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Storage and Virtualization Designer

Design and Optimization of complex storage and virtualization infrastructure


Skills

Storage & Virtualization

  • Design of technical architectures : Sizing, Fault Tolerance - High availability, Load balancing
  • Definition with pre-sales teams, service agreements
  • Capacity Planning
  • Level 3 Support : Audit, Troubleshooting, Performances analysis

Projects

  • Reporting
  • Production automation
  • Planning & Coordination

Professional Experiences

Since March 2011 : Storage and Virtualization Architect - Euriware Service Desk

  • Design of new Storage and Virtualization infrastructure for AREVA Group
  • Contribute to new requests for proposal for contracts renewal
  • According to « Virtualization & Cloud Computing » project, definition of new applicables standards for infrastructures
  • Definition of new internal processes to set up the «managed services»
  • Definition of the needs and writing of technicals specifications

Since December 2010 : Virtualization et Cloud Computing - AREVA IT Operations

Optimization using virtualization with 2 main goals :

  • Create a Private Cloud based on 3 datacenters in France, in Germany and the USA
  • Reduce costs, including those of ownership et increase the ROI

My job has been defined in 5 majors actions :

  • Give an assistance to "relocation" project team, to make their objectives and those of « Virtualization & Cloud Computing » project compatible
  • Define the new service catalog & the targeted architectures
  • Participate in workshops avec the outsourcer to define the expected service catalog
  • Define new processes (technical and management) to shorten provisioning requests
  • Participate in workshops to define the technical solutions to build the private cloud

From March 2009 to February 2011 : Storage & Virtualization Expert - Euriware Service Desk

In a ITIL based service desk, manage et support storage and VMware virtualization solutions :

  • 23 Storage Arrays in heterogenous environments, more than 800 virtual machines, 23 Clusters and 130 ESX & ESXi servers
  • Production management for the AREVA Group, problem management with the different providers, Automation and industrialization of operationnal processes and reporting
  • Design of new architectures, Sizing, Fault-Tolerance, Load-Balancing

From October 2006 to March 2009 : Project technical coordinator - Euriware Service Desk

Project for AREVA France

Transfer of SAN and VMware technical support activities for AREVA in Paris, inside 2 resilients datacenters

Definition of documentation needs and writing in line with the ISO 9001 certification

Audit to observe expected load levels to help the management team to define the required ressources to transfer the operational activity. Regular reporting.


Project for DCNSGroup France

Responsible for coordinating the required actions launched by "infrastrutures" teams & "Project et development" teams of DCNSGroup, to deploy "Windchill", a PLM used to design new ships.

Writing of the "Infrastructures" documents related to the projet, respecting the quality standard of the client.


From September 2004 to September 2006 : UNIX System Engineer - Euriware Service Desk

Technical support of UNIX systems used by the customers of the Production Centre. Deployment of automation processes for all daily tasks : Setup of new servers, Reporting of servers activity, Incdents tracking.


From April 2004 to September 2004 : Internship - Development of an automation tool

This tool is aimed at automating the differents daily tasks for level 1 application support, realized for UNIX Systems.

Conception and development using shell

Formation

Professional trainings

  • 2010 : VMware vSphere 4 - Install, Configure & Manage - Preparing certification process
  • 2009 : Symmetrix Business Continuity : SRDF and TimeFinder
  • 2007 : IBM SAN Workshop : Site Replication using RemoteMirror
  • 2007 : VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5
  • 2005 : Training for AIX Level 2 - Troubleshooting

Academic

  • 1999/2004 : Master Level 1 & 2 in Computer (5 years) - Network and Systems Engineering, University of CAEN and University Henri Poincaré, NANCY I
  • 1999 : High School Diploma in Science (with Honours), Specialized in Mathematics and Physics, Computer Science Option

Technical Skills

Storage, SAN & NAS

  • EMC²
    • Symmetrix - DMX, Clariion - CX & AX, NAS - Celerra Gateway
    • Site replication: SRDF, MirrorView, Cluster Enabler (Advanced management)
    • Monitoring & Capacity planning : EMC Control Center, Visual SRM, StrorageScope, Connectrix Manager
  • HP
    • EVA : 3000, 5000, 6000, 6400
    • MSA : 1000, 1500, FC et iSCSI
  • IBM : DS4xxx (DS4300, DS4500, DS4700), DS5xxx (DS5020), Replication using RemoteMirror
  • Brocade : DCX, Director 48000, Blade-Switches
  • McData : Director ED-140M, Blade-Switches

Virtualization

  • VMware : vSphere 4.0, Virtual Infrastructure 3.0 et 3.5, ESX 2.5, VMware Server, vSphère PowerCli (Microsoft Powershell), VEEAM Monitor & Business View
  • Microsoft : Virtual Server
  • Linux : KVM, Linux-VServer

Backup

  • Time Navigator
  • EMC² DataDomain
  • Netbackup
  • Robotiques Virtuelles

Other skills

  • Systems
    • Linux : RedHat Linux, Debien GNU/Linux
    • IBM : AIX, HACMP, Virtual I/O
    • Microsoft : Windows 2003, Active Directory, Cluster Windows
  • Networking : Configuration of routers/switches (CISCO), Overview SNMP
  • Services : OpenLDAP, Bind, Apache, Proxy SQUID, Firewall (Iptables), Cups
  • Development : PERL, BASH/KSH, PHP, C, C++, Java, WEB Standards (CSS, XHTML)