Simon Thibaudeau

Email: simon@thibaudeau.co

Network Engineer, Architect

• Fluency with terminology and technologies developed over 15 years working in this field.
• Driven by complex technical problems and finding solutions.
• Thrive in mentoring situations; love to learn new technologies and teach the knowledge to team members.
• Experience in designing, testing, implementing and supporting a vast array of network technologies.
• Extensive experience supporting large enterprise networks including LAN, WAN and Data Center networks.
• Articulates business and technical requirements adeptly.
• In depth knowledge of change management, automation and deployment processes and developing skills in policy-driven automation and *aaS skills.
• Active interest in Software Defined Networks, Network Virtualization and other abstracted management, control and forwarding plane technologies. Active interest in automation and modern operation paradigms
• Previously held Top Secret military clearances in Canada.
• Fluent in both English and French (written and spoken.)

   

Skills and Knowledge Areas

In depth knowledge of:

Education & Professional Development

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Computer Science, 1999; Université Laval, Québec, Québec

Arcsight ESM Administrator, 2011

Imperva WAF Administrator, 2011

TACLANE Administration, KIV-7HSB Administration, General Dynamics, 2008

CCNA, 2002

Professional Experience

Thibaudeau Consulting / Manitoba e-Health, July 2015 - present

POSITION: Technical Specialist, Design and Delivery

RESPONSIBILITIES: Design and document network and security solutions for Health Authorities of Manitoba. Supervise design implementations and provide support to the operational teams as needed.

Selected Projects

Digital Mammography, Mobile Network Connectivity:

• Provide costs estimates during project initiation
• Design and document connectivity solution for mobile units that perform mammographies all over the province, including some of the most northern communities
• Research connectivity solutions
• Build proof of concept test bed. Test and document results
• Initiate, track and supervise integration and migration activities

TECHNOLOGIES: Citrix Cloudbridge, Ku-Band Satellite

Cancer Care Manitoba Network Refresh:

• Provide costs estimates during project initiation
• Analysis of current network
• Design and document refresh of the whole CCMB network in 7 locations
• Design and document cabling requirements. Document Request for Quotes
• Initiate, track and supervise integration and migration activities

TECHNOLOGIES: Cisco Nexus 9372PX, Cisco Catalyst 4500-X, Cisco Catalyst 3750-X/3850, Checkpoint Firewall

MTS Allstream, September 2012 - July 2015

POSITION: Senior Technical Specialist, IT Network Team

RESPONSIBILITIES: Design, document and implement network and security solutions for the corporate network. Provide expertise and mentorship to network team.

Selected Projects

Geographically Diverse Datacenter:

• Design and deploy new datacenter for corporate requirements.
• Provide workload mobility to virtual machines
• Introduce private cloud concepts to the enterprise

TECHNOLOGIES: Cisco Nexus 7000, OTV, FCoE, VDC, Cisco GSS, Cisco ACE, LISP

Enterprise Quality of Service (QoS)

• Design, document and integrate enterprise-wide QoS.
• Design platform-specific QoS policy, document platform-specific templates.

TECHNOLOGIES: Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500 and 3750 switches. Cisco 7600 routers

Enterprise Multicast Deployment

• Design, document and integrate enterprise-wide multicast for MTS President roadshow.

TECHNOLOGIES: Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3850 and 3750. Cisco 7600 routers. Multicast, MSDP, PIM, IGMP

Enterprise Network Access Control

• Design, document and integrate enterprise-wide wireless EAP-TLS 802.1x, sponsor and guest portals.
• Design, document and integrate enterprise-wide wired 802.1x authentication.

TECHNOLOGIES: Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3850 and 3750. Cisco Identity Security Engine, EAP-TLS

Loto-Québec, September 2010 – August 2012

POSITION: Network Architect

RESPONSIBILITIES: Design, document and implement network and security solutions for the corporate network. Provide expertise and mentorship to the network team.

Selected Projects

Online Lottery/Gaming Sales Infrastructure

• Design and document an online sale of lottery and gaming products infrastructure.
• Integrate designed solution in development, acceptance test and production environments.

TECHNOLOGIES: Cisco Catalyst 6500, Cisco FWSM, Cisco ACE, Checkpoint Security Gateway, Imperva WAF, Radware DefensePro, Radware LinkProof, highly-available dual-site data center.

Migration of virtual server networking

• Design and document a solution for the migration of the VMWare hypervisors switching from the native vSwitch to Cisco Nexus 1000v switch.

TECHNOLOGIES: Cisco Nexus 1000v, Cisco Catalyst 3020, Cisco Catalyst 3120, VMWare ESX, VMWare vCenter.

Naval Engineering Test Establishment - Weir Canada, October 2005 – September 2010

POSITIONS: Network Specialist, Interim Team Lead

RESPONSIBILITIES: Project management. Design, develop and execute test and integration plans. Write investigation report, integration and support documentation. Provide subject matter expertise to the Canadian Navy.

Selected Projects

Design, integrate and support sub-surface ship satellite IP networks

• Design and integrate a solution of IP communication through satellite link in sub-surface ships.

TECHNOLOGIES: Microsoft Project, Viasat Mini-DAMA, TDMA proprietary technology, OSPF, Bulk and IP encryptors, Microsoft server technologies.

Design and integrate WAN optimizers for surface ships

• Evaluate available technologies.
• Design and integrate a solution of bandwidth optimization of the satellite links on surface ships.

TECHNOLOGIES : Microsoft Project, Riverbed Steelhead, Packeteer Packetshaper, WAN optimizers, protocol analyzers.

Participate in a multi-national trial to develop inter-operable technologies

• Design and integrate various technologies to existing Canadian technological baseline.
• Experiment with technologies in a live environment (at sea.)
• Plan inter-operability trials with participating nations.

TECHNOLOGIES: VMWare ESX Servers, iSCSI SAN, Riverbed Steelheads, Rockwell-Collins Subnet Relay, OSPF, BGP, Policy Based Routing.

Loto-Québec, May 2004 – September 2005

POSITION: Network Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES: Analyze and project requirements. Design and integrate various network solution. Support current network.

Selected Projects

Core and Distribution Network Update

• Migrate CatOS to IOS for collapsed core switches.
• Migrate ISL to 802.1q for entire environment. Eliminate VTP.

TECHNOLOGIES: Cisco Catalyst 6500, CatOS, IOS 12.x, 802.1q, HSRP

Internet-Facing Environment Redesign

• Design and integrate a new infrastructure to provide web services for the corporation.

TECHNOLOGIES: HP-Nortel/Cisco Bladeserver switches, Cisco Content Service Switch 11503, Cisco Catalyst 3750, 802.1q, VRRP. Checkpoint Firewall

Kaspia Inc., October 2003 – May 2004

POSITION: Security Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop IT security offer. Design common and typical security policies. Market positioning. Design pen-testing and risk analysis processes.

Above Sécurité, June 2002 – April 2003

POSITION: Security Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES: Integrate remote monitoring infrastructures. Analyze intrusion detection alert. Develop intrusion detection signatures. Analyze vulnerability. Forensic analysis.

LGS Group, an IBM Company, February 2002 - June 2002

POSITION: Security Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES: Analyze Firewall and operating systems logs for intrusion detection. Manage security policy. Provide support for security policy and remote-access system. Apply IBM ITCS 204 and ITCS 300 security policies. Manage Firewall and Tivoli Policy Director.

Génia Technologies / Telus Enterprise Solutions, July 2000 – January 2002

POSITION: Network Integration Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES: Design and integrate VoIP showcase. Integrate security and remote access architectures. Integrate various other network solutions.

References available upon request.