Brian VEAU
Global Network & Telecom Architect - Project Manager, Louis Vuitton Malletier
Project management:
- Project leading.
- Incident management:
. New project impact classification and initial support.
. Technical and Human investigation, escalation, pro-activity in a production environment.
. Resolution and action plan to prevent similar issues.
- Budget management:
. CAPEX,
. OPEX,
. impact of projects evolutions.
Telecommunication skills:
- networks infrastructure
- Telecom infrastructure
- System information infrastructure
Other skills:
- 5 spoken languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
* Manager of a two-person team in the security department. Responsibilities included:
- integration and implementation of processes that manage firewalls, IPSEC equipments
- statistics and indicators on action plans to report to management.
* Implemented VoIP/ToIP Global projet. Responsibilities included:
- analysis of the existing and the proposed scalable solution of a dialing plan
- migration of a dedicated IP Plan to split data from voice on MPLS routing cloud.
- SIP trunk implementation among worldwide regions
- validation and communication
- statistics
* Migrated old telephone system to a new IP based system. Responsibilities included:
- communication and informational meeting with directors
- training users to understand the new ergonomy
- migration planning, developing action plan and validation tests
- daily processes communicated to level 1 hotline.
* Implemented Global DRP of Internet usage. Responsibilities included:
- global DRP outbound: crossover regions to access Internet link
- global DRP inbound: GSLB technology over Internet cloud to access internal network
- global simulation of DRP: communication, retrieval of critical applications, internet link shutdown, validation tests, automation
* Managing global Telecom governance towards all regions. Responsibilities include:
- focus on standards
- follow-up of homogeneous architecture
- validation and pyramidal processes for requests validation between regions.
2007 - 2009Responsible for implementing a 802.1X secure wireless architecture through Louis Vuitton locations,
with technical team management.
Responsible for implementing a secure remote access architecture Juniper coupled with Strong Authentication architecture Entrust based in the LOUIS VUITTON Datacenter :
-Analysis of the market regarding budget and technology internal audit of current technology.
-Proof of concept implementation.
-Contract with vendor company, CAPEX and OPEX impact.
-Establishment of scope of work, Coordination of pilot test phase Roll-out with technical teams.
-Documenting architecture specifications and technical documents for external teams' involvement.
-Review of weekly supervision reports and potential budget impact.
Responsible for designing a normalized IT architecture for stores and LVNA corporate offices.
Responsible for leading the implementation of a new supervision tool for Network, and
SNMP system monitoring for pro-activity on programmed alerts and notifications.
New projects proposals:
- implementation of new access technology: integration of GigaEthernet cards on the backbone
routers in replacement of Leased Lines.
- Move the stores network to a managed MPLS infrastructure.
- IDS architecture to implement in the datacenters.
Contact Agent for 3GPP Release 4 project towards Cegetel Group., NOKIA Corporate through Devoteam consulting.
2006 - 2007- Responsible for analysing the fault reports received by Cegetel and solving them / sending them to R&D Teams.
- Tracking and reporting the cases to Cegetel Team to discuss on objectives reachability.
- Management of a 5 sub-contact agent team (with different clients)
- Understanding of the IN Network (Core paquet, Core Circuit), NSS / BSS, User plane, Control Plane
Expert Core Network Engineer in the Telecommunication/Networks/Voice/Data center., PSA Peugeot Citroen
2004 - 2006Ø Interventions on the groups’s international WAN to deploy ambitious projects:
- MPLS project: migration of the backbone to MPLS without impacting production: Identifying, analysing and following potential risks by using VPN, QoS and Route-Reflectors.
- 10-GigaEthernet: deployment of this brand new technology (Nov 2005) on the WAN Backbone of PSA.
- Load-Balancing project: deployment of Alteon & Cisco technology to allow load balancing over critical and other servers
- Layer-2 operations.
Ø Modeling in the labs before validating the projects.
Ø Wireless project: Deployment of a WiFi/wireless transmission to recover experiment measures from a prototype car to a network of users.
Ø Negotiations on offers with Telco operators/constructors including developing of business plans (financial, human aspects, etc)
2003 - 2003Research and development of an interface for using a multi-touchpad device in a 4 people team in a telecommunication research centre.
- Mathematics modelisation.
- C programming in packages.
- Discovery, fast learning and programming in OpenGL/Glut
- Initiatives taken considering software evolutions (Drivers & Interface) to reach the objectives defined in the charge book.
- Demonstration and proposal of the software to companies in order to commercialize it.