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In infrastructure project management, open systems expertise, integration, deployment of complex configurations, information systems operation, hardware and software capacity, and security requirements within large accounts, which has allowed me to acquire a wealth of technical and methodological knowledge, as well as strong listening and communication skills, good adaptability, a global vision for managing constraints, challenges, requirements, schedules, and the needs of IT departments.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Conversational
Arabic
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- Crédit Agricole CAGIPCapacity Planning CoordinatorNovember 2022 - Today (3 years and 7 months)Within the Open Systems Capacity Planning team (Unix, Vmware, Linux, and Windows), responsible for identifying infrastructure capacity limits (servers, storage, backup, network...) CA, and offering a cross-functional view with the Foundations, Clusters, and CAGIP clients by modeling over time either the behavior of critical applications or the evolution of infrastructures. I was responsible for:• Study and development of capacity reports for critical projects and infrastructures.• Monthly reporting to monitoring committees, and providing responses to specific client requests.• Providing decision-making elements in terms of infrastructure optimization and anticipating evolutions (provisioning, technology changes...).• Providing upstream consulting for partner or internal projects.• Conducting sizing studies that could be presented in various CA-GIP committees.• Possessing real expertise in communication.Environment: Open Server, AIX 7.X, Linux Redhat 6.4, Solaris, Windows, Omnivision, Lpar2rrd, Dynatrace HMC, GraphView, Oracle SQL, Perl, Shell., MS Office, MsProject-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- PMUAIX, NIM, VIO, CI/CD Tools Infrastructure ExpertSeptember 2020 - October 2022 (2 years and 1 month)Within the PMU Production Systems team, I held the position of Technical Expert for AIX, Power, and VIO infrastructure.I was responsible for:• Providing technical expertise for projects managed by the Power VM, AIX, NIM, GPFS, PowerHA, SAN, and Storage team.• Managing and implementing the firmware upgrade project on the AIX fleet (20 P7 servers) and VIOS 2.6 to 3.1 migration.• Managing and implementing the Hitachi storage array replacement project.• Managing and implementing AIX 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade projects.• Implementing new Power9 systems (VIOS V3, SEA, NPIV LPAR…).• Managing and deploying Puppet & prerequisites, and CI/CD tools on AIX LPARs.• Participating in the maintenance and evolution of a CI/CD platform (Gitlab, Jenkins, Nexus, Puppet, Foreman, Rundeck).• Support-Expertise: Level 3 intervention for incident diagnosis and resolution, technical expertise for projects, writing procedures and various documentation.• Problem Management: Analysis and evaluation of operational incidents to optimize corrective or workaround actions, identification of preventive measures to avoid malfunctions, driving continuous improvement.• BCP-DRP: IT Engineering for backup solutions, developing failover procedures, and coordinating failover tests.Environment: IBM Pseries 7 and 9 Servers, VSP 5000, Hitachi Power VM Vios V2.6 and 3.1, NIM, Unix AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and 7.2, GPSF, Linux Redhat 6-8, Puppet Rundeck, Jenkins, Gitlab, Python, Shell, Foreman, ITSM, Oracle11g, SQL Server, SEA, NPIV, Qualys, Rubrik, Dynatrace, Lpar2rrd, Nmon, Centreon, ILMT 7.2.2, Nagios, PAR Webs ITSM 7.9, Fabric OS 7.4, DB2, K-Shell, Windows, MS Office, MsProject-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Société Général (FranfinanceAIX Linux SAN Storage ConsultantJune 2018 - September 2020 (2 years and 3 months)Within the SG Production Engineering team for Storage and Network Systems, a major player in the banking sector, I held the position of Power Infrastructure Technical Consultant. I was responsible for:• Project Support: Providing technical expertise for projects managed by the Power VM, AIX, NIM, PowerHA, SAN, and Storage team, on internal solution deployment projects.• Managing and implementing AIX 6.1 to 7.1 upgrades, Vios 2.2 to 3.1, migration from VNX to NetApp storage, implementation of new Power8 and Power9 systems (VIOS V3, SEA, NPIV LPAR…).• Managing and deploying Ansible on AIX LPARs.• Migrating NetApp array volumes to VNX, and switching vscsi interfaces to NPIV.• Support-Expertise: Level 3 intervention for incident diagnosis and resolution, technical expertise for projects, writing procedures and various documentation.• Problem Management: Analysis and evaluation of operational incidents to optimize corrective or workaround actions, identification of preventive measures to avoid malfunctions, driving continuous improvement.• BCP-DRP: IT Engineering for backup solutions, developing failover procedures, and coordinating failover tests.• Architecture: Design/Validation of technical solutions to be implemented in the production infrastructure, technical feasibility study of projects from an infrastructure perspective.• Technological Watch: Identification and study of technical innovations and new supplier offerings.Environment: IBM Pseries 7, 8, and 9 Servers, Power VM Vios V2.2 and 3.1, NIM, Unix AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and 7.2, Linux Redhat 6.4, Ansible 2.7, ITSM, JUMP VNX Arrays, VPlex, NetApp, Brocade SAN, Oracle 11g, SQL Server, SAE, NPIV, NIM7.1/7.2, Tina V6, ILMT 7.2.2, TeamQuest, LPAR Webs ITSM 7.9, Fabric OS 7.4, DB2, K Shell, Windows, MS Office, MsProject------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Education
- DESS in Engineering Mathematics and Computer Tools(University of Orléans)1996DESS Ingénierie Mathématiques et Outils Informatiques
- DEA in Computer Science Languages, Programming, and Translation(University of Orléans)1995DEA Informatique Langages, Programmation et Traduction