Jean-Sebastien Morisset

Past

• UNIX SysAdmin (Employee) at Videotron
• Senior UNIX SysAdmin (Employee) at Montreal Exchange
• UNIX and WiFi Integrator (Consultant) at Microcell Solutions Inc.

• Platform Architect (Consultant) at CDT Inc
• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Consultant) at NHC Communications Inc
• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Consultant) at NHC Communications Inc
• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Consultant) at Air Canada
• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Consultant) at Nurun
• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin / Platform Architect (Employee) at Normal Solutions
• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Employee) at Up2 Technologies
• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Employee) at Jazz Media Network
• UNIX SysAdmin (Employee) at Bell Canada
• UNIX SysAdmin (Employee) at Bell Canada
• Novell Netware SysAdmin (1995) at Camelot-Info Inc

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Jean-Sebastien Morisset’s Summary

Senior UNIX SysAdmin (Solaris, Linux) with 20 years experience and excellent knowledge of all types of large-scale production and e-commerce environments. I’m currently looking for an interesting and challenging mandate and working with a knowledgeable, dynamic team.

Jean-Sebastien Morisset’s Specialties:

All aspects of SUN Solaris and Linux System Administration and some AIX. I have many years experience with UNIX application integration, security and protocols, large-scale NFS and DNS architectures, monitoring and reporting tools such-as Net-SNMP, OpenNMS and Request Tracket (RT), quality script programming (Shell, Awk, Sed, Perl) for job automation, integration, CGIs, etc., strong technical skills and ability to quickly master new applications.

Jean-Sebastien Morisset’s Experience

• UNIX SysAdmin (Employee)

  Videotron

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2009 — July 2009 (4 months)

  Installed new Solaris 10 and AIX 6.1 servers using Jumpstart and NIM. Configured an x86 Jumpstart server with ZFS root and automated patches, user additions, homes, applications, etc. Created new AIX LPARs with HMCs and NIM server. Identified several SNMP features to improve monitoring.

• Senior UNIX SysAdmin (Employee)

  Montreal Exchange

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  March 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 7 months)

  General UNIX Admin tasks, including writing shell and perl scripts to automate tasks, monitor and generate reports. Provide integration and production support for Atos NSC, MIND, and SOLA trading applications. Install and configured SNMP clients on Solaris 2.6/7/8/10, Linux, and AIX to monitor hardware and OS. Created perl scripts for Net-SNMP to gather stats on specific processes, disk read/writes per volume, etc. Installed and configured OpenNMS to collect metrics from Solaris, Linux, and AIX servers, Cisco switches & routers and trading applications. Configured notification e-mails for traps received by SNMP clients. Installed and customized RT (Request Tracker) extensively for Operations use, including several layers of rights, global and queue specific scrips and templates, authorization / approval procedures, and a number of external maintenance scripts. Setup FTP hosts with master and slave servers using ProFTPd and a number of custom scripts.

• UNIX and WiFi Integrator (Consultant)

  Microcell Solutions Inc.

  (Telecommunications industry)

  December 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 4 months)

  Worked three contracts at Microcell; December 2003, February 2004 to March 2004, and September 2004 to March 2005. Integrate Colubris CN3000 and CN3200 WiFi access points / access controllers with Linux servers, Apache, FreeRadius / MySQL proxies and a FreeRadius / Oracle authentication server. Determine how best to configure the Access Points and FreeRadius servers to fulfill the business requirements. Define and implement MySQL database tables, code perl cgi scripts and configure FreeRadius. Support the development and staging web-based platforms provisioning the FreeRadius database. Coordinate and run ATP tests will participating carriers (Bell, Rogers, and Telus).

• Platform Architect (Consultant)

  CDT Inc

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2003 — November 2003 (3 months)

  Install, execute, analyze and interpret performance tests on existing production http-based applications and hardware. Define multi-phase architecture with support for load-balanced firewalls, web servers, database, etc. Implement phase 1: web servers load balanced via DNS, installed and configured switch with public and private VLANs, replaced database server with faster hardware.

• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Consultant)

  NHC Communications Inc

  (Telecommunications industry)

  February 2003 — March 2003 (2 months)

  Installed, configured, and documented Solaris 8 installation on two SUN Fire 880R. Disks were mirrored with Solstice Disk Suite (including hot spares), and the OS was hardened and secured according to Telco security requirements. Topcom, TMS, and Oracle 9i installations were also performed and documented. An Installation Instructions manual, Operations Guide and Configuration manuals were produced for each server. Support was also provided to the Development and QA teams.

• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Consultant)

  NHC Communications Inc

  (Telecommunications industry)

  September 2002 — December 2002 (4 months)

  Installed, configured, and documented Solaris 8 installation on SUN Fire 280R and 220Rs. Disks were mirrored with Solstice Disk Suite, and the OS was hardened and secured according to Telco security requirements. Topcom, TMS, and Oracle 9i installations were also performed and documented. A complete Installation Instructions manual and Operations Guide were delivered for each server. Support was also provided to the Development and QA teams.

• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Consultant)

  Air Canada

  (Public Company; ACE; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  April 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  A one year contract to installed, configure, maintain, and document a BroadVision 5.5 installation on a 4 tier architecture, consisting of load balanced iPlanet web servers, four BroadVision application servers, four BookSmart servers, and a clustered Oracle database server, all running on SUN hardware.
  
  Responsible for defining standard server configurations, including Solaris OS, disk allocation, 3rd party applications, users/groups, directory structure, etc. Approved and documented all changes to UNIX servers. Developed scripts and procedures to transfer files, start/stop and maintain applications (synchronize data, etc.). Reviewed UNIX security, firewall rules, and network design. Recommended many changes to improve security against DoS attacks, application security bugs, hackers, etc. Participated in architecture and application volume tests. Lead fail-over tests of network, server, and application components.

• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Consultant)

  Nurun

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  December 2000 — March 2001 (4 months)

  Installed a SUN Enterprise 450 with SUN DiskSuite, InterShop, and Sybase. Managed Legato Networker backup server with DLT-7000 jukebox. Installed iPlanet HTTP, LDAP, and Application Server on production and development servers. Implemented and troubleshot web stat applications and related scripts. Handled day-to-day UNIX Administrator duties.

• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin / Platform Architect (Employee)

  Normal Solutions

  (Internet industry)

  March 2000 — August 2000 (6 months)

  Setup documentation framework and define standard procedures. Standardize and upgrade all servers to common configurations. Propose solutions for highly available servers and network components. Final phase included multiple load balanced firewalls (using ArrowPoint CS-50), load balanced Web and Application servers (using ArrowPoint CS-800), monitoring and client access servers (ssh and sftp). Access to Internet services would be controlled by firewall rules, whereas internal security would be handled by ACLs on the CS-800. Back-end databases and transaction software would be hosted on two Sun Clusters. Sadly, Normal Solutions closed before this solution could be implemented.

• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Employee)

  Up2 Technologies

  (Internet industry)

  December 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 2 months)

  Lead installation and design of Highly Available network (firewalls, routers, switches, etc.). This included private and public DNS servers (with strict security policies), access servers, load balances web servers, application servers, and a SUN Cluster. Plan and configure and three-tiered server architecture for the InterShop e-commerce application: 1st tier - load balanced Apache HTTP servers with CGIs, 2nd tier - load balanced Application / Transaction Servers, 3rd tier - NFS and Sybase services on Sun Cluster. Develop a web-based system for documentation and procedures. Install and maintain a Sun Cluster composed of: 2x Sun Enterprise 450s with 2x StorEdge D1000s and 2x MultiPacks, RAID0+1 Disk Groups including Hot Spares, a Quorum device and Shared CCD, 3x Logical Hosts using NFS, Oracle and Sybase services

• Sr. UNIX SysAdmin (Employee)

  Jazz Media Network

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1998 — November 1998 (6 months)

  Upgrade production servers from Solaris 2.5.1 to Solaris 2.6. Install central monitoring server with automated e-mail, paging, etc. Participate in developing corporate security policy document. Investigate WAN <-> LAN (client) integration DNS issues and solutions. Update, maintain and document an elaborate DNS structure (5 domains, 25 sub-domains and 7 primary servers). Create Solaris 2.x installation guidelines for increased security, performance and robustness. Research and propose necessary solutions to maintain a secure and reliable production environment. Includes proposals for centralized backup servers with automated tape libraries, fail-over (HA) designs for production servers, automated equipment monitoring, security enhancements, etc.

• UNIX SysAdmin (Employee)

  Bell Canada

  (Public Company; BCE; Telecommunications industry)

  July 1997 — May 1998 (11 months)

  Prime UNIX Administrator for 30+ Solaris servers. Shared administration responsibilities for an additional 150+ SunOS, Solaris, and HP-UX servers. Install and configure new Sun SPARCstation, Ultra, and Enterprise servers. Implement anonymous FTP, Netscape secure/HTTP, and Netscape proxy servers (Access Control, Filters, and Routing) on multi-homed host (private/public segments). Develop Network Surveillance Center’s intranet site (Software configuration, authoring HTML and CGIs). Scripting of numerous administration and end-user utilities (Bourne Shell and Perl). Transfer system and procedures documentation to intranet server (custom Perl CGI). Researched and implement standard server security solutions (OS configuration and third-party utilities).

• UNIX SysAdmin (Employee)

  Bell Canada

  (Public Company; BCE; Telecommunications industry)

  December 1995 — June 1997 (1 year 7 months)

  Administer SCO UNIX v3.2r5.0.2 servers and Solaris 2.5 server with workstations in NFS / NIS domain. Implement disaster recovery features with real-time backup solution (4 min turn-around for complete production system replacement). Develop end-user and system tools (in Shell, Awk, Sed, Perl, etc). Prime support for DEV team and OPS groups. Interface with outside suppliers (Bell Sygma, BGNO, Stentor, Nortel, etc.) for operational apps. Develop and document administrative standards. Implement security solutions (tripwire, ssh, pgp, web) for section servers. Intranet HTTP server implementation, CGI programming, and HTML development. Compile and customize GNU applications (gcc, make, perl, bash, sh/text/bin/file utils, rcs, m4, autoconf, etc) and other standard UNIX tools (top, lsop, pgp, ssh, links, tripwire, w3c, XEmacs, etc). X-Window application support and configuration. Configure MMDF / Sendmail (mailing lists, automated job launch, multi-domain, etc).

• Novell Netware SysAdmin (1995)

  Camelot-Info Inc

  (Publishing industry)

  January 1993 — December 1995 (3 years )

  Administer three Novell Netware v3.12 servers in a Wide Area Network (WAN). Implement Windows for Workgroups (WFWG), AppleTalk and Windows-95 workstations with full File and Print services. Setup cc:Mail e-mail network under MS-Windows and Macintosh platforms with cc:Mail Routing across Wide Area Network (WAN). Installed an internet e-mail gateway to cc:Mail via UUCP, Lotus Organizer group scheduling via cc:Mail, Cheyenne Faxserve NLM Network FAX Services, and full Winsock Internet services under MS-Windows (ftp, telnet, Netscape, etc).