Laurent Delfosse - Summary
I started my computer oriented career before high school, but certainly was well on track once I'd finished attending Thomas Jefferson H.S. for Science & Technology. After surviving TJ, I went to college at West Virginia University and got a degree in Computer Science (the coursework was primarily to become a software developer). While in school, I was a system administrator, and I ended up out in Silicon Valley after I graduated. My first job out there was with Taos Mountain as a systems administrator, where I moved from contract to contract, mostly different positions within Sun Microsystems. I eventually moved on to do hourly contracting using other contracting companies as middlemen. In 1998 I started my own company, conveniently called the Delfosse Co., which was very educational, and certainly more exciting. Most of my contracting work in California was at Sun Microsystems, where I did everything from internal user support to internal "lab" support of large numbers of servers to supporting their chip test lab.

Starting this millenium, I have worked in the financial industry, contracting at Goldman Sachs in their Tokyo office. This was mostly infrastructure support and expansion (EWarrant and Moon Trade were implemented while I was there). After the experience of living and working overseas, I came back to the DC area. My first contract was at the US Treasury in Washington, D.C., where they were also expanding their systems quickly, consolidating the large number of HR systems within the Treasury offices and bureaus into a centrally managed enterprise solution.
I got married in August, 2004.
Next it was on to a government sub-contract at Savvis, where I did project support for a section of the GSA. The primary project I worked on was getting their Networker backups (formerly Solstice Backup) organized and reliable.
Baby Melanie was born July, 2006.
I worked at a non-profit finance company (you didn't know that existed, did you?) called ICMA-RC from Dec, 2006 to Aug, 2008. The company's main business is retirement plans for public sector employees (think teachers, police, fireman, etc.). 'RC' was growing very rapidly and using current equipment, which made it an exciting place to work. Plus, the commute didn't hurt either (less than 30 minutes). However, I got an offer to return to contracting, and have recently moved back to a Federal sub-contract through Fulcrum IT Services Company. They are a local (Manassas, VA) company with quite a few Federal contracts under management, and the opportunity to be the team lead on the Web support team at USCourts.gov was very appealing. It was also 3 blocks from my last position :) The team manages the web servers for the external uscourts.gov site, as well as several internal web sites and applications.

Last update: Sept, 2008.

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Laurent Delfosse
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