Independant IT Contractor
Paris Area, France
Independant IT Contractor
Paris Area, France
I am an IT consultant specialized in messaging systems with 10+ years experience. Exchange is my core skill but I have similar experience in other Microsoft products and system/infrastructure design. I have worked on numerous projects across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. These projects have covered situations as various as implementation, migration, downsizing, etc… I am fluent in French and English and speak some Spanish and German. During these projects I have managed consultants and employees on-site and on remote sites. Most of the environments I have worked on are high availability or politically sensitive environments, this has taught me to be very cautious and thorough in my work. My messaging experience has involved some very innovative technologies such as automated mail archival, snapshot backups, cross site database replication, blackberry wireless email, Quest Migration Manager, SAN, etc…
I am currently looking into all contract possibilities. I am free immediately. I currently live in Paris but I am globally mobile!
Please feel free to contact me at +33 6 03 83 11 26 or via email at vorgueil@yahoo.com for more details.
Vincent Orgueil
Exchange 2007, 2003, 2000, 5.5, Active Directory, KVS, Enterprise Vault, Migration, Upgrade, Quest, BlackBerry BES
(Public Company; GLE; Banking industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Societe Generale (www.socgen.com) Messaging Migration Manager for non-French banks (Exchange and Lotus Notes), 70,000 mailboxes
- I am in charge of the messaging migration for all BHFM affiliates (from Notes and/or Exchange to the centralized Hermes Exchange 2007 solution)
- This is a client facing role with budget, planning and team management.
- This role involves extensive travel.
(Real Estate industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
“Buy-to-Let” company specialized in purchasing and renting small flats in the Paris area (owner and main investor).
(Financial Services industry)
November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
- startup company -
Médic AvéA specializes in financial advice for doctors and medical personnel.
Médic AvéA helps doctors and medical staff prepare for thier retirement by investing in realestate.
(Public Company; RIMM; Wireless industry)
March 2009 — August 2009 (6 months)
Part of RIM's new PS divison. My role is to audit, design and implement RIM solutions across EMEA.
This role also involves some pre-sales work across EMEA
(Public Company; GLE; Banking industry)
November 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Societe Generale (www.socgen.com) Exchange Architect & Exchange Migration Manager (Hermes Project)
- I am in charge of the technical and project aspects of the Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007 migration for 45000 mailboxes
- My secondary task is to work on the migration from all other mail systems to Exchange 2007 (aprox 50000 mailboxes...).
- Migration impact validation on other systems (EMC Email Extender, Blackberry, ActiveSync, etc…)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 6 months)
Alcatel-Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com) Exchange Architect & Delivery Manager, based in Paris
- Validation of the deliverables for the Exchange 2003 environment in a multi-site high security environment with >60,000 users on 4 data-centers (XP12000 SAN, Multi-node clusters, etc…)
- Coordination between the Microsoft Team and the Alcatel team
- Validation of the different migration scenarios, responsible for the migration of the old Exchange to new Exchange environment
- Coordination between the different team members
- Push-mail infrastructure implementation and validation
- Worked on the outsourcing of the Exchange helpdesk and support desk to low cost countries
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)
January 2006 — June 2006 (6 months)
AD & Exchange Migration Consultant, based in Paris France
- Design of the AD 2003 & Exchange 2003 infrastructure for 1500 users. Current environemnt is based on W2K with a highly independant structure. The new environment pushes the different sites to work together
- Migration documentation
- Environment documentation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IFX; Semiconductors industry)
August 2005 — January 2006 (6 months)
Exchange Consolidation Consultant, based in Klagenfurt Austria
- Design of the Exchange 2003 infrastructure for 45000 users where the main goal was to pass from a decentralized to a centralized architecture. The current goal is to reduce the number of servers to 12 servers (aprox 4000 users per server, replicated SAN, DRP)
- Design of the EV for Exchange solution for the EMEA users
- Study of the WSUS solution to manage patch deployment on 150 servers worldwide
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — July 2005 (7 months)
Veritas / KVS (www.veritas.com) Enterprise Vault implementation specialist (solution design and implementation):
- AXA Investment Managers (www.axa-im.com), 2600 users, EV for Exchange
- OECD (www.oecd.org) 2400 users, 5Tb FSA data, EV for Exchange & EV File System
- Conseil Regional PACA, 1200 users, EV for Exchange
- CDC, 7600 Users, 5Tb FSA data, EV for Exchange & EV File System
- Eurocopter (www.eurocopter.com), 10000 users, EV for Exchange
- FujiFilm France, 600 users, EV for Exchange
- Compagnie Financiere Edmond de Rothschild, 600 users, EV for Exchange, 1Tb FSA data on Centerra device
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)
November 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 3 months)
TotalFinaElf (www.totalfinaelf.com) Based in Paris and Pau Windows 2000 remote site rollout specialist
- Part of a four person team, my task was to rollout the standard Windows 2000 / Windows XP environment on all servers and workstations of the Exploration and Exploitation division in the >50 remote production sites (Kuwait, Yemen, Qatar, Dubai, China, Iran, Lybia, Oman, etc
). I am primarily responsible for the middle east zone with some overlap on other zones.
- This rollout concerns roughly 17000 PCs and 1500 servers. The key complication in this rollout is the remoteness of the sites (middle of the desert, off-shore, jungle, etc
)
- This position involves extensive travel
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Broadcast Media industry)
December 2001 — October 2002 (11 months)
Group Vivendi Universal (www.vivendiuniversal.com) Based in Paris – Messaging Specialist, worldwide headquarters
- Direct user base of aprox 6000, overall user base of >100,000 users
- Discovery and Documentation of the messaging environment across multiple sites
- Messaging migration from 4 different Exchange orgs to one Exchange org
- Messaging migration from 1 Netscape environment to Exchange, including client migration methodology
- Consolidation of different localizations into one Exchange site to allow easy user moves between servers across the world (Paris, London, New York, LA, etc…)
- Service Level Agreement documentation creation for all applications
- First Blackberry implementation in France (part of SFR test bed, 80 live devices)
- Blackberry server in NY servicing 50 blackberry devices
- Trans-Atlantic Netapp SAN replication for the Exchange databases
- Mail management and mail archival system via KVS Enterprise Vault
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
April 2001 — November 2001 (8 months)
Galderma (Nestle/Loreal Joint Venture):
- Messaging migration from mixed MSMail + Notes environment to Exchange (2000 users). My job for this project is to study the feasibility, to test and to implement.
- Messaging architecture simplification project: Galderma currently has 6 SMTP gateways and 27 Exchange servers to cover 50 offices, the goal is to reduce this to 3 public folder servers, 3 hub servers and 3 mailbox servers worldwide (3 servers per telco hub). My job for this project is to study the feasibility, cost up the project, to test and to implement.
- Windows 2000 backbone implementation according to group standards. Simplification of DNS and IP management (central DHCP servers, etc
). This backbone is used for shared services (Exchange, DNS, DHCP, Anti-Virus, Proxy, etc)
- day to day top level support of the NT and Exchange environment for local IT issues on all Galderma sites (20 MSX sites, 5 servers average / site) (solo on Exchange, part of a three person team on NT)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 2000 — April 2001 (9 months)
Broadnet (www.broadnet.net) (Comcast Group) (Pan-European Wireless local loop provider) Brussels
- Messaging migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange 5.5 (400 users, Qmail SMTP gateway). Migration complete, I managed a team of 4 (3 helpdesk in Brussels, 1 admin in Frankfurt)
- Exchange design and implementation for 1000 users (pan-european span, centralized architecture in Brussels), my position on this is technical project manager (staff of 1 in Germany, and 1 helpdesk)
- Windows 2000 day to day admin, AD, deployment, etc. My position for this task is technical, some design but the general AD structure was already in place. Work on group policies and software deployment via AD.
- Windows 2000 Terminal Server deployment (migration from Windows 2000 to a W2K terminal server environment), my position is pure project management (non-technical)
I managed a team of 6 consultants in London and 4 helpdesk staff in Brussels
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Consumer Services industry)
February 2000 — August 2000 (7 months)
Accor Group (www.accor.fr) (1st hotel operator worldwide, 130000 employees)
Systems Administrator for the Corporate Services division (1,4 billion euros, 350 people), managing a team of 4 in house staff and 3 full time consultants
- Internetworking via frame relay the 11 different sites in France (MAC & PC)
- Implementing a helpdesk environment to support the 350 users spread throughout France
- Standardizing the whole IT environment (naming conventions, hardware purchasing strategies, standardized setups, automated procedures, system documentation, etc)
- Planning and testing the Windows 2000 rollout plan (mono-domain migration)
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)
October 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 5 months)
WABCO Westinghouse (www.wabco-auto.com) International Project Manager (Groupware, Security)
Worldwide Groupware Administrator (3500 users on 24 sites worldwide), team of 4 full time consultants
- Migration of legacy MSMail system to MS Exchange 5.5 (48 MS Mail post offices to 15 Exchange sites)
- Installation of a worldwide least cost faxing system (20000 faxes in & out /day worldwide)
- Designing a complete web & mail monitoring system against fraudulent use (MimeSweeper Content filtering solution)
- Installation of a centralized anti-virus tool (database, workstation, server, groupware,
) in ten languages with automatic client and server update and feedback.
Oenology, Long distance running, trail, squash, tennis
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