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Lionel GABISON

Lionel GABISON

IT Infrastructure Director & Datacenter Expert

Driving License
Miami Beach (33140) United States (Florida)
Employed Available
10 y in C/C++ programming
15 y in Datacenter operations and Telecom
2 y in Cloud computing
Agile, pragmatic, problems solving, decisions making, team player are words that qualify me well.
Resume created on DoYouBuzz
  • Datacenter Market Analysis, selection & contract negotiation for IKOULA.
  • Deployment and Management of Cloud infrastructure, teaming with remote system and network engineers.
  • Business development of High-Performance Hybrid Hosting Cloud Solution : Cloud IKOULA One.
Company Description
US representative for IKOULA: French Web hosting & Cloud company
  • Management of the Colocation Business (zColo), Integration with Zayo Group (Salesforce), Change Management, process adaptation, training and support for the Datacenter Managers.
  • 9 sites in France total of 30.000 sqf
  • Business development of the Colocation.
  • Management and integration of the 3 subsidiaries (Centrinuity, MIT & NeoClyde)
  • Building of 3 datacenters: Design, implementation of the systems and infrastructures, budgets definition, specifications, vendors’ interviews, equipment selection, Management of the construction projects.
  • Design of a carrier grade cabling systems.
  • Maintenance Plan Definition, Management of the contracts.
  • In addition to the below:
    Building and leading a Delivery Team (Mentoring of 4 Project Managers).
  • Management of 7000 sqf in EquinIX, urbanization of Rack space, 1rst Cold Corridor deployment in this facility in 2006.
  • Technical Specifications and design for a 2000 sqf high density suite: 100 Racks from 4 to 10kW teaming with the engineers.
    Maintain accurate documentation of the systems (Wiki pages).
  • Management of the Network Operation Center (5 technicians)
  • Management of additional 5000 sqf private suites in Global-Switch, bespoke colocation for Business Objects /SAP and Groupama.
  • International IP Backbone Network deployment (Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfort, New York, Ashburn, Chicago, Los Angeles, Palo Alto). Management of 3 Network Engineers.
  • Internal IT Management.
  • Management of a 3rd party 5000sqf colocation in Redbus/Telecity facilitiy. Review of the monthly invoicing, datafloor plan drawing and maintain of the customer installation documentation, capacity planning and reporting.
  • Support to the Sales Team and Customer Service Delivery. Monitoring of the quality of service and trouble shooting.
  • Guidelines and delivery & operation procedures redaction. Procurement, negotiation and contractor’s management.
  • Management of hundred Internet servers (system, network and databases) in high availability 24x7.
  • Management of a multi-disciplinary team of 10 engineers and technicians.
  • Y2K Consultant: Systems & software upgrades, Redaction of the “How to” Intranet pages in French and in English dedicated to the foreign subsidiary.
  • Development of Banking & Insurance GUI Client/Server Applications.
    Analysis, Programmation, Test & Project Management.