Thierry Lacouture

Enterprise Information Technology Infrastructure Architect

Salary / Daily rate

Lausanne, Switzerland

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Solutions ArchitectDesign ThinkingSystem AdministratorConsulting ITScrumTech LeadJiraNetwork AdministratorConfluenceKanbanERPStrategy & ConsultingDiagnosisTransformationComplianceDigital Transformation

About me

Intro

As a TOGAF enterprise architect, I am used to advising, operate, support and training organisations in the fields of data storage & infrastructures and that's a lot of amazing topics to deal with. As I am open to any new opportunities, feel free to contact me and let's shape the future together of your long-term data information lifecycle management. DRP, BCP, geo-distributed backends, NAS, SAN, Object storage, virtualized infrastructures, file systems are among other fields more than welcome. Let's talk together.

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Work experience

Senior Storage Engineer Consultant

Numeriq & VividResourcing for AXA

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

4 months

Brussels, Belgium

– AV SPE solution on both AWS FSXN and AZURE CVO – Infrastructure Architecture Standard Definition – Agile method with SCRUM

IT Architect Storage, Virtualization & IAAS

Randstad.ch for Galderma

Apr 2022 - Apr 2023

1 year 1 month

Lausanne, Switzerland

– Few DCs, Few Factories and many branch & remote offices – Few PB of Data – Storage Transformation design from traditional storage to Software Defined Storage – Hybrid Cloud with multi zones on Azure – Infrastructure Architecture Standard Definition – Roadmap implementation for the IT infrastructure – Backup & Replication optimization – AD Security Groups policy definition – VM migrations – Project management based on PMP – Deliverables, HLD and LLD – Implementation, Support and Training Delivery to the Operations – Relationship with partners and Project Management

Enterprise Information Technology Architect

Darest

Aug 2019 - Apr 2022

2 years 9 months

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Datacenter Lead Migration Architect

ATOS for SAFRAN GROUP

May 2018 - Jul 2019

1 year 3 months

– Safran Group business: Aviation, Aircraft & Defense – Context: Datacenter migration and consolidation – Technical environment: CAD, PLM, ERP and DB on Open systems, LAN & WAN, Security, Storage and ILM – Management type: Cooperation and Coordination with Line of Businesses and Operations

Senior Information Technology Infrastructure Consultant

Etat de Vaud

May 2017 - Feb 2018

10 months

1422 Grandson, Switzerland

– NetApp Metro Cluster migration project: from the 7-mode to the cDot

Storage Consultant

FRENCH CUSTOMS

Jan 2017 - May 2017

5 months

69340 Francheville, France

– Implementation of the Disaster Recovery Plan for the national French Information Center for Customs, in their DataCenters

Storage Architect Consultant

CFAO Group

Dec 2016 - Dec 2016

1 month

69340 Francheville, France

– Performance audit of the NetApp metrocluster environment

Storage NAS Trainer consultant

AIRBUS DEFENSE & SPACE

Nov 2016 - Nov 2016

1 month

69340 Francheville, France

– On-Site Training on the NetApp solutions towards the employees

NAS Architect Consultant

is4f

Apr 2016 - Oct 2016

7 months

Luxembourg

– In a multi tiering and international multi tenant banking environment, architecture & migration from the NAS NetApp environment in 7-mode (10 NetApp metro-clusters) to a new environment in clustermode (cDot) Ontap 9 based on 4 brand new NetApp metro-clusters

Storage Consultant

french customs

Feb 2015 - Feb 2016

1 year 1 month

69340 Francheville, France

– Disaster Recovery Plan project of the national French Information Center for Customs in their Data Centers

Storage Consultant

COFELY GDF SUEZ

Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

1 year 1 month

69340 Francheville, France

– Normalisation of COFELY's storage backend infrastructure, its new design and its backup project implementation

NetApp Consultant

Siemens Worldwide HQ

Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

1 year

Thale, Germany

– Normalisation of the global NetApp backend infrastructure

EMEA Storage Pre-sale Engineer

DDN Storage

Nov 2011 - Dec 2012

1 year 2 months

Emeabiam, Imo, Nigeria

– Storage expertise to DDN's customers in the fields of Media Contents and Cloud infrastructure architectures on EMEA and APAC areas.

Storage Expert

Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB

Jan 2011 - Oct 2011

10 months

69340 Francheville, France

– Storage consolidation and convergence from EMC² and NetApp environments to a brand new NetApp one

Storage Expert

European Commission

Sep 2011 - Sep 2011

1 month

69340 Francheville, France

– Architecture and implementation of a storage solution for the test bed Platform migration.

Storage Expert

Bouygues Telecom

Nov 2010 - Dec 2010

2 months

69340 Francheville, France

– Implementation of deduplication on a Tier 3 storage solution used as ESX VM backup platforms.

Storage Architect Consultant

European Commission

Sep 2009 - Aug 2010

1 year

Luxembourg

– Redesign data access policies, adapt storage connectivity to the new inter site network architecture, define a more efficient way of data provisioning and guaranty business continuity that match EC's KPI for data service delivery

Senior IT Auditor

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jan 2008 - Mar 2010

2 years 3 months

Emeabiam, Imo, Nigeria

– Physical & logical IT audits of the partners of JMPC at the global level in order to ensure the compliance with the Sarbannes-Oxley Act (SOX404)

Senior Storage Consultant

Dassault Aviation

Apr 2009 - May 2009

2 months

69340 Francheville, France

– Update of the test plan of the Nseries environment before the EMC² Clariion environment migration to the new Nseries environment

Storage Administrator

Migros

Jan 2009 - Mar 2009

3 months

1422 Grandson, Switzerland

– Redesign of the SAN EMC² Clariion architecture, DRP/BCP optimization and Disks groups re-organisation.

Project leader Backup and Restore

AIFE

Sep 2008 - Oct 2008

2 months

69340 Francheville, France

– Design EMC Networker backup and restore strategies and policies using SAP BR Tools

Senior Expert Consultant in Information Technology

RAEA

May 2008 - Jun 2008

2 months

47521 Bulgaria, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Italy

– For the Railway Administrative Executive Agency in charge of passengers, tracks and trains security policies in Bulgaria, design and implementation of an accident database in compliance with the EU regulations

Technical Consultant

NetApp

Mar 2003 - Apr 2008

5 years 2 months

Emeabiam, Imo, Nigeria

– Help customers to choose and use Netapp storage solutions

Operations Network and System Manager

UPC broadband

Jan 2000 - Feb 2003

3 years 2 months

69340 Francheville, France

– Design, implementation and management of the new global information system


Licenses & certifications

TOGAF® Certification Program

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Certified by The Open Group

TOGAF® 9 Certified

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Certified by The Open Group

Creativity Bootcamp

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Certified by Unknown

SNCP Foundations (S10-110)

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Certified by Unknown

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