Stephane Clavel

Leads projects solution architectures following governance , policies and standards from the Architectural Governance Board and the office of the CISO in order to define the projects high level and low-level designs. Meets business goals, through : requirements, dependencies and constraints analysis, cross-team collaboration, expert support and project technical supervision. In charge of workloads migration to cloud: Establishing migration strategy and architecture from legacy data centers to cloud: network connectivity in different environments (LAN, MAN, WAN) and data migration, leveraging Veeam B&R product and different network constructs. Supporting distributed, international Agile/Scrum teams, guiding engineers towards implementation and migration execution. Testing new products to migrate workloads without interruption, faster and with less human intervention. Technologies: VMware HCX, VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director. Develops container based more agile offerings. Discusses business requirements with stakeholders. Testing. Technologies: VMware Container Service Extension, VMware/Pivotal Container Services/PKS on top of DELL VxRail, Azure AKS, Kubernetes. Investigate and test solutions architecture patterns in Azure and AWS, deployment automation (Terraform) and Continuous Deployment (GitHub actions).

Technical leader of a cross-functional team built to select SITA cloud infrastructure provider. Technical leader in Engineering and Operations governance committees with the supplier. Established migration strategy and co-developed migration automation to move 2000 VMs without service downtime from former cloud platform to new one, leveraging VMware SDKs. Compute and network services migration from a VMware vCloud Director instance to another vCloud Director instance, before VMware HCX was released. Lead team of 3 people (including 2 in Canada) to execute migration. Delivered route-reflector and internet access network functions virtualization service, migrating from physical network devices to Cisco VNF. Leveraging Ansible framework and version control system to generate and control configurations as per Infrastructure as code (IaC) principles. Analyzed implications of technology evolution on product portfolio and recommended evolutions. Member of VMware partners Technology Advisory Board. VMware partnership principal contact. Technologies: DELL VxBlock, VMware vCloud Director, vSphere, NSX, Powershell, Ansible, Git, Cisco CSR1000V.

Engineering team technical lead in charge of cloud computing infrastructure delivering IaaS and platform services architecture on top of IaaS. Designed 3 secure multi-tenant cloud points of presence spread across the world (Americas, Asia, Europe), interconnected by carrier grade networks (MPLS and Internet). Developed additional platform services, leveraging Agile delivery methodology. Selected, designed and deployed: Backup and Restore technology. Low cost and scalable storage array system to host backup files. Analyzed implications of technology evolution on product portfolio and recommended evolutions. Chairman of the Engineering board, reporting to the management board. Technologies: Converged Infrastructure (VCE vBlock), VMware vSphere, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS, inner and inter data center networking (physical and NFV, Cisco, Fortigate, VMware Edge Gateway), storage (EMC vMAX, EMC Isilon), Veeam Backup and Restore.