" Since 2008 in Canada, David has assumed the roles of System & Network Administrator, up to the position of IT Director, then TI-HPC (Ai) consultant. With more than fifteen years of experience in high availability hosting, David has specialized in the field of Data-center management & operations, Artificial intelligence (Ai) and high-performance computing (HPC). David is tech-savvy and cybersecurity-focused. "
Data-center : Site operations & infrastructure manager SOC2 Type II : Completion of SOC2 Type II certification for data-center infrastructure and operation side. Power management & design : Redundant power management, electrical power distribution, reporting, design for future expansions & sites. Monitoring solutions : Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Librenms, Nagios, custom scripting, load & temperature sensors + UPS & Generators and all data-center device monitoring, .. Network architecture : Network design for large scale infrastructure, Cisco fan, VLAN design, High DNS redundancy, network device provisioning automation, ..
Power & Cooling Management : Power & Cooling distribution for multipe MegaWatts facilities with redundant power distributions. H.A. Electrical Distribution : Medium & Low Voltages management (25kV / 480V / 208/120V), Automatic Transfer Switches, SwitchgSears, UPS and Generators manager H.A. Storage solutions : PureStorage®, WakeIO®, CEPH, ZFS, DRBD, GlusterFS/LizardFS, Shared network storages (SAN/NAS/iSCSI-LUN), Dell EMC, HP, JBOD & SAN daisy chaining + failover, you name it.. H.A. Site/Service solutions :Carrier load balancing/fail-over, High volume traffic load balancing, multi-site Telecom manager, Dark-fibers/ Replication / Disaster recovery sites ..
Nvidia® certified (DGX, Compute, Visualization, ...) Mellanox® certified (Infiniband® networks) HA networking (200Gb/s networking, stacking, clustering, network redundancy accross multiple sites...) HA storage solutions (PureStorage®, Dell EMC®, WakeIO®,DDN® appliances, ZFS, ...)
VmWare solutions (Vcenter, Vsan, ESXi, VDI, Horizon Enterprise, App Volume, ..) Proxmox VE (from 3.x to current) OpenStack (from Kilo to Pike) KVM Pve, Xen, VirtualBox, .. Multi-site Replication, Fail-over, Disaster Recovery, ..
Container solutions : Docker, OpenVZ, ProxmoxCT, AWS Cloud products, .. Deployment : Ansible, Ansible AWX, AWS tools, .. DevOps / Scripting : Bash, python, php, C, C++, C#, lua, ..
Physical access solutions : Access door control, ip camera recording, smart fire detection, infrastructure/environmental monitoring, .. Certification compliance : Security access certification compliance, physical and software security manager, CISO, ..