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Description

🚀 Infrastructure expert focused on virtualization 🖥️ (VMware, Proxmox, KVM etc), Linux 🐧, storage solutions 💾 and DR ⚡.

Geek at 10, engineer at 20, I've seen IT evolve from the 90s to today's industry. This extensive experience allows me to approach each situation pragmatically: rationalizing investments, optimizing performance, ensuring system reliability, and data security are my areas of expertise.

25 years in the field, including 15 in infrastructure solutions, with numerous projects to my credit. Recent examples:

💽 2024 - storage solutions rejuvenation: extending the lifespan of high-capacity SAN arrays and team leadership for selecting a high-end SDS solution (DELL PowerFlex).

🗃️ 2024 - technical lead for OpenShift on-Prem deployment.

🖥️ 2023 - infrastructure project management for on-Prem VDI (350 VMware Horizon workstations).

🚀 2022 - storage subsystem optimization for an on-Prem messaging system (-30% footprint + historization + latency reduction).

And more broadly:

🖥 15 years of multi-site VMware infrastructure management (~800 VMs)

💻 15 years of Atempo LiNa backup solution management (~2500 mobile clients)

👨‍⚕️ 17 years of park management and support team leadership

⌨️ Systems: Linux (Debian, Gentoo & RHCSA certified 2024), ESXi, and the entire Windows family since MS-DOS

🧙‍♂️ Virtualization: VMware vSphere & Horizon, Proxmox, KVM, etc...

🗃️ Containerization: LXC, OpenShift

⏲️ High availability: DR / BCP, stretch clusters

💽 Storage: SAN, DAS, ZFS technologies, tiering, deduplication, data security

🛜 Networks: LAN, VLAN, VxLAN, FC, iSCSI, DNS, DHCP, SSH, CIFS, NFS, etc.

💾 Backup: Atempo solutions (Live Navigator, Time Navigator)

🛡️ Security: perimeter, application, and especially training actions

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
German
Basic

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Université de Limoges
Systems Manager
PUBLIC SECTOR
January 2018 - December 2024 (6 years and 11 months)
Limoges, France
Systems Manager:
◦ manager of multi-site VMware datacenter (800 VMs)
◦ storage solutions manager (in DR)
◦ VDI project lead (VMware Horizon, 350 licenses)
◦ OpenShift technical manager
◦ mobile workstation backup solution manager
◦ L3 systems and performance support.
Project Management VMWARE SAN Storage Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Linux
Université de Limoges
Support Manager and Systems Expert
PUBLIC SECTOR
February 2010 - December 2017 (7 years and 10 months)
Limoges, France
VMware infrastructure manager (6 hypervisors and 80 VMs initially)
Manager of the support service for the Faculty of Sciences: service structuring, team management, and IT park management (over 1000 workstations across an 18-hectare campus).
Team Management VMWARE Linux
Université de Limoges
System Administrator
PUBLIC SECTOR
December 2000 - January 2010 (9 years and 1 month)
Limoges, France
Educational Engineer:
◦ IT park management
◦ budget management
◦ active contributor to Gentoo Linux development.
Gentoo Linux System Administration Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting