Selim Achour.me

Selim Achour

Slim Achour

| +216 58 512 449 | selimachour@gmail.com

Professional Experience

  • 2020… now Audio Engineering teacher at the ESAD (École Supérieure d'Art et de Design - Tunis)
  • 2016… now Recording and/or Mixing Engineer

    Bands include : Aytma, Raoudha Abdallah, Gultrah Sound System, Mohamed Ali Kammoun, Dendri, Yuma, Omar El Ouaer…

  • 2015 & 2016 & 2017 Sound Engineer at the JMC (Journées Musicales de Carthage)

    Did all major events such as the Opening, the Closing and the competitions.

  • 2015 & 2016 Chief Sound Engineer at the International Festival of Hammamet, Tunisia
  • December 2014 - now Founder and CEO of Makemusic
  • December 2012 - now Founder and IT Manager of Tunisie Recyclage
  • June 2011 - now Founder and CEO of IDK
  • November 2008 - November 2010 Technical Manager at Letsbuyit.com

    Database management, apache/mysql/SolR configurations, front (html/css/javascript) development, recruitments, SEO

  • November 2007 - November 2008 Technical Manager at Karismatik

    Web developing using Drupal, Symfony, jQuery… Recruitment, and projects manager.

  • November 2005 - April 2007 C# / Php developer at Haiku

    Began as a C# programmer then transitioned to PHP/MySQL development for mobile phones, utilizing XHTML/PML/OML/WML/CHTML for markup languages and GD and Imagick for image creation and manipulation.

  • November 2001 - July 2005 Sound Engineer at Hollywood Sound Recorders (Los Angeles)

    Recording and editing sound engineer for multiple bands : Brand New Heavies, Bush, Institute, FatLip, The Farside, dj Jahi, Chris Dave, Meshell Ndegeocello, Rudy & the PM, Jay Swift, My Precious Days…

  • August 2001 - November 2001 Taxi driver at Yellow Cab
  • November 2001 - August 2001 Short/long distance driver at Nation Wide Movers (a moving company)

    What a better way to learn English and the Streets of Los Angeles than working as a mover / long distance truck driver :)

  • January 1996 - December 2000 Employee at Direct-Computer

    We sold computers and computer parts, setup networks with up to 100 computers, hosted the first tunisian computer related website that listed our products with prices, shared news… (made with perl/CGI).
    Among our clients : the Transportation Gouvernement, the army (scientific section), foreign high schools, the "Faculté des Sciences de Tunis", the "École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis"…

  • July 1998 - September 2000 Drummer at The Blues Band

    Mainly played 2 nights a week at the Sindbad Café, Gammarth, Tunisia.

Skills & Expertise

  • Programming Languages

    C, C++, C#, PHP, JavaScript, Processing

  • Databases

    MySQL, PostgreSQL, Neo4J, MongoDB

  • Admin

    Linux, Apache, nginx, vi, git, subversion

  • GIS (Geographic Information System)

    Mapbox, Maplibre, Leaflet, PostGIS (pg), QGIS, OpenStreetMap, OverPass, JOSM, StreetComplete…

  • Audio Softwares

    Cubase, Reaper, Pro Tools, Kontact, Melodyne

  • Played Instruments

    Drums, guitar, bass, piano… (jack of all trades, master of none)

  • Biker

Languages

  • English (Full professional proficiency)
  • French (Native)
  • Arabic (Native)