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Global management of file transfer services for all divisions and sites

Worldwide

Company global lead on file transfer technologies and projects. Central facilitator for cross-team and cross-division interactions and continuous improvement.Managing our global file transfer infrastructures.Interacting with customers as technical liaison and workflow on-boarding facilitator. Expertise with file transfer technologies and software. (Aspera, Signiant, etc.)Experience in merging various different company divisions and teams under one standardfile transfer policy, set of applications and security hardening rules. Expertise in security. Data transfer forensic analysis and optimizing servers for hardened security. Encryption of data and best practices for storage and retention. Training users for best practices and optimal security in all their workflows. Mediating easiness of usage vs security constant challenges. Unix, Windows and MacOS environements.Database management, automation, security, encryption, employees training, security audits. Netapp, Hitachi, Isilon and HP Nimble storage devices. VMWare and other virtualisation tools. Oriented toward internal and external customers satisfaction.

Mirabel, Montréal And Québec City.

In charge of I.T. support, server and network administration for 9 sites in the Québec province, with up to 6 network administrators and support staff. Covering corporate applications and specialized production systems. Managed I.T. operational budget of 1.3 million USD. Purchasing, warranties and support on hardware and software. Enforced processes like ISO-9001 and SOX. Internal security and customer audits . Covering at the technical level when needed (working manager). Managed employees performance evaluation, training and progression. Manage communications to users community and with suppliers/contractors. Link between production and corporate IT. Covering all that was in my previous role in the company at the same time.

Mirabel, Quebec, Canada

Startup of the most advanced 35mm film lab in the world. Building of a complete datacenter, network cabling, Wifi network, PLCs, surveillance and security systems First company in Québec and Canada to use Cisco VoIP. Deployed the first real-time film production tracking application. Management of 28 servers running Windows server, Sun Solaris and Linux Red Hat. 10 years of enhancing all technologies used at this company flagship . Supervision of up to 3 I.T. systems administrators and the electrical engineering team for I.T. related work and projects.

St-Jérôme, Montréal And Granby

Managed a team of four network administrators and I.T. Support for the company`s sites in Québec and assisting for Ontario, U.S. and in a few different European countries.Data centre builds. Help Desk team management. External and internal audits for all I.T. systems (including building access, security and DVR camera systems) Emphasis on file security as part of the company R&D activitites. In charge of our central Unix based NIS/NFS file repository for our Advanced Vision team and all collaborators worldwide and with 3rd parties working with them. Management of our VPN, firewall and proxy infrastructures globally.Management of switching and routing equipment (Cisco, 3Com)Management of our Help Desk and global communications on all I.T. maintenance. Traveled to our European sites for servers and special production equipment setup, upgrades and build of new data centers . (Italy, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Finland)

St-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada

Windows, Macintosh and Unix based workstations support and administration.Novell and Windows NT servers installation and administration.Management of switching and routing equipment (Cisco, 3Com)IBM AS/400 support3D CAD/CAM/CAE software support and administrationConnections to various plastic injection, material cutting and skate production equipment with RS-232 or IP based links.

Laval, Québec, Canada

In charge of Unix daily operations and backups. Contact with suppliers and customers. File restores and transfers, accounts creation and rights assignments in an NIS-NFS environment. Project archiving and retrieval, scripting of repetitive operations and technical support to users on HP/Unix, Irix (SGI). Support for Auto-Trol Serie 7000, Strim 100, ProE and various other 2D and 3D CAD/CAM softwares. Configuration of RS-232 connection to various industrial metal cutting and plastic injection equipment.Novell Netware server and workstations in a Windows 3.11/NT4 environment. PC support to Windows users and Foxpro programming.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

College internship followed by a four months contract to finish ongoing projects.Daily support of I.T. systems for the videography and 2D&3D animation services. Installation of Commodore Amiga workstations and production softwares, inluding NewTek`s Video Toaster and AmigaVision. Rendering farm setup.Main internship project was the networking of all of the company`s Amiga workstations to have them exchange files with Macintosh and PC workstations as well as the ability to render 3D animation frames to a common storage for multi-workstations farm rendering. Other projects includes finding and installing a Macintosh emulator running on the Amiga workstations and training to all members of the team. Installation of file formats conversion software and utilities, workstation hard drive imaging and simplifying the replacement process to make it faster. going with live remote teams to find possible ways of improving the I.T. systems and processes used and make suggestions, finding and configuring a file validation and encryption software and subsequent training to all staff.

Baccalauréat En Administration, Administration De Service, Bachelier

College Degree, Computer Science - Programmer/Analyst, College Degree