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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Coralie Mercier - W3C Marketing & Communications</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="downtown2.css" /> </head>  <body>  <div class="squares"> Site navigation: <ul class="nav"> <li><a id="c1" class="nav navcontact" href="#contact">Contact</a></li> <li><a id="c2" class="nav navwhat" href="#what">What?</a></li> <li><a id="c3" class="nav navwho" href="#who">Who?</a></li> <li><a id="c4" class="nav navlinks" href="#links">Links</a></li> <li><a id="c5" class="nav navfun" href="#fun"></a></li> </ul>     This has been <a href="/" id="a4" class="t">k</a><a href="/" id="a5" class="t">o</a><a href="/" id="b6" class="t">a</a><a href="/" id="b7" class="t">l</a><a href="/" id="c8" class="t">i</a><a href="/" id="c9" class="t">e</a> </div>  <div id="headline"> `it's down there somewhere, let me take another look.` The Dude The Big Lebowski (1998) </div>  <div id="main-title"> Coralie Mercier :: Head of W3C Marketing & Communications</div>  <div id="main-text"> I work for the <a href="/">World Wide Web Consortium</a> (W3C), the Web standards consortium. I am based on the French Riviera. I joined in January 1999 as administrative assistant and learned various other jobs within the organization. <h2><a name="contact" id="contact">Contact information</a></h2> Preferred: <e-mail> <a href="mailto:coralie@w3.org">coralie@w3.org</a> Other means: <Office postal address> W3C / ERCIM - Inria - 2004, route des Lucioles - F-06410 Biot Sophia Antipolis - FR <phone>+1 339-273-2711 #810 (France, <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/france">UTC +1</a>) <h2><a name="what" id="what">What I do at W3C</a></h2> Since February 2015, I am Head of W3C Marketing & Communications. I maintain a <a href="Mission/MarComm.html">description</a> of what I do. I am in charge of the Consortium's communication strategy and messaging, Public, Member and internal communications; I manage the Consortium's Website and Comm activities, including press, publications, branding, marketing, and some Member relations. I joined W3C in January 1999, as W3C Europe administrative assistant, with a degree in secretarial work, and diplomas in English as a foreign language. I became W3C Europe administration manager in 2001. I joined the W3C Communications Team part-time in 2005, and full-time since 2008. <h2><a name="who" id="who">Who I am</a></h2> <ul> <li><general> I live in La Roquette sur Siagne. I was born in Cannes and grew up there. For hobbies I <a href="https://blog.koalie.net/category/art/">draw and paint</a>, and ride a mountain bike.</li> <li><studies> 1992: 'baccalaur茅at' A1 (foreign languages, philosophy and mathematics), 1993: two-year secretarial course (Brevet de Technicien Sup茅rieur), 1995: studied at the Medical University of Nice (but didn't pass the exam), 1996: a year in Edinburgh to learn English as a foreign language (Passed the Oxford Higher with credits, Cambridge Advanced English, and Cambridge Proficient English).</li> <li><previously> 1992-1997 (during school holidays): medical secretary. 1997: a few months as a clerk in a law office in Cannes. 1998: six-month replacement at INRIA as secretary to the Sinus project. 1999: hired at W3C in Sophia Antipolis.</li> <li><mbti> ISTJ  </li> </ul> <h2><a name="links" id="links">Links</a></h2>  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/koalie/">flickr</a> || <a href="https://www.koalie.net/">koalie.net</a> || <a href="https://blog.koalie.net/">Contemplations in Markup (blog)</a> || <a rel="me" href="https://w3c.social/@koalie">Mastodon</a> || <a href="https://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/Team/Fun/">bloopers</a> (w3c team only) </div> </body> </html>