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François GUILLIER

My CV is displayed for information only. I am NOT looking for a job. Thank you.

Professional experience in IT

• Systems Administrator (Computer Associate Grade I)     Apr. 2002 - Apr. 2008  Flymine Project - Department of Genetics & Cambridge Systems Biology Centre
   University of Cambridge - Cambridge (UK)
  
  - Management/Installation/Administration of 35+ Linux & UNIX servers as well as Linux, Mac OS, & Windows desktop machines
  - Responsible for Samba, NFS, PostgreSQL, Tomcat and Apache servers
  - Administration of Clusters, DiskArrays, SANs & NAS (~ 100 Tera-Bytes of data)
  - Email services, Web services, Wikis, etc... setup & administration
  - Firewalls, VPN and IP networks management
  
• UNIX Systems Administrator    Sept. 2000 - Jan. 2002  Incyte Genomics Ltd - Cambridge (UK)
  
  - Administration of Linux & Solaris Desktops/Servers
  - Administration of File Servers (NFS, SMB/CIFS, Appletalk ...)
  - Administration of Tape backup (Arkeia with LTO tape library)
  - Supervision of email routing (Exim / Mirapoint / Sendmail) and directories (NIS/LDAP)
  - PHP/MySQL/PDF Intranet Development
  - Administration of NT/2000 & IP networks
  
• NT/Linux Administrator    part time April 2000 - May 2000  Adulis Group - Courtaboeuf
  
  NT domain merging and NT & Linux server upgrade; authentication centralisation (Windows, messaging (Sendmail / Linux), intranet (Apache / Linux), remote access ...)
  
• National Service    October 1999 - July 2000  IT Department in French Army - Paris
  
  Computer management, PC maintenance and user support; Novell & NT4 administration; Linux server installation and administration; Exchange/Outlook administration; setting up of a DHCP / DNS management system (with Linux/PHP/Mysql)
  
• IT Manager (trainee)    April - August 1999
   Adulis Group - Courtaboeuf
  
  Administration of NT4 domains; Implement of network and messaging (under Linux); web server installation (under Linux); installation of remote access and security policy of Intranet; development of dynamic web pages (directory, etc ...) (PHP under Linux)
  
• NT Administrator/Webmaster    part time 1998 - 1999  Canal Technologies - Paris
  
  Administration of web servers (IIS 3 & 4) and Microsoft Exchange; development of applications for the Internet/Intranet
  

IT Skills

• Operating Systems:
  
  - Linux (All distributions but strong knowledge of Fedora & RHEL (Centos)). Past experience with Tru64 5.1 & Solaris 2.6/7/8, ...
  - Windows 2000/XP Workstation. Past experience with every previous versions Workstation & Server
  - Mac OS X
  - Virtual Servers (VMWare, Xen, ...)
  
• Services:
  
  - NIS, DHCP, LDAP, Kerberos
  - Software and Hardware RAID systems
  - SAN (Fibre Channel, Brocade switches, HP HSG, diskarrays), iSCSI & NAS
  - Samba, NFS, Autofs
  
• LAN & WAN:
  
  - Ethernet
  - TCP/IP (Routing, Filtering, Management, ...)
  - Security: SSH, SSL, OpenVPN, Firewalls, SPAM & Antivirus filtering
  - Multiple domains & DNS (Bind) servers support
  - Switches & Routers
  - SNMP, MRTG, RRDTool
  
• Web & Messaging:
  
  - Apache Httpd, Apache Tomcat
  - Exim, Cyrus IMAP
  - HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, DOM, RSS, CSS
  - CGI-BIN, PHP, Javascript, AJAX
  - Blogs, Wiki (mediawiki, trac, wikicreole), CMS, ...
  
• Programming:
  
  - C/C++, PERL, Java, PHP
  - UNIX shell scripting
  - Trac, Subversion & CVS servers management
  - Past experience with Assembler 80x86, Pascal, Basic, Lisp, ...
  
• DBMS:
  
  - MySQL (deployment, management), Postgresql
  

Past and Additional IT skills

• Tru64 5.1 & Solaris 2.6/7/8, ...
• Assembler 80x86, Pascal, Basic, Lisp, ...
• Apache Tomcat, Python, LUA
• Postgresal, Oracle

Education and Miscellaneous Information

• 1999  DESS (Master's degree - 2^nd year) Engineering of Networks and Systems
  
  Versailles University, France
  (High-Speed Networks, WAN, Systems & Networks Patterns, Databases, Parallel & Distributed Systems, ...)
• 1998  Maîtrise d'Informatique (Master's degree of Computer Science - 1^st year)
  
  Paris VII University, France
  (RISC Architecture, Parallel Architecture & algorithms, Networks, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Compilation X-Window System, Complexity/Calculability, ...)
• 1997  Licence d'Informatique (BSc of Computer Science)
  
  Angers University, France
  (Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence, PL/SQL - Oracle, Algorithmic, Probabilities, ...); Project: “Human-Machine Interface” between a Prolog project and the Web

Leisure & Personal Interests

• History of Computing (Creation of a web site: http://www.histoire-informatique.org/)
• Medieval History of England and France (Web site about this subject is being created)
• Music: Electronic Organ and Classical Guitar
• Reading (Novels, Crimes, News magazines, ...)
• Photography
• GPS, GIS, Mapping [Contributions to OpenStreetMap (Region of Saumur)]
• Cycling, badminton, archery