Lionel - Architecte SUN SOLARIS

Expérience professionnelle

Jan 2020
until now IT Transformation Architect, Auditor, Productivity tool strategy
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• MWINGZ is a new Joint Venture between ORANGE and PROXIMUS since 1st of April 2020. Most important business change in the last decade.
• Single Point of Contact for all IT related transformation topics - RAN OSS (Radio Access Network Sharing and IT Operation Support Systems). Reporting directly to the JV Director.
• Translated the Hybrid Operational Model requirements into IT solutions: identification of the IT applications portfolio, security, rationalization, adaptation to Partners Access scheme, tactical re-engineering and modification of the current IT tools to allow MWINGZ to manage the existing and the new converged RAN.
• Co-ordination of projects: IT and security design, network interconnection, Data Center installation of Telco equipments, ITSM migration, applications upgrade for 5G compliance (coverage, optimization and GIS). Overall migration strategy (split, share, consolidate, adapt) and road map definitions. Day to day follow up.
• MDM (Master Data Management) and PII/GDPR: proposed an overall optimization plan (including process) based on COLLIBRA to streamline the data flow management and the compliance with a focus on the governance and audit.
• Technology audit with a focus on increasing productivity: COLLIBRA (Level 2 certification), ARCHIMATE, ARIS, CONFLUENCE, HADOOP architecture (comparison of EMC-DELL, HP and NETAPP offers), KAFKA, KIBANA and GRAFANA.
Business or sector: Telecom in the context of a Joint venture


Nov 2019 to Jan 2020 Applications and Infrastructure Audit
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• Uninterrupted Availability project: short, medium and long-term datacentre strategy from a capacity point of view, analysis of the different options and recommendations.
• Approach to uninterrupted availability from an infrastructure and application point of view (clustering, stretching and parallelisation). Overall disaster/recovery strategy.
Business or sector: eu-LISA - the European Agency for Large-scale IT Systems, in the Area of freedom, security and justice.


February to June 2019 Applications and Infrastructure Audit
NRB.BE

• Applications, Infrastructure audit of 6 Western Balkan countries: Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Serbia on behalf of FRONTEX.
• Feasibility study: proposed a solution based on Gemalto(biometrics)/EURODAC(engine) for the Border Control and sharing information on migration.
Business or sector: European Institutions/Governments.


June until Oct 2018 Infrastructure Consulting
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• CIRB: Global Audit of the Infrastructure: HA/DR strategy and DRP Plan alignment.
• NRB/ETHIAS: New VLAN design and security requirements.
Business or sector: Insurance and Public Sector


March 2017 Creation of a Consulting company providing training in crypto money and blockchains
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• Self learning on: Crypto currencies, blockchain technology and ICO. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Hyperledger.
• Creation of a training class at the attention of the investors, merchants and corporates.
• Set up of the website: ********/

Business or sector: Training and Consulting


Feb 2017
Sep 2016 Transition Architect to new operating partner
BPOST
• Preparation of the hand over from an architecture point of view.
• Strategic Integration of ongoing projects within the suppliers operating framework.
Business or sector: Public service


Sept 2016
Mar 2016 Migration Architect – IAM, Active Directory and Disaster Recovery
SIBELGA
• Overall alignment of the 3 projects below with the Roadmap.
• AD: migration from 2003 to 2012, consolidation of forests/domains and redefinition of the OU structure.
• Applications analysis and migration strategy. IAM provisioning tools.
• Disaster/Recovery: review of the As Is situation, BIA, DRP, improvement of the orchestration and the failover procedure.
Business or sector: Energy


March, 4th
Jan 2016 AWS Cloud Migration Architect
IMGROUP – Hitachi Consulting
• Audit of current IT infrastructure for IMGroup customers in a view to improve the overall Disaster/Recovery Plan.
Audit, teams’ interviews, report at the attention of the management.
• Infrastructure Cloud solution based on AZURE – Back up, Site Recovery, Network virtualization.
Business or sector: Consulting


Jan 2016
Sep 2015 AWS Cloud Migration Architect
HP – Hewlett Packard
Audit of current IT infrastructure for HP customers in a view to define the cloud migration opportunity: ROI versus risks, high-level migration plan, security and IAM aspects, pilot. Hybrid architecture with Default VPC.
AWS - Amazon Web Service training and exams preparation.
Business or sector: Consulting


Jun 2015
Oct 2014 Data Centre Migration Lead Architect – Team leader (4)
GDF-SUEZ
Migration tools specification: VMotion and HDS replication (V2V if large bandwidth), VEEAM (V2V if small bandwidth), VConverter (P2V), Lift&Shift. Virtual Private Cloud.
Generic migration scenario for Solaris(branded zones), AIX and Windows. Bundles testing and creation.
Security approval for the Transition zone in the Network DC segmentation model to ease the detailed flux identification.
Identification of pre-requisites and cross-dependencies between all IT services.
Applications selection criteria qualifying for a specific migration wave.
Overall alignment with global Road Map.
Business or sector: Energy and Commodity


Oct 2014
May 2014 Infrastructure Solution Architect
M-TEAM
MICROSOFT Infrastructure Roadmap migration: from IE8 to E11 SCCM 2012, WINDOWS 8.1
UCC: Lync, Call Center Genesys.
Cost optimization: reducing the TCO (mainly DB2/WAS license cost) by moving from blades to X6-(INTEL)-VMWARE and POWER8(RISC)-POWERVM-RedHat.
Business or sector: Health Insurance


May 2014
Feb 2014 Solution Architect
FUJITSU CONSULTING
Technical Design Authority validating a proposal on the feasibility to outsource the Service Desk/Work Place and to Remote-manage the infrastructure for a manufacturing client.
Business or sector: Automotive industry


Feb 2014
Nov 2012 Infrastructure Solution Architect – New Data Centre – Team Leader (12)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: eu-LISA
Architecture and Design for a green field Office Automation project (150 users in Strasbourg and Tallinn). IT&TELCO infrastructure: Network, Storage, Microsoft, Security, UCC: Unified Communication and Collaboration (telephony, video conferencing system), F5, Ironport, Bluecoat.

Design activities:
• Analyze the business needs and identify the priorities in collaboration with DG HOME.
• Infrastructure layers design: Data Centre, WAN, LAN, Security, Storage, Server, Telephony, Visio conferencing systems and desktop.
• Finalize the kits list, the specific consulting expertise and services procurement tasks in alignment with the Framework Contract.
• Write the HLD technical specifications.
Coordination activities:
• Write the necessary supporting documents (identification of needs, SWOT, design, various technical annexes for procurement, project plan for design and implementation phase).
• Coordinate the design and implementation tasks of the infrastructure between suppliers’ teams.
• Inform/report on the progress status of the implementation plan.
Control activities:
• Ensure quality control of the produced offers and deliverables from specific experts, suppliers.
• Reviewed and approved all the suppliers’ proposals: Microsoft/Storage/Network/Telephony and Visio conferencing (UCC) solutions.
Technologies and methodologies used in the project:
• Telephony and Video Conferencing: Lync vs Cisco/Jabber UCC(SWOT), Call Manager BE6000, ISDN and SRST Voice Gateway.Tandberg and VCS-E(Video Communication Server Expressway), Multipoint Control Unit (MCU), TMS, TelePresence. Webex
• Microsoft Architecture: Exchange 2010(ActiveSync and OWA), AD(LAN/DMZ with 1-Way trust), DC(single forest/domain), DNS, NTP, DHCP, Client(Win7)/Server(2008R2-2012&Core) image creation, Server Deployment, PKI Infrastructure, BitLocker(MBAM), Unified Access Gateway, Direct Access, (SCCM/SCOM) System Center Configuration Manager and Operation Manager, Project/SharePoint Server.
• Network and Security: LAN/DMZ/WAN(Stesta/Internet Access Point)/VLAN design, ISDN/E1/Internet for voice and video, Backend/Front-end Firewall(Cisco/Checkpoint), Client/Server image hardening. BigIP-F5 (load balancing and application publishing), Ironport (Mail relay- ESA: Email Security Appliance), Bluecoat (reverse proxy web filtering), ActiveSync/OWA (Outlook WebAccess), Remote Access.
• Storage: Main and Back Up NetApp (FAS2240): using iSCSI for Exchange, SFP+(10Gbits) fibre LC OM3 connectivity, NFS for Vmware and CIFS for users’ file sharing, HOME_DIR. Vcenter/VSA: SnapManager, SnapVault, SnapRestore.
• Servers: DL380G8 with Vmware(ESX), Vcenter and Nexus1000v(virtual network switches).
• Data Centre: HP Cabinet layout/racking/cabling/capacity planning (Power, BTU, weight, AC/Network connectivity.
Sector: eu-LISA - the European Agency for Large-scale IT Systems, in the Area of freedom, security and justice.


Oct 2012
Jun 2012 Infrastructure Architect and Technical Project Manager
BNP PARIBAS FORTIS
Infrastructure and Applications Architect responsible for the overall de-NATting(IP reclaiming) and Application Security model implementation. Worked in synergy with the different teams to propose a migration strategy focusing on reducing the technical dependencies and risks regarding the restriction of the use of SMB by Security and its impact on Citrix/Xenapp applications. Taking in account the constraints of highly mutualized servers and other international/internal projects.
Business or sector: Banking/Asset Management

May 2012
Dec 2011 Infrastructure Architect - Capacity Management
BELGACOM
Responsible for 12 projects: green field, migration, consolidation; rationalization, resilience improvement, performance and capacity planning. Starting with the identification of the NFR (Non- functional requirements), update of the documentations, criticality review (RPO/RTO).
Virtualization with VMware/Windows, Solaris/zone, databases with Oracle (10G)/MSSQL, clustering (Veritas), load balancing (BIG-IP&F5), Disaster/recovery: IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS). Compliance with security setting based on BIA (Business Impact Analysis): remote secure access, Firewall.
Business or sector: Telecommunication


Jun 2011
Oct 2010 Infrastructure Architect and Technical Project Manager
ING
DIGITEC dealing platform standardization and re-deployment, Reuters LBN consolidation. CIA rating: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability for the FX conversion Software.
Business or sector: Banking/trading floor- FX market


Sep 2010
Sep 2009 Infrastructure Architect and Technical Project Manager
BNP PARIBAS FORTIS
• Successful migration of 450 Databases from SQL2000 to SQL2005 on Wintel platform.
• Implementation of the Security Policy file via the Security Officer to abandon the technical user login, allowing the users’ identification along with the audit of their activity.
• DNS and Convergence: IP Addressing scheme, DNS management and process.
• Evaluation of approach: NATting versus IP re-addressing, reclaiming versus IPV6.
Business or sector: Banking Head Office - Retail


Jun 2009
Sep 2008 Infrastructure Architect
BIS - Bank for International Settlement
Vmware Consolidation, database servers move, footprint reduction and Disaster/Recovery.
Business or sector Banking/Head Office


Jun 2008
Jan 2008 Data Centre Infrastructure Strategist
SAINSBURY’s
Feasibility Study for the New Data Centre Program – Infrastructure Consolidation/Virtualization, footprint reduction and Shared Application Road Map.
• Established a technical structure and approach to fully meet the timescales, cost and quality objectives.
• Identification of cross-projects dependencies and milestones, technical risks and issues, skills and resources.
• Led, motivated teams of architects in the definition and delivery of their respective work streams.
• Ensured good communications within and between technical resources working on the program.
Business or sector: Retail


Oct 2007
Jan 2007 Global Infrastructure Architect – Team Leader (16)
BSKYB - British SKY Broadcast
The goal was to redesign entirely the back office system: Intellectual Property Right Management and Planning & Scheduling using SUN/SOLARIS 10 virtualization/consolidation technologies.
• Led a team of 16 IT specialists in the design of the overall solution across the different streams: UNIX, ORACLE, WINTEL, storage, monitoring, data centre, network, testing & SLA.
• Job profiling and recruitment for 3 positions: 2 Unix and 1 WINTEL specialists.
• Launched the discovery work on the legacy environment and proposed a tactical solution to reduce the overall risk profile during the interim period.
• Evaluation of the Solaris 10 features in the context of BSKYB taking in account the SUN’s hardware road map. Involved key suppliers for the final quality assurance review.
• Proposed a way to satisfy the Business needs and the Infrastructure & Operation strategic directions.
• Design’s leitmotiv: portability between zones and Logical domains, robustness and transparency with regards to clustering and Disaster/Recovery scenario.
• The key idea was to get the same level of virtualization than VMware to be able use it in Production.
• Promoted the new Operating Model and Design to other internal program.
Business or sector: Media and Television


Dec 2006
Sep 2006 Infrastructure Architect, Project Manager and Team Leader (4)
BARCLAYS bank
Project Manager and Team Leader of the WINTEL stream, part of the Global Technical Stabilization Program aiming at deploying world wide a reference architecture framework based on the site’s size: AD/DC, files/print/back up servers.
Business or sector: Banking Asset Management


Aug 2006
Mar 2006 Lead Technical Architect for the DR remediation project and DNS Applications Addressing
BP - British Petroleum
Massive European Data Centre consolidation aiming at rationalizing and complying with the FSA regulation in term of BCP & Disaster/Recovery solution.
• Developed a Virtual Data Centre fail over scenario with Global Infrastructure and Global Services.
• Gathering the operational and infrastructure requirements for new and existing applications.
• Mapping of applications to logical and physical infrastructure standards to create an end-to-end design that meets business and operational requirements.
• Promote existing BP standards for: Availability, Resilience, Disaster Recovery, Performance and Operations.
• Supporting the development of overall plans for delivery.
• Technical Environment: Solaris/Windows, VERITAS/SUN Cluster, Oracle/SQL server, EMC.
Business or sector: Energy and Commodity - Oil and Gas


Feb 2006
Dec 2005 Technical Design Authority - Separation
BP - British Petroleum
• Consulting assignment through SAIC as Infrastructure Architect for the BP/INNOVENE (Chicago IL) separation.
• In charge of the split of 400 applications running on Solaris/Wintel platform.
Business or sector: Energy and Commodity - Oil and Gas


Nov 2005
Jul 2005 Infrastructure Architect - New Data Centre
TFL - Transport for London
Responsible at the board level for the strategy, the negotiation with the suppliers and the overall legal, compliances and regulations aspects.
• Review of the existing lease contracts and managed IT services/supports.
• Alignment of the consolidation initiatives with the Global IT Strategy.
• In depth use of Prince2/MSP methodology through the creation and update of the Vision statement, Program Brief, Stakeholders Map, Business Case, Risk Register, Blue Print and Projects Portfolio.
• Negotiation with data centre suppliers and service providers: legal review of the contracts (legal entities, insurances and SLA considerations), risks assessment.
• Identification of options and estimate for: Data Centre location, Core infrastructure (HW/SW) and service/support.
• Presentation of the recommendations to the board for sign off.
Business or sector: Public Transport

Jun 2005
Jan 2005 Infrastructure Architect
MPL Metropolitan Police of London
Technical Design Authority at the data centre level for the backup, storage and disaster/recovery strategy.
Business or sector: Government – Public Service


Aug 2004
Feb 2004 Infrastructure Architect
BP - British Petroleum
Infrastructure Architect for several projects using Sun-Solaris/Windows-PC, VERITAS/SUN Cluster, Oracle/SQL server, EMC storage, disaster/recovery technologies.
Business or sector: Energy and Commodity - Oil and Gas


Feb 2004
Nov 2002 Infrastructure Architect
TOYOTA
Responsible for the pan European applications migration on a Sun Solaris cluster platform. Architecture and Design, migration strategy and project management.
Business or sector: Automotive


May 2002
Oct 2000 Principal System Architect and international project manager responsible for the design and the global migration of the CRM system – Team Leader (15)

DB - DEUTSCHE Bank
Designed, implemented and project managed the standardization and rebuild of the CRMT Infrastructure (Customer Relationship Management Technology) covering 30 points of presence worldwide (6 major hubs).
• Audited the existing infrastructures in each region against the new business needs.
• Principal architect in charge of the standard design for the following technologies: SUN, EMC, VERITAS Cluster, Oracle, NT replication, client software packaging and DNS naming convention.
• Managing a global team of 15 engineers to deliver a 10-minutes automatic fail over cluster solution using VERITAS Agents. Implemented a 20 minutes SRDF fail over (operated with 2 command lines) for London and New York including the DNS update. Virtually separated the Global Market, Asset management and Equity business resources in different environment making them completely independent of each other.
• Organized and supervised on-site the entire re-installation of 17 servers (E4500) during 8 months in London, New York, Frankfurt, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
• Planned and managed the rollout of a new client software version in the other hubs.
• Conducted an organization change to put in place a “follow-on the sun” support for this Global Application.
Business or sector: Banking – Global Market, Equity and Asset Management


Sep 2000
Jan 2000 Lead Solution Architect and Team Leader for the design, implementation and launch of ******** (Internet Certificate Authority) – New Data Centre – Team Leader (7)
PWC – PriceWaterhouseCooper
• To provide an inter-continental resilience for the services, we have been asked to build 2 new data centers one in the US and the other in the UK. The maximum fail over time we targeted was 60 minutes.
• Numerous points were keep secrets on purpose all along the project making the analysis a real challenge.
• Proposed an initial Design and Architecture covering the whole Data Centre infrastructure: room layout, storages, servers, software integration, network and security and all core infrastructure services.
• Presented the resource planning, timeline, issues & risks along with the full deployment strategy to the board to gain the sign off.
• Recruited and led a team of 7 I.T. specialists in the U.K. and US.
• Managed 250 man/day of detailed design and implementation strategy in London during 3 months.
• Assisted my client in preparing the final negotiation phase with the hardware/software vendors and the service providers.
• Full Data Centre build: EMC with SRDF, DNS, jumpstart, N.T.P., SSH, Netbackup interfaced BCV, databases and business software integration: back up, fail over, security and tuning. LAN, Firewall.
• Installed, configured, and tuned: 3 EMC, and 60 servers in 3 months- 350 man/day in Baltimore US.
Managed the successful delivery of the entire solution in 9 months
Business or sector: Internet security and Certificate Authority


Jan 2000
Sep 1997 SOLARIS Consultant
Cazenove bank, QXL, Société Genérale (Front office),Thomson FM, French Army – HQ
Unix Sun Solaris administration
Business or sector: Banking (trading Floor), Internet, Electronic and Army