Frederick Chouinard Email & Phone Number

St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

SOC and SIEM DevOps, Security Log Acquisition- Development and operation of large scale log acquisition infrastructure - On-premises, cloud and hybrid- Operationalization and operations of cybersecurity open source and commercial solutions- Integration of open source projects and tools with commercial solutions- Microsoft Sentinel content development and management - Data connectors - Analytics (alerting) rules - Watchlists - Automation rules - Workbooks - Kusto query language (KQL) for Azure Log Analytics Workspace- Azure (for Sentinel) - Log Analytics Workspaces - Logic Apps - Functions (Function Apps) - Automation Accounts- Elastic Stack - Deep expertise with Logstash - Expertise with Elasticsearch - Expertise in Kibana content development - Implementation of Watchers and automated reports- ArcSight - Customization of SmartConnectors - Creation of SmartConnectors- Exabeam - Data Lake usage - Flatline rules creation and management- RSyslog configuration and usage expertise- Apache Kafka- Ansible (command line) deployment automation- Python- Linux: bash, awk, sed, grep, regular expressions- Systems operations and monitoring- Git and GitHub- Documentation (Confluence, Jira, MS Office)- Coaching and supervision of interns

Montreal, Canada Area

- Integration of open source projects and tools* Familiarity with several different types of open source licenses- Development of a common platform for all product lines* CentOS 6.x -based Linux distribution* Installation tools to facilitate the use of Cobbler, dnsmasq and PXE Boot* Kickstart files* Puppet deployment and configuration tools* System utilities* Monitoring and alarming (SNMP, Nagios, Check_MK)* Key performance indicator data acquisition (OS, system, hardware, etc.)- Cloud infrastructure, platforms and systems proofs of concept and prototypes* OpenStack (Grizzly, Havana, RDO, Mirantis, etc.) and OpenVSwitch* Amazon Web Services* VMWare ESX, Fusion and Workstation- Server hardware* HP DL-series 1U and 2U, BL-460c and BL-220 in C7000 or C3000 chassis* Kontron SymKloud with Intel Xeon or Core i7 CPUs* Radisys 40 Gbps ATCA and processing blades with Xeon CPUs- Networking hardware* HP* Cisco* Kontron SymKloud- Team lead for development in Python of new OS and software platform sitting on new ATCA hardware* Oversaw the performance testing efforts on this new platform* Presented performance testing results to large customer and secured acceptance- IT team lead and director* ATCA supplier liaison, RMA management, inventory tracking* Supervised and authorized purchases of less than 500$ each for a monthly total of less than 5000$* Supervised and contributed to the installation and administration of Crowd, Jira and Confluence* Put in place formal tracking of IT tickets in Jira- IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface)- PICMG specifications for management of ATCA chassis- Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credit report* Wrote the technical project descriptions and processed the timesheets for 2011 to 2013 (a few million dollars per year in tax credits)

Montreal, Canada Area

- Managed the OAM&P tools team (Java, Cacti)- Integration and extension of a Java CMS into an existing product line- Preparation of technical project descriptions and timesheets for SR&ED tax credit report production- Led a mixed team of consultants (2-3) and employees (2-3) in the development of a smart caching module in Java

Montreal, Canada Area

Under contract to Vantrix Corp. for maintenance and operation of hosted mobile video portal for a large US customer, and for technical project descriptions and timesheets for SR&ED tax credit report production.

Montreal, Canada Area

- Hosted services development, integration and deployment- Analysis, design and implementation using Java, C, C++, shell scripts, Perl and other utilities- Assembly of software development toolbox from commercial and FOSS tools, including version management tools- Complex distributed logging system configuration and operation- Software development process, methods and conventions- Analysis of international standard specifications for messaging and multimedia on wireless networks- Review and validation of use cases- UML modeling- Unit testing- Development team management (as many as 10 developers)- Coaching and training- Help train a product line manager- Help train 3 successive engineering VPs- Writing of the technical project descriptions and preparation of timesheets for the SR&ED tax credits for 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007

Montreal, Canada Area

Consultant under contract to Valeurs Mobilieres Desjardins.

Montreal, Canada Area

Several contracts as software architect, solution architect and technical team lead.