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Strong strategic vision towards technologies and their adoption in organizations supporting business objectives reinforced by the following skills:
Ability to analyze and understand technologies, to position and popularize them.
Sound understanding of industry trends and their impacts in the business.
Ability to organize and structure IT, including architectural practices, relying on motivation and accountability of the stakeholders.
Deep sense of communication as a motivating and unifying element.
Well-known and recognized for bringing innovative solutions.
Expertise covering:
Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF-9 certified) including EA repositories, solution architecture, application architecture (N-tier, real-time, P2P, Grid & Cloud) and process reengineering.
API, REST, WOA and SOA technologies, models, best practices and governance.
Internet solutions (including mobile, cloud, responsive web adaptatif, portal, application server etc.), protocols & standards.
Team management, methodologies and best practices of software development (certified SCRUM master).
VoIP, IN, wireless technologies, standards and processes (TMN, OAM&P, FCAPS).
| academic background | M. Sc. |
Master’s degree in Computer Sciences (with a FCAR grant) done in collaboration with the Chemical Engineering department (1990, Laval University, Québec, Canada). The thesis applied to the field Intelligence Artificial and focused on the control of industrial process based on physical and historical data analysis.
| B. A. Sc. |
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences (Applied Sciences) with a minor in Mathematics (1989 Laval University, Québec, Canada).
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work and employment history |
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Fonds de Solidarité FTQ;
Montréal, Québec.
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Web, mobile and cloud Solutions Architect March 2017-nowadays
Currently defines the architecture of a web and mobile new investment portal (including the development of proof of concept, micro services and API) as well as the architecture of the CRM solution.
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main technologies
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Sitecore, adaptive web, micro-services REST, API management (Swagger, RAML, Postman, etc.), Ms-Azure (AD et API Gateway), OAuth, Ms-Dynamics, Sparx EA, Archimate 3.0.
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Québecor;
Montréal, Québec.
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Cloud Solutions Architect July 2017-nowadays
Currently defines the architecture, including the development of proof of concept, of a cloud-based HR solution consolidating information from several HR and payroll on premise systems.
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main technologies
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Mulesoft CloudHub, SAP, Avanti, Oracle HCM Cloud, REST micro-services, API management, Ms-Azure, Oracle AM, OAuth & SAML.
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Québecor;
Montréal, Québec.
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Cloud Solutions Architect March 2017-July 2017
Defined the architecture, including the development of proof of concept, of a cloud-based HR solution consolidating information from several HR and payroll on premise systems.
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main technologies
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Mulesoft CloudHub, SAP, Avanti, Oracle HCM Cloud, REST micro-services, API management, Ms-Azure, Oracle AM, OAuth & SAML.
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Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton;
Montréal, Québec
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Cloud Solutions Architect July 2016-February 2017
Architected an innovative online platform for SME back-office management (accounting, payroll. etc.). Platform SSO-aggregating over 40 distinct solutions mostly Cloud-based & API-based.
Modeled and documented (including the operational support) of the complete IT landscape (Archimate application and technology views) with Sparx AE.
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main technologies
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QuickBooks Online, Ms-Dynamics Online, Epicor, Clarizen, OAuth0, Azure, responsive Web, REST micro-services, API management, Sparx EA, Archimate 3.0.
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National Bank of Canada;
Montréal, Québec.
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SOA Solutions Architect April 2016-September 2016
Realized a comparative analysis of enterprise architecture repositories between Casewise, IBM Rational System Architect and Sparx Enterprise Architect.
Completely modeled the Bank SOA landscape (300 services, operations, consumers, providers with all their dependencies) in Sparx EA for operational support purposes.
Automated the generation of Solution Architecture artefacts (like component diagrams, service description in Word document, etc.) in Sparx EA.
Realized of the service release management proof of concept in Kanban.
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main technologies
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Casewise, IBM Rational System Architect, Sparx Enterprise, WSDL, SOAP, Archimate 2.0.
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Québecor;
Montréal, Québec.
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Enterprise Architect September 2015-March 2016
Established the functional map of Québecor Groupe Media (grouping TVA network, specialized channels, MELS studios, magazines, newspapers, publishers, digital transit shelters and news agency assets) 800 IT solutions in support for the IT strategic plan.
Established the functional map of Québecor Sports & Entertainment division (regrouping the Armanda & Remparts junior hockey teams, Videotron Center, Gestev and Archambault assets) IT solutions in Sparx EA in support for the IT strategic plan.
Established the functional map of SunMedia 400 solutions in support IT assets sale to PostMedia project. Complete integration in Sparx AE of the assets to-be-sold using Archimate application & technology views and automatic generation of of many Solution Architecture artefacts (like component diagrams, DRP, migration plan, documentation).
Fed the project teams with asset & impact analysis documentation automatically generated from Sparx EA to support the sale & transfer to PostMedia.
Trained PostMedia teams to Sparx EA.
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main technologies
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Avanti, Acomba, SAP, Cogep Guide TI, Ms-Dynamics, Great Plains, many print & media business systems, Sparx EA, Archimate & TOGAF.
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Québecor;
Montréal, Québec.
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Lead Solution Architect Vidéotron Center January 2014-September 2015
Designed the Vidéotron Center IT & Business solutions architecture (encompassing audio, IPTV, broadcasting, lighting, building maintenance & security, wifi, mobile & web solutions) in Sparx AE using Archimate application and technology views.
Defined the web, mobile, ticketing and CRM solutions architecture of the Vidéotron Center.
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main technologies
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TicketMaster online, JanRain social login, Google Analytics, Azure, web solutions, mobile application & API, solution web, Ms-Dynamics, Stone Timber River CRM, Johnson Controls security systems, Sage, Avanti, API and many entertainment, venue and NHL business systems.
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Mouvement Desjardins;
Montréal, Québec.
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Enterprise Architect January 2012-December 2013
Defined, maintained & aligned the business service using various processes and component-oriented industry models.
Helped several banking programs & projects (like corporate lending, servicing position, e-branch, call center) towards their alignment with the enterprise architecture vision.
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main technologies
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CaseWise, SOA, Archimate, BPMN, TOGAF and many banking & insurance business solutions.
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Mouvement Desjardins;
Montréal, Québec.
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SOA Solutions Architect April 2010-December 2011
Led the Mouvement Desjardins’ SOA initiative, defined the corresponding SOA infrastructure, established the SOA practice and the baseline for a federated SOA governance.
Oriented and advised several projects (customer service, financing, MDM, portal) regarding SOA enablement.
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main technologies
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SOA, WS-*, WSDL, SAML, Oracle OAM, BPMN, MagicDraw, CaseWise and many banking & insurance business solutions.
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Vidéotron Ltée;
Montréal, Québec.
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3G-IP and VoIP Solution Architect July 2008-March 2010
Architected solutions enabling IP-based services (like web access, billing, etc.) for 3G wireless systems & devices during the launch of Videotron wireless services.
Designed a VoIP based solution to migrate legacy voicemail boxes.
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main technologies
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3G telecommunication equipment (ex: SGSN, GGSN, HLR, etc.), Linux, Remedy, DNS, DHCP, SIP, Asterik.
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Cisco Canada;
Montréal, Québec.
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Strategic Positioning spring 2008
On behalf of Cisco, wrote AON positioning white papers for the Quebec and Manitoba Health Care and answered RFPs.
Designed proof of concept for Cisco’s customers.
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main technologies
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J2EE, SOA, Cisco AON, EDI, HL7, cryptography & X.509 certificate management.
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Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux; Montréal, Québec.
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Security Solutions Architect winter 2007-2008
Designed a solution, including its proof of concept, to secure access to the DSQ (Québec Health Record) web services based Juniper equipment. Solution included a Public Key Infrastructure and managed the complete X.509 certificates life-cycle from signing to revocation.
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main technologies
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Public key infrastructure, Juniper Access Server, Web Services, ASP .net.
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Intertrade Systems;
Laval, Québec.
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Solution architect and strategic positioning summer 2007
Redefined of the corporate positioning and vision.
Led the migration of the company legacy application to the Cisco’s AON appliance.
Led the integration with Asus and Linksys/Cisco CPEs based on REST services.
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main technologies
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J2EE, SOA, WS-*, Cisco AON, EDI, cryptography & X.509 certificate management.
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Canoë;
Montréal, Québec.
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Chief Technology Officer 2006
Redefined the company web properties portfolio (classified.ca, jobboom.ca, micasa.ca, autonet.ca, etc.) towards a comprehensive and unified web 2.0 vision.
Reengineered the development practice.
Acted as the technical evangelist and advisor to the Quebecor subsidiaries (TVA, Sun Media, etc.) regarding content management and web publishing aspects.
Led R&D efforts.
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main technologies
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J2EE, SOA, php, perl, Google Analytics, Google Ads, web 2.0, Agile methodology.
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Multiforce technologies;
Montréal, Québec.
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VP development & technologies 2005-2006
Acted as VP technologies and development at Multiforce technologies, leading the SOA developments and practices until the company acquisition by ESI technologies Inc. In this position, he was leading the strategic positioning of the company products and services and helped to promote them to the customers.
Defined, maintained and evangelized the company’s vision during its transition from an IT equipment reseller to a IT solutions integrator.
Defined and led the company SOA/EDA positioning, strategy and services.
Led R&D efforts (including tax credits claims).
Wrote several technical articles SOA Magazine (www.soamagazine.com).
Established the company presence at the OASIS (www.open-oasis.org); member of 5 technical committees defining SOA technologies.
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Major achievement
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Successful company business transformation leading to the acquisition by ESI technologies.
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National Bank of Canada;
Montréal, Québec.
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Chief Advisor 2004
Led the Bank’ SOA initiative and governance.
Established, maintained and evangelized the SOA vision and blueprints.
Led IT architecture in a major bank business re-engineering project.
Led the solutions architecture for several projects in collaboration with the business units (ATM, commodity market, personal banking) and the technology partners (Bell, CGI and IBM).
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main technologies
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Datapower, SOA, Web Services, BPMN/BPEL and many banking business solutions.
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Sun Canada;
Montréal, Québec.
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Subcontractor 2002-2004
Designed, architected and documented several solutions based on Sun technologies.
Developed data intensive analysis tools for a proteomic biotech company (Caprion).
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main technologies
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Sun directory server, Sun Grid Engine, SAN, Sun hardware & equipment.
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Intertrade Systems;
Campbell, California.
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Chief architect & stakeholder 2002 and partially in 2003
Realized the technical due diligence leading to the company acquisition.
Reverse engineered & secured all solution/code following the company acquisition
Redesigned and led the (re)development of the company EDI solution based on a mix of J2EE and .Net technologies.
Reduced the development team from 20 to 4 with higher efficiency
Positioned of the enterprise’s forthcoming products.
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main technologies
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J2EE, .net technologies.
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Netergy Networks/8x8;
Santa Clara, California.
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Chief Technology Officer 2000-2001
In June 2000, Netergy Networks/8x8 (NASDAQ: EGHT) acquired U|Force. Netergy Networks was developing software and hardware solutions for voice and video over IP and had approximately 250 employees in five locations worldwide (USA, UK, France and two in Canada).
Established the technology vision and mid-term technology roadmap.
Worked closely with the company’s strategic planning group to align this vision with the business strategy.
Acted as the primary spokesperson of the company’s vision and technology both internally and to the marketplace in general (trade shows, seminars, analysts and specialized media).
Supported sales and business development units in selling the company’s vision, technology and products to customers and partners.
Managed a development team of over to 150 developers.
Advised the executive management and Board of Directors regarding all technical aspects.
Managed the protection of the company’s intellectual property and patents.
Lead company involvement in standard bodies and industry committees (JAIN, VON and the International Softswitch Consortium).
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Major achievement
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Successful establishment of a synergetic product vision and the associated end-to-end architecture.
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Speaking engagements
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“Service Creation Environment”, JAIN conference, fall 2000, San Francisco, California.
“Work in progress: Java and XML for Service Creation”, VON developers conference, winter 2000, Burlingame, Califonia.
“JAIN Update”, VON’ developers conference, winter 2000, Burlingame, California
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main technologies
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Java, J2EE, media Gateway, MCGP/Megaco, Softswitch, VoIP, SIP, CTI, AA, ACD.
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U|Force;
Montréal, Québec
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R&D Vice-President and CTO 1999-2000
Uniforce Informatique Inc. was renamed U|Force Inc. after the completion of first round of financing. The new company had approximately one hundred employees in its Montreal and Ottawa offices.
Defined of the corporate vision and products positioning.
Authored technical white papers on the company’s products and technologies.
Led VCs and investors technical presentations.
Evangelized the company’s vision to the marketplace (trade shows, analysts and specialized media).
Assist sales and business development units in promoting the company’s vision, technology and products to customers and partners.
Managed the development team which grew from 12 to 60 people.
Counseled executive management on all technical aspects.
Led company involvement in JAIN and VON standard committees.
Authored R&D tax credits report.
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Major achievements
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Establishment of the first Java Authorized Center in the Québec Region.
Company acquisition by Netergy Networks Inc. for 51M USD.
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Speaking engagements
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“Service Creation Environment”, JAIN conference, fall 2000, San Francisco, California.
“Work in progress: Java and XML for Service Creation”, VON developers conference, winter 2000, Burlingame, Califonia.
“JAIN Update”, VON’ developers conference, winter 2000, Burlingame, California
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main technologies
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Java, J2EE, media Gateway, MCGP/Megaco, Softswitch, VoIP, SIP, CTI, AA, ACD.
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Uniforce Informatique; Montréal, Québec.
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Cofounder & R&D Vice-President 1995-1999
Uniforce Informatique Inc. started as a highly specialized Unix consultancy firm developing real-time surveillance solutions. After the first successful years, and expecting stagnation in the growth of company revenues, the company’s efforts were refocussed in software development for the emerging VoIP market. Instead of competing with other players at the access level and corresponding protocols, the company focussed on the service layer and started the development of a Java-based Service Creation Environment for the next-generation VoIP service providers.
Co-authored the startup business plan.
Led VCs technical presentations.
Managed the development team (up to 12 people).
Managed several development/consulting projects in distributed systems (Sun sub-contractor), network surveillance (Stentor, Harris), near to real-time systems (Québec Provincial Police), intranet (Canadian Forces) and Internet (Nortel, NORDX) environments.
Authored R&D tax credits report.
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Major achievement
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Completion of the first round of financing for 10M $ CDN.
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Speaking engagement
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The Java Telephony API: From Specification to Implementation”; JavaOne 1999, San Francisco.
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main technologies
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C/C++, java, many Unix flavours (Berkeley & System V), VoIP, SIP, CTI, AA, ACD.
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Bell Sygma; Montréal, Québec.
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Consultant Manager 1994-1995
Following the contractual transfer to Bell Sygma, led the technical development of a network surveillance systems solution.
Managed the development of complex components of network surveillance applications (C/C++ components under HP/Sun/Windows) encompassing near to real-time, robustness and fault-tolerance aspects.
Developed GDMO and SNMP MIBs for TMN-based applications.
Led technical teams (up to approximately 15 people).
Analyzed products, authored technical analysis and reports.
Represented Bell Sygma in the Stentor Alliance effort to implement standard bodies works (NMF, BellCore and CCITT).
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Major achievement
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Successful development of a real-time surveillance system for Bell Sygma for a third of the cost of Northern Telecom solution with more than 90% of the features set.
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main technologies
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C/C++, RPC, CORBA, IDL, Unix, HP Openview DM, SNMP, MIB, GDMO.
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Les Systèmes Sun Québec;
Québec City, Québec.
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System Engineer 1993-1994
Authored to RFI/RFP answers for Sun.
Represented the company present during sales calls and technical presentation.
Provided technical courses and seminars on behalf of SunService.
Lead consultancy projects on Unix system administration, right-sizing, distributed systems, network surveillance & management systems, near to real-time systems.
Authored orientation and product evaluation reports.
Developed Unix multi-threaded drivers for real-time alarms monitoring and firewall.
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main technologies
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C/C++ multi-threaded drivers, RPC, SNMP, SMTP, DNS, NFS, Sun equipment.
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Laval University; Québec City, Québec.
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IT Director 1991-1993
Managed the Administration Sciences Faculty IT customer service (up to 8 people) and implemented pre-ITIL services.
Analyzed and recommended several network, hardware and software solutions.
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main technologies
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3270, TCP-IP, token-ring, router, hub, repeater, etc.
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Steria;
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Unix consultant spring & summer 1991
On behalf of HP, led the equipment benchmarking in a project of rightsizing from Mainframe/X.25 to Unix/TCP-IP for the Arab National Bank.
Authored & presented analysis report to the bank.
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main technologies
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C/C++, X.25, TCP-IP, HP equipment.
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Laval University; Québec City, Québec.
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Unix & Network Analyst 1990-1991
Managed and maintained components of the RISQ network (pre-Internet backbone in Québec province) for the university portion or it.
Authored presentations, articles and seminars for the university community.
Analyzed several TCP-IP solutions, LAN-WAN software and hardware products.
Managed connectivity projects on 3270, LAT, TCP-IP, XNS and X.25 networks.
Developed C and C++ connectivity applications.
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main technologies
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C/C++, 3270, Kermit, LAT, DecNet, TCP-IP, XNS, X.25, Banyan vines, Arcnet, token-ring, Cisco router, hub, repeater, etc.
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