
Thierry Lacouture
Enterprise Information Technology Infrastructure Architect
Salary / Daily rate
Lausanne, Switzerland
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
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.
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
Issued: –
TOGAF® 9 Certified
Issued: –
Creativity Bootcamp
Issued: –
SNCP Foundations (S10-110)
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