Laurent Faipot
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Kory Kessel
Laurent was the first manager at Scality, and I attribute my smooth transition and early success to his guidance, his patience, and to his understanding of the company's documentation landscape. In particular, Laurent very much impressed me with his strong and sustained effort to keep unnecessary distractions, side requests, etc. out of my path, which allowed me to focus on getting up-to-speed and completing my work, well and on time (perhaps my highest criteria for a manager). As my manager, Laurent showed true concern for my well-being, as it applied to my work and on a personal level as well (and this continues to be the case today, too, now well over a year since the re-organization that shifted Scality's Technical Publications group away from Laurent's oversight). All of that said, I find it dead-easy to recommend Laurent as a manager and colleague, and I would gladly work for and with him again in the future.
Vilho Raatikka
I became to know Laurent while I was working as a technical specialist in an integration project of Solid HSB, and Sun NHAS. Laurent lead the technical part of the project on Sun's side. From the first moment of our co-operation, he showed his strong technical knowledge, his high motivation, and commitment to our common goals. That, combined with his open and social personality, made working with him easy, and enjoyable. Laurent is energetic, ambitious and curious; a kind of a colleague who's good to have nearby.
Kory Kessel
Laurent was the first manager at Scality, and I attribute my smooth transition and early success to his guidance, his patience, and to his understanding of the company's documentation landscape. In particular, Laurent very much impressed me with his strong and sustained effort to keep unnecessary distractions, side requests, etc. out of my path, which allowed me to focus on getting up-to-speed and completing my work, well and on time (perhaps my highest criteria for a manager). As my manager, Laurent showed true concern for my well-being, as it applied to my work and on a personal level as well (and this continues to be the case today, too, now well over a year since the re-organization that shifted Scality's Technical Publications group away from Laurent's oversight). All of that said, I find it dead-easy to recommend Laurent as a manager and colleague, and I would gladly work for and with him again in the future.
Vilho Raatikka
I became to know Laurent while I was working as a technical specialist in an integration project of Solid HSB, and Sun NHAS. Laurent lead the technical part of the project on Sun's side. From the first moment of our co-operation, he showed his strong technical knowledge, his high motivation, and commitment to our common goals. That, combined with his open and social personality, made working with him easy, and enjoyable. Laurent is energetic, ambitious and curious; a kind of a colleague who's good to have nearby.
Kory Kessel
Laurent was the first manager at Scality, and I attribute my smooth transition and early success to his guidance, his patience, and to his understanding of the company's documentation landscape. In particular, Laurent very much impressed me with his strong and sustained effort to keep unnecessary distractions, side requests, etc. out of my path, which allowed me to focus on getting up-to-speed and completing my work, well and on time (perhaps my highest criteria for a manager). As my manager, Laurent showed true concern for my well-being, as it applied to my work and on a personal level as well (and this continues to be the case today, too, now well over a year since the re-organization that shifted Scality's Technical Publications group away from Laurent's oversight). All of that said, I find it dead-easy to recommend Laurent as a manager and colleague, and I would gladly work for and with him again in the future.
Vilho Raatikka
I became to know Laurent while I was working as a technical specialist in an integration project of Solid HSB, and Sun NHAS. Laurent lead the technical part of the project on Sun's side. From the first moment of our co-operation, he showed his strong technical knowledge, his high motivation, and commitment to our common goals. That, combined with his open and social personality, made working with him easy, and enjoyable. Laurent is energetic, ambitious and curious; a kind of a colleague who's good to have nearby.
Kory Kessel
Laurent was the first manager at Scality, and I attribute my smooth transition and early success to his guidance, his patience, and to his understanding of the company's documentation landscape. In particular, Laurent very much impressed me with his strong and sustained effort to keep unnecessary distractions, side requests, etc. out of my path, which allowed me to focus on getting up-to-speed and completing my work, well and on time (perhaps my highest criteria for a manager). As my manager, Laurent showed true concern for my well-being, as it applied to my work and on a personal level as well (and this continues to be the case today, too, now well over a year since the re-organization that shifted Scality's Technical Publications group away from Laurent's oversight). All of that said, I find it dead-easy to recommend Laurent as a manager and colleague, and I would gladly work for and with him again in the future.
Vilho Raatikka
I became to know Laurent while I was working as a technical specialist in an integration project of Solid HSB, and Sun NHAS. Laurent lead the technical part of the project on Sun's side. From the first moment of our co-operation, he showed his strong technical knowledge, his high motivation, and commitment to our common goals. That, combined with his open and social personality, made working with him easy, and enjoyable. Laurent is energetic, ambitious and curious; a kind of a colleague who's good to have nearby.
Credentials
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ITIL Foundation V2
-Nov, 2007- Nov, 2024
Experience
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OpenSynergy
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Germany
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Sr Software Engineer
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Jun 2022 - Present
OpenSynergy provides embedded software products for the next generation of vehicles. OpenSynergy provides embedded software products for the next generation of vehicles.
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Article 1
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France
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Civic and Social Organizations
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100 - 200 Employee
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Student Mentor (volunteer)
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Sep 2021 - Present
I provide support to a student in motivation, organization, internship search, interview preparation, etc. Have a look at https://article-1.eu/ or https://www.dema1n.org/ to contribute. I provide support to a student in motivation, organization, internship search, interview preparation, etc. Have a look at https://article-1.eu/ or https://www.dema1n.org/ to contribute.
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Kickmaker
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France
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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R&D Software Architect
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Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Took the lead on an on-going R&D project (Electrical Vehicle Charging Station), in late after many managers/architect turnovers. Secure remaining time through daily standups, quick decision making, team motivation. Put in place 2-week sprints with ambitious demos to reassure stakeholders on final project success. Contribute as software architect and developer. Mission completed! Took the lead on an on-going R&D project (Electrical Vehicle Charging Station), in late after many managers/architect turnovers. Secure remaining time through daily standups, quick decision making, team motivation. Put in place 2-week sprints with ambitious demos to reassure stakeholders on final project success. Contribute as software architect and developer. Mission completed!
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Actility
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France
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Partner Support Manager & Software Engineer (LoraWan gateways)
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Apr 2017 - May 2021
Member of the Product dept, responsible of the technical partnership with Lorawan Device and Base Station manufacturers, and active embedded software developer. Manager: - Base Station Ecosystem team (3 engineers), porting and integrating our Lorawan packet forwarder (LRR) on base stations (Cisco, Kerlink, Multitech, Tektelic, Ufispace): prioritization with presales and operations teams, porting on various hardware/firmware, support to Operations and Support team, etc. - Device Ecosystem team (2 engineers), developing an Inter-Operability Test platform allowing device makers to validate the compliance of their Lorawan devices with the ThingPark Wireless platform and also a MAC command generator (unit-test of each command): roadmap, team coordination. - Base Station Test development team (2 engineers), developing a test framework and test suites used to validate integration work and perform regression testing. Technical leader - software redesign to ease porting and integration on a wide range of base stations and Linux distros - technical improvements of the Lorawan packet forwarder integration : tools development, feature design, development and bug fixing. - organization of cross-team technical workshops and projects regarding productivity and quality improvements: "plug & play" base station installation, automated image building and testing, and a lot more. Show less
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Scality
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United States
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Sr Manager, Development (Software-defined storage)
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Nov 2014 - Mar 2017
Member of the Engineering team developing the RING, Software-Defined Storage (Object and Cloud) Initially Team manager In Engineering dept: - manager of Sustaining engineers (bug fixing), Openstack integration team (block-oriented and object-oriented storage) and Technical Writers (all product documentations) - responsible of new release delivery (content definition, quality tracking, documentation) Later on, member of the Global Support team: Escalation Management and Release Delivery - interface between support and engineering teams in order to categorize issuesand schedule fixing within next releases - manager of critical technical escalation, defining engineering action plans and involving resources from R&D, QA and Support engineers from the root cause analyse to hot-fix delivery. Improve significantly the efficiency of an urgent release delivery (from weeks to days, sometimes hours) - responsible for release delivery: control of all process and quality indicators and final inspection of deliverables - communication to Support and Pre-sales: technical alerts, release & hox-fix availability - collaboration with Support team to design and animate an internal technical knowledge database Show less
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VMware
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr R&D Manager (Android virtualization)
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Apr 2012 - Nov 2014
Horizon Mobile Virtualization Platform: dual-persona solution for "Bring Your Own Device" on Android devices This product requires adaptations (Linux kernel, Android framework) into images pre-installed on Android devices released to mobile carriers or retail stores In this context, I'm responsible of technical partnership with Android device manufacturers: - Fujitsu - HTC - LGE - Motorola - Samsung - Sharp - Sony - and more Major tasks: - roadmap alignment with manufacturers (new devices, upgrade of devices, dependency on new Android release) - support during integration of required adaptations by manufacturer R&D teams (management of a dedicated team) - "VMware-Ready" certification: process definition, tests, delivery of certificates - tracking and follow-up of issues reported by manufacturers and mobile carriers (customized images) during their internal acceptance process - interface between manufacturer and VMware R&D teams. In addition, in order to prepare support to carriers/customers: - definition of internal support process with VMware Global Support Service: internal training, escalation process definition. - training/support to mobile carriers before the commercial launch: Softbank Japan, Verizon Wireless US (management of a dedicated team) Show less
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Technical Development Manager (Hardware fault detection)
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Jan 2010 - Apr 2012
Contribution to new service definitions (offer, content, pre-sales) in order to increase our portfolio.Management of the technical development related to these services:- development of a non-intrusive remote event monitoring platform based on an appliance installed on the customer's site and a central infrastructure processing received events (using knowledge databases for filtering or addition of technical information).- investigation of technical solution for new services, management of pilot deals: Hardware/firmware inventory (server, disk storage, network equipment), Impact analysis before component upgrade (based on manufacturer's compatibility matrix), Hardware and Software End-Of-Life management, etc. Show less
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Sun Solution Manager
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Jan 2009 - Dec 2009
As a member of the Competence Center, the activities are multiple and are mostly:- assisting support teams in customer's problems resolution,- leading prototyping involving Sun platform,- supporting architects from the engineering to the commercial proposal during complex pre-sales- contributing in developing innovative services in order to increase ECS' continuity offer- and more
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Sun Microsystems
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Pre-sales/Integration Engineer (Telco hardware and software ecosystem)
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Jun 2006 - Dec 2008
Support to EMEA and APAC OEM sales team in charge of the Telco market (NEP, integrator):. product presentation to customers or during events. contribution to technical proposals. prototyping, proof-of-concept. support to customers during the evaluation phaseSet-up of partnership for the Sun Telco offer:. contact with 3rd party providers (hardware and software). integration/testing of 3rd party products. technical supportMain partners and customers:- Ericsson- Lucent- Alcatel- Huawei- ZTE- NTT- Siemens- Operax- and moreSupported platforms:- Netra HA Suite: http://www.sun.com/software/netrahasuite- Netra servers: http://www.sun.com/servers/index.jsp?cat=Sun%20Netra%20Carrier%20Grade%20Systems&tab=3- Netra CT900 (ATCA chassis) and Netra CP3010, CP3020, CP3060 (ATCA blades): http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/ct900 Show less
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Technical Leader (Carrier-grade high-availability extensions on Solaris and Linux)
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May 2001 - Dec 2008
Netra High Availability Suite provides a reliable and scalable platform which can be easily and rapidly embedded by OEMs and system integrators into their platforms and integrated with their applications to provide highly available solutions.The product provides:- fast failure detection (about 150 ms)- fast failover (NFS filesystems available in less than 3s)- redundant network (CGTP: Carrier Grade Transport Protocol)- reliable NFS- reliable DHCP (support of diskless nodes in a HA environment)- APIs in order to develop HA-aware applications.- some SAF-compliant APIsProduct available on Solaris (Sparc and x86) and Linux (WindRiver, Montavista)In parallel, contribution to the OpenSAF open-source project: porting from Linux to Solaris of the SAF-compliant productNetra HA Suite: http://www.sun.com/software/netrahasuite Show less
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Technical leader
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Jul 2000 - May 2001
gcc/gdb development for ChorusOS. Red-Hat as a sub-contractor: responsible of the contract follow-up. acting manager (3 engineers). first level of support/maintenance (fix/work-around till theRed-hat official fix)
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Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)
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United States
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Automotive
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100 - 200 Employee
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Project Leader & Architect (RTOS virtualization and BSP)
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Sep 1998 - Jul 2000
Project manager, architect and developer (Chorus OS). various commercial and technical proposals for and with Sun.. Team manager (5 engineers). Virtualization of ChorusOS on Solaris: - the design of a pseudo Ethernet driver simulating an Ethernet network, - the development of the flat memory simulator over the Solaris virtual memory - the bootstrap of the ChorusOS simulator as a Unix process.See the technical architecture on the Sun site https://www.linkedin.com/redir/general-malware-page?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs%2esun%2ecom%2Fapp%2Fdocs%2Fdoc%2F806-4654%2F6jdnhtvsc. Porting of ChorusOS on MIPS including driver developments: Ethernet controler, Flash Card, keyboard and mouse. Show less
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Project leader (Network Management)
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Jun 1997 - Sep 1998
Network Management: project leader for KPN Telecom Netherlands (formerly PTT Telecom). commercial and technical proposal for a PABX management system (remote configuration and maintenance) based on DEC TeMIP. overall specification. team management (15 engineers). contract/customer follow-up. audit of other sub-contractors acting as a customer's representative
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System Architect
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Apr 1993 - Jun 1997
Unix and VMS system architect and system engineer. design and implementation of a portable and highly-available environment for both VMS and UNIX platforms (middleware for communication in an heterogeneous environment, distributed monitoring of machines and applications).. support of severals projects using this environment. participation to different projects for the supervision of hydro-electrical power plant - EDF: Electricite de France - SIG: Service Industriel de Geneve (Switzerland).. installation and maintenance on site Show less
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System Engineer
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Mar 1990 - Apr 1993
DEC VMS technical expert: development and support. Technical expert (150 developers)... Main contact with Digital expertise center... Development of drivers, middleware for communication for mission-critical applications (nuclear power plant).
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Syseca
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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System engineer (DBMS development)
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Jul 1982 - Mar 1990
Data Base Management System: development and support . Responsible of the VAX/VMS version of the product. . Development (database mirroring, I/O cache) and support (installation, hot-line and support on site). . Development of a database query graphical interface on Windows. Data Base Management System: development and support . Responsible of the VAX/VMS version of the product. . Development (database mirroring, I/O cache) and support (installation, hot-line and support on site). . Development of a database query graphical interface on Windows.
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Education
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1996 - 1999
CUEFA Saint Martin-d'Hères
DEST (equivalent to 4-year university degree) -
1980 - 1982
IUT2 Grenoble
DUT Informatique
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