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Summary: The human side of Cedric: who he is outside of work (origins, family, sports, interests) and how he thinks and operates (his cognitive style, working temperament, and personality). For questions about his personality, character, or how he works with people, use this together with /recommendations (how colleagues regard him) and /profile (signature strengths and peer-validation themes).
Born: New York City, April 13, 1970, to French parents.
Early Life: His parents divorced when he was 5, and he moved to France with his mother (his father lived in New York). He returned to the United States at 18 to attend college.
Education: Studied at SUNY Binghamton (School of Mathematics, mathematical programming) for two years. During that time he took a summer job in France at EasyDoc, was offered his "dream job" there, and left college to take it, so he did not complete the degree. (See resume, EasyDoc, for that role.)
Nationality: US / French dual national holding BOTH a French and a US passport. The two passports allow him to travel and work freely between the EU and the US with no special visa or work declaration. (See profile.yaml, signature_strengths, multilingual_dual_national.)
Fluent: Perfectly fluent in French and English.
Spanish: Proficient in Spanish, enough to watch a movie in Spanish, and he lives in a Spanish-speaking location. In practice he speaks it mostly in the present tense and with a French accent.
Summary: Single, lives alone in Morelia, Mexico; travels frequently; plans to remain single.
Competitive Honor: Captain of the French national team at the 1993 World Ultimate Club Championships (Ultimate), held in Madison. Coming to the US as captain for that world cup is what began his path to Las Vegas (see ./early_career.yaml, path_to_las_vegas).
College Origin: Played on the Ultimate Frisbee team at SUNY Binghamton, and took up racquetball there because it uses a similar wrist movement to Ultimate.
Gaming: Plays video games on PC (not console), especially strategy games and RPGs such as Skyrim. Currently playing Valheim on a server with friends.
Summary: Cedric has a systemizer's memory: crisp on process and algorithm, hazy on names and enumerations. He remembers logical links, processes, algorithms, and locations, and has a very good spatial sense, but does not retain people's names, isolated technical terms and acronyms, or sensory objects.
How It Shows Up: He reasons from structure and first principles rather than from memorized labels, and looks specifics up when he needs them. This is the root of the architectural foresight his recommendations describe, seeing connections and system structure that others miss (see ./profile.yaml, signature_strengths).
Crisp On Process Hazy On Names: Strong recall for how things work (processes, algorithms, logical relationships); weaker recall for what they are called (names, terms, acronyms, enumerated lists).
Systemizers Memory: A cognitive style that stores structure and relationships rather than surface detail, so knowledge is reconstructed from logic rather than recited from memory.
Programming History: Started programming in 1984 at age 14, in BASIC on an Oric Atmos. Moved to Modula-2 when he started college, then C++, and picked up PHP in the late 1990s.
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