I own a bachelor degree in Education sciences / Counseling (B. Ed. CSO), obtained at Université Laval in 1997.  I've decided to launch my own IT consulting company, as a senior Sun / Oracle Solaris specialist.

I work into the IT / high availability business since more than 14 years now.  I am involved in projects that involves analysis, technical architecture, IT deployment, leveraging existing technical environments, managing, administering and support servers and storage components, as well as leading technical training for coworkers and clients.

My large experience as an IT consultant makes me able to face situations that demands quick reaction.  I fit easily in high availability environments and operational contexts.  I can easily adapt myself to work as part of a big team - where specialisation is highly appreciated - or in small team - where general knowledge is required.  Success in projects I'm involved in are due to my large and fast learning capacity, and to my ease to communicate.

IT Specialist, Level 2 (CS5)
April 2011 - present

Description:
IT Consultant, for Quebec gouvernment’s SAGIR project, as a Sun / Oracle Solaris expert on Sun / Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise Platform, RedHat Enterprise Linux, and Storage platforms.

Environment:
Sun / Oracle Solaris 10, Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 & M9000, Sun Storagetek 2530 & 6180, DELL R700 & R900, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3 & 5.2, Symantec NetBackup 6.5, HP EVA 8000.

Senior technical specialist
2010 - 2011

Description:
Pre-sales technical specialist, and Oracle Solaris consultant in healthcare, government, financial services and manufacturing clients.

Environment:
VMware vSphere 4, Sun Solaris 10, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000, M4000 & M5000, Sun Storagetek 6140, 7110 & 7120, Sun Blade 6000, Texas Memory System RAMSAN 620, Oracle 10g, 11g, Sudo, Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (JET), Sun Storagetek 6140, Hitachi Data System AMS 2300, Sun Storagetek Common Array Manager, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Windows Vista.

IT Analyst
2009 - 2010

Description:
Responsible for high availability Unix and Linux production and QA environments in Quebec’s health central network.

Environment:
Sun Fire V445, V245, V440, V240, V210 & V120, Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 & T5120, Sun Enterprise 450, IBM DS4800, Sun Solaris 10, Oracle 10gR2, Oracle RAC, Oracle ASM, Oracle OID, Oracle J2EE, Oracle SSO, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 & 4, CentOS 4, SuSE Linux, InfoBlox-550, InfoBlox-250, Sun Solaris 9, Sun Fire V240, Sun Enterprise 450, xntpd, APC InfraStruXure, APC UPS Symmetra 80K THORC456, APC rack PDU AP7862, AP7863 & AP7864, APC InRow ACRP500.

System Architect
2006 - 2009

Description:
Pre-sales technical specialist, deployment specialist, analyst and senior consultant with healthcare, government, and manufacturing clients, integration and management of Sun Solaris, thin clients (Sun Ray) environments.

Environment:
Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, IBM DS4800, Sun Solaris 10 10/08, Oracle 10gR2, Oracle RAC, Oracle ASM, Oracle OID, Oracle J2EE, Oracle SSO, Sun Blade 6000, Sun Blade T6320, Sun Blade X6250, Sun Fire E2900, Sun StorageTek 6140, Sun StorageTek C2, Veritas NetBackup 6.5, Oracle 10gR2, Oracle RMAN, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Sun Fire X4200, Sun Ray Server Software 4, Sun Ray Connector for Windows 1.1, Sun Ray 2, Payflex smartcards, Citrix ICA & PNA, Sun Fire T2000, Sun Blade T6300, Citrix ICA 8.4.6, lecteurs Symbol LS19827-1000, Welch-Allyn ST 3700 et Welch-Allyn 5400B, Sun Fire T2000, Sun Fire V240, IBM DS4300, Sun Jumpstart, IPMP, MpxIO, Kerberos Authentication, Active Directory, NFSv3 & NFSv4 sharing, Sun Fire V890, Sun Fire 4800, Sun Fire V880, Sun Fire V490, Sun Fire V480, Sun Fire 280R, Sun Management Center 3.6.1, Rdesktop 1.5.0, Sun Enterprise 250, Sun Enterprise 450, Sun StorEdge Multipack, Sun Fire 280R, Sun StorEdge D2, Sun Solstice Disksuite, Sun StorEdge 3310, SirsiDynix Unicorn GL3.1, Apache 2, Sun Fire V440, Sun StorEdge 3120, Synergex C-ISAM, Sun DLT-7000.

UNIX IT consultant
2003 - 2006

Description:
System administrator and system architect in few Quebec’s government minitries, mainly involved in projects with Sun Solaris or IBM AIX production environments.

Environment:
AIX 5L, DB2 Content Management, IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server, Compaq DSL5026SL, EAServer 4.1.3, Oracle 8i & 9i, Sun Blade 100, Siebel 7.5.2.211, Sun Solstice DiskSuite, Sun StorEdge A1000 & S1, Sun Ultra Enterprise 420R, 450 et 6000, Sun Fire V100, V120, V240, V440, V880, 3800 & 280R, Sun StorEdge 3510, Veritas NetBackup 4.5, VantageView, Visio 2000, Windows 2000, Sun Solaris 7 & 8, Sun Cluster, Sun Solstice Backup, Veritas Bare Metal Restore, Veritas NetBackup, Visio 2002.

Infrastructure specialist
2002 - 2003

Description:
Responsible for the Compaq StorageWorks SAN and Compaq GS320 Tru64 clusters deployment and administration in the Government of Quebec’s GIRES project.

Environment:
Bind 8.0, Check Point Firewall-1, Cisco, Compaq DLS5026SL, Compaq ESL9326SL (tape library), Compaq NetRAIN, Compaq Tru64 Unix 5.1 & 5.1A, Compaq TruCluster 5.1, M2200 controllers & 4354R arrays, Livelink, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, SAN Compaq StorageWorks, Compaq DS10L, DS20E, ES40 & GS320, SunFire 220R & 280R, Sun Netra X1, Sun Solaris 8.0, Unix, Veritas NetBackup, Visio 2002.

Sun Solaris system administrator
2001 - 2002

Description:
Responsible for deployment and administration of Sun Solaris / Oracle QA and production environment in the Caprion’s CellCarta IT Platform Project.

Environment:
Bind 8.0, C, C++, Cisco, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, SAN, Sun Solaris 8, Sun StorEdge D1000, 9900 & T3, Sun Grid Engine, SunFire 280R, 3800, 4800 & 6800, Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Storage Migrator, Visio 2000.

Sun Solaris system administrator
2000 - 2001

Description:
Sun Solaris system administrator for all the Sun Microsystems infrastructure in 5 cities: Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Miami and Paris.

Environment:
Bay Networks Annex, Bind, C, C++, Check Point Firewall-1, Cisco, CSH, DNS, Informix C-ISAM, Korn Shell (ksh), Legato Networker, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Perl, Powerchute, Sendmail 8.8.8, 8.9.1 & Pro, Sun StorEdge A1000, A5200, D1000 & L9, Sun Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0 & 8.0, Sun Sparc Station 5, 10 & 20, Sun Ultra Enterprise 1, 2, 10, 60, 250, 450, 3000, 4000, 5000 & 6500, TCP/IP, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Volume Manager, Visio 2000, X.25.

System administrator
1997 - 2000

Description:
Sun Solaris and Linux system administrator for department of Education Sciences (FSE).

Environment:
Apache Web Server, Bind 8.0, C, C++, Cisco, RedHat Linux, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, Powerchute, Sendmail 8.8.8, Sun Solaris 2.5, 2.6 & 7, Sun Solstice Disksuite, TCP/IP, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Mac OS 8.