Systems and network architect, national partnerships manager

• Complete redesign (systems, network, storage) of a smart building to bring it back to nominal operation, from the physical layer to the application layer: Cisco, VMware vSphere, Debian GNU/Linux.
• Smart building: control of the equipment (heat pumps, air handling units, lighting) and data collection in Python across a heterogeneous environment (BACnet, Modbus, DyNet, TCP/IP); management and analysis of more than 800 million rows (collection, database storage, maintenance).
• Zero Trust firewalling: more than 1,000 rules, 50+ VLANs, VXLAN. Wi-Fi migrated from a WLC / Aironet architecture to Cisco Meraki.
• Zabbix monitoring, Veeam Backup & Replication backups, compliance and mass deployment with Puppet.
• Building cybersecurity following ISO 27K, ANSSI and GDPR, security and compliance monitoring with Wazuh, training for staff and students.
• Migration from VMware vSphere 8 to Proxmox with 5 to 30 minutes of downtime per resource: architecture, configurations, backup, documentation, security policy and load-shedding procedures adapted.
• Digital twin of the building on Unreal Engine 5, mirroring its sensors and actuators in real time, with the associated API.
• Led the APIPA project between Cisco and CESI (≈€200k): schedule, budget, team, stakeholders, custom development and deliverables.
• Designed teaching modules and delivered engineering courses (CDIO method): systems, networks, architecture, smart building, interoperability, industrial control. Technology transfer to industrial companies.

Technical Director France, regional manager for Île-de-France, Grand-Est, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

• Technical lead of the Cisco Networking Academy program in France within the country’s digital transformation plan (Country Digitization Acceleration), the first of its kind worldwide for Cisco.
• Memorandum of understanding between Cisco France and the French Ministry of Education: contribution to training 200,000 students in 3 years, 174% program growth.
• Processes, strategies and platform adapted to the plan’s objectives.
• Designed three new networking courses with the US teams for 165,000 middle-school students (French middle-school reform), and trained 1,500 teachers on them.
• Train-the-trainer and Instructor Trainer (CCNA R&S, CCNA Security, CCNA CyberOps, CCNP R&S): more than 500 instructors trained.
• Business and technical talks on IoT and cybersecurity.
• As regional manager: 24% growth in FY18, top regions of the program.

Lead instructor

• Managed the academy’s Cisco courses: CCNA R&S, CCNA Security, IoT / IoE. Taught CCNA and CCNA Security.
• Trained CCNA and CCNA Security instructors at the instructor training center, managed certified instructors and partners.
• Built teaching automation tools (SubjectGenerator, QuizGenerator, MailParser).

Systems and network architect

• Designed and deployed Cisco Nexus data centers (2K, 3K, 5K, 7K), wired and wireless infrastructures (ISR G1/G2, Catalyst, Aironet).
• Deployed Exchange 2010/2013 and migrated from Exchange 2003.
• Integrated VMware vSphere 5 and View for large accounts, sizing server and desktop virtualization.
• Fully automated a Citrix XenApp deployment with VMware PowerCLI and Citrix PowerShell.
• Presented the company’s solutions at industry events.