1. Jacques Legrand, 0497/546703, bej leg1@gmai l .com
Jacques Legrand
UNIX/LINUX engineer.
Skills and experience:
Whilst working for different companies as system administrator and beyond traditional and day-to-day system
administration tasks on different platforms, I ha the opportunity to realize the followings:
UNIX/LINUX administration (AIX/SOLARIS/RED HAT):
· Creation of new virtual partition with dynamic allocation of resources.
· Problems resolution.
· Automation of administrative tasks (shell scripting).
· Establishment of standardization rules for procedures and creation of a complete and
detailed documentation: operation guides, inventories, architecture description.
· Creation of redundant virtual partitions for High availability.
Key words: Lpar, VIOs, LPM, VM, NPIV, ksh, NFS, SAMBA, APACHE, Oracle PowerHA,
HACMP, ARF
Systems monitoring and dashboards set up.
· Performance analysis and making of dashboards for the top management board giving a
long-term view of the IT systems usage and allowing long term planning and budgeting.
· Set up of daily check up procedures for a proactive approach of incidents.
Key words: NMON, LPAR2RRD, ITM, SYSTAR, NAGIOS, SCOM, Excel.
Backups management.
· Set up of backup and archiving infrastructures with periodic test of recoveries
Key words: TSM, Networker, DataDomain, VTL, LAN FREE backups. Storage nodes,
Deduplication
SAN administration:
· Configuration and storage space allocations.
· Data replication: Integration of this technology in backups, disaster recovery
infrastructure and applications refreshes.
Key words: Multipathing, ECC, SMC, UNISPHERE, SRDF, Time Finder, VNX, VMAX,
DS8000, DS5000, DS3000.
Security:
· Research, proposal and implementation of security directives. OS hardening.
Key words: NESSUS, SSH, SUDO, TCP_WRAPPER, ACL, RBAC.
Disaster Recovery Plans:
· Setup of infrastructures for DRP solutions and setup of periodical DRP tests for different
environments and using different techniques.
Key words: RTO, RPO, Clustering, Remote data storage.
Users training and support.
· For the IT staff and end users.
All of the above within an ITIL infrastructure.
Some of those tasks were done either as team leader, or as project manager, or as technical specialist. Often
cumulating those different functions
During a couple of years I was integrated in a multinational team (Atradius) and worked with colleagues from
Cardiff, Amsterdam, Paris and Cologne. This proves my ability to work in a multinational environment, using
English as working language and asking a great mobility and flexibility.
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2. JLE IT CONSULT. UNIX (AIX) system exper t
Professional background:
Since June 2010: I took a freelance status and I did the following missions:
· During this year, I also did the audit of the IT infrastructure of a company active in the
management of pension funds. I helped them finding a new partner for the management of their IT
infrastructure.
· Since Jnuary 2012: AIX and backups Specialist at Bull with missions for different customers:
advices, installations and upgrades, systems monitoring, DRP, etc…
· From April 2011 to January 2012: AIX administrator at Electrabel.
o Infrastructure updates to maintain it at the “top-of-the-art” or more simply to make them
conformed to the edited internal standard rules.
o SAN disks migrations from IBM DS8700 disks bays to Hitachi disks bays.
o Lpar migration from P5/P6 to P7 systems, using Live Partition Mobility whenever
possible.
o System performance analysis and reports.
o 3rd level support,
o OS hardening (installation and configuration of VINTELA as a UNIX interface to an
LDAP authentication tool) installing and configuring SUDO, TCP-WRAPPER, SSH.
AIX systems auditing.
· April 2011: IBM instructor for the trainings “AIX administration level I and II”.
· March 2011: TSM specialist at “Mairie de Rochefort (France).
o Installation and configuration of a disk (DS3500) on a Windows TSM server in a NAS
infrastructure with RAID5 and MPIO configuration.
o Integration of this disk bay as sequential file primary backup destination in a TSM
architecture on a Window platform.
· From November 2010 to February 2011: UNIX (AIX) technical expert and system
administration at NRB Belgium. Maintenance of virtualized AIX 5.3 et 6.1 environments,
PowerHA clustering, User supports, incidents and problems analysis and resolution.
· From May to October 2010: UNIX (AIX) technical expert at IBM for the deployment of a
large AIX infrastructure in a well-known telephone company in Belgium. This infrastructure is
build on P6 and P7 series systems and on blade servers using Virtualization and HACMP
(PowerHA) under AIX 5.3 and 6.1.
From 1986 to 2010: IT Senior system administrator at ATRADIUS Namur.
System administrator of different systems: AIX (P595), SUN Solaris 8 (E400, F600, E800), Reliant Unix
RM400, RM600), Red HAT (IBP P5and P7) and UNISYS Clearpath series mainframe.
Analysis, set-up, tests and maintenance of different Disaster Recovery solutions for UNISYS mainframe, Sun
Solaris, and IBM AIX environments
From 1983 to 1986: Analyst-Programmer at « Assurances du Crédit » in Namur
Analysing, building, documenting, training and supporting the reinsurance department on its three levels:
acceptations, cessions and retrocessions using Databus as programing language on Datapoint system for interactive
data introduction and Cobol on a UNISYS mainframe for the batch processing.
From 1974 to 1983: Mathematics and Physics teacher in lower degree of secondary schools.
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3. Studies and Trainings:
1983 to 2009: Many different professional IT trainings covering a large panel of domains during my
system administrator activity. I am certified as an IBM AIX specialist.
1982 to 1983: IT degree at « Institut d’Enseignement Supérieur Economique de l’Etat » in Jemelle.
1972 to 1974: Pedagogic degree for Mathematic, physic and Chemistry teaching at “Institut Supérieur
Pédagogique de l’Etat” in Liège.
Additional abilities:
IT : Great knowledge of the Microsoft Office package and especially advanced knowledge of
Excel
Web site building: Dreamweaver, HTML and CSS.
Practical knowledge of Windows, Mac OS and Linux (different distributions)
ITIL organization, roles and procedures (Via ILX e-learning)
Languages: French: Mother tongue
English: Good knowledge in writing and speaking.
Dutch: Scholastic knowledge.
Others: From 1973 to 1975: local, regional and national level of responsibility for FNP
(Fédération Nationale des Patros) and staff training.
From 1975 to 19776: military duty as reserve officer at the 13d para-commando
company in Diest.
From 1980 to 1983: founder and teacher in my own Aïkido club in Marche-en-Famenne
Others :
· Belgian, Born on Sept-17 1952 in Gouvy, Married.
· Driving license B.
Leasure:
· Digital photography: (photoclub: www.imagique.be, private url: http://jacqueslegrand.photoshop.com).
Deep knowledge of Photoshop and Lightroom. My freelance status gives me the authority to work as a
professional photographer; Companies photos and reportages.
· Reading.
· New technologies and Personal computing (Windows, Mac OS, Linux).
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