Jobs and Experience

Information systems officer, cybersecurity expert

French National Gendarmerie information processing service (STIG)

Officer in charge of the operational cybersecurity group (GSOP) in the French national Gendarmerie datacenter.

Design and implementation of a recruitment process for cybersecurity positions.

Student officer

French National Gendarmerie Higher Education Center

Curriculum at the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) Cybersecurity Training Center to obtain the Cybersecurity Expert qualification.

6 month practical intership in a French public administration department.

ANSSI is the French national authority for cybersecurity and cyberdefense.

Information systems officier, cybersecurity specialist

French National Gendarmerie information processing service (STIG)

Head specialist of a cybersecurity team in the French national Gendarmerie datacenter.

Operations manager, Parking and road traffic (volunteering)

Meaux Airshow

Planning and operations manager for parking and road traffic during Marne 14-18 Centenary air shows and following Meaux Airshow events, with about thirty volunteers:

  • 2014 event: 3000 parking spots (20000 spectators)
  • 2016 event: 5500 parking spots (12000 spectators)
  • 2018 event: 8000 parking spots (25000 spectators)
  • 2020 event: canceled due to COVID-19
  • 2022 event: 5000 parking spots (32000 spectators)

Gendarmerie officer cadet

French National Gendarmerie Officers Academy (EOGN)

Full-time education to become a Gendarmerie commissioned officer, including physical fitness and mental toughness improvement, education to military command (tactics, leadership and management), internships in public security operational units

System engineer

Information Systems directorate, École Polytechnique

Design and administration of systems managed by the Systems team, serving 5000 users of the information system and hosted in the on-premise data center.

Hardware and software maintenance of the teaching IT stock (400 computers).

Junior engineer

Aubay

Network security R&D intern

French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

Final year intership on GridFTP protocol security and its filtering in Linux kernel.

Web and system development intern

Boken SARL

Software development intership in a research spin-off from Université of Orléans (France):

  • optimised OSSIM source code (stopped as requested by mentoring team);
  • developed a command-line interface installation wizard for PIGA-OS (custom Gentoo Hardened distribution for a French cybersecurity research project);
  • developed a small web content management system.

Network administration intern

Swiss Life

Intership in the Infrastructure Department of IT Directorate:

  • audited firewall rules and usage;
  • audited network security according to internal standards;
  • evaluated a cybersecurity awareness course for employees;
  • updated personal data files inventory for the DPO.

Education

Cybersecurity Expert title

ANSSI Cybersecurity Training Center

Curriculum in cryptology, system security (Windows, Linux), secure development, network security (routing, filtering...) and cybersecurity management (EBIOS, RGPD, security homologation) teached by the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI).

Engineer's degree (diplôme d’ingénieur) in Cybersecurity

École nationale supérieure d’ingénieurs de Bourges

Multidisciplinary education on cybersecurity and risk management:

  • core curriculum in “Computer Sciences and Security”;
  • in-depth study in “Mobility” (programming and optimization of portable devices and plateforms);
  • major in “Systems Administration and Security” (system and network security).
ENSI de Bourges merged with ENIVL on January 1st, 2014 to create INSA Centre Val de Loire.

Classes préparatoires aux Grandes écoles

Intensive years to enter French engineering schools throught national competitive exams.

French “Baccalauréat général” in sciences

Projects

“Asgard”

Dedicated server

Various experiments and services rationalization:

  • shared hosting and simplified management tools for my non-critical websites;
  • test platform when Internet connectivity is required;
  • point of convergence for all my network areas;
  • SMTP server for SPF / DKIM / DMARC aligned messages.

“Medusa”

Self hosted autonomous infrastructure

Virtualized infrastruction with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to secure and manager my private network and its services:

  • VMware vSphere ESXi hypervisor;
  • isolated architecture for wired and wireless networking (802.1Q VLAN);
  • IPv4 and IPv6 firewall;
  • DNS and DHCP servers;
  • SMB file sharing server;
  • SSH gateway to LAN.