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Personal Details
Jean-François Bucas
2nd October 1980
25 Ashbrook house, Sallymount avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
[email protected]
+353 86 176 98 22
Professional Experience
Jul – May 2011
Systems Administrator – Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Dealing with wide range of day-to-day issues and long term systems management
- Monitoring with Nagios
- Graphing with Munin, Cacti, SmokePing
- IPv6 deployment for servers and desktops on various platforms
- Servers Virtualization (Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, ESX, VMWare )
- Development of a multi-vlan bridged firewall (BASH based)
- Development of a cross platform backup system (BASH based)
- Documentation Organisation and Wiki auto-generation (BASH based)
- VPN access with OpenVPN
- DNS with BIND
- Transparent-proxying with Squid/ebtables
- eduroam with Freeradius
- VLAN organisation
- Phones – VoIP with Asterisk
- LDAP based authentication with OpenLDAP
- Mail servers with Postfix or Zimbra
- Websites development (PHP, SQL)
- Deployment of websites ( Joomla and Zencart based )
- Thin-Clients for Windows and Linux – energy saving
- Rock Cluster installation/management
- Scientific and administration - user support
Sep – Jun 2008
Technical Support Engineer – Symantec
( IRL – Dublin )
Dealing with High-End Products on global queues / Gold, Platinum customers
- Gateway Security : Firewall appliance
- Security Information Manager : Events collector and correlator appliance
- Entreprise Security Manager : Compliance and vulnerability assessment
Workshop teacher : BASH scripting – beginner and advanced
Dec – Aug 2007
Technical Support Engineer – Symantec
( IRL – Dublin )
Dealing with French, Dutch / Gold, Platinum customers
- Symantec Enterprise Anti-Virus (administration, troubleshoot)
Previous Experiences
Apr – Nov 2006
Level 2 Agent Resolution – HP
( IRL – Dublin )
Dealing with French, Belgian & German Total users 's escalations
- Active Directory management
- Administrative software test and validation process
- Initiative : Development of a VBS-WSH script to improve the productivity of the whole team –
still in use today
- 5 agents team work
March 2006
Team Coach – HP
( IRL – Dublin )
Coach for 40 Level 1 agents
- Training and supervision of the Level 1 team
Aug – Feb 2006
Level 1 Technical Support Agent – HP
( IRL – Dublin )
Dealing with French Total users 's issues
- Answering technical and procedural phone calls, case management – customer care
- Troubleshoot Windows XP, Lotus Notes, Office, Active Directory
Mar – Jul 2005
Technical Support Representative – ClientLogic
( IRL – Dublin )
COLT network - user support for Europe and Global markets
- Answering phone calls, case management – customer care
Jun – Jul 2004
Java development – Code Lutin
( FR – Nantes )
ReStructured Text file format parser
- Designing, implementing and testing of a non regular grammar parser
- Converting RST to formats such as XML, HTML
May – Jul 2003
Java development – Code Lutin
( FR – Nantes )
Code generation of an XMI model with Eclipse
- Finding and Writing Java software for handling XMI model
May – Jul 2002
Delphi development – Code Lutin
( FR – Nantes )
- Two management software : a clothes shop & a video library
Education
2007 Linux Professional Institute Certification 1
- Linux Installation & Package Management
- GNU & Unix commands and documentation
- Devices, Linux File systems, File system Hierarchy Standard
- Kernel
- Boot, Initialization, Shutdown and Runlevels
- Shells, Scripting, Programming, and Compiling
- Networking Fundamentals and Networking Services
- Administrative Tasks and Security
2002 – 2004 Maîtrise informatique – Equivalent to Master first year in computer sciences
- Computer design and System architecture
- Network layers, infrastructure, and programming
- Mathematical logic, formal calculus
- Basics of Unix server administration
Specialized in algorithms for artificial intelligence and biology
1998 –2002 DEUG MIAS university degree
Physics, mathematics, chemistry with specialisation in computer sciences
1998 Baccalauréat – French leaving certificate
Skills
System
IT Language
Unix / Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, CentOS, FreeBSD / Microsoft Windows XP/2003
BASH, Java, C++, SQL, MIPS, Caml
Self-taught : Pascal, C, Asm, PHP, XHTML, VBS-WSH
Network
Hardware
Experience in administration with large networks
IP networks installation and maintenance with Linux and Windows
PC mounting, setup and maintenance, network cabling
Human French (native), English (fluent) - Spanish, Latin, Japanese, Chinese
Language
Personal Projects
ASM Eternity II puzzle Solver
- code generation (using FreePascal)
- multi threads to use multi core CPU
- Linux kernel interfacing
DNA Symantec programming contest – Organica Cell replication – DNA-like programming
VBS-WSH Active Directory Query Tool and Application Launcher – Windows
ASM, C++ 3D Puzzle Solver – SDL & OpenGL – Linux & Windows
C++ Gphoto ’s driver for the Kodak EZ200 camera (reverse engineer of the protocol)
C++ Simple image viewer with lots of small features – SDL & OpenGL – Linux
C++ Implementation of Ukkonen ‘s algorithm to build suffix tree in linear time – Linux
Java Security agent AI in a labyrinth – Linux & Windows
ASM Simple network client/server application to transfer file – Windows API
Pascal Operating System : DelphineOS – Platforms x86 – Hosted on www.sourceforge.net
Personal
Culture Interest Movies, music, current affairs and news
Entertainment Drums, Juggling (6 balls), Chess, Video Games
Characteristics - Able to act on my own initiative
- Quick self-learner and intensive troubleshooter
- Very good organisational skills
May 2011