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 neighbors.
- 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
- A professional achievement you’re particularly proud of?
- Organizing a parachute jump for all the students of my final school year (150 people)
- What your colleagues really say about you?
- That I can be annoyingly energetic at times!
- The least useful thing on your desk?
- Too late, it's not on my desk anymore...
- Your childhood dream?
- Become a secret agent (ideally 007)!
- What do you love about Symetris?
- The human side, the wellness I feel when I come to the office - that's so important in life! We spend so much time at work, so I chose a company where we feel positive and surrounded by great colleagues!
Julien Linares
Business Developer
- 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 Leader
- They say you look like ...?
- My friends gave me the nickname of Tintin!
- A professional achievement you’re particularly proud of?
- Founding an e-commerce meal delivery platform that has brought significative changes in this business area in Montreal.
- What do you contribute to the Symetris team?
- My web skills set... and my expertise in Belgian beers.
- Your biggest embarrassment?
- Nice try!
- What do you love about Symetris?
- To join a company that lets me deploy my wings professionally with challenging projects to manage while being able to become a member of a family of like-minded individuals.
Julien Pauss
Project Leader
- 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
- 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
Production Director
- 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
Director, Strategy & Innovation
- 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
- 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 | QA
- 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
- 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
- What I bring to the team:
- Height?
- Your web specialties are?
- Drupal Drupal Drupal, of course, 12+ years.
- At school you were:
- The guy with a cd-burner.
- A genius?
- Thank you.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- I chose Symetris because it is a company that is aligned with my values both in a professional and personal sense. Plus I've had a history of working with Symetris and this has always been positive!
Heath Stannard
Web Developer
- 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
- A professional achievement you’re particularly proud of?
- London 2012 OG site (Drupal 7).
- What your colleagues say about you?
- Enthusiast, expert.
- What your colleagues really say about you?
- In Beers…
- You would have liked to be the inventor of:
- A spaceship.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- I love how the "start-up" feel has been maintained at Symetris, even though they were founded over 15 years ago. And I love Drupal too ;)
Philippe Mouchel
Web Developer
- 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
- Your web specialties are?
- Find defaults, from a small misaligned picture to making the servers melt.
- At school you were:
- The one who really enjoyed taking naps mid-lecture...
- Your childhood dream?
- A mix of firefighter, astronaut and rock star.
- The most beautiful moment of your life?
- First time riding my motorcycle.
- What do you love about Symetris?
- Not only the company’s culture and its great work atmosphere, but mostly the people who work there. It's more than just a job where you go in, do your 9 to 5 at your desk and then go back home without having a nice day.
François Simard
Quality Assurance
- 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
- A professional achievement that you are particularly proud of?
- I established a Digital department - the first at any major Canadian law firm - and led a major replatforming from legacy digital marketing applications to a Gartner Quadrant DXP.
- The web of tomorrow is ...?
- A mashup of all the Black Mirror episodes ever aired.
- At school, you were...?
- The last one chosen for volleyball. The last one standing for spelling bees.
- They say you look like ...?
- I asked my boyfriend if I looked like a celebrity and he said "yes".
- When you retire?
- Own one horse, with a condo in Spain and a published novel.
Desiree Turko
Marketing & Performance Director
- Your specific contribution to the Symetris team, by joining us?
- Friendliness, Determination, Dependability, Experience, Laughter, Trust, Teamwork .... metaphors and punny jokes!
- Your web specializations?
- The computer doesnt catch on fire when I use it.... does that count?
- At school, you were...?
- An Athlete and a nerd. If I wasnt on a court I had my nose stuck in a book.
- Your biggest childhood dream?
- I wanted to be a power ranger... turns out spandex suits arent my thing.
- Where were you on the same date 10 years ago?
- Working alongside Mickey and the gang on a Disney Cruise Ship!
