Frédérick Simon

🎯 Concrete Result

Strengthening the resilience, security, and observability of a critical production IBM i environment.

⚡ Industrialized DRP

- Deployment of Flash for i

- Business recovery in under 30 minutes (vs. 10 hours previously)

- RTO divided by 20

🔐 Proactive security strategy

- Management of security audits in collaboration with IBM and internal teams

- Development and execution of a structured remediation plan

- Implementation of an MCS contract (Security Maintenance):

➤ Application of security patches

➤ Review of user rights

➤ Active monitoring of vulnerabilities

👁️‍🗨️ Advanced monitoring & observability

Integration of the Elastic stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana

Improved real-time visibility into IBM i systems

Creation of custom dashboards with monitoring teams, aligned with business and security objectives

🎯 Concrete Result

Stabilization, performance upgrade, and security of a critical Infor M3 ERP platform, without service interruption.

🔹 Project Management & Coordination

- Development and validation of the Technical Design Document (DAT) and test plan with measurable criteria

- Close collaboration with business, application, and infrastructure teams

- Facilitation of decision- and risk-oriented project meetings

- Rigorous milestone tracking until production deployment

- Reliability and operability-focused approach from the design phase

🔹 Infrastructure Deployment & Migration

- Deployment of target environments for Infor M3 v13.4 ERP

- Controlled migration of Windows systems and databases

- Full validation of technical tests before production

- Creation of installation and operation documentation

- Goal of zero surprises in production

🔹 Performance, Availability & Resilience

- In-depth analysis of the existing environment (sizing, load, dependencies)

- Identification and elimination of bottlenecks

- Optimization of application and system performance

- Enhancement of high availability and service continuity

- Faster, more stable, more predictable platform

🔹 Monitoring & Operational Reliability

- Implementation of proactive, production-oriented monitoring

- Early detection of incidents and performance degradations

- Formalization of operational and incident management procedures

- Reduction of MTTR and securing of daily operations

- Monitoring becomes a reliability lever, not just reporting

Strengthening IBM i access. Complete overhaul of the user management process. Deployment of Single Sign-On (SSO) to simplify and secure access to IBM i environments. Integration of audit tools for fine-grained traceability compliant with security requirements.

Management of IBM Power 9 environments, administration of partitions under OS400 v7r3 with VIOS, LPM, and SRR. Monitoring of backup infrastructures and virtualized environments under VMware. Administration of Windows servers in a critical production context.

🔹 Mastered Environments & Technologies: IBM Power 9, VIOS, V5030, OS400 v7r3, LPM, SRR, Opcon, Windows Server, VMware, Virtualization, Backup.