Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

With 20 years of experience in networks and Telecoms, I have worked with and intervened for the 3 national operators as well as large French companies (CAC40, SBF120). Self-employed since 2013, I am looking for consulting/fixed-price/staff leasing missions: in the implementation of network architectures (HLD, LLD) Telecom IP/Ethernet, IP/fabric, IP/MPLS and WDM Optical on Cisco, Juniper, ECI, Arista or other equipment, in participation in the drafting of technical tenders for end clients wishing to evolve their Telecommunication network, in the Management of a technical team as a manager or team leader, in the pre-sales of telecom solutions.

Languages

English
Fluent
French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km)

INSP
Network Architect
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
March 2013 - Today (13 years and 3 months)
Paris, France
Since October 2017, primarily fixed-price assignments such as:

• Support for the redesign of the Internet backbone and training on Juniper equipment (MX204 and MX150) for the operator Linkbynet.

• Support for pre-sales studies for the manufacturer ECI Telecom for WDM Optical infrastructures.

• Support for drafting specifications for the redesign of the MAN backbone at Norauto

• Support for the AXA client within the Global Operations (GO) teams:

o On the implementation of the Telecom strategy for WAN Transport network aspects through meetings and workshops with AXA's internal teams.
o On the drafting of the WAN RFI for their World Wide networks on various aspects, including reducing MPLS footprints towards overlay solutions like SD-WAN, very high-speed transport solutions over 100 Gb/s between their data centers and carrier hotels to optimize connections for their Private (PiaaS) and public cloud (AWS, Azure) hybridization solutions, Internet access, and Domestic WAN.

• Support for the Thésée Datacenter client for the network connectivity of its future data center in Aubergenville (78).

o Study for fiber optic connections for the data center and for telecom services such as IP Transit, Data Center Interconnect, Cloud Access services (AWS, Azure, ...).
o AMOA for connectivity RFP, drafting, analysis of technical solutions provided by various operators.

Support for the Teléhouse Paris client in implementing a Metro Connect solution between the TH2-TH3 and LF-TH3 sites.

o AMOA for the RFP in the choice of optical equipment manufacturer for the solution, choice of dark fiber operators,

o Technical Director for the implementation of the chosen solution with assistance in upskilling operational and commercial teams on this new OTN/WDM solution for customer speeds ranging from 1Gb/s to 400Gb/s.
Architecture MPLS Juniper Cisco BGP OSPF OTN DWDM
Euronext
Transition Manager
BANKING AND INSURANCE
October 2016 - September 2017 (1 year)
Paris, France
Responsible for a team of 8 people within the IaaS department (4 Network Engineers, 2 Network Architects, 1 Data Center Urbanization Engineer, 1 final year engineering intern).

My work consists of successfully carrying out major infrastructure projects for Euronext through this team:
• the redesign of the Euronext Trading chain via the OPTIQ project
• The implementation of the new MIFID2 standard.

I provide the list of KPIs to Euronext management to assess the team's workload, allowing for the anticipation of new resources within this team.
I maintain relationships with the telecom equipment manufacturers in the market such as Dell, Arista, Juniper, Citrix/Netscaler
KPI Team Leader Management Supplier Relations
Euronext
Network Architect
BANKING AND INSURANCE
August 2015 - September 2016 (1 year and 2 months)
Paris, France
Euronext's network production environment consists of Juniper MX 104, EX 8216 and QFX 5100 and QFX3500 equipment and Arista 7150. The OOB environment consists of Dell Force 10 S4810 equipment. Connections are n*10G in LAG or MLAG for the DC LAN part to servers and 1G copper for OBB connections. The security FW part consists of Fortinet and Checkpoint FW.
Inter-DC connections between London and Paris on OTN optical links 2*OTU2 per link on ECI 9603 equipment. Here, the solution uses 2 providers per link. Encryption at the OTN level through ECI equipment to OTU2. 1 OTU2 is used to connect Euronext's new IP/MPLS backbone (MX104) and the second OTU2 is used to aggregate n*1G (OOB services, the new Internet Access and Web-hosting).

The work and mission within Euronext's engineering teams are:
• to design the engineering of Euronext's production and corporate networks (HLD and LLD).
• to be the guarantor of the network engineering deployed on Euronext's L3 and L2 network infrastructure.
• to ensure level 3 support and migration of network infrastructures.
• to ensure technological watch.
• Meeting suppliers and analyzing market trends.
• Evaluating new products or new technologies and writing technical summaries
• Developing RFI and RFP.

To do this, I participated in the following project:

• Project restacking or Migration of network production environments from Hall5 to Hall2 in the Basildon Data Center in London.
• The architecture and commissioning of the new Backup or DR Data Center at the Saint Denis site in France.
• Drafting of RFPs and meeting with service providers for:
Network Architecture RFP BGP MPLS OSPF Junos Juniper Arista Dell