Robert St-Louis

Experience

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  Magma Communications

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  Unix systems administrator

  - Maintain various ISP platforms (Email, DNS, web hosting, LDAP, radius, NAS, etc). Tasks include system maintenance and patching as well as troubleshoot and resolve application or system problems.- Write perl scripts to automate long or repetitive tasks.- Provide third (and final) level of technical support for customer problems.

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  Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc.

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2011

  - Design, build and manage three VMware platforms from the ground up. These projects involved the setup and configuration of HP bladesystems, a pair of Netapp FAS3140s, a complex network design as well as the deployment of VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (later upgraded to vSphere 4.1).- Maintain firewall on a Juniper ISG-1000. Duties include system maintenance, adding and removing policies as well as troubleshooting network or access list issues.- Maintain SSL VPN on a Juniper SA-2000. Duties include system maintenance, adding and removing roles, policies, split-tunneling configurations as well as troubleshooting VPN access issues.- Serve as an escalation point for systems administrators on Primus’s various systems and platforms. عرض أقل

  • Systems Engineer

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2011

  • Senior Unix systems administrator

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2008
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  Halogen Software

  May 2011 - Aug 2017

  - Design, build and document Halogen’s storage platforms (block, nfs, object,replication and archiving)- Plan and execute storage migration from 7-mode to cDOT in order to makeany storage operation and migration non-disruptive.- Implementation of advanced storage performance monitoring using graphiteand grafana- Design and maintain Halogen’s Disaster Recovery Plan and the relevantdocumentation- Redesign Halogen’s Oracle backup solution from a single daily backup (20+hours / day, service impacting operation) to a 15 minute, zero-impact backup+ DR replication that is performed 6 times per day for a much lower RTO /RPO than was ever possible with the old system.- Design, build and document Halogen’s VMware platform, including vCenter,Hosts profiles (for compliance), Update Manager and vRealize OperationsManager.- Automated the deployment new ESXi servers via kickstart to speed updeployment and ensure compliance.- Provide training to the ops team (storage / VMware) on a regular basis.- Act as the final level of escalation for storage and VMware related issues.- Actively involved in the design and architecture of a Kubernetes POC عرض أقل

  • Storage and Virtualization Architect

    Dec 2013 - Aug 2017

  • SaaS Infrastructure / Storage Administrator

    May 2011 - Dec 2013
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  Kinaxis

  Aug 2017 - Sept 2021

  Storage Architect

  - Redesigned the SaaS storage architecture from scratch- Documented the solution and provided training and guidance to the SaaS team as required- Operationalized various storage related tasks.- Provided support to the team for storage related escalations

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  Micro Logic

  Sept 2021 - now

  Storage and Virtualization Architect

  Work on the architecture, design and implementation of storage and virtualization solutions for the "Projet Cirrus" Public cloud offering of Micro Logic