Who am I?

Personal Details

  • Name: François Lehouque
  • Age: 31
  • Nationality: French
  • Location: Geneva, Switzerland
  • Phone: (+33) - 695-399-073
  • Email: francois@lehouque.fr

About me

IT and System engineer, living and working in Geneva

My Professional Background

Work Experience

2016 February - Today

Bottomline Technologies

Geneva, Switzerland

IT Engineer

  • Infrastructure, system and network administration in a Swiss banking context
    • Management of Windows Server 2012, 2016 - Red Hat 6.x, 7.x environments on a Nutanix infrastructure
    • Network, VoIP and WiFi administration (Cisco - Meraki)
    • Entreprise applications (Exchange Online, SCCM, Intune, Okta, Atlassian suite)
  • Management of a virtual infrastructure for software developers with hyperconvergence
    • Deployment and administration of virtual machines using Nutanix Acropolis & VMWare ESXi 5.5, 6.0
  • International IT and System support (levels I, II, III)
    • Certified "ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management"
    • Certified "MS-900 - Microsoft 365 Fundamentals"
    • Certified "AZ-900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals"
    • Certified "Okta Professional"

2013 November - 2015 April

Thales Oman LLC.

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Resident Network & Telecommunications Engineer

  • Administration, support and maintenance of a tactical IP network based in Muscat, Oman
    • Management of civilian and military equipment (Cisco, Thales)
    • Administration of Cisco ISR, Cisco Call Managers and VPNs
    • Interface between the project manager, local officers and technical teams
  • System integration, verification and validation of military vehicles (HF/VHF radios, LOS/Microwaves, Satellite)
  • Led the training of soldiers and officers on military networking and telecommunications
  • On-site deployment with the Omani and GCC armies during military operations
    • Managed teams of technicians and soldiers on the field throughout deployments

2012 September - 2013 October

Thales Communications & Security

Paris, France

System Engineer

  • Deployment of a LTE tactical network for a demonstration in the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)
    • Integration and administration of infrastructure equipment (Nokia-Siemens, Cisco, Teldat)
    • Test scenarios development: performances, resilience, tactical video conferencing
    • On-site deployment, tests and local technical team management
  • Design of a new node core architecture for a tactical IP network using virtualization
    • Verification and validation of a military infrastructure IP network
    • Integration of VoIP, virtualization (ESXi + Cisco SRE in ISRG2) & HF/VHF/LOS transmissions

2010 July - 2011 January

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Paris, France

System Engineer Intern

  • Testing platform design for the Orange Business Services (OBS) account
    • Design of an ISP core network architecture (MPLS-VPN, BGP) for experimental, pre-sales and post-sales purposes
    • Collected pre-sales teams requirements & deployed the network on-site (Brussels)
    • Configuration of Cisco Catalyst Switches (4500, 6500) and routers (7600, CRS-1/CRS-3)

My Education

Education

2011 August - 2013 March

Université du Québec
à Chicoutimi

Canada

Master's Degree in Computer Science

  • Cryptography (DES, AES, RSA), Computer Security
  • Virtualization (VMWare ESXi, vMotion), IPv6
  • Project Management (PMBOK Guide, Gantt, PERT, Risks and quality management)
  • Distributed Databases (XML, SparQL), Distributed Systems (Load Balancing, SOA)
  • Artificial Intelligence (Prolog)

2009 September - 2013 March

Université de Technologie
de Troyes

France

Master's Degree in Information Systems and Telecommunications

Specialization in Network Design and Telecommunications

  • Engineer diploma (Master's degree)
  • Service Provider Networking (MPLS & BGP protocols, xDSL technologies, IPv6), WAN
  • Network services : DNS, LDAP, Mail (SMTP, POP), SNMP, Paravirtualization (Xen), VoIP (RTP/RTCP, Asterisk)
  • IPv4/v6 network administration (LAN) with Cisco Technologies
  • Project Management : New methods of collaboration, Agile software development (Scrum)
  • Telecommunications, GNU/Linux Administration, shell scripting, Web Development, Human-Computer Interfaces, OOP (Java), UML.

2007 September - 2009 June

Université de Savoie

IUT d'Annecy le Vieux, France

Bachelor's Degree in Networks and Telecommunications

  • DUT - Technological university Degree (Bachelor's degree)
  • Networking, LAN, WAN, Telecommunications, VoIP (Asterisk)
  • GNU/Unix Administration, shell scripting, Windows 2003/2008 server, Web Development, OOP (C++, Java).

What I’m best at

Skills & Knowledge

Technology skills

Network design, architecture & administration
IT & System engineering
Radio transmissions & telecommunications
System integration, verification, validation and qualification
IT Service support

Certifications

CCNA

Cisco Certified Network Associate, Routing and switching
2009

ITIL

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
2017

Microsoft

MS-900 - Microsoft 365 Fundamentals
AZ-900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
2021

Language Skills

French
Fluent
English
Fluent
Spanish
Basic

Expertise

  • Infrastructure Networking (MPLS, BGP, xDSL)
  • Voice over IP (Cisco CM, Avaya, IPBX, PABX)
  • Network services (VPN, LDAP, SNMP, Mail)
  • Virtualization (VMWare ESXi, Nutanix Acropolis)
  • LTE Networking (4G), GSM & WiFi (a/b/g/n)
  • IPv4 & IPv6, Management & VLAN
  • Network security (IPS, ACL, Firewalling)
  • System administration - Scripting
  • Microsoft Office Suite, ERP (SAP, OpenERP)
  • Project Management (PMBOK)

Hobbies & Interests

  • Sports

    Sports

    Ice Hockey, Hiking, Biking, Beach Volley, Ski, Rock climbing, Kayaking

  • Photography

    Photography

    Nature, macro and travel photography, editing with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

  • Medias

    Medias

    Following international news (BBC, NPR, Euronews), North American and British movies and TV shows.

  • Technology

    New Technologies

    Technology watch (Reddit, Arstechnica, Lesnumeriques)

  • Travel

    Travel

    Wild camping, Travelled to and/or worked in Canada, USA, England, Scotland, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Tunisia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka...

  • Music

    Music

    Saxophone and accordion player, studied for 10 years at the Conservatoire d'Annecy.
    Played for 5 years in an harmonic orchestra

  • Students' union

    Students' union

    Website creation; LAN Parties, class pictures, parties & contest organization

  • Driving

    Driving experience

    Driving licence with winter and desert driving experience. Trucks and large vehicles experience.

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