Curriculum Vitae for Thierry Coutelier
Contact Information:
7, Rue des Pres
L-5316 Contern
Luxembourg
Phone: +352 4xxx76 (Home)
+352 710 xx5 xx8 (Office)
+352 6x1 3xxxx7 (GSM)
E-mail:Thierry.Coutelier (at) linux.lu
http://www.coutelier.net
Personal Information:
- Born: 9th of November 1968 in Algrange (France)
- Nationality: Luxembourgish
- Gender: Male
- Marital status: Married, 7 Children
Studies:
- 1980 to 1984: Lycee Technique du Centre
- 1984 to 1985: Lycee Technique des Arts et Metiers
Electro Installation
- 1985 to 1987: Lycee Technique du Centre
Electronics (CATP)
- 1987 to 1989: Lycee Technique des Arts et Metiers
Electro technician
- 1989 to 1992: Institut Superieur de Technologie
Information technologies
Work experience:
- 1993 to 1999 "Entreprise des Postes et Telecommunications".
- Development of the Internet platform for the company
This includes: Services, Dial-up access system, Backbone,
LAN, Customer solutions, WEB, Mail, News, DNS
RIPE contact, security, ADSL and resource management.
- Other special projects requiring programming and/or
networking knowledge (GSM,ISDN,VideoTex).
- Since October 1999 "SES-ASTRA".
- Developement of High Speed Internet over Satellite (Gen2 platform)
This includes: Complete solution using VPN with
Radius authentication, QOS, Traffic accounting,
TCP/IP optimisation in Linux Kernel, User Management system,
PPTP and L2TP tunnels.
- Networkign design for the Gen2 platform
Routing switching configurations for Multicast
Security of the platform.
- Linux support for developers.
- Java programming for signal measurement and alarm generation.
- Technical Project manager for the Satellite Distribution Network
- Project Manager for the CRM
- C++ software for the MLNB
- Technical project manager of the C-MLNB
Last Position: Senior Software Engineer - Research and Development.
Knowledge:
Languages: (written and spoken) French, English, German and Luxembourgish,
Programming Languages: C, C++, Perl, Java (applications, applets)
Pascal, Clipper, Basic, Datatrieve, HTML, PHP, Python
Operating Systems: UNIX (Solaris, Linux, BSD, SCO, AIX), VAX/VMS, CISCO-IOS,
MS-DOS, Windows (3,x, 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP)
Satellite and RF: DVB-B, DVB-S2 and good knowledge of RF signals in general.
Excellent knowledge of GNU/Linux and TCP/IP stacks in all aspects.
Diplomas:
- CATP in Electronics
- Electro Technician
- Ingénieur-Technicien en Informatique Appliquée
(Information technologies)
Trainings:
- CISCO:
- Basic and advanced
- Advanced BGP configuration
- LAN Switch configuration
- SUN:
- Solaris administration and advanced administration
- Solaris Networking
- SUN Security
- Advanced Java programming
- Microsoft:
- NT administration and advanced administration
- 3COM:
- SES:
- Valtech Training:
Courses given:
- For Linuxdays
- 2002, 2003 and 2007: Linux Basics (5hrs)
- 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008: Linux Andavced Networking (5hrs)
- For LiLux (1 or 2hrs)
- OpenOffice
- QOS, bandwidth limitation and iptables
- Sendmail
- vi
- The dangers of Software Patents
- Wien surft mat dier um Internet
Part time occupations during school time:
- 1984 Arnold Kontz (Bycycle selling)
- 1985 Big Bamboo (Electricity)
- 1986 Loschetter Radio/TV repairs
- 1987 to 1992 Dupont de Nemours.
Summer and winter vacations.
Special Projects in IT.
- 1990 Banque Generale de Luxembourg.
Office work.
Personal Projects:
- 1994 Creation and Management of the Prophecy MUD (written in C)
http://www.prophecy.lu
- 1995 Installation of the public sever sendar.prophecy.lu
This is a Linux server with over 200 UNIX accounts
and supporting all possible services (www,
virtual domains,mail, mailing lists, servlets,
MySQL databases, Usenet news, uucp, dhcp,
samba, nfs, ftp, IRC server and more).
http://www.prophecy.lu
- 1998 Creation of a Linux User Group in Luxembourgi.
President of the group.
http://www.linux.lu
- 2008 Vice Secretary of the Harmonie Moutfort Medigen
- 2010 Member of Dei Greng Contern
Hobbies:
Free Software
Music: Oboe and Clarinet ( Harmonie Moutfort Medigen)
Photograhy
Jogging, Reading, Programming, Electronics, new technologies.