André Rodier Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Broxbourne

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

After working with a more and more Microsoft oriented environment, I have chosen this position as a “return to the roots” to Open-Source. There was in this company a real desire to leave Microsoft technologies for less vendor lock-in solutions. My experience in both domains has been a decisive criteria for this role. I have managed to migrate all the services to Ubuntu & Debian based environments.It was a challenging position, with a huge workload. The environment itself was built upon a ten years old structure, using mixed open source and proprietary technologies. All these applications have been gradually replaced by modern LAMP stacks using agile methodologies, continuous integration and unit testing.I have first installed a replicated and shared authentication system based, so everyone had to remember only one password. I have then replaced AD by a Samba server, and activated roaming profiles.The Exchange server has been replaced by three email servers hosted on two different internet connections. Emails were digitally signed and certified. A dual internal / external Jabber server was also included.I have also deployed solutions allowing remote workers to transparently access all the services from home, like a VPN and a private cloud.Finally, I have replaced in-house developed intranet with a secure and modern wiki.

The first task in Red2 has been to build the foundations for a proper working environment. I have minimised single points of failure, by using replication on most important services.I have started by installing two virtualisers for Windows & Linux guests, with disks snapshots and archiving.I have also installed a VPN server, with two DNS servers and custom domain names for internal development and continuous integration.An entirely open source email servers has been built to deliver emails with advanced features: Shared & public folders fine grained ACL and an extremely powerful mail filtering system (sieve).The system has been extended with a shared calendar and address book, using well established standards (caldav & carddav).The webmail offered access to all settings, like ACL on folders and the Anti-spam policy rules.A powerful and extensible wiki software & mash-up platform for our internal procedures and documentation.Finally, I have installed two windows domain controllers, with roaming profiles stored on a shared NAS.Obviously, the authentication to all these services uses redundant credentials' management servers, with multiple protocols handled.

Perpignan (Perpinyà) Area, France

In 2000, I created a sole trader company in France, to provide specialised development and services to companies in my Country. One of my customers, both worked and lived in France and United Kingdom. It was this inspired influence that triggered my decision to live in UK.

Designing and Building a modern front-end application providing Financial Management Information to the senior management and board for Legal & General. The system was fed with data from a Business Object Universe. Creating the prototype for the new version of the Business Reporting Application, as a proof of concept based on emergent technologies. Designing and implementing the user interface for the internal Balanced Scorecard project.

Now known as Eurilogic, HTS is a medium sized French company, specialised in industrial engineering & real-time data acquisition systems. In this company, I worked on small and yet very interesting projects, associated to the defence & aerospace industry. This was my first employment as a programmer, and I have acquired substantial Low-Level Programming skills.I worked as a C++ developer, on Windows and Linux, using Microsoft Visual C++.Implemented embedded components in C and Java on VxWorksImplemented OpenGL embedded ControlsCreated ActiveX controlsFirst contact with Solaris and Linux

Dut, Maintenance,Computer Programming,System Administration

Activities and Societies: creation of a small company in south of France, working with multiple clients in France.

Bts Industrial Computer Programming

Activities and Societies: C/C++ Development on Unix and real time Operating System OS9