Severin Ferrand

Advising & Supporting Enterprise Customers on their journey to the Cloud. Through hearing and business discovery session, I am providing guidance to customers on how Google Cloud solutions could help them to grow their business, reduce their cost, limit their exposure to risk or launch new strategic initiatives to transform their businesses.

Covering full Google Cloud stack from GCP (Google Cloud Platform) to Google Workspace (Enterprise Gmail and collaboration solutions)

Industry Specialist : Insurance, Asset Managers, Retail Banking

Keywords: Google Cloud, GCP, GSuite, Google Workspaces, GWS, Compute, Cloud Functions, Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Storage, Database, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Data and Analytics, BigQuery, DataStudio, Looker, Multi-Cloud, Anthos, Apigee API Management, AI/ML, DialogFlow, Document AI, Networking, Interconnect, Identity and Security, Cloud Identity, IAM

Coaster positions itself as a place that offers new experiences by merging together Craft Beers and a Quality Food provided by seasoned Chefs in a social and friendly place in Tokyo, Shimokitazawa.

Our team consists of two seasoned chefs, a knowledgeable bartender, an offbeat engineer, a strong strategist and a type loving designer.

Together we had one ambition and one dream, to build a place that would be our own. Our mission is dedicated to spreading our love and interest for an incredible beverage, redefine the 'Apéro' like we affectionately call it in our beloved South of France, and create a community like us, diverse, from every horizons, extravagant and ordinary, humble and showy, bold and rational, in a place where everyone would be welcomed to enjoy and discover real beers from all over the world.

Keywords: Small Business, Entrepreneur, Craft Beer, Restaurant

Technology Specialist : Lead Developer & Cloud Solution Architect within AIG Japan, Enterprise Services Department.

My role is to identify, propose, deliver and support IT services for AIG Japan.

My first responsibility is Leading the Enterprise Services Bus & Service Oriented Architecture initiative. By delivering shared services, we aim at rationalizing the enterprise IT integration landscape, reducing the costs and delivery time of new projects and applications, and finally lowering the number of systems to operate and maintain.

My second responsibility is to support AIG Strategy towards the Public Cloud. Identifying applications or projects where the public Cloud provides a real advantage. Defining our best-practices and standards in alignment with AIG Global IT strategy. Designing & Implementing solution architectures based on Amazon Web Services. Risk Management, Security Management and Audit in liaise with the security experts in AIG.

My third responsibility as a Lead Developer is to maintain and support a set of business applications related to reporting, compliance, audit and business efficiency.

At last, I am aiming at becoming SME of Digital Marketing solutions and I am work jointly with business owners to deliver new platforms and capabilities to improve marketing business efficiency.

Keywords: SOA, ESB, IIB, WMB, ESQL, Java, WebServices, Akana, API, XML, Cloud, Amazon Web Services, AWS, CloudFormation, Troposphere, VPC, CloudWatch, Monitoring, Events, Splunk, Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, Filebeat, DevOps, Git, Security, Audit, Compliance, Certificate, PKI, Linux, RHEL, SOAP-UI, HP LoadRunner, HP UFT, HP ALM, Java, Oracle, Database, SQL, Reporting, BI, Reporting, Microsoft Reporting Services, Cognos, SharePoint, Python, ITIL, ServiceNow, Adobe Campaign, Adobe Experience Manager.

IT System Analyst within Technology Office of AXA Life Japan (AXA Group is one of the world’s largest insurer)

Working within a team in charge of maintenance and design of front office applications to support life insurance business.

My role as a System Analyst was to operate and manage the Salesforce.com CRM platform. I have participated to several IT projects involving front office applications and customer relationships applications.

My main Activities were:

• coordination with business groups for maintenance tasks and new projects
• business requirements analysis
• witting design documents
• writing system requirements
• managing resources, schedule, quality, communication, and vendors
• reviewing implementation
• test plan
• release process

Keywords: Salesforce.com, CRM

Once graduated, I chose to join a startup, partner of IBM, with the ambition to become the reference on IBM technologies. I worked mainly on the following activities:

• Trainee of IBM z Systems Mainframes (including z/OS operation)
• Implementation of IBM Tivoli Software on Automation and Tivoli Monitoring (Windows, Linux and z/OS)
• Audit & Consulting of Customers' monitoring & automation infrastructure
• Implementation of IBM Tivoli Asset Management and License Management products.
• Support company internal IT

Keywords: Monitoring, Automation, z Systems, z/OS, Software Asset Management

6 months internship at IBM Corporation. Within the z Systems sales department, working with a group intern to develop a virtual machine management front-end "z/VDM project" to the z/VM hypervisor. The project goal was to make accessible the configuration of z/VM virtual machines to anyone, through a modern graphical user interface.

Internship. Education and training to Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions and technologies. NetASQ appliances support. Contributing to IAM projects by using ITIM & ITDI software.

Part time internship at "Docteur Souris" Non-Profit Organization. Operation of "Docteur Souris" server platform (Windows Active Directory Clients & Servers). Support to end-users & continuous improvement.

Internship at ICADE-Arcoba. Installation of a system and network monitoring solution based on Nagios and Cacti software. End-user IT support and maintenance.