39 years old Vincent Prost is a consulting engineer, holder of a diploma in electronic engineering ENSERG (INPG) and a master degree in image and sound at ENST Paris (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris). His fields of competence are, on one hand, new technologies – Internet, Intranet, workflow, electronic document management, archiving engineering -, and on the other, audiovisual and multimedia engineering.
Research and Development engineer at the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA)’s audiovisual archives department from 1991 to 1997, he has been project manager of Phonothèque’s (radio archives) documentary system and carried out an expertise on foreign TV documentary systems (China and Mexico). As such, he also designed a multimedia analysis software for audiovisual documents as well as a noise reduction software for sound documents.
From 1997 to 1999, being in charge of Études et Développements (Research and Development) at the Inathèque de France (copyright registration library for radio and television), he was project manager for the creation of a platform enabling Bibliothèque de France to consult Inathèque’s collection. He also compiled Cd-Roms presenting university research works, and ran the documentary data base and Internet/Intranet sites.
In charge of the “Équipements et Administration” system structure (fourteen people), from 1999 to 2002, at the INA’s projects and methods department, he organised a user’s assistance scheme (five hundred users, six hundred PCs), and managed a third party applicative maintenance as well as the administration of the information systems (twelve HP-UX servers, thirty NT servers, fifty Oracle bases, thirty Basis bases). At the same time, coordinating assistance to the project owner for the “Plan patrimoine”, he set up a workflow to process commercial transfers and supervised the MPEG digitization along with putting online audiovisual documents (one hundred thousand hours in three years’ time). Last but not least, he designed and set up a multilingual data base of TV programs for twelve Mediterranean countries (CapMed).
Since December 2002, he has been counselling advisor for Opsomai in matters of management and distribution of audiovisual and multimedia contents dealing with Internet operators, territorial authorities, holders of television channels and archives.