Senior IT Consultant VMware / Linux / Cisco

Yoann Le Bihan

  • Driving licence

Professional status
Entrepreneur

Job/career Open to opportunities

Mobility

London, Paris, Luxemburg, Geneva, Brussels.

Professional experience

Chief Executive Officer

1T2W Ltd - London - United Kingdom(Permanent contract - Started 8 months ago)

Company Description
  • 1T2W is an IT consulting agency, leaning upon highly-skilled professionals, with expertise in:
    - networking (Cisco, Checkpoint, F5),
    - systems administration (Linux, Unix, *BSD, Microsoft Windows),
    - infrastructure management (datacenter management, Microsoft Active Directory implementation and audit),
    - virtualization (VMware Infrastructure, vSphere, XenServer, KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V),
    - security certifications and processes (pen tests, PCI DSS assessments),
    - process optimization (ITIL, CMMI).
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Senior IT Consultant

Yoann.info - Paris - France(Freelancer - January 2008 - December 2009)

Missions
  • Freelance IT consultant working on systems and networks administration missions (contracts), mainly in Linux / *BSD, as well as VMware virtualized environments. LAMP and shell scripting development.
  • Clients in financial (NYSE Euronext, BNP Paribas, Ingenico...) and telecommunication (Meteor Networks, Ecritel, Optimitel...) industries.
  • More details available in the "Experience" section.
Company Description
  • Freelance IT consultant working on systems and networks administration missions (contracts), mainly in Linux / *BSD, as well as VMware virtualized environments. LAMP and shell scripting development.
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Infrastructure Architect, Virtualization Expert

BNP Paribas - Montreuil - France(Freelancer - December 2009 - March 2010)

Missions
  • VMware / vSphere 4 architecture and virtualization expertise.
  • Management of an operational and technical assessment of virtualized infrastructure and delivery processes (x86 and IBM pSeries / AIX environments).
  • Technical referent on virtualization of x86 environments for the global reorganisation project of datacenters.
  • Study and technical supervision of network optimization project for virtualization (Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000 and 1000v).
  • Management of virtualization projects for several internal entities.

Virtualization Senior Consultant and Trainer

Virtao - Paris - France(Freelancer - April 2009 - August 2009)

Missions
  • VMware Infrastructure 3 / vSphere 4 (case study, pre-sales support, deployment consulting).
  • VI3 trainer (on-site training, labs deployment, case studies).
  • Industrial and media clients.

Linux System Engineer

Optimitel (Global Concept) - Courbevoie - France(Freelancer - August 2009 - October 2009)

Missions
  • Administration of web hosting environment (LAMP, DNS).
  • Administration of ToIP servers (Asterisk, Callweaver...), load balancers (F5 BigIP), monitoring servers (Nagios, Cacti).
  • Virtualization project (VMware ESXi / vSphere 4).
  • Management of backup migration project (NetVault / TiNa).
  • Preliminary study for DRP project.

PCI & IT Security Consultant - Senior Linux System Administrator

Ingenico - Neuilly sur Seine - France(Freelancer - December 2008 - April 2009)

Missions
  • Security analysis of the infrastructure.
  • Development and writing of PCI-DSS-compliant procedures.
  • Deployment and control of PCI-DSS procedures implementation within the company.
  • Technical support to production's team for deployment and administration.
  • Configuration and deployment of file integrity monitoring software Tripwire.

System Engineering Mission Linux

Ecritel - Clichy sur Seine - France(Freelancer - December 2008 - December 2008)

Missions
  • Development of processes for Linux server administration.
  • Development of administration shell scripts.
  • Development of written procedures guides for international support teams in English.

System Engineering Mission Linux

NYSE Euronext - Paris - France(Freelancer - June 2008 - November 2008)

Missions
  • Deployment and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems (around 100 physical HP servers and 50 virtual machines powered by Xen).
  • Deployment and administration of test environments (qualification and integration) for stock-exchange quotation engines NSC and UTP.
  • Software packaging and versioning for EUA and production.

Development & Consulting Mission

Meteor Networks - Boulogne Billancourt - France(Freelancer - January 2008 - May 2008)

Missions
  • Development of a statistical summarization tool for WiFi hotspots network.
  • Survey for the Intranet rewriting project and the associated billing tool.
  • Development of a modular Extranet for customers.
  • LAMP environment.

Consultant for ICT Global Projects

Telehouse Europe - Paris - France(Permanent contract - October 2007 - January 2008)

Missions
  • Guidelines for the development of technical "Data Storage Management" offers (outsourced data storage).
  • Support on global HA managed solution development as part of end customers' BCP (redundant networks, multisites backups, high density equipment).
  • Feasibility study on an ESX virtual machine deployment project.

Chief Executive Officer

Softroad - Paris - France(Permanent contract - February 2004 - October 2007)

Missions
  • Deployment of a Web hosting platform, administration, monitoring and management of dedicated servers (around 20 servers hosted in Telehouse, Redbus and OVH).
  • Development of a remote backup service called Hard Disk over Network (HDoN) in Linux and BSD environments (SFTP and rsync over SSH protocols).
  • Deployment of IP centrex solutions under Asterisk.
  • Development of IVR for charged numbers (critical environment - 50k minutes per month).
  • French localization of WebDrive software and exclusive distributor in France.
  • Development of an e-commerce platform for Doriane – Zalys (LAMP environment).
  • Development (LAMP) and system administration (Linux and Windows 2003) for David Argence's webring.