CAREER PROFILE:

• He has more than 30 years of experience in the field of IT, and 18 years as a technology architect.
• He has held various positions enabling him to become a specialist in IT infrastructures such as SUN/Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Windows, VMware, Citrix, and Storage.
• He is a senior technological architect who demonstrates good judgement and great autonomy.
• A natural leader, he quickly inspires confidence in his customers, suppliers and colleagues based on his credibility, dynamism and professionalism.
• Through his communications he encourages effectiveness, respect, cooperation and synergy with his teams and management.
• He is focused on results and the quality of his work, while remaining attentive to the political and business stakes.
• He does not hesitate to share his knowledge in order to ensure the success of the project. He has an excellent capacity for analysis and keep his skills up - to-date.
• His vision, initiative, engagement and commitment to quality are what characterize him and position him as a key player in the success of his projects with his customers.
• Technical planning
• Strategic planning
• Business analyst
• Impact analysis
• Request for proposals
• Enterprise IT architecture
• Resource management
• Project planning
• Feasibility studies
• Disaster Recovery and business continuity
• Security and compliance
• Software purchasing and selection
• Specialized in datacenter environments (large corporations, provincial and federal agencies).
• Builder of highly available, continuous availability and disaster recovery environments for mission critical applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platform: Microsoft Servers 2003, 2008, 2012 R2, 2016, Microsoft SQL Servers 2008, 2012, 2014 including clustering (AlwaysOn Availability Groups), VMware ESX 4/5/6 clusters, NSX 6.4, SRM, HA and Fault Tolerance

F5 Networks: BigIP LTM, GTM

Check Point: Cloud Guard IaaS

Fortinet: FortiGate, FortiMail and FSSO

Storage: EMC UNITY 450F et 650F, IBM SVC et Storwize 7000, IBM TSM, Hitachi, EMC VMAX3

Converged: VCE VxBlock 340/350

Hyperconverged: Nutanix 3000 Series appliances

Backup: DELL Avamar, Data Domain 4200/6800, RecoverPoint for VM, Oracle Linux 6.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris 10, Oracle SPARC servers, Oracle 11g and 12c databases, Oracle Data Guard (including Active Data Guard), MySQL Enterprise 5.x clusters, Hitachi VSP Storage, IBM Storage, IBM xSeries, pSeries and zSeries, Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop

NoSQL: Couchbase 3/4, MongoDB 2.8/3

Big Data: IBM BigInsight platform

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Review of the target architecture for the new converged environment
• Review of the VMware NSX micro segmentation design and Check Point CloudGuard IaaS integration for flow control and security inspection requirements while respecting VMware VVD.
• Chair different workgroups with the infrastructure and network integrators:
• Identify different breakdown scenarios, their impacts and means of resolution.
• Identify the monitoring requirements and alerting required for the new infrastructure residing on the VxBlock.
• Identify the requirements needed to save the configurations of the different components of the new environment and recommend where to keep these configurations safely.
• Define a new Out-of-Band solution for remote management in case of disaster or WAN issues.
• Worked with the IT security group to validate the technical requirements for deploying CrowdStrike's Endpoint Detect and Response (EDR) solution. Drafted architecture document and deployment follow-up.
• Worked the innovation team to find a videoconferencing solution that will serve corporate, property and emerging markets worldwide offices. Definition of technical requirements, business needs, functional and non-functional. Participation in the drafting of the call for tenders, Proof of Concept documentation and participated in the actual Proof of Concept testing.
• Feasibility study: Identity and Access Management
• Provided initial documentation and studies from Gartner, Forrester and other sources in order to initate the internal discussion and a possible roadmap.
• Documented the entire IT infrastructure within Ivanhoe Cambridge with the information available at the time of writing.
• Chair a committee to identify the Data Domain backup unit's lack of capacity issue, which includes analysis of the largest consumers, usage curve, backed up data, processing methods MS-SQL Transaction Logs, data governance and retention periods.
• Participated in Technology Orientation Committee with the operations (management and vice-presidency) and the architecture group. A status of ongoing projects, upcoming activities, revision of priorities and review trending technologies are presented in this committee.
• Contributed to a task force in order to identify the issue of lack of capacity of the Data Domain backup unit, which includes analysis of the largest consumers, usage curve, backed up data, processing methods MS-SQL Transaction Logs and retention policies.
• Support IT operations in resolving various urgent operational issues (storage capacity of backups, moving VMs from the old infrastructure to the new one, air conditioning problems in the server room, need for Out-of-Bounds access, migrating a physical file server to a virtualized environment).
• Initiate meetings with suppliers to ensure that the architecture targets are in line with their best practices as well as those of the market.
• Drafted first Enterprise Architecture diagrams for infrastructure using iServer 2019 from Orbus Software - Communication and Data Dissemination, Platform Dissemination based on TOGAF 9.1 framework.

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Mobile Device Management
• Application Performance Management / Infrastructure Performance Management (APM/IPM)
• Software Asset Management - Inventory scan and integration with ServiceNow Asset Management
• Reviewed current email and collaboration tools status and worked with vendor to present an enterprise roadmap.
• Collaborated on the Next Gen firewall selection committee.
• Solution Design for a new SFTP centralized service accessible from the Internet for devices used by Geology Specialists on the field (forest).
• Contributed on the analysis for security contingency for Intel’s Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities.
• Joint analysis with sawmills in Quebec and Ontario for the implementation of centralized hyperconverged infrastructure by region with Nutanix.
• Support for infrastructure needs in the design of a centralized factory production report solution to move from MS-SQL to SAP BW, currently every plant uses its own custom infrastructure.
• Member of the IT Security Committee to assess the impacts of the Meltdown and Spectrum vulnerabilities affecting Intel infrastructures.
• Member of the selection committee of the new firewall platform (Next Gen Firewall), review of the RFI criteria issued by the security and networking group, participation in the presentations of each of the suppliers, contribution to the final selection of the selected supplier .
• Member of a workgroup to redefine network security (VLAN, DMZ, Subnets, URL filtering) following the acquisition of the new firewalls. Drafting of a document to capture the tests to be carried out during the implementation of the Proof of Concept (PoC) and the collection of the results.
• Half-day workshops with Microsoft to define the strategy of enhancement, security and the possibility of migrating some services to cloud computing, topics:
• Windows 10 Enterprise, SCCM, Modern Desktop Management
• Migrating Lotus Notes email to Exchange Online or Exchange in place
• IT Security, Advanced Threat Protection, EMS, Identity Management, Windows 10 Security
• Windows Server 2016 + SCOM
• Compliance and GDPR Workshop (coming soon)
• Deep Dive EMS Security (AIP, AAD & CAS) (coming soon)
• Microsoft - Collaboration / SharePoint
• Licensing and Business Case Workshop # 1
• Business Case Workshop # 2
• Seek for a new enterprise-level password management solution, introducing Keeper, LastPass and Thycolic.
• Request for a legal opinion from the Safety and Compliance Group and the legal opinion regarding the implementation of the new US law The Cloud Act and GDPR in Europe. The Cloud Act has a direct impact on the direction of moving certain infrastructure elements to cloud computing from vendors such as IBM and Microsoft to name just a few.

Confidential

Director Consulting / IT Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure hardware and software evergreening.
• Manage a team of analyst in order to conduct the technical analysis
• Draft the technological target and the how to migrate the applications
• Single Point of Contact for the client’s architecture team
• Hold a weekly meeting to present each application strategy to the client in order to receive their approval
• Present the team with the client’s new platforms by performing technical workshops with the management and technical team
• Scope and Goal setting for two new NERC High Security Electrical Environment Datacenters
• Phase 1 - Rrequirement’s gathering: The first phase of the project involves gathering the needs of the various Hydro-Québec divisions involved in electricity generation, transmission and distribution in order to build a new infrastructure environment including IT security and communications in a highly secure, highly available and DR environment.
• Drafting presentations to Hydro-Québec's various groups and divisions.
• Drafting of documents to be used for gathering information at workshops.
• Workshops planning
• Taking notes and writing reports
• Support the client during the workshops to be able to understand its requirements, its risks, its hypotheses, its failover and disaster recovery specifications and need of NERC and non-NERC compliance for all the environments of the Electrical domain.
• Report to project management.
• Writing of the initial H110S requirements document.
• Responsibility for the design of all shared infrastructures: SAN, NAS, data protection (backups), Oracle and MSSQL databases, F5 BigIP with LTM, DNS / GTM functions, including multi-site replication and IP/MPLS or dedicated links impacts and requirements.
• Meet various meetings with NERC compliance groups and Hydro-Québec safety governance to ensure that the technology target meets all regulatory requirements.
• Establish meetings with manufacturers in order to target the design of the new technological platforms and propose the equipment required for the new foundation.
• Present the target to the main project team (5 architects) and then extend it to all stakeholders (LAN network group, WAN transport network group, enterprise architecture, etc.)
• Ensure that the technology target meets all security, compliance, networking and inter-site data replication requirements.
• List the components required for the new infrastructure.

Technologies: VMware ESX 6.0, Microsoft Server 2012 and MS-SQL 2012, Oracle 12c + Dataguard, EMC Data Domain, EMC 250FX SAN, EMC Isilon NAS, F5 BigIP appliances, XenApp/XenDesktop v7.x & Citrix NetScaler’s for authentication and Web Interface/StoreFront only.

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Drafted a high-level analysis for Remote Control tools v.
• Privileged Identity Management solutions.
• Drafter a high-level analysis for SIEM v. APM (Application Performance Monitoring) solutions.
• Initiate and drive workshops in order to discuss technology initiatives with the client’s and integrator’s (Ernst & Young) Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects and different vendors.

Technologies: VMware ESX 5.5, Microsoft Server 2012 and MS-SQL 2012, CommVault for Backups, XenApp for GE Proficy Desktop Applications.

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the client in working with them in order to select the proper technologies for their new High Availability and Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Initiate and drive workshops in order to discuss technology initiatives with the client Enterprise Architects, Solution and Infrastructure Architects, Integrators and Business Analysts.

Technologies: IBM GPFS, Veritas Cluster Server, VMware SRM 6, MS-SQL 2014 AlwaysOn, Oracle Data Guard (active and passive), F5 Networks BigIP (LTM and GTM options).

Confidential

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Worked on one of their new government account as an SME in order to document and draft a Technical Solution Design on how to integrate: IBM AIX, Sybase ASE 15.7 and Symantec VERITAS Cluster Server with Global Cluster Option for a Disaster Recovery multi-site environment.
• Drafter test plans for: IIS Clusters, VMware SRM and HA, Microsoft Biztalk HA and DR environment, AIX/Sybase/VCS.
• Review migration plan for Proventia WAF appliances to F5 BigIPs.

Confidential

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Worked on one of their new government account as an SME in order to document and draft a Technical Solution Design on how to integrate:
• Microsoft SQL 2012 Multi-Site Failover Cluster Instance, Always On Availability Groups and IBM SVC geographic replication
• Symantec VERITAS Cluster Server with Global Cluster Option for an High Availability and Disaster Recovery multi-site environment.

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design solutions for two regional datacenters and over 1,500 servers.
• Communicate with staff or clients to understand and analyze specific system requirements
• Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes
• Document design specifications, installation instructions, and other system-related information
• Verify stability, interoperability, portability, security, or scalability of system architecture
• Review and recommend High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions for multiple mission critical systems
• Draft project plan, manage deployment resources
• Draft tenders for different projects and recommend changes to the Quebec Treasury Board tender document baseline for IT hardware and software acquisitions
• Define target architecture and recommendations
• Cost evaluation
• Analysis of the current situation (inventory systems in place)
• Define the target architecture
• Recommendations
• Cost evaluation
• Deployment of new Hitachi VSP SAN
• Virtualization and inter-site replication.
• Analysis of the current context
• Recommendation and drafting of a safety standard
• Presentation of the recommendations
• Implementation of the new standard and apply them to new projects.
• Analysis of the current situation
• Define scenarios for optimizing the technological environment
• Make recommendations
• Present the analysis to the Executive Committee.

Technologies: Microsoft IIS 7/8 load balanced clusters using F5 Networks BIG-IP 3900 with LTM and Web Accelerators.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Solution Managers in order to deliver Request For Services proposals for different major accounts.
• Project Recovery, planning, delivery and Management.
• Collaborated closely with IBM internal Project Executives, Project Delivery Executives, PMO team and Law and Contract Department for contract negotiations.
• Dealt directly with client’s PMO team, delivery teams, VP’s, Governance and enterprise architecture groups.
• Provided support, guidance, managed and supervised implementation with IBM delivery teams.

Technologies: IBM GDOC (using SVC) architecture, planning and deployment for mission critical applications (Windows and AIX) for one of their major banking accounts, AIX, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Symantec Veritas Cluster Server.

Confidential

Functional and Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and draft detailed functional architecture for a new payment system which handles over 132 Billion dollars daily.

Technologies: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, no technologies evaluated as this was a functional architect role.

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed, analyzed and recommended a disaster recovery plan and solution for their product analysis laboratory.
• Feasibility study to put in place a new data warehouse engine in order to replace Oracle 11g and IBM DB2.

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IT Infrastructure Architect / Technical Advisor

Responsibilities:

• In charge of drafting the tri-annual IT strategic plan in the fields of Mainframe, data warehouse (MS-SQL, Oracle on midrange and Oracle on zOS), virtualization platform (VMware, Hyper-V, Oracle VM).
• Presented solutions to archive emails for conformity and litigation.

Technologies: Windows Server 2008, MS-SQL 2008 HA and DR solutions, Oracle Linux, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, IBM zOS BC10 mainframe, Oracle 11g on Linux, Windows and Mainframe architecture.