Expertise

Curriculum Vitae

Profile

A professional with a solid track record in successfully delivering strategical and state-of-the-art business solutions to help companies get the best benefits.

Passionate about both Technology and Business, my profile stands right in the middle of these two opposite worlds.

Achievements

Achieved the highest conversion rates of the Arcserve EMEA Pre-Sales team in the European HQ in Barcelona, for Data Protection, Replication and DR solutions.
Data Protection Subject Matter Expert at the Fortis bank headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, during the M&A with the BNP Paribas group.
Leadership of a Digital Transformation project that involved the development of a customized medical management platform (3000+ clinics network across Spain, Portugal and Italy), linked to SAP ERP.

Work Experience

PARTNER & CTO

(Freelance)

Secure.Digitale.advent.

(Since 2020-09)

Montreal, Canada (remote)

Cybersecurity Training, Staffing and Services

Interacted with chambers of commerce and lawyers for the creation of a new branch in Europe.
Created the SDA-Academy training web portal, allowing course registrations and online payments in Canada.
Crafted and published Cybersecurity tutorials on Youtube.
Automated deployment of online classrooms in MS-Azure and AWS (infra as code).
Delivered Cybersecurity training (ThinkCyber training introduction module).
Managed training event registrations, prep-webinars, follow-ups and post-training surveys.
Translated ThinkCyber Cybersecurity training manuals, from English to French and Spanish.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION CONSULTANT

(Freelance)

ConsulCat

(Since 2020-04)

Barcelona, Spain

Digital Transformation Consulting

Helping schools improve online teaching.
DevOps Automation using Terraform on Azure, AWS & GCP

PMO CONSULTANT ASSOCIATE

(Freelance)

PMOfficers Consulting

(2019-11 to 2021-02)

Barcelona, Spain

PMO Consulting firm

Adapted PMO-CP (certified professionals) training material for LMS learning platforms

SENIOR PRESALES CONSULTANT – EMEA

Arcserve

(2016-04 to 2019-07)

Barcelona, Spain

Global US based provider of enterprise level data protection

Achieved the highest conversion rates of the EMEA pre-sales team in the European headquarters in Barcelona.
Deployed OnPrem server Backups & Replications to Cloud POCs to test DRP scenarios within tight schedules.
Trained strategic Partners/Sales teams in EMEA and APAC

DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Strands

(2015-04 to 2016-04)

Barcelona, Spain

AI-based personal finance management (PFM) solutions provider for banks around the globe

Hired initially as a Project Manager, but was quickly promoted to a stronger role to help the COO organize the work of the various DevOps Project Managers.
Oversaw the delivery of Waterfall and Agile projects within signed budgets for multiple accounts, through allocation of frontend, backend, mobile, QA, DBA, and support resources.

TECHNICAL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

(Freelance)

BNP Paribas

(2013-09 to 2015-03)

Paris, France

Biggest bank in Europe, HQ in Paris, France

Led a team of 20 people (architects and administrators), hand in hand with the IBM Service Manager to secure the 8PB of data and maintain operations at optimal levels.
Manage operations for more than 3000 servers in production (IBM AIX, Solaris, Windows, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V, etc.).
Databases (Oracle, SQL, PostGRE), SAN, IBM GPFS 1PB cluster storage, VTL and tape libraries.

iOS/SIRI LOCALIZATION

(Freelance)

Locteam

(2011-05 to 2013-09)

Barcelona, Spain

Apple’s Mac & iOS language service provider (language localization for iOS Siri)

Managed Siri QA testing for French Canadian FR_CA language localization on various iOS releases.

IT DIRECTOR - EUROPE

Asistencia Dental Europea

(2008-05 to 2010-11)

Barcelona, Spain

Leading dental services management company serving insurance companies in Europe with a network of 3,000 dental clinics.

Transformed the IT department, from a small back-office and support center, into a key and strategic one for the company.

Education

Digital Transformation Expert

2020

laSalle University

Barcelona, Spain

Master of Business Administration

2004-2005

EADA

Barcelona, Spain

Programmer Analyst Degree

1988-1993

Delta College

Montreal, Canada

Certifications

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

(Preparing)

(ISC)²

The CISSP is one of the most (if not the most) recognized Cybersecurity Certification in the World

This Certification covers the following 8 domains:

Security and Risk Management
Asset Security
Security Architecture and Engineering
Communication and Network Security
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Security Assessment and Testing
Security Operations
Software Development Security

Cybersecurity - Network Research - NS106

2020

ThinkCyber

The NS106 course has been renamed to NX201

Module 1: Introduction to Linux

Virtualization
Introduction to Virtualization
About Linux Distro
Installing Linux
Working with VMware
Bridged vs NAT networks
Working with Linux
Linux Directories
Linux Users
Packages
File Manipulation Commands
Text and File Manipulation Technics
Writing Linux Scripts

Module 2: Networking

Protocols and Services
TCP/IP and OSI Model
Network Routing Basics
DNS
DHCP
ARP
Remote Connection Protocols
Wireshark – Diving into Packets
Non-Secure and Secure Packets
Filtering and Parsing
Extracting Objects

Module 3: Intro to Network Forensics

Network Analysis
Network Miner
Advanced Wireshark
OS-Fingerprinting
Detecting Suspicious Traffic
Filter Packets from Live Network
Filter Packets from PCAP file
Traffic Statistics
File-Carving
Parsing Traffic Logs

Module 4: Cyber Security

Cyber Security Vectors
Anti-Viruses
DoS and DDoS
CNC Servers and Botnets
Steganography
Network Attacks
Scanning Methods
MiTM
ARP Poisining
DHCP Starvation
LLMNR Attack
Offline Password Brute-Force
Working with Responder
Cyber Attack Practice
Payloads: Reverse vs Bind

Expertise

Curriculum Vitae