Ludovic Francois
  20 29th Ave
  Venice, CA 90291
  United States
  Phone: +1 818 554 0392
  E-mail: ludo@epita.fr
  
                   SYSTEM NETWORK AND SECURITY ENGINEER
   
  
  Objective: A fulltime position involving expertise in these fields:
Linux/Unix system administration, high-performance computing, computer
and network security, automation scripts.

  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  
  
 -   June 2005 - Present, System Engineer at DataDirect Networks, Inc.

	SAN sharing system design and setup.
 	Developed testing scripts. Analyzed performance results to identify
   	bottlenecks. Compared performance of different file system protocols
   	and system configurations. 
   	Installation and troubleshooting of SAN around world in HPC and
   	Broadcast companies.

	Hardware involved: Brocade, Qlogic Fibre Channel Switch, Xyratech JBOD,
   	DDN S2A controllers, Novascale Bull servers, Blue Arc...
 	Software involved: Solaris, Irix, Linux, Polyserve, CXFS, SNFS, GPFS,
   	NFS, Lustre. 
 
 
 -   March 2004 - June 2005, System Engineer Unix at Thalès Airborne System.
 
 	Member of a 15 people team. On call Unix support of more of 300
   	stations, 10 UNIX domains on 3 sites (Brest, Pessac, Paris),
   	implementation of automation scripts, internal communication tools
   	and knowledge database. Supervisor : Mr Pierre Blas.

	Hardware involved: SUN, SGI, HP workstations, NetApp filers.
 	Software involved: Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, NIS, NIS+, NFS,
   	clearcase, flexlm, nagios, cvs, svn, bash, perl. 
 
 
 -   June - September 2004/2005, C/Unix teacher for second year students at EPITA.
 
 	Software involved: NetBSD, Linux, gcc, gdb, cvs, svn. 
 
 
 -   January 2003 - March 2004, System Administrator at EUC.
 
 	Specification, development and  administration of the information
   	system of Elektronik  Utbildnings Center AB in Bromma (Sweden). 300
   	users on 3 sites (Bromma, Norrtälje, Åkersberga) Supervisor : Mr 
   	Kemel Benali.

	Software involved: Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, bind,
   	netfilter/iptables, OpenLDAP, OpenVPN, cvs, ssh, SpamAssassin,
   	ClamAV, AMaViS, and Postfix. 
 
 
 -   September - December 2002, C/Unix teacher for  first and second year students at EPITA.
 
 	Software involved: NetBSD, Linux, gcc, gdb, cvs, svn, OpenLDAP,
   	FreeRadius, OpenICAP, squid. 
 
 
 -   August 2002, SCO/Unix trainer at Karwell.

	Training done in  Vienne for the agricultural cooperative of the Dauphiné.

	Software involved: SCO/Unix, FreeBSD. 
 
 
 -   October - December 2001, Training period at Mandrakesoft.
  
  	Maintenance of various packages and development of applications of the
   	Linux  Mandrake Distribution. Supervisor : Mr Frédéric Bastok.

	Hardware involved: IA64.
	Software involved: gcc, GtkFrameBuffer, rpm. 
 
 
 -   Summer 2000, Summer job at the "bocal" (system and network administration of EPITA).
					
	Involvment in the installation of two new  machine rooms with
	hundreds computers in each one running NetBSD. Arrangement  of the
   	server room. Supervisor : Mr Nicolas Sadirac.
  
   EDUCATION
                                     
2005                                 Sun microsystems - Solaris system performance management (SA-400).  
                                     
2000 - 2003                          French Computer Science School EPITA (Ecole Pour l'Informatique et les
                                     Techniques  Avancées) - System, Network and Security Department   
                                     (equivalent to a Master's Degree in Computer Science) -  Paris, France.  
                                                       
1998 - 2000                          Scientific classes: two years intensive course  in Mathematics 
				     and Physics (undergraduate level) leading to competitive exams 
				     for entrance into French  national engineering schools - Arras, France. 

1998                                 Mathematics and Physics "Baccalauréat" (French secondary school diploma, 
				     equivalent to the "A" levels) -  Arras, France.     
   
  
  SKILLS
                                     
 Languages                            C/Unix, flex, Gtk, Perl, Perl/Tk, 
                                      Bourne shell scripting, C++, Java,
                                      PHP, SQL, Python.                         
                                                       
 Operating systems                    FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux : 
                                      system administration and kernel  
                                      development.                            
                                      Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows: system          
                                      administration.                   
                                                       
 Administration 		      apache,   bind,   nfsd,   samba,
				      sendmail,  ftpd,  cups, wireless
				      networks,     ipv6     networks,
				      iptables/netfilter, dhcpd, ldap,
				      vpn, inn, snmpd, cvs, clearcase,
				      jabber, asterisk.
                                                       
 Shared files systems		      gpfs, snfs, cxfs, polyserve, lustre, zfs.
                                                       
 Security                             Involved in the development of the  
                                      project vnet, programming of an OS
                                      fingerprinting tool.         
                                                       
 Programming			      Implementation of a shell,        
                                      miscellaneous network programming 
                                      clients and servers (NNTP, FTP,   
                                      IRC).                             
                                     
 Text formatting tools                LaTeX, HTML.                      
                                     
                                     
  
  OTHER ABILITIES
                                     
 Languages                            English, French (mother tongue).  
                                                       
 Sports                               Ski, volley-ball and table tennis.     
                                                       
 Driver License                       B (VL) obtained on March 18, 1998.