OTA Limited partners is a hedge fund engaged in quantitative trading strategies located in Purchase NY. The firm offers a highly challenging environment incorporating the latest technology in cutting edge financial applications. This complex financial environment is comprised of:

• Over 100 Sun servers all running Solaris;
• Multiple Cisco routers and switches;
• Two Network Appliance filers;
• Sidewinder Firewall;
• Datafeeds from Bridge and Reuters;
• Over 20 ECNs to various financials institution (SLK, Archipeligo, Belzberg, Bloomberg, Brut, Instinet, Knight Financials and TLW);
• Constant monitoring of the environment using BMC Patrol, Tibco Hawk and HP OpenView.

for Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ):

Responsible for technical support of programmers and engineers. The scope of my work includes:

• UNIX lead for a team of four (4) Systems Administrators. Responsible for all the planning, design and upgrades of the UNIX infrastructure;
• Support of the networking infrastructure. The network is composed of Cisco 75xx routers, Catalyst 550x and 500x switches. Redundant T1 lines to the Internet and a single T1 line to the rest of the corporation.
• Support of an Sun Solaris based computing facility comprised of about 60 servers.
• Design, implementation and support of the facility's firewall infrastructure (a mixture of Checkpoint Firewall-1 and Cisco IOS);
• Support for the development lab of IFAS, a field access application. The lab includes RS/6000 AIX 3.2.x and 4.2.x servers, US Robotics modem chassis, ethernet and token ring networks and Network Appliance file servers;

for Lazard Frères

A short term assignement where I was to evaluate their environment and produce a report. My evaluation was to help them implement a full Service Leve Agreement between their technology departement and its customers.

for OTA Limited Partnership

A contract of aproximatly nine months where I was the primary and senior systems administrator for their computing environment. This complex financial environment was comprised of:

• over 100 Sun servers all running Solaris;
• Cisco routers and switches;
• Two Network Appliance filers;
• Sidewinder Firewall;
• Datafeeds from Bridge and Reuters;
• Over 20 ECNs to various financials institution (SLK, Archipeligo, Belzberg, Bloomberg, Brut, Instinet, Knight Financials and TLW);
• Constant monitoring of the environment using BMC Patrol, Tibco Hawk and HP OpenView.

• Administration of UNIX/TCPIP systems and heterogeneous networks (Solaris, Linux, Dos/Win and MacOS);
• Responsible for various Sun servers under SunOS 4.1.x and 5.x.
• Management of NIS/NIS+ servers, mail servers/routers (Berkeley Sendmail 8), Lotus Notes servers and Web servers;
• Pre-sales analyst for FileNet imaging systems;
• Trainer on FrameMaker release 4 and 5;
• Technical support for customers (FrameMaker, Solaris, Win95/NT and MS Office).

• Planned and produced technical guides on digital telecommunication systems.
• Preparation of a training seminar on digital telecommunication systems for eight (8) half day sessions.
• Research and technical writing on space diversity.
• Responsible for the NetMaker simulator of Timeplex and Cisco networks under UNIX platform.

• Responsible for development under Dos/Windows.
• Technical support to customers.
• Administration of computers.

• Book chapter in "UNIX Backup and Recovery", published by O'Reilly and Associates, authored by Curtis Preston, November 1999
• Article in November 1998, Sys Admin Magazine, Managing a Distributed Software Library using LUDE;
• Article in August 1998, ;login: Magazine, Conference Report, Firewall-1 Address Translation Without Proxy ARP;
• Article in August 1998, ;login: Magazine, Conference Report, How to Move to a New Building and Keep Your Users Satisfied;

• B.Sc in Electrical Engineering, Sherbrooke University. (December 95)
• Sun Certified Systems Administrator (March 99)
• Sun Certified Network Administrator (April 99)

• Member of the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students Advisory Board. (CFES). (May 95 to present)
• President of the Quebec Coalition of Engineering Schools (04/94 - 05/95)