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VMware
- Senior Solutions Architect
GRENOBLE
2016 - maintenant
• Architect and develop customer solutions based on current hands-on knowledge of the VMware product line, storage, networking, management, and associated customer business processes. Specific emphasis on EUC related solutions such as: VMware Horizon View, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, VMware vCenter Operations for View, and VMware vSphere, in addition to myriad third party products from VMware’s partner ecosystem.
• Provide architectural guidance and oversight into integration of VMware products with third party products within customers IT environment: Active Directory, Windows Server and Desktop Operating Systems, desktop hardware devices, SAN/NAS storage, networking, systems management, capacity management and monitoring, high availability solutions, security infrastructures, etc.
• Gather detailed business and technical requirements from customers and partners and create specifications that enable the development of concise delivery services and presales collateral.
• Participate in the pre-sales process to understand customer business and technical objectives and product requirements, in order to define and recommend effective solutions and services approaches.
• Advise customers on EUC related operational readiness matters such as Service Orientation, Operations Controls, and Infrastructure Controls
• Document best practices in developing and deploying VMware solutions, and feed them into our knowledge base
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VMware
- Technical Solutions Architect - EUC
GRENOBLE
2014 - maintenant
• Architect and develop customer solutions based on current hands-on knowledge of the VMware product line, storage, networking, management, and associated customer business processes. Specific emphasis on EUC related solutions such as: VMware Horizon View, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, VMware vCenter Operations for View, and VMware vSphere, in addition to myriad third party products from VMware’s partner ecosystem.
• Provide architectural guidance and oversight into integration of VMware products with third party products within customers IT environment: Active Directory, Windows Server and Desktop Operating Systems, desktop hardware devices, SAN/NAS storage, networking, systems management, capacity management and monitoring, high availability solutions, security infrastructures, etc.
• Gather detailed business and technical requirements from customers and partners and create specifications that enable the development of concise delivery services and presales collateral.
• Participate in the pre-sales process to understand customer business and technical objectives and product requirements, in order to define and recommend effective solutions and services approaches.
• Advise customers on EUC related operational readiness matters such as Service Orientation, Operations Controls, and Infrastructure Controls
• Document best practices in developing and deploying VMware solutions, and feed them into our knowledge base
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VMware
- Senior Consultant - EUC
GRENOBLE
2009 - 2014
- EMEA Chief Architect EUC Practice Council
- South EMEA VMware Horizon Mirage Specialist
- Pre-sales (customer or partners events, SoW, customer facing workshop)
Principal job activities :
- Assessment
- Customers training through Jumpstart offers or dedicated workshops.,
- Plan & Design
- Pilot
- Implementation and migration on VMware products (vSphere, Horizon Suite (Workspace, View, Mirage), ThinApp, SRM, vCops) and other VDI vendors (Citrix XenDesktop, Leostream)
- Technical Account Manager for a public organization and construction firm.
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IBM France
- Certified IT Specialist
Bois-Colombes
2002 - 2009
Pre-Sales and Implementation Services IT Architect - Team Leader
- Pre-sales IT Architect mainly on servers consolidation and Intel server solutions implementation
- Architecture Design and Implementation :
* Intel Servers consolidation (mainly on VMware)
* High Availability solutions
* System management
* Linux and open-sources projects
* Team Leader of 5 IT Specialists (Since January 2006)
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IBM France
- Support Technique
Bois-Colombes
1999 - 2002
L2 Technical Support
- France and Middle East Africa post-sales specialist.
- West Europe and MEA, back office L2 Technical Support (virtual team composed of technical supports from each European countries – intermediary between local L1 technical support and L2 labs supports)
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SEPRIM
- Support Technique
1995 - 1999
Level 1 Technical Support
- Post-Sales Technical Support on IBM hardware (Intel).
