André - Architecte EXCHANGE

Service Acceptance Manager, manage production acceptance criteria related to Windows 2008 redesigned application for Microsoft supportability ending in 2015 (Windows 2003). Introduce as standard datacenter strategic platform Microsoft Windows Server 2012 .

Consulting : Domain architect mail infrastructure

Consulting : Domain architect mail infrastructure
Design extension to allow centralization of Microsoft Exchange 2010 mailing infrastructure and incorporate others subsidiary (from 15000 mailbox to 90000 mailbox worldwide). Lead legal archiving matter or audit point related to mail. Architecture of the provisioning and federation system’s. Securing the webmail. Point of contact for unified messaging prove of concept.

Consulting : Security Officer
Analyze and drive the risk mitigation and remediation plan for the Wintel platform according Wintel server’s CIA rating. Deploy the process I developed for Wintel to other’s platform (Solaris, AIX, Oracle, Sybase, Network devices). Risk Acceptance approach or remediation of the gap is to be negotiated by the project with the asset owner.

Roles Consulting

Active Directory/LDAP & Exchange
Achievements Improving methodology for the IT team. Process to granular delegation of active directory in order to delegate critical task. Lead the Exchange 2007 migration for Hopital Erasme (2500 mailboxes) in Continuous Cluster. Prove of concept for an Identity Federation using Microsoft FIM.

Roles Manager : Team leader

Achievements In charge of projects and budget follow-up (opex/capex). Assessment of team productivity. Team organization (watch- duty, training, problem management,). Redaction / Validation of High Level Technical Design for multiple projects and others deliverables requested by the V-Model methodology. Direct relation with program manager.

Roles Senior consultant

Achievements As sub-contractor for Euroclear, insuring that the Datacenter migration is a success by putting in place strong Quality Control process for all servers . Solution based on EMC SRDF replication. Coordination with others platforms (Tandem, Unix, …)
Assessment and validation of production readiness for virtualization technology (VMWare ESX).
Designing a Hosted Solution for a Bizzdev customer in order to host Sharepoint 2003 and an in-house application (securing the services). Deploying a clustered Sharepoint 2000 for SIF France.
In house deployment of Office Communication Server (now Lync)

Roles Technical Expert

Sidmar (Arcelor Mital) (Consulting/Contractor)
Roles Consulting on Behalf of Microsoft Consulting Services
Support on Windows 2003 (beta stage) for customers that recently adopted Microsoft .Net to migrate “from” MVS.
Microsoft ISA; Microsoft SQL; .Net ; MSMQ

Roles Technical Expert

Achievements Third level technical support on Microsoft Clustering, Active Directory (SQL Server) for the web based financial clearing platform (now, recently reviewed using Websphere).
Implementing a self-provisioned Server deployment process.
Integration of Active Directory between newly merged companies in France and the United Kingdom (regular travel to Paris & London).

Roles Architect and Project manager

Achievements IT Consolidation for the 5 locations of IT infrastructure
Consolidation and centralisation of messaging and desktop.
Business continuity strategy
As a second phase of the initial project, designing a Datacenter Recovery Plan.
Deployment of the Sharepoint 2007 collaboration platform.

Achievements In addition to the above mentioned projects, I had the chance to work on many others projects.
During IT events like the Mobile Office in Paris or Developers Conference in London, I delivered presentations for partner booth (Microsoft, HP) and Microsoft theatre Zone.
I was also a Microsoft Trainer (Microsoft certified) for Ezos covering the full Microsoft BackOffice suite (NT,SMS, etc..)
Microsoft Consulting Services sub-contractor on multiple project
Training for Mobile Operator Sales Engineer about Windows Phone & Microsoft Exchange (Orange, SFR ...)