Pascal Rodmacq

Commits Information Technologies to Value Creation !

Context

Extending services of group collaborative platform to American continent
Associates technical design (Exchange 2007, OCS, WSS), WAN issue (new WAN deployment), regulated data management (EAR ITAR), hosting, service delivery and support organization.

Location / perimeter

Paris / USA

What I’ve done

•Project plan, sets definition, impacts identification on services definition
•Conduct study for architecture extension possibilities (AD / Exchange problematic)
•Launch Export control subproject for implementation of Managed Files Transfer (MFT) platform in USA
•Build project plan, planning, integration RFP
•Study and select MFT tools
•Build prototypes for functional team
•Build agreements between various stakeholders
•Build deployment and platform setup plans
•Build platform technical design & manage project for platform setup

Role(s) summary

Project Manager – IT Consultant

Context

For one of the most important distribution center, I’m in charge of auditing IT infrastructure and IT support organization in a first step, to revive IT infrastructure projects and prepare outsourcing of IT support in a second step.
In the course of the mission, I will also recreate and organize necessary knowledges in order for the management to regain control over IT.

Role(s) summary

Auditor - Project Coordinator - IT management Consultant

Context

Famous international name among agro-alimentary business (Europe, America, Asia, North Africa), the group decided to normalize quality follow up and management software among its plants. After one year using and improving Labware LIMS software in 3 pilot sites, it has been decided to deploy the product en masse.

Location / perimeter

Paris / Europe-USA

Role(s) summary

Infrastructure Analyst and Designer – Deployment Organizer

What I’ve done

• Design of target architecture in order to support the application.
• Redaction of deployment RFC.
• Code review in order to ensure maintainability and dominate technical footprint.
• Test platform realization (Windows 2008, Hyper V, SQL Server 2005, XenAPP 4.5) for qualification.
• Adaptation of target architecture to the reality and IT Pole constraints (Running projects, competencies profile, network impact anticipation)
• Technical documentation design and follow up of realization, for both product and infrastructure.
• Proposals for support (organization, process)

(Several short missions from 2007 to 2009)

Context

NAXICAP is a financial company searching to put money in promising companies.
I’ve been used by NAXICAP as a consultant to evaluate projects targeting companies whose business was highly IT dependent.

What I do

Analysis of the ways by which the business of the company is depending on IT technologies and enlighten of stakes, risks and predictable trends.
Analysis of the companies capability to dominate and put at profit IT technologies, auditing IT systems in place, methods, organization, men …

Context

Supplier for railway systems and services, one of the world leaders for several product lines (Braking systems, couplers, air-conditioning, on-board electronics …).
This company, with a huge external growth rate, engaged in 2006 a vast BPR project in which took place an IT infrastructure subproject aiming to ensure coherence among IT systems and to provide the company with a better control.
This project implied :
• Implementing an homogeneous MPLS network, QOS, centralized Internet access.
• Outsourcing and centralizing common fundamental services : authentication, messaging, web services, ERP

Location / perimeter

Paris / Worldwide

Role(s) summary

Infrastructure Analyst and Designer – Suppliers Challenger (WAN Outsourcers) – Deployment Anticipator

What I’ve done

• Analysis of WAN offer, making explicit technical concepts (load balancing, offloading, QoS, CoS), synthetic report and notation for the management, SLAs definition and negotiation.

• Assisting Faiveley in the IT outsourcing offer negotiation and definition of : SA, SLA, QAP.

• Assisting PDM subproject team (offer analysis from the architectural point of view and impact on the infrastructure : bandwidth needs notably)

• Preparation/anticipation of Infrastructure Project : defining explicit documentation pattern and identifying key information, launching information collect process with local IT managers.

• Preparing key documents to support and follow up IP renumbering, network & system migration. Infrastructure cartography.

• Definition of AD / DNS integration pattern, corporate IP addressing plan, renumbering procedures, LAN / WAN migration procedures.

• Definition of a project workflow (identifying deliverables, process, key principles, key documents, …) in order to frame and follow up the project.

Context

Defense Crisis Management Organisation project at French Defense Ministry.
Set up / deployment of highly secured intranet : strong authentication, encryption, PKI …
Requested as a Novell expert (OES, eDirectory, NMAS, Zenworks, Identity management).

Location / perimeter
Paris / France

Role(s) summary

Infrastructure Analyst and Designer – Operations Organizer & Documenter – Architecture Evangelist / Sense Maker

What I have done

·Backup Site design / installation regarding Novell/Linux field of competencies.
·Presenting architectural choices and key points of the backup site design to the final client.
·Formalisation & Documentation of authentication and desktop management processes.
·Formalisation & Documentation of network flux for firewall settings, TCP stack tuning (resolving some performance issues).
·Defining policy for operations : backup, fail over/ fail back scenario, dealing with heartbeat and drbd, disaster recovery procedure.
·Training of the operations team.
·Documentation, training, support regarding Directory / Authentication / Desktop Management fields.
·Analysing and solving many security matters on workstations.

Location / perimeter
Ponthierry (France) / Worldwide

Roles summary
Infrastructure Analyst & Documenter – WAN designer - Deployment Coordinator – Organizational Process Designer

What I have done

·Providing insights for global security matters (approach, organisation) and technical matters (802.1x, authentication methods)
·Providing insights for internet traffic management (filtering, caching, proxying)
·Defining organizational process for communication between business, WAN management and provider.
·Reviewing and documenting Data Centre design.
·Designing WAN backup architecture for critical sites in accordance with local loop and WAN providers.
·Defining VLANs distribution on LAN according to size and vocation as well as convenient graphical documentation methods.
·Defining audit cabling tasks, contractors selection and follow up.
·Building a mathematical model for remote access users consumption in order to choose the best billing strategy with the provider.

ALTUGLAS / ALTUMAX / SUNCLEAR (Arkema Group Paris)

Context

Multi hundred sites European network, renewing his network and system architecture.
From Frame Relay to MPLS, from NT/2000 isolated domains to Windows 2000 unified Active Directory group infrastructure, from multiple independent messaging systems (Exchange or Domino) to unified Group Domino 5 one.
Direct responsibility of site design (in the frame of group policy) and migration rollout for some forty sites through 3 subsidiaries scattered over France, England, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy and Spain.

Location / Perimeter

Paris / Europe ( France, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain – Travelling in all theses countries)

Roles summary / Managerial responsibility

Technical & Security Consultant – System & Network Architect – Technical Project Manager – Director of IT operations (1 year) – Matrix type organisation, coordination up to around 50 interlocutors, direct responsibility up to around 10 persons.

What I have done

·Designing new architecture and migration strategy, IP address plan, DHCP, WINS, DNS. Managing migration of user accounts, mail accounts, workstations, user and corporate data, permissions, internet access.
·Design and management of Domino 4.6 migration project company messaging architecture to group 5.0 Domino architecture (new Organisation in Domino jargon).
·Technical Project Manager for migrating TOP WAN network (Frame Relay based) to CONTACT MPLS network. MPLS CoS (Class of services) design, site design, documentation. Technical support for deployment. Service quality and incidents analysis and follow up with telco provider.
·LAN design and installation management for 2 plants. Campus LAN design, hardware selection, suppliers delays budget management, supervising cabling operations, LAN equipment installation and tuning (VLAN, Spanning Tree, Routing)
·System and Network Services design. Technical Project Manager and high level support for migration from old NT architecture to new Active Directory Group architecture. Responsible for service continuity, data integrity, users rights and permissions, switching DHCP, DNS, internet access network services.
·iSeries (IBM midrange computer) basic system design in terms of partitioning, network configuration (attachments, routing, fault tolerance), telnet 5250, IP printing. Support for migration from 7 AS400 / SNA (v3) midrange departmental computers to 1 centralized iSeries IP (v5). Path migration design for client and printings switching.
·Enforcing IT Security Policy of ARKEMA Group for ALTUGLAS and SUNCLEAR subsidiaries : presentation and training, rollout, actions follow up, reporting, arbitration, security design for external business partners (VPN, qualifying permit traffics for firewall tuning)

ATOGLAS (Atofina group)

Context

European wide network spanning 6 countries with X25 and Frame Relay type leased lines, CISCO routers, TCP and SNA (7 IBM departmental AS400).
The company is renewing its legacy NT architecture based upon geographical domains and Windows 3.11 workstations, to a new “Euronet” NT architecture based on a more scalable users/resources domain design, rollout of TSE servers with Citrix Metaframe and ICA clients, Landesk workstation management tools, and SNA Server 4.0 gateways implementation for AS400 access.
Concurrently, the entire Group is willing to migrate the entire WAN (including all subsidiaries) to a unified outsourced Frame Relay based network, called TOP WAN, enforcing an unified IP address plan for all the subsidiaries.

Location / Perimeter
Paris / Europe ( France, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain)

Role Summary Managerial responsibility

Technical consultant – System & Network Architect – Technical Project Manager – Infrastructure lead - Matrix type organisation, coordination up to around 30 simultaneous interlocutors, direct responsibility up to around 5 persons.

What I’ve done

·Design of “Euronet” architecture, based on NT4 domains (users / resources model), TSE and Metaframe, light clients, SNA gateways.
·Technical Consultant to organise and support sites migration to new “Euronet” architecture, procedures setup and supervising COMPAQ servers installation, WINS, DHCP, designing and tuning, SNA Gateways setup, SNA Printing re-design, creating architecture exhaustive documentation from scratch.
·TOP WAN Project Manager for Atoglas and its subsidiaries, IP address plan migration, defining and enforcing migration strategy in order to ensure service continuity and uninterrupted full network connectivity during the migration (BGP links establishment between routing areas).
·Design and implementation of network time synchronisation through NTP rollout and tuning.
·Design and implementation of XoT (X25 over TCP) for SNA support on new TCP only network.

UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP (06 – 11)

Context

World wide project “DtR” (Desktop Renaissance) aims to standardize some 30000 workstations to Windows 98 with NetWare client, to migrate from IPX to TCP, from NetWare 3 / 4 to NetWare 5.1, to implement ZenWorks (software distribution and workstation management tool), and NDPS (Novell Distributed Printing Services)

Location / Perimeter
London – Paris - Antony / France

Role summary Managerial responsibility

Site Designer – Rollout Organizational & Technical Manager – Matrix type organisation, coordination up to around 30 simultaneous interlocutors, direct responsibility up to around 15 persons


What I’ve done

·General infrastructure design and implementation on a per site basis, network scheme, defining migration path (intermediate states and transitions) and deployment methodology.
NDS subtree, basic networks services (DHCP, DNS, SLP,…), printing services and migration methodology.

·Scripting for automatisation of users accounts, data and print services migration, ensuring operations continuity.

·Management / training / organisation / support of the deployment teams based upon previously created documents.
Managing and supporting the deployment of UMG Parisian sites representing some 2500 workstations.

·Hands on realisation for critical migration phases (data, printing services, backup, GroupWise, network switching : adapt routers configuration)

Context

“LANRAC 3” is a national-wide project from the French Unemployment Insurance Administration, which aims to standardise about 17000 desktop computers, from Windows 3.11/NetWare or Microsoft Client/IPX to NetWare 5/Windows NT 4 WorkStation/TCP.
This project implied to Roll out 700 new NetWare 5 servers and about 9000 news workstations and to eliminate IPX traffic from the wire.
Before effective roll out, I was asked as a consultant, to validate, consolidate and improve the fundamentals of the architecture.

Location / Perimeter
Orléans (FRANCE) / France

Role summary
Directory & Infrastructure Architect – Technical Consultant

What I’ve done

·Review of general TCP design : proposals for improvement of IP addressing plan, use of HSRP.
·Review of general NetWare 5 architecture in matter of networking : how to use and tune compatible mode, how to use SLP (Servers and Workstations tuning). Validation tests and written procedures.
·Defining strategies for time synchronisation with NT and Unix, around a mix of TIMESYNC / NTP.
·Defining DHCP and DNS architecture. Validation tests and written procedures.
·Review of NDS design, proposals for improved partitioning, implementation of dedicated replicated ZEN containers (applications packages)
·Defining the backup architecture and installation procedures (around Backup Exec 7.2 and 8.0)
·Setting up a model environment which will act as a reference for future installed sites and will be used to train the deployment teams.
·Deployment procedures redaction.
·High level support for the pilot sites.

Context

BP COE (Common Operating Environment) world-wide project, aimed to standardize about 33000 desktop computers. For Lavera Refinery, the challenges stood as :
·Roll out of 450 desktop computers from Windows 3.11/NetWare Client/IPX to Windows 95/TCP.
·Accounts, data and print services migration from NetWare 3.12, to NT 4 using FPNW as intermediate system (File and print Services for Netware)
·MSMail to Exchange migration, SMS and Citrix Winframe installation/start-up.
·Things had to be implemented in a non disruptive way.

Location / Perimeter
Cergy – Lavera (France) / Lavera industrial campus

Role summary Managerial responsibility

Technical Consultant – Technical Project Manager - Matrix type organisation, coordination up to around 10 simultaneous interlocutors.

What I’ve done

·NT servers installed from scratch, ensuring the compliance with the corporate policy and standards.

·Establishment of a non disruptive migration strategy from NetWare to NT, then implementing it.

·Implementation and tuning of FPNW, DHCP, DNS, WINS, printing services for Microsoft clients, NetWare clients and Unix systems simultaneously.

·Installation and start-up of Exchange and SMS.

·Data migration and reorganisation, high level support for MSmail to Exchange migration issues.

·Complete management (from an organisational and technical point of view) of Citrix Winframe sub-project.

·Generally speaking, I ensured network expertise in Novell, NT, FPNW, Printing services, Citrix Winframe, Unix/NT integration, solving all complex networking issues (from wiring to operating system).

Founder and Manager of Mediasoft Communication Ltd running from 1985 to 1996.

Mediasoft communication made a major breakthrough in the French market by introducing, in 1985 the first electronic market place for terrestrial freight carriers, as a service available by vt100 and then typically French terminal known as “MINITEL”. We then specialised in telecommunication applications for the broader freight carrier networks (DANZAS, CALBERSON, MORY TNTE, HEPPNER ..). Applications ran on our own UNIX computers and were sold as services via TRANSPAC and TELETEL networks. We provided 24 hours day service. (We never had a failure of more than a few minutes over 6 years operating period)

Our work included writing new procedures, training employees in each agency, demonstrating how to use the information for saving time, improving efficiency and responsiveness, demonstrating how to deliver information to the other agencies ... Our products were successful because they really empowered back office employees and served them in they everyday work. By the way, after analysing the physical path of freight, I put on the paper, concept and technological principles of what is today called RFID. At the time (1989) the project cut short, lacking partner on the development side.

Despite the fact that we had planned new architectures for them, (based on LAN messaging interconnection, ancestor of present MOM architecture (Message Oriented Middleware), the in-house computer divisions were frightened by the idea of abandoning their legacy technologies, and overtime, they copy our applications internally (and by the way froze them) and our market disappeared.

I then oriented the company towards LAN integration activity (1990) and we achieved the status of Novell Expert Centre in 1992. The Market was low and hard at that time for new technologies.

In 1995, in an attempt to increase the global incoming of Mediasoft, I acquired a winding up software company and employed 6 more working people. Difficulties of every kind arose, a year later I went bankrupt.