Nicolas TRAN

Systems, Virtualization & Network Engineer

About me

I'm very versatile, so I can adapt myself to any environment since I have many different skills. I'm also self confident and my most valuable assets are my cold blood and solution shooting skills when facing crisis and problematic situations.

  • Air France - Nice - France
    08/2016 - Present

    As Virtualization Systems Engineer - Linux and VMware infrastructure

    - VMware install/reorganization/consolidation/upgrade of ESXi 5.5-6, VSAN, VPLEX, LUNs to metaLUNs, PtoV …

    - Developing PowerCLI/shell script to computerize VMware tasks like DRS rules, keep VMDKs together …

    - Green IT Project (data center migration)

    - Write and edit technical documentation

  • AT&T - Nice - France
    02/2015 - 07/2016

    As Network Engineer - Network Technical L3 Support

    - Scheduled and performed production/pre-production changes according to IBM ITILv3 standard

    - Troubleshot and resolved incidents while respecting SLA, outage and customer impacts

    - Upgraded/updated and secured existing architecture

    - Managed customer's infrastructure(Firewall, Router, Switch …)

    - In charge of training new people on EMEA team (Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic)

    - Kept documentation and technical design up to date

    - Cisco ICND1/ICND2 training, CCNA Routing & Switching

  • IBM - Nice - France
    03/2013 - 02/2015

    As Systems Engineer - L3 Support - On-call 24/7 shift

    - Functional responsibility of EMEA teams working on different technologies

    - Key contact with customer (daily production call, organized and worked on projects)

    - In charge of IBM standard, risk assessment and changes/incidents management

    - Was proactive with customers to suggest solutions to decrease identified risks

    - Managed dedicated customer's infrastructure, around 200 Servers (ESX cluster, TSM Backup, WEB/SQL/Windows servers …)

    - Wrote and edited technical documentation

  • Groupon - Paris - France
    10/2010 - 02/2013

    As Systems and Network Administrator

    - Network infrastructure deployment on different-sized of buildings from 500m² to 1600m²

    - Researched and implemented new technologies in accordance with business needs

    - Migrated servers and troubleshot network issues

    - Managed users (Google apps, Active Directory, CRM, intranet, ...)

    - Installed and configured workstations with Acronis Server

    - Administrated VoIP Asterisk server (IVR, manage users, IP Phone configuration)

  • Ionis Group – Le Bocal - Paris - France
    01/2009 - 08/2009

    As Systems and Network Administrator

    - Coordinated students exam

    - Installed school network infrastructure for EPITECH/EPITA/IPSA/Sup’ Biotech …

    - Backed up and restored user data/emails

    - Installed and configured workstations with GhostCast Server

    - Troubleshot and resolved computer issues (software and hardware)

Technical Skills

OS

Windows (clients/servers), RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, FreeBSD, Aix, Mac OSX

Languages

C/C++/SQL/XHTML/PHP (prior experience), Script Shell & PowerCLI (proficient)

VOIP

VoIP, SIP, DIGIUM, ASTERISK, IP Phone Cisco 7945G and THOMSON ST2030

Software/Apps

VMware, Microsoft (Office, Exchange), Google Apps, Salesforce, TSM4VE, Symantec GhostCast Server, Acronis Backup & Recovery, GIT, SVN

System

System Architecture and Networking design, Windows Active Directory, Cluster, LDAP, Nagios, Centreon

Network

ProCurve, Cisco, Firewall (ASA & Checkpoint), F5 BIG IP, VPN, VLAN, NAT, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, DNS, Telnet, SSH

EDUCATION

ETNA

2013 - Master – System, Network and Security Architect at ‘École des Technologies Numériques Appliquées’ - Paris

EPITECH

2011 - Bachelor in Computer Science at European Institute of Information Technology - Paris

Lycée Sidoine Apollinaire

2008 - High school diploma in System Information - Clermont-Ferrand

Love what you doand you'll do it well

Spoken Languages - Interests - Activities

French - Native language

English - Fluent

Vietnamese - Mother tongue

Baseball

Ping Pong

Swimming

New Technologies

Travel

Photography

Drop me a line

Address

Nice - France

Phone

+336 1987 9017