Name - Fashola Olajide

Address- 73 Rue Jean Baptiste Pigalle, 75009, Paris

Mobile Telephone-06 83 28 79 14

E-Mail- fashola72@hotmail.com

Status in France-Permanent Resident/with good English/valid working papers/no criminal or civil listing in judicial docket.

Higher Education

1990 - BA History

1991 - MA Contemporary History. Thesis, French public opinion and the biafran civil war, 1967-1970.

1993 - M.Phil Contemporary History. Thesis, Great Britain and the Nigerian civil war 1967-1970. 1st project - The London Stock Exchange, 1870-1914. 2nd project-The order of books:- authors, readers and libraries in Europe XVII-XVIIIth centuries.

January-June 2000-Web Design & Site Management Certificate-The American University of Paris (Cont. Edu)

Web Site Prototype Design

The importance of search engines, what constitutes a good web site,elements of design, layout, choosing an ISP,software and hardware decisions, planning web design projects and working to dealines.

Web Marketing Strategies

The marketing and business potentials of the internet, defining corporate objectives as related to the web, online market research resources, newsforums, bulletin boards as instruments of online relationship and the components of a marketing plan.

Basic Html Design

HTML programming for; paragraphs, dividers, images, making links, lists, frames and tables.

Managing a Web Site

Defining a web site target publics, researching data for internet penetration and campaign coverage, domain name registration formalities, elements of a web site promotion plan, the advantages and disadvantages of a free host server,commercial hosting companies, site uploading (Fetch on Macintosh), site management tools, web mastering techniques and e-zines as instruments of corporate publicity.

Dreamweaver

Introduction to the major components of dreamweaver, the object palette and the property launcher. Organising files and folders, tables as layout elements, image positioning, hyperlinks, image maps, adding colors, cascading style sheets and layers.

January 1997-Janaury 1999

Quarkxpress, HTML programming and introduction to desktop publishing: layout, design elements and font decision making process. DTP portfolio covers business cards, table of contents, press advertisements(half, quarter and full pages).

Professional Experience

1989-1996 Bureautique Communications

Responsibilities: Translation of business briefs, reports, market survey, investment synopsis, petroleum and energy supplements on North Africa and materials on telecommunications carriers in the United States.

2000-2001 Freelance Translation

Heritage tourism, cultural brochures, flyers, reports on trade missions, legal recommendations, medical and biological articles and commercial database materials. Introduction to Question Mark as a database software. The organisation and the transfer of oil exploration, production and marketing management files to the latest version of Question Mark.

Writing Credits

Oct. 1988-Contemporary Review, The Mandate of Francois Mitterrand

Dec. 1989-Journal of defense & diplomacy, The defense policy of France (book review)

April. 1990-Army defence & Quarterly Journal, The defense policy of France(book review)

Sept 1994- Army defence & Quarterly Journal, The military history of France(book review)

Spring 1995-Travel Books Review, Paris Inside Out

Spring 1996-Dual Career Magazine,French or Foe

Spring 1997-Dual Career Magazine, How to be a freelance journalist

1997 Travel Books Review, A Fez of the heart and Successful motivation in a week

Professional Qualities

Capacity to work under pressure with good verbal and written communication skills, completely bilingual(english and french) with good keyboard skills.

Professional objectives

To offer first class research, writing, web and communication services with speed, dedication, efficieny and commitment

French Telecommunications Shares Listed on the Paris Bourse(Article written/unpublished in 1997)

The vast array of telecommunications shares on all the major components of the Bourse de Paris constitute for astute investors mines of investment opportunities. The reglement mensuel which is the most important component of the market operates on the principle of deposit and has the largest concentration of telecommunications companies. Prospective investors on this sector of the official market only need to pay a deposit of 20% relative to their investment when making their order and the remaining 80% at the end of the month usually on the jour de liquidation. Alcatel Ashthom, the leading French telecommunications operator is listed on this component of the market. Privatised in 1987, in revege against the socialist nationalisation of 1982 and reputed for its presence in all the sectors of the industry such as ; telephone, transmission, telex, video conferencing and stakes in many international cable ventures. A critical point in the evolution of its share history was the downward slide of its share price when news relative to indictment of its chief executive was made public.

Quite distinct from Alcatel Asthom and within the same sector is Alcatel Cable. The elevation of this cable operator from the secondary market component to the monthly settlement was due to its interesting corporate profiles. Arguments such as new business opportunities, the explosion of international telephone calls likely to rise from about 15 billion in 1980 to about 70 billion in 1995 and anticipated to be at about 150 billion minutes at the beginning of the next decade were advanced in favor of Alcatel Cable, as a good value investment product.

Another good value telecommunication investment on the Bourse de Paris is Matra Hachette. After the disaster of its television investment which had for consequence the merger between Hachette and Matra in the form of a share exchange scheme. Matra Hachette never faltered in its pioneering telecommunication efforts. For example, the group wanted to consolidated its multimedia dimensions in the form of an agreement with Netscape and withrew from the much publicised Europe Online project. Matra Hachette is an actively exchaged stock as over 17,091 shares changed hands in the course of a January 3 1996 trading session. SFR (General des Eaux), Itineris and SAT are other mobile operators listed on the stock market and for the moment there are no listing of France Telecom investment certificates.

International Telecommunications Shares

ITT and AT&T are the jewels of the international section of the first French stock market. By a price surge of 18% the market reacted positively to the division of AT&T into three distinct corporate entities. Telephonica, the Spanish telephone group registered a 5% increase in its trading price since the last liquidation and is currently trading at Ffr71. In comparison to other European countries, the Spanish telephone penetration rate is relatively low but Telephonica dominates the entire South America telephone market. its recent launch of the first digital mobile service on the GSM and its annual profits that increased by 16% in 1994 make Telephonica another investment product for high net worth individuals.

Siemens, the German group that produces telephones, fax machines, high tech equipment and mobile telephone is within the family of blue chips financial products. This group also includes Nokia, Philips and Ericsson. Ericsson is famous for its control of the booming mobile telephone sector, its role as the biggest supplier of mobile telephone infrastructure and mobile phone handsets. Its no longer a secret that Deutshe Telecom and France Telecom are discussing on the possibilities of creating a super European carrier and once approved by the European Commission the initial public offer of France Telecom will be one of the greatest privatization in the history of the Paris bourse.

The Timid Rise of Ecommerce in France

To observers of contemporary France, the proliferation of magazines relevant to cross border employment opportunities are features that were unpredictable in France ten years ago. Especially, in a country where a Prime Minister openly expressed her disdain for the stock market, not to mention a publisher who disclosed his ignorant of the stock exchange and corporate finance in an account of his publishing career. But the assiduous watcher of Corporate France wondering if these factors are not naturally entrenched in French life, will be surprised with the popularity the public accorded to the privatization of the national telephone operator, the flurry of web agencies (one stop web design and web marketing boutiques) and flamboyant e-commerce advertisements, not to mention the waves of favorable press coverage relative to the opening of Amazon.fr.

The real truth is that the French high telephone penetration rate is what one observer described as efforts of a conservative country that entered into the 21st century without leaving behind a strong passion for the past. Eye witness accounts stress the pace at which coin operated public telephones were replaced with prepaid telephone cards as other anecdotes relative to the French high tech transitions. One survey conducted by Mediametrie-ISL revealed that only 5,9% of French household are online and that domestic computer access is just at 22%. An investigation showed that France is in the tenth position on the league table of wired EC countries, far behind most of the Scandinavian countries but ahead of Portugal and Belgium.

Clickz, the U.S based advertising/marketing firm confirmed the French internet crawl, in a study by affirming that European internetters prefer thier national online web services such as Wanadoo.fr, Yahoo.fr, Multimania.com and Voilö.fr. French users were estimated at 5 milion by the end of 1999, this estimate grew to 7 million according to another survey in the first quarter of this year. A similar research carried out last year concluded that 1,490,000 of French internet users are between 18-24 years old, 1,585,000 in the 35-49 years age bracket and 1503, 000 in the 25-34 years age group. Andersen Consulting in a study on the socio economic profile of French internet users says that 64% of the electronic shoppers were shocked to note that their orders were not in stock, 40% castigated the delivery system and 36% of a panel had already experienced shoddy web contents and downloading problems.

ECommerce Awareness

Corporate policy makers are now integrating e-cmmerce as a component of their distributive strategy and only 19% of the respondents to a study think that e-commerce departments should be created within the organisational structure of the big groups. Another 40% believed that considerable investment will be necessary for corporate France to actually boast of any e-commerce culture. However, factors of geography, convenience, speedy delivery and sales guarantee are part of the reasons for the take off of electronic commerce. Particularly, if we take into consideration one press release by Boston Consulting, which hinted that only 0,2% of the retail trade of last year was accomplished online. Degriftour, seems to be the standard bearer of online sales in France as far back as 1996 with five to six orders per day and FNAC.com followed but none of the big names in corporate France have pounded the ECommerce piano loudly as Hotel.fr and Champagne-boizel.fr. Because Hotel.fr is a grouping of hotels and generates fifteen hotel reservations per week to attain a business turnover of about 500,000 Francs per month. While the most cogent ecommerce evidence is that of the Champgne retailer (Champgane-boizel.fr) that simply transfered its mail order sales technique to an e-commerce strategy and thus generating about 5000 Francs per week.

Despite all these developments the conclusions of a study conducted by Nommis/Ipsos showed that 83% of the respondents interviewed for a report declared that they are very conscious of security issues on the internet and another 67% are relatively reluctant to use their credit cards online. Last April, the Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs, launched the Secure Electronic Transaction protocol which will add another protocol standard to the international debate on the issue of secure and reliable ecommerce data transfer. We are not sure of the popularity of SET but the Secure Sockets Layer protocol accounts for over 90% of all ecommerce transactions before the advent of SET. But the major distinction between SSL and SET is that both the user and the merchant of the French online payment system (cyber comm) must possess a payment device. Reduced to fundamentals, the cyber-Comm protocol implies that in addition to the PC/IMac the French user will have to buy a device known as "Merkat," while the seller equally must install a software/device coproduced/sponsored with the agreement of the big financial institutions and professional bodies in accordance to SET standard.

E-Commerce Success Stories

The major catalyst in the development of ecommerce were initially the surge in the number of venture capital firms that rose by 236% at the end of the last study and projected to be at 21 million francs by the end of 2004. Further evidence of the awareness of online transaction was provided when the Journal des Finances published at the beginning of this year a special issue on," La Bourse sur l'internet," with articles on all the aspect of online investment; covering the web sites of brokerage firms, hints on the quality of investment research, client list,the cost of custodian rights and allied financial services. One symposium organised at the American University of Paris early this year by the Internet Association of France attests to the first professional reflection on the development of a coherent ecommerce campaign in France. At least, it showed that there are professionals engaged in online marketing and ebusiness activities pertinently sharing their views. Even before this blue-ribbon gathering another symposium by the same association discussed the success of Eatonline.fr that capitalizes on the idea a simple ordering process in partnership with a network of two hundred restaurants.

Eatonline operates on the average order of 150 francs in contrast to Deliceavenue.com that exploits neatly the gift basket niche. Within a short time, Houra.fr attained its target objective of 20 000 time conscious cyber customers living withing the Paris/Greater Paris area. Purposely, by providing complete shopping facilities before office opening hours or late in the night when most district corner shops are closed. Curiously, the secret behind the success of the big online ventures is the fact that most of them are in partnership with the giant retailers: Houra.fr is the online branch of Coral, Ooshop.fr belongs to the Carrefour group and c-mescources is part of the Casino. Fran?ois VZÿron of Casino Enterprise, in an interview given to the e-commerce magazine last August summarised c-mescourse objectives thus, "C-Mescourses is the strategic priority of the Casino Group." And acquarelle.com, bouquetnantais.com, interflora.fr and lesjardindesfleurs.com constitute by any definition lively examples of ecommerce success stories.

The proliferation of e-commerce campaigns became public in the city with a glossy brochure of 0oshop.com tucked into every Paris mailbox. On the cover of the brochure is a model trying to match the contents of her catalog with a computer screen transformed into a refrigerator containing fresh vegetables, cans of coca cola, mineral water and frozen chicken. Page two of the brochure was devoted to the delivery system and Ooshop web site screen shots. The last page of the brochure covered all the offices of Ooshop in Paris and the greater Paris region. Fortunately, a thorough perusal of a research paper bylined by Gill Mander and published by the Gartner Group this summer remains the first study on the timid development of ecommerce in France. The author of this compendium started by saying that car manufacturers and dealers must provide full specification and price information on their web sites. That nearly one million households containing at least one internet user intend to buy a car within the next year and more that half will use the internet to research any aspect of the buying process. Gill Mander added, that 51% of the present users of Citroen might likely purchase another brand of car in contrast to 41%/39% for the users of Ford/Opel and concluded, " A high volume of households would already consider researching many stages of the car buying process on the internet, the majority of households will not yet commit to a purchase online. The market for online sales in France is still small,(in its infance) because only about 5% of households are ready to consider closing the deal online."

Materials Consulted For Background Research

International ecommerce WebSites

http://www.wilsonweb.com

http://www.gartner.com

http://www.clickz.com

http://www.cnet.com

http://www.webreview.com

http://www.webreference.com

http://www.webtechniques.com

http://www.nua.Com

http://www.headcount.com

French E-Commerce Web Sites

http://www.cadeaux-de-france.com

http://www.compangniedesgourmets.com

htpp://www.kanibuy.com

http://www.nouveau.nouveau.com

http://www.cacharel.com

http://www.go-sport.com

http://www.e-leclerc.com

http://www.tradematch.com

http://www.procar.com