"In a constantly changing world, being immobile means going backwards."

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Alexandre Baubert 

Born in Suresnes, France, 1974

Engineering Diploma

ENSI de Lyon, 1997

Master of Science in Satellite Communications

University College of London, 1998

Field of work

Electronics, Information Technology

Satellite Communications, Web development

Areas of interest outside work

Challenges! Black & White Photography, windsurfing, snowboard and soccer, oenology, gastronomy.

I grew up in France. I spent 20 years in a Paris suburb very close to Versailles. My great fear at this time was to get out this cocoon of a life. My first jump from this life was when I decided study in Lyon, 500km from Paris. I spent 2 years studying Electronics and Information Technology in this beautiful city close to the Alps. Well this jump was a bug's jump: not enough for me. I wanted more. After my next small jump to Paris for a one-year job, I jumped to London year to take a Master of Science in Spacecraft Technology and Satellite Communications. Absolutely terrific subject: I loved these studies. It was my best student year ever. London was so pretty, so different, so cosmopolitan. It definitively gave me a taste for travels. I needed to jump more. "Do you want to go to New York", someone asked me one day. I could not have expected a more exciting proposal. So Here I am in New York, enjoying this marvelous city, sometimes too crazy I think, sometimes so irresistible. Great city, great job in Schlumberger as Information Technology developer, great teammates. But I needed to jump again.

I decided to skydive. What a challenge! It is not jumping from one city to another, it is jumping out of a plane.  I did it and want to do more now.

Where will I go next?? Well, I am ready for anything. I am not sure what my next destination will be, but I am sure that I am going to JUMP again. Jump, Jump, Jump….!!!

Somebody said one day "Dans un monde en mouvement, l'immobilisme est de recul" which can be translated basically by "In a constantly changing world, being immobile means going backwards" so my thoughts are "Move, Travel, Jump…!!"