M2M solution architect @ Technical requirements analysis for M2M services
• Advise on the technical requirements and work on their specifications
Design of M2M solution architectures
• Work for the client M2O (Veolia) on the technical architecture of its water meter reading service through the mobile network. Address the following subjects : performance under load, service “scalability”, service reliability, security, network interconnection issues as well as system operation constraints
• Deliver technical architecture documents covering the items mentioned above
Engineering for M2M services
• Deliver technical specifications
Support to the team in charge of the system integration, reliability and acceptance testing
• Deliver the suite of service reliability tests to run for new applications From 2011 to Present (4 years) IPTV Architect @ Design of Live TV and Video on Demand architectures
• Worked on the technical architecture of the Content Management System for France Telecom VOD and TVOD platforms. Dealt with the following subjects : performance under load, service “scalability”, service reliability, security, network interconnection issues as well as system operation constraints
• Delivered technical architecture documents covering the items mentioned above From 2010 to 2011 (1 year) ToIP/VoIP Architect @ Design of ToIP/VoIP architectures
• Delivered call flow diagrams
• Designed technical architectures taking account of performance, service reliability and security requirements, network interconnection issues, legal constraints, billing requirements as well as system operation constraints
• Delivered technical architecture documents covering the items mentioned above
Engineering for VoIP applications
• Designed a consolidated infrastructure hosting VoIP applications, based on VMware solutions
• Worked on the requirements and best practices for deploying VoIP products and applications on VMware
• Delivered engineering rules for F5 BIG-IP load balancers and developed scripts to load and remove configurations
• Delivered technical specifications and shopping lists to build infrastructures
• Provided feedback on the architecture choices of the projects and worked on the areas of improvement
Support to the team in charge of the system integration, reliability and acceptance testing
• Delivered the suite of service reliability tests to run for new applications
• Realized the reliability and acceptance testing of network architectures
Support to the team in charge of deployment
• Analyzed the incidents during the deployment phase and worked on the corrections of the defects
• Worked on migration scenarios to deploy new application releases and delivered deployment procedures
Knowledge transfer to the operations and support teams From 2007 to 2010 (3 years) Team Leader of the SAN Storage Engineering team @ Coordination of the team activities
• Defined project scopes, assessed work load, estimated project schedules and prepared budgets
• Monitored team members’ activities and organized team meetings
• Acted as the main contact person for any requests in the SAN storage field
Transfer of know-how to the team
• Worked with and mentored the junior staff, advised team members about the training courses to follow
Updating the storage architecture prescriptions
Work with the client GDF on the installation of its storage infrastructure for the project GDF Symphony
• Identified the customer requirements
• Worked on the design of the storage architecture : SAN and storage sizing, Disaster Recovery Plan, consistency issues between SAN et NAS data and the copies of these data
• Supervised the deliveries of the editor EMC² From 2006 to 2006 (less than a year) SAN Storage Engineer @ Storage Engineering
• Delivered engineering rules and guidelines for EMC² Symmetrix and CX storage arrays
• Delivered engineering rules and developped scripts to automate local and remote data replications
• Delivered engineering rules and developped scripts to automate data migration
• Worked on storage consolidation scenarios
System integration testing within FT infrastructure and standards, user acceptance testing and FT approval of storage software tools
• Storage software tools : SRDF S/A, TimeFinder SNAP/CLONE, Power Path
• SAN routing solutions
SAN and storage design for complex, non-standard applications
• Within FT departments (Information System and VoIP platforms) and France Telecom affiliates
• Identified the requirements
• Designed storage architectures : SAN and storage sizing, Disaster Recovery Plan, consistency issues for the copies of data
• Delivered storage architecture documents
Technical and economic study about the storage consolidation in France Telecom datacenters
• Defined the scope of the consolidation and identified the selection criteria
• Assessed the ROI of consolidation scenarios taking account of hardware and software costs, maintenance costs, floor space, electricty, technical support as well as data migration costs
System integration testing within FT infrastructure and standards, user acceptance testing of storage virtualisation solutions From 2002 to 2005 (3 years)
Master’s degree in Structural Steel Design, buildings, bridges, structural dynamics, finite element analysis, non-linear analysis @ Imperial College London From 2000 to 2001 Engineer, geology, geotechnics, materials science and numerical simulation @ Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy From 1998 to 2000 Alexandre Loiseau is skilled in: Telecommunications, Storage, Solution Architecture, VoIP, Network Architecture, VMware Infrastructure, Technical Architecture, Business Analysis, Architecture, SIP, IPTV, SAN, VMware, Data Center