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Aix-en-Provence, FR

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

London, GB

Responsible for the infrastructure and security. Managed a team of 4 DevOps engineers. I supervised the implementation and maintenance the CloudMargin platform's infrastructure on AWS. The platform is fully micro serviced using WAFs, AWS ECS with auto-scaling, ELBs, Aurora Clusters, DynamoDB, Redis, and Rabbit MQ. The infrastructure is defined using IAC.

• Mango tools was created to change the paradigm of lack of integration into home automation products. To fix this problem where every single product on the home automation market use a different UI and protocol, we.
• MangoTools-Core: Written in Node.JS, Express and Socket.io, NeDb and web tokens. The core create an abstraction layer in order to use the same api for any home automation product. It is built for real time and very low.
• MangoTools-ui: Written in Ionic and Angular, Socket.io, the UI is designed to run on a custom hardware android device.
• Control services: Written as separated nodeJS instances and installed through an app store, it leverages Node-IPC for interprocess communication.Sailor Zone was a platform developed in Sails JS and Angular JS. Sailor.

Armonk, New York, US

• As a Senior Software Engineer, I was involved in multiple areas of Turbonomic:
• Sales and marketing: I helped the UK sales team in pre-sale and sale. We generated revenues over 1 million USD during this period.
• Research and development: I was in charge of identifying and prioritizing features to be developed. I implemented the support for storage in Turbonomic in Java. This control module was awarded by searchStorage.com and.
• I was involved in client support (post sale, customisation and on site debugging).
• I defined development requirements for multiple control modules IE (OpenStack, FlexPods, Cisco UCS )

Zurich, CH

• As a virtual capacity and performance manager, I was responsible for the UBS Virtual estate (25 000 VMs) and to ensure that UBS consolidation goals were reached. It involved the following management task:
• Defining UBS capacity and performance management strategy. Monitoring the available capacity and ordering new capacity when needed. As well as right sizing VMs to achieve the best consolidation rate as possible..
• Creating application baseline for capacity and performance management, based on tier structure and/or regulatory requirements
• Performance management for Windows, Redhat 5.5 /6 and Solaris x86 virtual instances, including JVM, Oracle, Microsoft Product, Citrix, and Solaris x86 and WebSphere.
• Overviewing the deployment of new virtual infrastructures. (managing on time deployment for compute, storage and network)
• Reviewing UBS virtual infrastructure designs to achieve the lowest cost per vm and highest level of redundancy and performance. (10Gb Network, SRM, Nexus 1000v, Oracle on NAS,SMVI Backup)

• As a senior infrastructure consultant, I was involved in the full project life-cycle (based on Prince2) including pre sales, project management, design and implementation of various solutions. Following are the.
• Thomson Reuters:Deployment of a VMware VSphere cluster including DRS, HA, VApp and Nexus 1000V, Capacity Planning for 100+ ESX servers
• Independent review Service (Public sector)Bringing the infrastructure to security accreditation level by deploying firewalls (Checkpoint and Fortinet), email content filtering solution (Fortinet) and SCOM 2007 R2 with.
• G&TDeployment of VMware SRM (site recovery manager) to migrate G&T infrastructure (45 servers) within an hour. The design included Equallogic replication and Riverbed. Design and Implementation of capacity IQ to.

Houston, Texas, US

• Chicago Bridge and Iron is a US Engineering company with 18000 employees. This role included the below activities:
• LAN: Migration of Cisco 6509 chassis from CatOS to IOS, with redesign of spanning tree and connectivity to the access layer to optimise redundancy and resilience.
• LAN: Redesign of VLAN infrastructure to optimize ISCSI traffic on NetApp SAN
• VMware: migration from VI3.5 to VSphere 4. Implementation of DPM for energy saving. Server consolidation and capacity management using VMware guided consolidation
• Daily Management of the San Infrastructure (NetApp)
• Citrix: build of a new infrastructure from scratch using XenServer, XenApp 5 and Windows 2008 and Citrix access gateway

Florham Park, New Jersey, US

• I was responsible for the infrastructure re-design of the LAN, WAN and server infrastructure (450 users on 7 sites) I delivered the following:
• LAN: LAN performance improvements by splitting stacks, improve the routing protocols, and improve spanning tree deployment and converging time.
• WAN: Redundancy and performance improvement by doubling links on each site, creating new tunnel using NHRP and implementing GLBP and EIGRP throughout the network. Implementing Riverbed steelhead for bandwidth.
• Citrix Farms: Implementation of a new Citrix Farm from scratch with redundant data stores and licensing server automatic DR capabilities to deliver Citrix connectivity to 450 Users.
• VMware: Implementation of HA and DRS to improve redundancy, daily administration and capacity management. Setup of a full DR infrastructure to a second location, including investment software and pension administration.
• SAN: Deployment of Compellent San and Brocade fibre switches. Setup of San replication between sites.

• Responsible for building the Wintel part (including Windows Technologies, Citrix platforms and VMware platforms with San connectivity) of the NHS LPfIT project (London program for IT). Highly challenging environment in.
• As a team leader: Managing a team of 12 Wintel engineers Including:o Change Control managemento Knowledge transfer to the team memberso Process improvement and baseline definition o Design improvement ( to make the.
• As a team player: Building the LPfIT Wintel environment Including:o Implementation of a large Citrix environment with hundreds of Citrix servers (Presentation server, web interfaces and access gateway)o Implementation.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

• Responsible for Design and Implementation of large High-Available Infrastructures (2,500 to 3,000 Users):
• Infrastructure and network audit for clients in France and Germany including network Active Directory and Citrix Farms
• Active Directory and network Design for 1000 Users on 4 different countries
• Full redundant design for 24/7 operation including:o Network redundancy with Ether channel, RSTP, VRRPo Hardware redundancy with Blade Centers, VMware vMotion
• Network and infrastructure design for a datacentre around hundred virtual server including Capacity Management ( VMware ESX, GSX over Redhat and VMware Infrastructure 3)
• Implementation of large multi-farm Citrix environment, with Web interfaces and Citrix Access Gateway and performance tuning.

• As Engineering Manager
• In charge of all customers' technical projects (e.g.: Implementation of Citrix solutions for 150 users for Afflelou, one of France’s leading eyeglasses retailer)
• Management and increase of customer portfolio
• Implementation of corporate applications ( SBS 2003 AD Exchange CRM SQL )As Co-founder
• Participated in designing out technical approach and commercial strategy
• Helped securing initial financing and setting up the company

Fuveau, France, FR

Education record

Advanced University Diploma, Network And Telecommunication

Baccalauréat, Math And Science