Ludovic Eschard

Current

• Network security engineer at Orange Labs (France Telecom)

Past

• Wireless LAN security engineer intern at Orange Labs (France Telecom)
• Telecom engineer intern at SFR
• Web-application developer intern at Anyware Technologies

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Education

• ENSEEIHT - National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
• Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de Montréal
• Preparatory classes

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Connections

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

• http://ludovic.eschard.info

Ludovic Eschard’s Experience

• Network security engineer

  Orange Labs (France Telecom)

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Specifications, expertise and audits related to the network security aspects of Orange / France Telecom group products and solutions.
  
  I work, in the same time, on UMTS, LTE and IMS security.

• Wireless LAN security engineer intern

  Orange Labs (France Telecom)

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2009 — September 2009 (6 months)

  Research on Wireless IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) solutions designed to monitor and manage wireless vulnerabilities on companies Wi-Fi LANs. My work was focused to the opportunities of development of new business solutions.
  
  I have carried out technical & market research, feasibility study, deployment in and evaluation of some leading WIPS solutions.

• Telecom engineer intern

  SFR

  (Privately Held; SFR; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

  Conception of an application processing the audit of the ATM links of the 3G mobile telephony transmission network in order to improve QoS at SFR (French mobile operator, subsidiary of Vodafone).
  
  Mis-configuration in network equipment might occur when deployment or evolution is made. My mission was to study the new issues implied by a recent evolution in configuration templates and then to develop an easy-to-maintain application to automatically track mis-configured equipments on the network (2+ million customers in the South West divison).
  
  During this first experience in a telco, I learned about issues like large-scale deployment, long-term evolution and network production environment.

• Web-application developer intern

  Anyware Technologies

  (Public Company; SWIR; Wireless industry)

  July 2007 — July 2007 (1 month)

  Note : Anyware Technologies has been bought by Sierra Wireless and is now integrated in it.
  
  I took part in the development of an issue tracking and resource management web-application. I learned how to efficiently and rigorously develop on web MVC architecture with a database abstraction layer.
  
  During my first professional experience in this former start-up, I had the opportunity to discover the very dynamic work environment of small companies in innovative IT technologies.

Ludovic Eschard’s Education

• ENSEEIHT - National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse

  Master's Degree (French Engineer's Degree) , Networks, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications , 2006 — 2009

  ENSEEIHT is the leading engineering school of National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INP Toulouse).

  Activities and Societies:

  President of the oenologist group, Member of the Student's Office, Player in the roller-hockey team

• Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de Montréal

  Exchange semester in a north-american context : courses picked from B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs , IT & network security, Computer networking, Distributed systems, Mobile IT , 2008 — 2008

  - GPA : 3.7 (out of 4)
  
  - École Polytechnique de Montréal is the engineering school affiliated to Université de Montréal (UdeM).
  
  http://www.polymtl.ca/en/

• Preparatory classes

  Mathematics, Physics, Technology 2004 — 2006

  These two years of intensive study in general scientific fields as Mathematics, Physics and Technology aim at giving a strong theoretical and scientific background before entering the National Engineering Schools while preparing their entrance competitive examinations.
  
  More details about French specific Higher Education system :
  http://www.fulbright-france.org/htm/page.php?id=40

Additional Information

Ludovic Eschard’s Websites:

• http://ludovic.eschard.info

Ludovic Eschard’s Groups:

•    Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
•    Orange Connection
•    ENSEEIHT Alumni - Ain7

Ludovic Eschard’s Honors:

- TOEIC English test : scored 910 out of 990 (General professional proficiency)

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