LAURENT DELFOSSE
                           Washington DC Metro Area
                          delfosse () delfosse ! com

KEY SKILLS:

* Proven team leader.  Professional and dedicated to providing solutions
and resolving issues. Project management, supervisory roles.
* DevOps Engineering for new web hosting environments.  Support Drupal,
Wordpress, and other CMS environments.  Provide tools for Developer
workflow, web architecture design including performance with apc, memcached,
Varnish.
* Over 19 years of Solaris system administration - Experience
installing and administering many packages: NIS, DNS, DiskSuite, Veritas
General administration tasks, such as NIS user and group administration,
host and network setup, desktop and server installations, backups, disk
space monitoring and management. Hardware support for Sun servers and desktops.
* Solid Security background, currently have CEH certification.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Administrative Office of US Courts, Washington, D.C. August 2008 - current

Web Architect (contractor) January 2014 - current
Engineering escalation for Operations web hosting issues. Member of team
focused on transition of Engineering designs to Operations hosting.
Dedicated project member (Feb 2015) for Horizon View VDI solution,
multi-tenant SaaS design: View 6, NSX 6.1, vCenter 5.5.2, vROPS.

Sr. Systems Engineer (consultant) Aug 2008 - Jan 2014
Support for Internet and Intranet web application infrastructure. Originally
Solaris 9 environment. Project management, team lead, supervisory
responsibilities. DevOps Engineering to design web hosting architectures,
including tools to improve Developer workflow, and performance.
Hardware: Sun E250, E450, V440, V880, T2000, Ultra 20; StorEdge 3500.
Apps: RHEL 5/6 environment; Apache, Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, AWStats, Piwik,
Nagios, SolarWinds Orion NPM, Splunk, BMC BladeLogic, VMware v4/5

ICMA Retirement Corporation, Washington, DC December 2006 - July 2008
Sr. Internet Engineer
Support for Internet facing application infrastructure. Solaris 10
environment. Support of development, test, and production environments;
including webservers, web application servers, content management
servers, and back-end database servers. 30 servers, fail-over DR
site. Migrated from BEA WLS 8 to 10.
Hardware: Sun V210, V240, V440, V490; StorEdge 3510, Cisco MDS switches.
Packages: Expressroom Web Content Management, BEA WebLogic Server 8/10,
ODS, CA Autosys, internal process management solutions. Oracle 10g RAC.


Savvis Communications, Sterling, VA November 2004 - November 2006
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
Dedicated UNIX support of hosted government application infrastructure.
Primary Sun StorEdge EBS backup infrastructure engineer. Support of
development, test, and production environments: 120 servers, fail-over sites.
Environment engineering and tuning, work with vendors.
Hardware: Sun StorEdge L700, L100; 280R, V440, V480, 6800; A1000, D1000.
Packages: Sun StorEdge EBS (Networker), ODS, Veritas VM, internal
monitoring solutions.

Office of Human Resources Enterprise Solutions, US Treasury, Washington, D.C.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator (consultant)   June 2001 - May 2003
Support of PeopleSoft (HR) development and production environments.
Both OS and application platform upgrades. System tuning,
troubleshooting with vendors. E10K environment. Clarify CRM server setup.
Hardware: Sun E10K, 280R, 6500; A1000, Cisco CSS 11500, 11800, SonicWall SSL.
Packages: ODS, Legato, Bind, Oracle, Weblogic, Veritas Foundation Suite,
Veritas Cluster (VCS), Clarify eOffice 10.1. 

Goldman Sachs (Japan) Limited, Tokyo, Japan Dec 1999 - Jan 2001
Equities UNIX Sr. Systems Engineer (consultant)
Equities Unix support for servers and trading floor. Supported
infrastructure (critical servers) and developers (Equities
Technology): OMA (Orbix) servers, EWarrant and Moon Trade systems
(late night trading), Tokyo Stock Exchange connectivity and Market
Data system support. SunOS and Solaris servers, EMC storage, and
legacy BoxHill RAID storage hardware. Packages: Internal file
management/distribution automation tools, Powerbroker, Kerberos,
Orbix, Tibco Rendezvous, Hawk.

Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, California Mar 1998 - Nov 1999
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator (consultant)

Engineering (SUN02-04), Sunnyvale, CA (Oct 1998 - Nov 1999)
Rejoined growing CRM team that maintained a 1,000+ UNIX server
ranch. Project support for engineers. Day-to-day responsibilities
included server configuration and maintenance, planning and off-hour
support. Sun Ray network implimentation.  Supported chip test floor
lab environment, included Megatest (Teradyne), HP, and primarily
Schlumberger test equipment (ASAP).
Hardware: Enterprise 4000/4500 machines, StorEdge 5000, 5200.
Packages: HA, Volume Manager, Disk Suite, NIS master, ASAP
environments, Solstice Backup.

ENS (MPK16), Menlo Park, CA (Oct 1998 - Nov 1999)
Worked as a building sysadmin again. Supported SunSoft developers
(200+ Sun desktops), maintenance and upgrade rollouts of a 25 UNIX
server environment. Configuration and setup of servers. Supported
standard and development environments (ex: SIMS). Packages: Solstice
Online Disk Suite 4.1, Sun Internet Mail Server (SIMS), Volume Manager
2.5, Sparc StorEdge A5000, new internal scripts and support tool
rollouts.

Teradyne, San Jose, California Jan 1998 - Feb 1998
Systems Administrator (consultant)
Member of a 3 person team for site support of 3 buildings at San Jose
site; installs, restores, troubleshooting, problem tracking and
resolution.  Packages: BUDTool (backups), Info-Power (problem tracking)


Taos Mountain, Inc., Silicon Valley, California Sept 1996 - Jan 1998
UNIX Systems Administrator, Projects Included:

Sun Microsystems: ENS (SUN03) (Sept 1997 - Jan 1998)
Worked as a building sysadmin as well as a resource for internal
infrastructure group. Duties included normal sysadmin activities with
most previously used software packages and hardware, as well as work
on technical projects, scripts, and aiding in planning and management
decisions, interviews. Packages: Legato, NIS, scripts.

Weathernews, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (Jul 1997 - Aug 1997)
Sole Systems Administrator responsible for critical servers, network
availability, rapid response. Environment was 24/7, with UNIX systems
as critical points to business activity (worldwide weather information
distribution, primarily to ships). Helped interview candidates for
permanent position. Worked with DNS, NIS+, Volume Manger, Faximum.

Sun Microsystems:ENS (MIL04) (Mar 1997 - Jun 1997)
Maintained approximately 200 users (Sun desktops); responded to
trouble tickets, monitored backups and NFS servers. Gained a broad
knowledge of system trouble areas and solutions. Installed network
printers: Lexmark, Xerox. Part of a small group that did Javastation
installs, server configuration for Javastations, and user account
modification for a server-based desktop, usable on multiple platforms.
Packages worked with: Solstice Backup (Legato Networker), NEWSPrint.

Sun Microsystems: Microelectronics (SUN02) (Sept 1996 - Feb 1997)
Worked in the CAD Resource Management (CRM) group maintaining and
enhancing the server ranch used for developing and regression testing
Sun CPU chip designs. 600+ systems, in a large server environment.
Gained hardware troubleshooting skills, sound knowledge of hardware
configurations, UNIX, filesystem problems and solutions. Packages
worked with: Solstice Disk Suite, automation scripting, automounter.


Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, WVU May 1995 - May 1996
Systems Administrator Responsible for maintaining and upgrading the
College server, adding new accounts, software support, mailing lists,
backups, quotas, security. Also installed and maintained the College
Web server, and assisted in the design of College Web pages.


EDUCATION:
B.S. in Computer Science. West Virginia University,
Morgantown, West Virginia.

ACTIVITIES:

Have worked in academic, commercial, government and finance sectors,
including international work experience.
Interests include mobile app security, vulnerability aassessments.
Setup corporation to handle consulting activities in California.
Involved in ACM, organized programming contest teams from student chapter.
Received Computer Science scholarship, completed 2 years of Air Force ROTC.

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