Our Team
- A professional achievement you’re particularly proud of?
- Founding Symetris, a company still going strong after 15 years in business
- Your web specialties are?
- Everything. I eat, sleep & drink web.
- Social media is all about…?
- « Creating engagement and interactivity. » But in real life, it’s to spy on your neighbours.
- Where were you 10 years ago?
- In China… or was it Spain? Or Japan? Or France? Or Thailand?... (I travel a lot!)
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Symetris allows me to grow as a person, face interesting challenges, share my professional life with stimulating colleagues and control my destiny.
Brad Muncs
CEO
- Your web specialties are?
- Mastery of Drupal (an online Content Management System).
- The future of the web?
- Infinity and beyond!
- What your colleagues say about you?
- Funny, sociable and motivated.
- What your colleagues really say about you?
- Funny.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Symetris has always given to me, challenged me, and helped me to evolve as a person. I need these challenges to be happy while harmoniously reconciling my professional and personal life. Symetris is practically a life project for me as I've seen the company grow from 3 to 20+ employees and I want to participate and influence this voyage, an opportunity that doesn't come twice!
David Pinard
Vice-President, Production
- Your web specialties are?
- Php, MySql, Html, XHtml, JavaScript, Css, Jquery, Drupal, Code Ignitor, Wordpress, Ajax.
- What your colleagues say about you?
- The guy with the creative solution.
- What your colleagues really say about you?
- The guy with the nonsense solution.
- The most useful thing on your desk?
- A full cup of coffee.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Symetris is really a company that listens to its employees. Flexible schedules and tasks, strong human side: it's a big family.
Matthieu Gadrat
Vice-President, Strategy & Innovation
- Your web specializations?
- Research (usually very random OR about finding good travel deals) - and memes.
- At school, I was…?
- The kid with the mention "talks too much" on her report card!
- A professional achievement you are particularly proud of?
- Franchise owner at 17.
- Social networks are used to...?
- Pass time, waste time, share wasted time.
- At your retirement?
- I will sleep as much as I want and I will live in the sun!
Stéphanie Mathieu
Marketing Director
- A professional achievement you’re particularly proud of?
- 3 days and two nights for the Sainte-Justine Kids Foundation.
- The most useful thing on your desk?
- At this very moment? Balloons!
- The least useful thing on your desk?
- Probably balloons tomorrow.
- Your childhood dream?
- Riding through Canada on Roller Blades.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Compared to other jobs, I found at Symetris a real desire to always get better, a focus on continuous improvement. It allows me to be creative and think "outside the box" and my ideas are always welcome. I have a long list of many other reasons - proof that I'll stay with the team for longer still!
Élisabeth Lafrance
Project Director, Team Lead
- Your specific contribution to the Symetris team?
- My good mood and my gray hair.
- In school, you were...?
- A clown.
- Your biggest childhood dream?
- Flying a plane.
- People say you look like...?
- Nobody, I am unique.
- The best moment of your life?
- The birth of my two twin daughters.
Martin Crépeau
Account Executive
- Early bird or night owl?
- I go to bed so early that my roommates laugh at me.
- A professional achievement you’re particularly proud of?
- My participation in organizing a TEDx conference at Concordia.
- At school you were:
- The girl who knew how to draw.
- They say you look like ...?
- A mix of Rachel and Monica in the tv-series Friends.
- What your colleagues really say about you?
- That I'm full of surprises!
Nathalie Rosochowicz
Coordinator | HR
- Your childhood dream?
- Becoming Batman and/or a gentle pirate.
- They say you look like ...?
- Neither Batman nor a pirate.
- What your colleagues really say about you?
- Friendly and Involved (Symetris is transparent)
- When I retire…
- I hope for the classic: Rocking chair, Golden retriever, piercing eyes towards the horizon
- The least useful thing on your desk?
- A pen I will lose in the next two business days
Hubert Carignan
Project Leader
- You would have liked to be the inventor of:
- The toaster, to go with my last name.
- What your colleagues would say about you?
- I'm too loud.
- What your colleagues really say about you?
- ...I'm really too loud
- What I bring to the team?
- The trademark energy and interpersonal skills of 'bleuets'.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Symetris is a place where I can grow, learn and be myself. We are committed to our colleagues and our clients - a real team spirit.
Steven Painchaud
Project Leader
- A professional accomplishment that you are particularly proud of?
- Not one in particular, but I'm rather proud of the diversity of experience I've gained over the years, which helps me deal with almost any problem today.
- The most useless thing on your desk?
- A box of trombones (not the instrument...)
- Your biggest childhood dream?
- Working at McDonald's (my parents probably wondered what they did...)
- People say you look like...?
- Emma Watson (according to a questionable quiz, from a questionable site...)
- Your retirement?
- In a tree house in Costa Rica.
Mélanie Filiatreault
Project Leader
- Your specific contribution to the Symetris team?
- My great positivism and my flat jokes.
- A professional achievement you are particularly proud of?
- To have worked in 7 different countries in 3 years.
- Your web specializations?
- In 2000, I was a HTML expert on Notepad. Now, I'd rather let the others do that. #projectleader
- A genius?
- Someone who dares....
- Something you never thought you'd see in your life?
- To pet a 9-month baby tiger.
Alexandra Dugal
Project Leader
- Name / nickname?
- UX Commando.
- A professional achievement you are particularly proud of?
- Creator of the term "Sociofinancement" (Crowdfunding in French), recognized by Dictionnaire Francophone (official French dictionary).
- The most useless thing on your desk?
- Games on my iPhone.
- People say you look like...?
- An elf.
- The shame of your life?
- There are too many.
Thomas Duperré
Digital Strategist
- What your colleagues say about you?
- Not to let my laid-back attitude fool you: I get a lot of things done without looking stressed out.
- At school, you were ...?
- Very good and often MIA.
- They say you look like ...?
- Strangely to Ryan Gosling (it's the beard I think).
- The most beautiful moment of your life?
- Barefoot marriage in an AirBnb in Cape Town.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- I wanted to open my horizons about all things digital and be part of a small business located in Montreal.
Kirill Solomonov
Functional analyst, Team Lead
- A professional achievement you are particularly proud of?
- The overhaul of the Wayne Enterprises web store (no relation to Batman...supposedly).
- Your web specializations?
- Web store features, platform integrations, ERPs.
- What your colleagues would really say about you?
- Cooks badly but keeps trying.
- In school, you were...?
- Bad at philosophy, average at foosball, good at math.
- You can't live without...?
- All-you-can-eat sushis.
Arnaud Datin
Functional Analyst
- A professional achievement you’re particularly proud of?
- Finally having found a real job, I used to be a musician…
- At school, I was…?
- Good :/ and attentive.
- You can’t live without…?
- My daughter and my music.
- You never thought you would see in your lifetime?
- It wouldn’t be appropriate to say here…
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Two words: the people and the values.
David Arbour
Web Developer, Team Lead
- The least useful thing on your desk?
- The Windows key.
- You would have liked to be the inventor of:
- The Nokia 3310.
- 20th century's biggest invention?
- Funk music
- Your childhood dream?
- Being a paleontologist living in an R.V.
- What you thought you would never see in your lifetime?
- A bear waiting for the bus with me.
Sébastien Lamy
Web Developer, Team Lead
- Pastel is…?
- A question for designers.
- You never thought you would see in your lifetime?
- The dissolution of the Soviet Union (Yes, I'm old, a cold war baby).
- What I bring to the team?
- White hair.
- When I retire…
- I'll take the essential role of being the old grumpy man.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- I've worked in a lot of varied companies, and while there were some places I've liked a lot, I found that I liked the Symetris environment, and its people, more. So yes, I have the intention of being here for a long time…
Enrique Diaz Carranza
Web Developer
- The internet of tomorrow will be?
- A history book for sentient robots.
- People say you look like...?
- Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina.
- Your childhood dream?
- To become rich and successful. In a Batman kind of way...
- You can’t live without…?
- Coffee. Let's face it, coffee is a programmer's gasoline.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Symetris is a very special company. It is as much a team as a family. I can't imagine a better place to learn and grow as a professional.
Christopher Tomasso
Web Developer, Team Lead
- What I bring to the team?
- My front-end expertise but most of all, my cheerfulness.
- What your colleagues really say about you?
- Lunatic sometimes... for example; hitting refresh continuously on a page and not understanding why I am not seeing my changes... Only to realize that I am refreshing the static version!
- You can’t live without…?
- Coffee. Without, I'm a bit grumpy.
- The most beautiful moment of your life?
- The purchase of our house. It's good to be home, where I'm the boss now!
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Symetris gave me the challenge I was looking for: to learn more about Drupal while delving into back-end to complement my front-end expertise. It was an offer I couldn't refuse!
Karine Paquette
Web Developer
- Your specific contribution to the Symetris team, by joining us?
- Bringing ~8 years of full-stack Drupal development knowledge to the table: back-end, front-end, and a bit of dev-ops.
- What you never thought you'd see in your life?
- Snow. Now that I'm in Montréal, I assume I’ll see enough snow to suffice for multiple life times.
- You would have liked to be the inventor of...?
- One, easy-to-learn, scientific language for the entire Earth population which would easy communication and reduce differences in the long-term.
- Where were you on the same date 10 years ago?
- Shooting a music video with a fresh green-screen setup in my apartment in Kolkata.
- The most useless thing on your desk?
- Rubik's cubes – I have a 2x2x2, a 3x3x3, and a 4x4x4. I've never tried the 4x4x4 cube, but I still have it. On a positive note, at least I can solve the first two.
Jigar Mehta
Web Developer
- Your specific contribution to the Symetris team?
- A mixed bag of Drupal, PHP and Web experience, but mainly a whole bunch of heart!
- A professional achievement of which you are particularly proud?
- Creation of a secured and anonymous API for the Build the Vote campaign, an initiative by Rock the Vote. This API allowed voting data to be recorded directly from a Minecraft server dedicated to the campaign.
- What your colleagues would say about you?
- That I can handle myself pretty well in Mario Kart 64.
- What your colleagues would really say about you?
- That I cheat at Mario Kart 64.
- Where were you on the same date 10 years ago?
- Preparing my portfolio that would earn me an internship at Symetris!
Nicolas Beaucage
Web Developer
- Your specific contribution to the Symetris team?
- 7 years of software development and programming experience, focused but not limited to Drupal, NodeJS, Typescript & more. And as an added bonus: A deep radio voice!
- A professional achievement you are particularly proud of?
- The creation of the Harmonize module, which facilitated and promoted a very efficient Drupal development workflow with advanced Front-End teams.
- The most useful thing on your desk?
- My plushy. Having a little friend does wonders for debugging!
- Social networks are useful for...?
- Networking! Socializing! Conquering boredom! Filling a deep, heartwrenching void found within yourself!...Too far?
- Your biggest childhood dream?
- To become a songwriter and producer, and I haven't given up just yet!
Kyle Serebour
Web Developer
- Your web specializations?
- PHP, Symfony, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, SEO.
- You can't live without...?
- My wife ❤️
- Your biggest childhood dream?
- To fly!!
- The most beautiful moment of your life?
- My daughter's birth.
- At your retirement?
- I haven't thought about it yet, haha
Moïze Laanaït
Web Developer
- You would have liked to be the inventor of...?
- Quake 2.
- Your childhood dream?
- Beat my brother's Time Record on Mario Raceway (Mario Kart 64).
- They say you look like…?
- A guy 5 years younger than my actual age.
- You never thought you would see in your lifetime?
- 1cm of mould on a spatula in my friend's apartment.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Symetris gives me the opportunity and support that allow me to grow professionally.
Maxime Lavoie
Web Developer
- A professional achievement you are particularly proud of?
- Selfdefense article in Le Devoir.
- Your biggest childhood dream?
- Being a stuntman.
- The best moment of your life?
- Flying an airplane.
- 3 things you can't work without?
- Music, tea and deadlines.
- The shame of your life?
- rm -rf /var CTRL C CTRL C CTRL D
Alex Bélanger
Web Developer
- A professional accomplishment that you are particularly proud of?
- When I was lead dev on 2 municipal sites of my native province.
- The most useful thing on your desk?
- A small mountain of notepads.
- The most useless thing on your desk?
- An old key that I just can't remember where it's actually used.
- In school, you were...?
- Fan of Garfield and Astérix, and had a few more hairs on me head.
- Your biggest childhood dream?
- Rockstar, private jet, the whole package
Jean-David Ouellette
Web Developer
- Your specific contribution to the Symetris team?
- The French Touch of the damned French.
- A professional achievement you are particularly proud of?
- To have propelled a news website into the French top 100.
- The most useless thing on your desk?
- My cat.
- Your biggest childhood dream?
- Being Kevin in Home Alone.
- What you thought you would never see in your life?
- Running out of toilet paper because of a bat and a pangolin.
Fabien Scotto Di Cesare
Web Developer
- What do you contribute to the Symetris team?
- To be able to bring a higher level of quality assurance and to have a real impact in the progress of the company.
- 3 things you can't work without?
- My presence of mind, my positive energy... and a computer.
- When I retire…
- Be the best elder video game player!
- What your colleagues really say about you?
- That I am a Meme Lord ;)
- The most useful thing on your desk?
- My own two hands!
Patrick Lemay
Quality Assurance Specialist
- What your colleagues would really say about you?
- I am crazy, too many puns and lots of pranks at the office.
- The most useless thing on your desk?
- A plant that combines 3 cacti that I prick myself on non stop.
- The most beautiful moment of your life?
- Every night my kids sleep all night.
- The thing you never thought you'd see in your life?
- A russian (Kirill) who does not play hockey.
- The shame of your life?
- Impossible to write this here but veeery good story for a 5 à 7.
André-Olivier Galarneau
Quality Assurance Specialist
- Name / nickname?
- Calimero
- At school, you were...?
- In the first row in the left corner, where the teacher can't see you!
- What you never expected to see in your life?
- Crossing the Belem, a magnificent three mast in the middle of the Atlantic, while I was sailing with friends.
