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Contacts
- twitter: @lrivallain ↗
- linkedin: ludovicrivallain ↗
- vExpert profile: Rivallain Ludovic ↗
Experiences
Cloud Computing and VMware Senior Consultant
@ SII Group ↗
July 2016 – now (Rennes, France)
VMware Senior Consultant:
- Engineering and level 3 support:
- vRA : vRealize Automation
- vRO : Realize Orchestrator
- vCAN : vCloud Air Network programm and vCloud Usage Meter
- vCSA : vCenter Appliance
- NSX : Network Virtualization and Security
- Intermediary for editor support request
Cloud Computing Consultant:
- Support for “On Premise → Cloud” migration
- Providing best practices for Cloud usage
- Information System architect
- R&D OpenStack
Trainer for (both internal and external public):
- Cloud Computing generic training sessions
- Junior VMware training sessions
- Public Cloud approach sessions
- OpenStack user and administrator sessions
Tech-leader private-cloud operations
@ OVH ↗
November 2014 – July 2016 (Rennes, France)
Creation and managing of operations teams for OVH cloud offers:
- 12 peoples between Rennes, Tunis, Montreal, Roubaix
- 3 products : (3000) Dedicated Cloud, (80 000) Virtual Private Server, Desk as a Service
- 24/7 service with planning management
- Virtualization tech-leader role
Dedicated Cloud:
- ~3000 VMware vCenter / 10 000 Hosts ESXi
- Home made monitoring (redis & scripting)
- Automation (delivery, failure reactions) : perl, powershell, bash
Virtual Private Server:
- ~80 000 VPS (VMware, Openstack, OpenVZ)
- Shinken based monitoring
- Massive migrations, capacity planning
Desk as a Service:
- Launch of the commercial offer based on VMware Horizon View
- Shinken based monitoring (NRPE) + OpenTSDB Timeseries
VMware junior consultant
@ SII Group ↗
January 2011 – November 2014 (Lannion+Rennes, France)
VMware trainer for internal employees and customers.
Think & build & support to run, of Orange Business France Cloud Computing offers.
Think:
- Data recovery plans (VMware SRM, Zerto)
- International cloud computing offers design
Build:
- Orchestrations tools (VMware Orchestrator, VMware vCloud director)
- Best practices definition
Support to run:
- Level 3 support: analysis, editor’s cases management
- Incident management
- Massive migrations and functionnal changes studies
Web qualification engineer
@ SII Group ↗
January 2007 – December 2009 (Lannion, France)
Technical and functionnal validations of several products:
- DLNA based server
- Dojo Toolkit framework (AJAX, CSS, HTML)
- Apache 2 modules for web servers security
- Mail + Vocal messages + SMS & MMS integrated portal
Protocol qualification engineer
@ One Access Network ↗
April 2006 – December 2006 (Paris, France)
Network protocol validation of multi-protocols routers:
- Automated testing based on TCL/Expect
- WAN (IPoA, PPPoA, PPPoEoA, ISDN, PSTN, X25…)
- IP (DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, RIP)
- Admin features (Telnet, SSH, SNMP, sécurity)
- VOIP (H323, MGCP, SIP)
Pre-sales consulting and documentation of automated platforms for validation.
Education
Trainings / Exams
VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.20] (Custom)
October 2017
OpenStack administrator
May 2017
VMware vRealize Automation (7.2)
March 2017
VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.10] (Custom)
November 2016
🏅 VMware VCP - Install configure and manage (5.0)
September 2012
Professional degree, Voice over IP and systems administration
@ IUT Lannion
2005 – 2006 (Lannion, France) 🏅
University degree, Telecom & networks
@ IUT Lannion
2003 – 2005 (Lannion, France) 🏅
Skills
Virtualization:
- VMware
- ESXi, vCenter, vCSA & Operations management
- NSX
- vCloud Director
- vRealize Automation
- Realize Orchestrator
- VSPP & vCAN licensings - vCloud Usage Meter
- VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Openstack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Cinder, Swift, Glance, Horizon…)
- OpenVZ
- Docker & Linux LXC
- Linux KVM and XEN
Systems:
- Windows Server (SQL server, Active Directory, KMS, WSUS)
- Linux (Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL…)
- MacOS X
Programming:
- Bash addict
- Powershell enthusiast
- Python addict too (+Django)
- Perl
- TCL/Expect
- Web (HTML, JS, CSS)
- Git, SVN
Networking:
- TCP/IP
- Routing
- Firewalling
- Load balancing
Hardware:
- HPE blades
- Dell
- Cisco
- Supermicro
Methodology:
- Scrum / Agile
- DevOps:
- Ansible, Puppet
- Shinken
- REST programming
Self interests
- Rock climbing
- Canoe-kayak
- Music festivals 🎵
- Open-source