CV du
consultant

BDD

Datacenter

Réseaux et Middleware

Reseau

PRINCIPAL NETWORK/SECURITY ARCHITECT
(JNCIE-SP#195)
BACKBONE IP-MPLS TELCO FIXED/MOBILE, IXP, DATACENTER FABRIC, DCI, ENTERPRISE
WAN/MAN/LAN/SDWAN, CLOUD NETWORKING, NETWORK SECURITY



Education
• 2004/2005
CAAE-MBA at IAE (Institut d’Administration des Entreprises) Paris – 1ère Session

• 1992:
Diplôme d’Ingénieur ISEN (Institut Supérieur d’Electronique du Nord, Lille, France) Option
Télécommunications

• 1992:
DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) Post-Graduate Degree (DEA) in Telecommunications with
Distinction at Université de Valenciennes-France


Languages
• English: Bilingual
• Spanish: Good working knowledge

Miscellaneous
• Sports: Jogging
• Business Trip: London, Brussels, Amsterdam (3-year Resident ), Copenhagen, Roma, Milan, Madrid (1 year project assignment), Malta, New-York, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Las Vegas, Djibouti, Nigeria, Sierra- Leone, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Algeria, Liberia, Togo, Mali, Niger, Benin, RD Congo, Senegal, Cameroon, Gabon


 

Networks/Security/Cloud Professional Experiences


Grand Paris Express (Urban Railways / Public Transit Network L15/L16/L17) Network Architecture | Build Team/Tech Lead (CTO)
Sep 2022

• Leading network architecture Design and Implementation for the shared Urban L15/L16/L17 line Multi-Service 100G/40G Backbone, two Datacenters Spine-and-Leaf EVPN Multi-Site and +100 remote POP sites (stations) over WDM and Dark Fiber - HLD, LLD, Acceptance Test Plan (ATP)
• Multi-service network architecture for System Interfaces: 4G PMR (Private Mobile Radio/systems/networks RAN/Core/MCPTT), CCTV, telephony, rolling stock, trackside, onboard systems among others,
• Industrial Systems/OT (PLC, sensor, RTU, IHM) and OPCUA/SCADA Interconnection, High Voltage/Low Voltage, Fire Safety Systems,elevator/escalator, automatic door systems, HVAC/GTB/GTCNMS - HLD, LLD
• IT Systems with AD/LDAP, IPAM-DNS/DHCP, F5, Network Security with Network Segmentation (DMZ/Zoning) and Micro-Segmentation , LPM, ANSSI IS Cybersecurity Requirements, HLD, LLD
• Interconnection with 3rd Party-Networks (Banking Operators/Worldline-Ingenico, SIP-Trunking/PSTN, PVPP (Plan Vidéoprotection Ville de Paris), Ministère Intérieur/RRF, IDFM) - HLD, LLD
• Technical Roadmap, NIP/DIP (Network/Detailed Implementation Plan), Project key milestone follow-up
• Leading Technical Workshop for CyberSecurity Customer Requirement Update in line with LPM/ANSSI.
• Architecting & Designing the target network and security architecture of the Grand Paris Express whole Networks and IT Systems (DC and POPs) subdivided into Sensitive Zones and Non-Sensitive Zone plus the Impact Study (Budget/project costing and related staffing) following the new Cybersecurity Requirements
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• Architecting & Designing the network and security architecture of the internal iDMZ and external IT DMZ between the “Contrôle Commande/SCADA” Interface Systems and the Grand Paris Express IT Systems plus the Impact Study (Budget/project costing and related staffing) following the new Cybersecurity Requirements
• Headed the Technico-economic Offer / financial business case for Special Projects (F5-SLB/RP, WDM/OADM network with 3rd DC-WITNESS Operation Center, DNS/DHCP)
• Hired, mentored, supported, managed a team of 10 Technical Architect/Expert – Architecture & Design and BUILD Staff, Weekly meetings
• Special Bids/Presale activity (Customer Requirements, Impact – Feasibility Studies) and Project Costing/Business cases (WDM Extension and Design Study, F5 Server Load-Balancer/Reverse-Proxy LTM/ASM vs UBIKA)
• Vendor Management, Critical Issue Escalation Management/lead, Network Equipment Release Ownership (Nokia/Alcatel)
• Steering Committee (weekly/monthly) with Atos/Eviden, Weekly Customer Meeting (MOA, MOE) – CoPil/CoTech
• Nokia 7750-SR-2/1s, 7250-IXR, Omniwitch 6K series, Backbone IP/MPLS/Segment-Routing, EVPN L2VPN S/M-Homing, L3VPN, MP-BGP, ISIS, QOS, Python scripting, Ansible Introduction, PTP, NTP, WDM/OADM Nokia, NFM-P, 802.1x/MAB, SBC (SIP-Trunking), F5 LTM/ASM, Stormshield SN2100, Fortinet 1100E
• IT Systems Networking Service: ESXi, IAM/AD, PKI, 802.1x/MAB/NAC Forescout, PKI, Bastion/PAM, Syslog, NAS/SAN/Backup, IDS/IPS
• Implemented of IVVQ (Integration Validation Verification Qualification)/Testbed Platform (Clayes-Sous-Bois – 2 DC + 5 Stations),
• Live Stations and related Transition preparation works to RUN/SDM (Staffing, Ticketing): Saint Denis Pleyel (SDP – 2x light DC + 1 Station) June 2024, Villejuif Gustave Roussy (VGR – 1 light DC + 1 Station + SCADA NOC) Jan 2025.

Feb – Nov 2022
Thales Global WAN
Expert Network/Security Architect
Velizy (Freelance)

• Leading complex APAC (Asia Singapore / China / HongKong) WAN/MAN/LAN-Campus/Security network migration: network design and architecture evolution over MPLS & Internet based DM-VPN and ZTNA/Zscaler interaction.
• AWS/Azure and On-Prem regional Interconnection architecture review/implementation (VPC, TGW, DirectConnect) over ATT AVPN (International IP-VPN) and AWS Cloud WAN.
• MAN/WAN Managed Service Provider (OBS, ATT, T-Systems, BT)
• SD-WAN Pilot with SD-WAN Fortinet vs SD-WAN Versa Networks vs SD-WAN Cisco/Viptela - 4 sites (one DC FR et 3 branch sites BEL/APAC/NORAM) requirement/BOMs, architecture design workshop/review and solution deployment SDWAN CPE and related Controllers/Orchestration/Management/Analytics stacks.
• Cisco ASR9k/1k, ISR1k/4k, C9500/C9300, CSR1kv, Multi-VRF, DM-VPN/GRE, OSPF, BGP, MPLS-VPN, IPSec, QOS, TOIP, PaloAlto 5020/440, Fortinet Splunk, Infoblox, Tuffin


Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Alstom (Digital & Integrated Systems)
System Engineering Manager, System Architect, I&V Leader
Saint Ouen (Freelance)
(CyberSecurity Platform Worldwide for Urban/Mainline Systems)

• Leading Development team of Cybersecurity Features/Modules (Windows/Linux) as VM, Led System Testing (Integration & Testing) Team, Systems Design (High Level Architecture)
• Driving L1 & L2 Support for CSP-related project deployment (Urban and Mainline railway) and Subsystems Signalling Networks/services: Montreal, Toulouse, Marseille, Singapore, CCB/Trouble-Ticketing/Escalation,
• Product lifecycle management, Software Release Management/Delivery, Gate Review, Roadmap, Product documentation tool, Design Review, Program/On-going Projects
• IAM/CAM, RBAC, RADIUS/Wifi 802.1x/NAC, LDAP, PAM, PKI/Certificates Management, Time Synchronization, Windows Patch Management, UTM/Application Control, OS Hardening, Data Repository, NMS, Syslog Collector, ELK, NMS
• Routing, Switching, Fw, IDS/IPS, vmware ESXi, vCenter, NAS, vCloud, vAPP, miniDC/On-Prem,


Jan 2020 – Dec 2020
Orange Business Services
Telco/Team Lead Architect BUILD
Massy

• Led Complex Managed Services GIGALIS (Regional Carrier/Telco – Pays de la Loire) Network Migration from ALU/Nokia 7750/7450 Backbone to Cisco NCS (IOS-XR)/ASR (IOS-XE) gear with L2/L3 VPN, E-VPN, Internet Access/Transit-Peering, QOS, DC/Private Cloud access and Multicast services for B2B (managed L2CPE) over 22 POPs (Collectivités locales, Rectorat/Lycées/Collèges et CHU/Hôpitaux), MP-BGP, ISIS, MPLS, PIM ASM, Multicast L3VPN (MVPN)
• Customer Network & Service Assessment/Review, Lead Customer Design workshop, Site engineering, Vendor Interop Testbed and scenario, Design documents review/validation: HLD/DAT, LLD/DSD, Network Implementation/Migration Plan, Interop testing, Acceptance and network validation test plan, Troubleshooting, Maintenance window support, Vendor complex case support/in-house reproduction support/escalation lead, Transfer Management to RUN, Project Management and Planning, Weekly Customer Meeting Review, Monthly Customer and internal Steering Committee with customer CEO/CTO.
• Technical Roadmap, NIP/DIP (Network/Detailed Implementation Plan)
• Hired, mentored, supported, managed a team of 10 Technical Architect/Expert (CCIE SP, CCIE R&S, JNCIP SP, ALU/Nokia SRA), Agile Methodology
• Supported Solution Architect/Presales and Sales Teams during complex Special Bids/Projects and customer workshop, New Service Development (L3CPE, CPE Dual-Homing, Application Visibility Control – AVC, L2L3CPE and Services provisioning Automation, SDDC Private Cloud/NSX-T) for Gigalis – Customer / End Customer Marketing Team/CXO Presentations, Testbed, Beta tests


Oct 2018 - Paris
Anenze Networks
Principal Solutions/Network Architect & Technology – Consulting (Presales and Delivery)

• 3G/4G Signaling (Sigtran / Diameter) and GTP-C/GRX Mobile Core Networks Security Workshop/Study for a Côte d’Ivoire Mobile/Fixed Telco
• Headed Internet POPs Redesign Workshop (Cisco C6807/ASR9010/FPR4100) and Advanced Secure Protection/Attacks Mitigation (Arbor SP/TMS, Infoblox Secure DNS Auth/Caching TE, Bluecoat ProxySG-S500, Sandvine PTS/SDE/SPB, Fortinet FML-3000E, Wallix) for a West Africa Fixed/Mobile Telco
• Headed Tender answer for IT/Internal Networks Redesign based on Cisco Catalyst/Nexus/Firepower FPR2100 and Fortinet FGT-1500D for West Africa Telco, West Africa National Regulation Authority and a Gov Agency with related advanced security (Arbor AED-2600, Allot SSG-400, Bluecoat SG-S400, Fortinet FML-1000E)
• Cisco u-PE Selection and High Level Architecture for new VPLS-based B2B Ethernet Services onto existing Mobile Packet Core Backbone for a West Africa Mobile/Fixed Telco.
• Led SD-WAN (Cisco/Viptela vs Jnpr Contrail vs Versa Networks) introduction workshop with West Africa Mobile/Fixed Telcos.
• Segment-Routing Introduction workshop with West Africa Mobile/Fixed Telcos.
• Cloud (AWS, Azure) Service/Networking Introduction workshop with West Africa Mobile/Fixed Telcos
• Cisco SD-Access (SDLAN) Introduction
• AWS/Azure Solution Architect and Networking Certifications (in progress)
• Introduction to Terraform
• Introduction to 5G, Private5G

May – Sept 2018
Senior Consulting Architect Freelance – Paris
• Supporting (L3) Cisco ASR9K based Internet POP and investigating recurring slow performances on ASR9K PE for a West Africa Fixed/Mobile Telco


Sept 2014 – Apr 2018
CFAO Technologies – Côte d’Ivoire
Telcos Consulting Director / Principal Network Architect & Technology
Subsahara Africa and Algeria

Principal Solution Architect

• Spearheaded partner Technology (vendors) and Solutions positioning and meeting regularly with CTO, CIO, Customer Technology Expert and Executives
• Trained and supported presales and sales team for sales enablement in Telco space
• Led Design review/technology workshop for:
• Transit Voice (VOIP/SIP) with Interconnect Session Border Controller (SBC) for Sierra Leone Mobile/Fixed Telcos – 2x Oracle AP4600
• Mobile Number Portability Technology Impact on Mobile Core Networks, (Côte d’Ivoire Mobile/Fixed Telcos)
• 2G/3G/4G Signalling Optimization (SIGTRAN/Diameter): West Africa Mobile/Fixed Telcos
• LTE IPSec gateway (West Africa Mobile/Fixed Telcos)
• IP/MPLS (with vBNG) and Metro Ethernet Networks,
• Internet POP Redesign and attacks mitigation (West Africa Mobile/Fixed Telcos)
• MultiService IP/MPLS Core Refresh (Algeria Telco)
• GPON, (Gabon Government Agency)
• Headed RFP answer, won and led the design and Deployment of Core ISP capacity upgrade to 40GE, IGW
• Supported RFP answer of nationwide 2G/3G ASR903-based IP RAN with ASR9K/Nokia 7750-SR PE
• Led RFP answer and won of the following IXP projects:
• Cameroon IXP – CAMIX (MLPE): two IXP POP Douala and Yaounde with ASR1K as RS
• Togo IXP Togo – TGIX (MLPE)
• Conducted for Orange Côte d’Ivoire the Internal Networks (Campus/WAN/Service Delivery Platform HA) assessment up to the Solution Design of three **new** Nation-wide Datacentre Spine-and-Leaf Multi-Site and related interconnects (DCI) up to the deal closure and Greenfield Cisco ACI/VXLAN-EVPN, FabricPath, OTV Multi-Site Studies.
• Overachiever FY2016 (120%), multi-million euros deals
• Cisco Partner Africa Architecture Excellence, Nov 2016


Network Architect (Network Design Authority)

• Orange Côte d’Ivoire: Lead Network Design Authority (HLD/LLD/ATP/NIP) and Technical Director for the deployment of 3 nationwide Datacenter Spine-and-Leaf VXLAN-EVPN Multi-Site interconnection networks (DCI) for Orange Côte d’Ivoire –– Run the design workshop with Orange technical staff, wrote the Site Engineering document, the IP Fabric HLD, reviewed/validated the IP Fabric LLD, Setup, hands-on Configured and tested the Backbone IP/MPLS and NX9K BGW for the Multi-Site DC Interconnection (DCI), Internet Edge and Internal Networks Access Testbed Configuration (template) for BGW/NX9K and P-PE/ASR9K, developed LLD fo the DCI/Internet Edge/Internal Networks Edge, reviewed ATP document, wrote the Network Implementation Plan and Network Migration Plan, supported testbed issues - OOB Management/Backup Network over Nexus 7000 Solution: Cisco 6xNX9504 Spine, 18x NX93108/93180 Leaf, 6x NX7004 18x NX2232P/2248TP 18x ASR9001 PE/P, 6x Fortinet FGT 3700-D, 6x F5 Big IP5250, NX-OS VXLAN-EVPN / MP-BGP /ISIS / PIM ASM-SSM / L3-VPN / OTV
• Network Design Authority of the Core Internet Edge capacity upgrade to 40GE IGW for a Côte d’Ivoire Mobile/Fixed Telco: Led the customer design workshop, reviewed/validated HLD and Network Implementation Plan and reviewed LLD and ATP and Support around post-live critical case escalation - - Cisco ASR9010, ASR1006, C6506-E Huawei NE40, Allot SSG
• Togo IXP – TGIX (MLPE) as Technical Director (team of Networks/systems/Web engineers) and Network Design Authority: Afrinic/IPv4-v6/ASNs resource reservation TGIX interface. Led the customer design workshop, developed networks HLD, network and services implementation plan, reviewed/validated Networks and Systems LLD, ATP, solved complex routing architecture and DNS issues, BGP, Route Server/vRS. Cisco 3850, BIRD, Vmware ESCXi, DNS Bind, NGINX, Centréon
• West Africa Telco: Troubleshooting and RCCA for IGW experiencing recurrent reboot – Cisco 7609-S
• West Africa Telco: POP Internet Audit (BGP/Internet Upstream Transit)
• Orange Côte d’Ivoire: Network Design Authority of the Deployment of nationwide 2G/3G ASR903-based IP RAN with ASR9K010/Nokia 7750-SR PE/Nokia 7705-SAR for Orange Côte d’Ivoire (Fixed/Mobile Telco): developed, HLD, complex feature detailed design, and Network Implementation Plan/Network Migration Plan, validated the LLD/ATP, supported the deployment onto 4 POPs (maintenance windows) and post-production support – BGP, ISIS, L3/L2 VPN, syncE


Jan 2012 – Sept 2014
CFAO Technologies - France

Principal Solution/Network Architect & Technology – Telcos for Algeria and SubSahara (Tier-1 and Tier-2)
Business Development Director

• Built, developed and rolled-out the action plan for the “Fixed/Mobile Telcos” as new market segment – Technology, portfolio evangelization to Subsaharan Tier1/Tier2 Telco CTO, CIO and CXO, CTO Senior Management Staff and Technology Architect/Experts.
• Spearheaded technology positioning IP BB Consolidation, All-IP-Convergence, Cybersecurity for mostly French speaking west/central Africa and Algeria Telco and Government Agency.

Principal Solution Architect
• Led RFP answer and won the design & implementation of a nationwide Internal Networks site Migration onto MBPN Huawei PE NE40/Nokia 7750-SR P as dual-homed L3CE/BGP for a Cameroon MNO (13 sites)
• Led CDN Workshop with Verivue/Akamai with Senegal Fixed/Mobile Telco
• Headed RFP answer and won the Implementation of a DC, LAN Campus for a Gabon Government Agency (NX7K, NX2K, C6K, ASA and SRX, ISE) - - multimillion dollar revenue
• Promoted/hired, mentored and supported a virtual team of 5 Internetworking Experts (CCIE R&S, SP, DC, JNCIE) and Security/Systems Experts and +10 Senior Engineers during complex SP/large Entreprise presales and postsales design review or customer escalation phase.

Network Architect (Network Design Authority)

• Developed the Migration Cutover Plan (Network Migration Plan) with Impact Study document for a Côte d’Ivoire Mobile/Fixed Telco Core Network Refresh (Cisco ASR9010, CRS-1, 7609)
• Headed the design & implementation of a nationwide Internal Networks site Migration onto Mobile Packet Core of Huawei PE NE40/Nokia 7750-SR P as dual-homed L3CE/BGP for a Cameroon MNO (13 sites): Setup Testbed, led the design workshop with Orange, developed HLD, detailed BGP L3 MPLS/VPN configuration template, and Network Implementation Plan, reviewed/validated LLD and ATP documents
• Conducted a whole fixed and mobile network survey covering MSAN/BRAS, Internet Transit and Core IP and ISP Systems, Sagem/Alcatel/Huawei Microwave, Huawei CDMA, Huawei 2G/3G Systems and Softswitch, Alcatel/Huawei optical SDH, Huawei WDM and all related EMS then wrote up NG-OSS + DCN (OOB Network) RFP for a Central Africa Telco
• Led the design workshop, reviewed/validated the HLD, LLD, design and implementation of DC, LAN Campus for a Gabon Government Agency (Cisco NX7009, NX2K, Catalyst 6506-E, ASA5545-X, Checkpoint SG4400 and SRX240, ISE3355)


Jan 2010 – Dec 2011 Paris
Juniper Networks – FT/Orange Group
Senior System Engineer
FT/Orange Group IP/MPLS/L2-L3 VPN Core and Optical Solutions Lead

• Scope: Open Transit, FT RBCI (Domestic Backbone), FT/Orange Labs, RTGE, OLIV
• Won, headed and support the deployment in FT OTI Backbone (Paris Est) of the 1st TXP-4 (multichassis/switch fabric router T1600) in EMEA – Key interface with TXP PLM and h/w Engineering during intensive NPI at Sunnyvale with FT OTI Team and POC/Interop/scalability testing with T-Series, CRS-1 and ASR9K - - and T1600 in Germany POP.
• MX960/MX480/MX240 positioning as P/PE/AGG CE in RTGE (Nokia A-2200) and took part in A&D reviews.
• Headed the new OLIV Orange Labs multiservice network specifications (L2/L3 VPN, NG-MVPN, IPv4/IPv6,Junos Space, Junos Automation, Juniper QFabric Introduction presentation: ops/event/commit scipts qualification project up to closure
• Spearheaded Orange Group FUSION RFP answer with new MX3D card, drove POC design and led implementation with Sunnyvale POC Team, and depicted all Fusion RFP key requested features with Orange/TP Labs staff - key interworking with Juniper PLM and Hw Engineering - Sunnyvale (1month)in

o 2010 FUSION Project Team Award
• Led NPI with T4000 router and 100GE line card with POC – evangelizing within FT affiliates and scalability testing/POC with Orange NAD, TP R&D, OTI and RBCI
• Run IP/Optical Convergence Testing POC with MX960/Adva ROADM control plane interop for GMPLS solution, configuration, ATP and signoff at Juniper Paris Lab.
• Arista – Juniper Customer Interop Testing
• Led the Junos Automation/scripting tools/DevOps to Orange Ops Team
• Key interactions, tech deep dive earlier feature presentation with Orange Labs Teams (Lannion and Issy Les-Moulineaux)..


Sept 2005 – Dec 2009
Juniper Networks / Technical Assistance Center EMEA
Schiphol Rijk
FT/Orange Group Lead Senior Network Engineer - M/T/TXP/MX/E Series Expert
• Scope: FT OpenTransit, FT RBCI plus Parix , Orange Spain, Orange UK/EE, TPSA, Orange Business Services, MEA Orange branches
• Performed extensive debugging for critical/complex cases/escalated, reproduced bugs, finding workaround, problem reporting with DE for bug fix
• Bash scripting for providing background noise (ie interface flapping, deactivating/adding/committing some processes/configs stanza, ect) to MX/T series and Junos Automation/DevOps (commit/event/ops-scipts) during complex scenario/issue replication and traffic generator,
• Key interactions with FT/Orange Service Delivery Manager: customer operational case review, quarterly business review
• Offloaded EMEA/US J-Assure customer critical case for Telefonica TEE/TIWS, BT, DT, Teliasonera, KPN
• Technologies IPv4/IPv6 – IP/MPLS – MPLS TE - FC– MP BGP – L2VPN/VPWS/VPLS – Plain IP Mcast & NGVPN Mcast - QOS/COS – LAC/LNS - Control Plane & Data Plane down to ASICs Troubleshooting & RCCA
• Provided mentorship for new hired
• Wrote up/Published various Knowledge Base (KB)


2000 – Aug 2005
Ascend Communications / Lucent Technologies - Professional Services (June
EMEA
(Paris La Défense, Le Plessis-Robinson)
Senior Member of Consulting Staff, IP/MPLS NPDIO Practice Leader, VoIP Practice, CORES Member

• Headed the design of an ATM/IP backbone enabling ICD, VOIP-based Toll/Tandem traffic for Ola Internet, Spain - - 56 Nodes
• Led Migration Design and Deployment of Cisco DSLAM 6130 and Cisco BAS to Lucent DSLAM and BRAS for LDCOM
• Headed the design and lab trial for broadband access network for high speed Internet Access, corporate IP VPN, VoDSL services and Internet Transit Capacity optimization for Kast Telecom.
• Drove complex issues resolution on Springtide 2500 BRAS and helped finalized the configuration at Orange Denmark
• Reviewed LLD for KPN Euroring pan-E IP/MPLS Backbone, deployed and ran ATP for Juniper T320 L3/L2 PE at Telehouse
• Supported presales team in answering various RFP related to BRAS and MPLS VPN (Cegetel BAS2002, TD BRAS/Edge/Core, BAS for PT).
• Headed team (presales, TAC staff) - Network design Authority and led the following customer POCs: FT Damback (Stinger DSLAM, RSTN PE/P, VPWS, VPLS, Multicast, VOD over DSL) - Belgacom Ethane (Riverstone RSTN PE for Ethernet MAN/Core, DSLAM) - Led the design of DNS SLB for A-SBC in FT/V2OIP-SIP.
• Support and knowledge transfer for Presales and PS on BGPv4, IP/MPLS and L3VPN.
• Network Performance Manager for the whole nationwide cable access network (CMTS/CPE), IP Backbone (Cisco, Juniper – Core/DCN OOB Network/TV/IT), networks services (DNS, SLB, Cache, NR, LDAP..) and ISP systems (DNS, Mail, FTP) for Noos/Numericable.
• Data Network Operation (Transition) Manager (10 Network Engineers) for IP Backbone/Transit-Peering GIX/Multicast/Admin/TV/IT Networks/Optical networks/ Network Services – Mentoring/Coaching, Oncall Weekly Plan, Escalation Support, vendor case management / health checks and MOP development for Noos Numericable


Mar 99-May 00 Paris
NET2S (Consulting Company)
Senior Consultant (IP Backbone, Dial, Internet)
CompleTel France - Data Network Engineering / Architecture & Design (Nanterre, La Défense)

• Joined as the 3rd Network Engineer in DNE
• Wrote up RFP for Core, fixed access and wholesale dial access and conducted vendor selection, led RIPE/LIR ASN and IPv4 Block
• Actively participated in building/architecture and design review with vendors, rolling out Completel Data Network infrastructure (IGP/BGP) and ISP services growing from scratch to 4 regional POPs/SC Live (Paris, Lyon, Lille, Marseille) and several sales offices/HQ with Internet Transit Links.
• Key interaction with Transmission (PDH, SH, DWDM) and Voice Engineering (Class 4/5 Switch) departments.
• Trained and supported presales and sales team (Paris, Lyon, Lille) and developed ENT commissioning scenario
• Led LAN2LAN new service development (Impact Study) with Marketing Dept and headed some special Bids Nokia Telecom (France) - Intelligent Networks Division (Romainville 93)
• Headed the Architecture, Design, Integration and Troubleshooting of a E2E WAP Network POC for FT Mobile (Itineris) - Cisco NAS, Nokia Firewall and Nokia Wap Server


Dec 97-Feb 99
Africa Online Côte d'Ivoire (Abidjan) – 1st Internet Service Provider
Technical Manager of 10 Network & Systems Engineers

• First commercial ISP Côte d’Ivoire(90% market share), first panafrican established in East and West Africa providing residential/corporate dialup access, corporate fixed line internet access
• Led and hired a team of Network and Systems Engineer (10p) in charge of networks, systems, internal networks architecture , evolution and operation/support.
• Budget forecast (capex/opex) for ISP networks, ISP systems and internal networks
• Accountable for network and systems availability, reliability and stability
• Spearheaded the modernization (Architecture, design deployment) of a more robust Access Network and systems infrastructure (x86 to sun sparc)
• Headed the wireless local loop licensing for corporate Internet Access Capacity, and drove RFP for VSAT provider as alternate Internet Upstream link
• Led the deployment of the new BSS and CRM systems
• Provided tech support during offer defense/critical closing with CXO with Sales department and Customer Service and Finance Departments as well
• Headed and facilitated all technical works for the launch of the second Internet POP (NAS, AAA) in Bouake (second largest city)


Dec 94-Nov 97
ExxonMobil COE (Centre Of Expertise) for Africa & Middle East
Paris/Abidjan
Consulting Engineer for 18 MEA Mobil Oil Affiliates

• Provided Tier-2/Tier-3 onsite and remote Support for MEA Mobil Affiliates on Accpac ERP and related security
• Drove RFP and selected vendor/supplier for point-to-point WLL for several Mobil Oil Affiliates
• Reviewed Architecture and design, impact study for the new nationwide Mobil Oil Nigeria M&R for data, voice, fax, mail and radio-communications services.
• African Telecom Assessment/Study, New Telecom Network and Systems RFP Analysis for a non Mobil Oil affiliate
• Headed the Design and Implementation of Accpac ERP over Novell Netware network (3.x/4.x) for two projects Mali (Bamako 1996, Novell Netware 3.x) and Congo DRC (Kinshasa1997, Novell Netware 4.x)


Jan 93-Nov 94
Côte d’Ivoire Telecom – Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Data Network Department
Data Network/Telecom Engineer (Architecture, Deployment & Operations)

• Led performance audit of nationwide X.25 networks (Sytranpac) & leased line and drove resolution
• Led, reviewed and implemented new PAV(videotext access point)
• Setup X.25 proactive traffic trend reporting
• Participated in the architecture and design review of the new DCN/OSS/BSS GESTEL 2000 connecting 37 remote site/Switch Center to 2 main Switch Center over X.25, leased lines and PSTN backup with IPv4/DecNet addressing/routing.




Technical Project Management / Project Team Lead Experiences


Sep. 2022
Grand Paris Express / Société Grands Projets (OIV)(L15L16/L17)
Axione
Networks Technical Project Director (Technical Referent)

• Leading the overall Network Technical Roadmap and Planning (Maquette-Clayes-Sous-Bois, SDP2024, IGR2024, L15/L16 /L17
• Preparing technical (Networks) progress status at monthly COPIL with Customer MOA, MOE, ASX
• Co-Leading weekly COPIL internal project JV ASX (Atos, Siemens, Axione) with Customer MOE
• Co-leading weekkly internal JV ASX COPROJ
• Hired, mentored, supported, managed a team of 10 Technical Architect/Expert – Architecture & Design and BUILD Staff, Weekly meetings (Agile ceremonies with backlog)
• Leading weekly technical meeting, technical workshop, red team once escalation issue with Axione Project Team (Architecture &Design, BUILD and RUN) for IP/MPLS Backbone, Datacenter and POPs (Station) and related WDM systems.
• Leading Technical Workshop with “Groupes Métiers” (Radio 4G/PMR, IT/Atos, Videosurveillance, On-Board Systems, Rolling Stocks, “Billetique”, Platform façade, “Automatisme de Conduite et Commandes Centralisées”, Information Voyageirs, ect) for HLD/LLD deliveries
• Leading Technical Workshop with 3rd parties interfaces (Banking Operators, SIP-Trunking/PSTN, PVPP, MinInt/RRF, IDFM)
• Leading Technical Workshop for CyberSecurity Customer Requirement Update in line with LPM/others..
• Headed the Technico-economic Offer/Financial business case for Special Projects (F5-SLB/RP, OADM/WDM network extension for 3rd DC-WITNESS Operation Center, DNS/DHCP)


2022
Thales – APAC (Asia, Singapore – China – HongKong)
WAN/LAN Network Migration Technical Project
Manager

• Leading weeklly COPROJ with Project Team, Technical Workshop with APAC/Singapore/China and France BUILD Team
• Leading Project Team Resources (BUILD in France, RUN Singapore and China)
• Technical Reporting for Progress Status, Alert and Risks
• Agile Ceremonies (JIRA) with Thales Global WAN Squad (weekly, sprint planning, retro, backlog)



2020
GIGALIS (Pays de La Loire)
Network Migration from Nokia to Cisco

• Preparing Project Technical Roadmap
• Hired, mentored, supported, managed a team of 10 Technical Architect/Expert (CCIE SP, CCIE R&S, JNCIP SP, ALU/Nokia SRA),
• Preparing Project Tech Reporting / KPI for Quarterly COSTRAT,
• Leading in monthly COPIL with Customer Team/COO, monthly COPIL with Cisco/On-demand COTECH-Escalation with Cisco for critical issue, Technical Workshop
• Heading Technico-Economic Special Project (Impact Study, Chiffrage - Offres Sur Mesures)


2017
Orange Côte d’Ivoire – 3 Datacenter Refresh (Multi-Site Fabric IP) + DCI
Technical Project Director

• Headed the Technico-Financials Offer (Products + Service
• End to End Program Ownership from Architecture&Design, BUILD up to GoLive/Handover to RUN Team, P&L / Planning / Team Organization Responsibility (10 persons including 2 CCIE RS/DC, CCIE-SP, 1 PM), Overall Reporting.
• Setup Project Governance aligned with Orange CI Project Governance Instances
• Leading quarterly COSTRAT with Orange CTIO, CIO, CPO (Purchasing)
• Leading monthly COPIL/Steering Committee Orange CTIO, CIO, weekly COPROJ/COTECH and Project Progress Status, Technical workshop with Internal/Customer Build Team, HLD/LLD Review stage and validation
• Interacting with Orange CI Optical Teams (dark fiber and WDM) and Site Urbanization teams


2017
TGIX – Togo Internet Exchange Point
Technical Program Director
• End to End Program Ownership from Architecture&Design, BUILD up to GoLive/Handover to RUN Team, P&L / Planning / Team Organization (2 persons including 1 CCIE-SP and Systems Engineer) Responsibility, Overall Reporting.
• Leading monthly COPIL/Steering Committee with TGIX Board, weekly COPROJ/COTECH and Project Progress Status, Technical workshop with Build Team (Networks and Systems), Networks and Systems HLD/LLD Review


2015
Orange Côte d’Ivoire – 3G IP RAN Deployment
Technical Project Director

• End to End Program Ownership from Architecture&Design, BUILD up to GoLive/Handover to Orange CI RUN Team, P&L / Planning / Team Organization (3 persons including 2 CCIE-RS and CCIE-SP) Management,
• Leading monthly COPIL/Steering Committee with Orange CI CTIO and Department Manager, weekly COPROJ/COTECH and Project Progress Status, Technical workshop with Build Team, HLD/LLD Review


Presales /Systems Engineer Experiences

Grand-Paris-Express L15/L16/L17 (Special Project / OSM)
CTO

• Architecture Design and Project Costing of F5/LTM solution for traveler information project
• Datacenter Network Segmentation Extension as per Cybersecurity Requirement, LPM (OIV)
• Shared Administration Zone Redesign/Extension - Leaf Extension and Spine capacity upgrade
• WDM network/MAN (Aulnay – Champigny – Noisy) extension Project with Nokia


2012-2018
CFAO Technologies (win and non exhaustive)
Principal Network & Solution Architect

Technical Support to presales and sales teams regarding all affiliates for fixed/mobile telco, IXP, government agencies
• Orange Cameroun – Leading the technical products/professional service offer for the IT Backbone Migration onto Multi services IP/MPLS multi-vendor nationwide Mobile backbone– CTO for Design and Build Phases – Cisco ASR1002/2900
• DGDI Gabon – Leading the technical offer (products and professional services) for the Datacenter and LAN Campus Redesign – Cisco Nexus 7009/2248TP-E, Catalyst 6506-E/ACE/NAM, Cisco ASA5545-X, Cisco NAC ISE-3355, Checkpoint SG4400, Juniper SRX240
• Orange Côte d’Ivoire – 3 Datacenter Spine-and-Leaf VXLAN-EVPN Multi-Site Redesign – RFP Answer and Project CTO (Design and Build) - Cisco 6xNX9504 Spine, 18x NX93108/93180 Leaf, 6x NX7004 18x NX2232P/2248TP 18x ASR9001 PE/P, 6x Fortinet FGT 3700-D, 6x F5 Big IP5250
• TGIX TOGO – Internet Exchange Point Implementation in Togo – RFP answer (products and service) and Lead Implementation - Cisco 3850, BGP R/S BIRD, Vmware ESCXi, DNS Bind, NGINX, Centreon
• CAMIX - Internet Exchange Point Implementation in Cameroon – RFP answer (products and service) and Lead implementation
• Orange Sierra-Leone – International Voice Transit I-SBC RFP Answer - Oracle AP4600
• Orange Côte d’Ivoire – RFP answer for a nationwide 2G/3G IP RAN onto existing IP/MPLS multi-vendor Backbone (Cisco ASR903)

2010-2011
Juniper Network France
Senior Presales Engineer for Orange RBCI (Domestic Backbone/AS3215) et OpenTransit (AS5511), OLIV (ex VTHD)

• RFP answer of 1st MultiChassis TXP in OpenTransit (Germany site)
• RFP answer for the Multi-Services networks of R&E Networks (OLIV ex VTHD) (MX960 and EX Series)
• RFP Fusion for Orange Group Universal PE (MX960) answer and Leading POC Testing with Orange Team and Juniper TME at Sunnyvale (USA)


2000-2005
Lucent
Adhoc Presale Engineer (Complex Solution architect)

• Supporting Lucent Customer teams during multiple RFP answers and POC for Cegetel, TD, Telecom Portugal, LDCOM and FT Group - DSLAM/BRAS/L2 Aggregation Networks