Nicolas - Ingénieur système SOLARIS

Public Worldwide Group in the Fortune 1000, Citrix creates software that allows individual of an enterprise to work and collaborate remotely regardless of device and network within the main areas of desktop and apps, cloud and software as a service (SaaS).

 Establish the Vision, Frameworks, Capabilities, Principles and Budget of the World-Wide Citrix Laboratory
 Responsible for the Laboratory capital and operation expenditure. Approve purchase requests and orders.
 Manager, responsible for supervising, leading, coaching, directing and evaluating the Global Laboratory team members.
 Establish Lab Architecture and implementation roadmap.
 Primary Product Architect of the Global lab deployments of the entire Citrix portfolio and third party products.
 Report to Citrix Senior leadership/VPs.

Responsible for functioning as Member of the Citco Technology Management Enterprise System, Application, Data Architecture and R&D Team. Reporting to C-levels.

Responsible for functioning as Member of the Citco Technology Management Enterprise System, Application, Data Architecture and R&D Team. Reporting to C-levels.

 PoC and Prototype of IaaS OpenStack with:
o Cisco Metapod, RedHat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Mirantis OpenStack, HPE Helion OpenStack

 PoC and Prototype of PaaS with:
o OpenShift Enterprise, CloudFoundry Pivotal, Docker, Kubernetes, Marathon, Chronos, Zookeeper Framework Mesos

 PoC Public Cloud provider: AWS and Azure

 Efficiently purchased new hardware; maintained, administrated, installed & organized a laboratory dedicated for experiments, evaluation, proof of concept, benchmarks and other tests

 Conducted Financial Analysis, ROI and calculate TCO

 Successfully developed Template, Documentation & Processes for Architecture Work entailing standard documentation & review of MS-SQL, WAS/Websphere, Windows Server, Oracle Database, JBoss and VMware standardization documentation

 Introduced a Configuration Management tool to the Operation and Development teams:
o Evaluation of Puppet, Chef and Ansible, for finally choosing Ansible
o Creation of the Citco Ansible Technology Standards and define the Pipeline/Workflow for development with Atlassian Bitbucket, Bamboo, jFrog Artifactory and Vagrant

 Organized Oracle Exadata X3-8 training; carried out in-memory database research of alternatives and evaluate investment;

 Assigned with a budget of $250K to reference a future storage and backup architecture:
o Recruited consultants for a period of 4 months to work on the current and future state and finally deliver designs, reference architecture document valid for the coming 5 years
o Used Arxview (from Arxscan) to assess the current storage environment, vCops for the VMware platform, NetBackup 7.5 Operations Manager for the backup
o Involved in vendor selection and governing the implementation of future state architecture design
o Introduced EMC DataDomain, NetBackup Appliance, ScaleIO and Network 10G Technologies

 Carried out research of BPM tools to select for PoC: Bonitasoft, Intalio, jBPM and BRMS, IBM BPM Advanced Edition, Appian, Tibco, PegaSystem with installation, administration and simple process development in BPMN2 for a demonstration purpose to the business stakeholder; chose to implement Tibco BPM and SOA

 Planned & organized Solaris 11.2 Hands-On Training encompassing creation of the Citco Solaris 11 Standards, Installation Operation Guide

 Actively involved in:
o Oracle 10g/11gR2/12c Installation and Administration, ASM, RAC and EM configuration
o VMware ESXi vSphere 5-6, RHEV 3 KVM oVirt Installation and Administration for the lab environment
o DRDB, cLVM, GFS2, Ceph, RADOS, Docker, OpenStack, Cumulus Tests
o Private Cloud Product Research for DevOps environment, and Microservice development
o Prototyping MongoDB NoSQL and Hadoop Cloudera solution

 Provided the last line of internal support on Unix/Linux, Storage, Network, Hypervisor, Tomcat, Java and Configuration Management

 Actively involved in spearheading solution architecture design and documentation functions of CA IdentityMinder 12 identity management platform, Oracle E-Business 12 HCM, NICE Actimize 5 AML and SAM, Digiterre Communica CRM, Aerohive Enterprise Citco Wifi, Application Performance Management Compuware DynaTrace 5.6, Automate complex data processes & requirements WSI Xceptor Data Hub 3.3 and Enterprise Owncloud 8 File Exchange

 Deftly:
o Designed new solutions such as ERP, Anti-Money Laundry, CRM, etc.
o Handled laboratory operations viz. PoC, Benchmarks, Prototype, Technology Evaluation

 Contributions towards:
o Restructuring the operational team to support the DevOps initiative and the storage, backup and cloud infrastructure
o Implementing Solaris 11, Linux, Ansible and Owncloud Standards
o Operational data store research and Cloudera Big Data tests

Multiple Roles & Designations

A worldwide group leader of independent financial service providers serving the world’s elite hedge funds, private equity and real estate firms, institutional banks, Global 1000 companies and high net worth individuals.

Accountable for overseeing wide gamut of tasks involved in FRS Global Report Generator Technical Architecture Design & Documentation for the Citco Bank Nerderlands Luxembourg Offices.

 Pivotal in installation & testing of:
o RHEV VDI solution with SPICE protocol and VMware Horizon View with PCoIP
o Tomcat7 Clustering/Session Replication with on front-end an Apache server configured with mod_jk
o Liferay on top and validation of the all Architecture validating the new portal ******** release

 Significant contributions towards creation of the:
o Citco Tomcat7 and Tomcat6 Standards and Installation Operation Guide
o Citco Red Hat 6 Standards, Installation Operation Guide and RPM Creation Standards
o Citco Linux Security Standards
o Citco Hardware Standards

 Instrumental in handling following activities:
o VDI research on hyper-converged infrastructure, Nutanix, Symplivity and VCE.
o Architecture design of the Citco Online Portal
o Instituting Tomcat and Java Standards
o Starting an Architecture team

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
IRIS (Canon), Luxembourg Jul 2010 – Jan 2012
Senior Technical Consultant

Oracle, Luxembourg Jan 2010 – Jun 2010
Oracle Consultant

Bull, Luxembourg Apr 2009 – Jan 2010
Application Systems Architect

Netapp, Netherlands Jun 2008 – Mar 2009
Technical Support Engineer

CSC, Luxembourg Mar 2008 – May 2008
Technical Consultant

UNIBET, Sweden Aug 2007 – Feb 2008
Technical Consultant

Orange, France Oct 2004 – Jul 2007
System Engineer Leader

Sun Microsystem, Luxembourg Aug 2003 – Sep 2004
Sun Consultant

CEA, France Jan 2003 – Aug 2003
System Engineer (Security clearance)

Cegetel, France Jul 2002 – Dec 2002
System & Network Administrator

CVF France Telecom, France Jun 2001 – Jun 2002
System & Backup Administrator

France Telecom, France Apr 2001 – Jun 2001
Trainee

Other Professional Qualifications:

 March 2017: Citrix Management Excellence

 October 2015 - January 2017: Data Science Specialization Certification, a 10-course specialization by Johns Hopkins University

 July 2016 Coding in Javascript (Certified OpenClassrooms)

 June 2016 Certified OpenStack Administrator (Certified OpenStack Foundation)

 March 2016 Ansible 2.0 training (Ansible, Fort Lauderdale USA)

 October 2015 Manage Code with Git and GitHub (Certified OpenClassrooms)

 October 2014 C Programming (Certified OpenClassrooms)

 September 2014 TOGAF 9 Certified (Certified Open Group)

 August 2014 TOGAF 9 Foundation level (Certified Open Group)

 August 2014 Network TCP/IP and Linux (Certified OpenClassrooms IN’TECH INFO)

 July 2014 TOGAF 9.1 Enterprise Architecture Training (EAPrincipals, Fort Lauderdale USA)

 April 2014 PHP5 and MySQL Development (Certified OpenClassrooms)

 October 2013 HTML5 CSS3 Development (Certified OpenClassrooms)

 July 2010 Training Redhat JBoss 5.0 Application Administrator (JB336, Paris France)

 January-June 2010 Sun Oracle System Administrator and Network eLibrary (WLIB114, Luxembourg)

 2009-2010 Java Programming (Luxembourg University Certification)

 December 2009 Training Redhat JBoss 4.3 Application Administrator (JB336, Paris France)

 July-August 2008 NetApp Global Services Technical Training. Data ONTAP, NFS Administration, CIFS Administration & Multistore, Data Protection and Retention, Data ONTAP SAN Basic Internal (NetApp, Raleigh RTP USA)

 August 2006 Training Transition to Solaris 10 and e-learning (FR-SA-210-S10, Paris France)

 July 2005 Training Veritas Software Cluster Server for Unix 4.1 and e-learning: Veritas Backup and Restore Fundamentals
 Veritas Storage Area Network (TMFR-EDPACK-EPP, Pairs France)

 March 2005 Training Installation and optimization of Oracle 9i (FR-ES-083, Paris France)

 May 2004 Systems Installer for Sun Cluster 3.x (Certified, Luxembourg)

 April 2004 Training Sun Fire 12k/15k (ES-421, Paris France)

 January 2004 Training Sun Cluster 3.1 (ES-338, Luxembourg)

 January 2002 Training Linux and Apache/Tomcat server Administration (Linagora, Paris France)

Technical Skills: HP
 Oracle
 EMC
 Dell
 IBM
 Hitachi
 Microsoft
 NetApp
 Cisco & more Hardware
 PL/SQL
 Java
 C
 Python
 PHP
 HTML5
 Javascript
 R
 Latex Language

SKILL AREAS: Internal Consulting & Solution Delivery
 Inter-divisional Coordination
 Budgeting / Resource Management
 Outsourcing / Vendor Management
 Enterprise IT Operations
 Project & Program Management
 Multi-location Programme Management
 Infrastructure
 DevOps
 Change Control Management
 IT Governance
 Transition Management
 Data Migration & Integration
 Data Science
 Business Intelligence
 Multitasking in Fast-paced Environments
 Highly Organized & Strong Analytical Abilities
 Articulate Oral & Written Communication
 Quick Problem Resolution & Decision Making
 Client Relationship Management
 Team Building, Training & Development