, VPN, telephony, end to end.