Daniel Lanctot
Arnprior,ON
Summary
Experienced Infrastructure Architect with a strong background in designing and delivering diverse infrastructure solutions. Skilled in strategic and tactical planning, possessing a decisive approach and analytical problem-solving abilities. Seeking a long-term position that offers room for advancement to further contribute expertise in optimizing infrastructure systems.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Infrastructure Architect
IRCC
03.2023 - Current
- Evaluate the enterprise's business/Information and Communication Technology (ICT) architecture, determine its consistency and integration with the organization's business/ICT strategies, assess the degree of its alignment with Treasury Board CIO Business Transformation Enablement Program (BTEP) and Federated Architecture Program (FAP), and recommend changes to the business/ICT architecture to improve its alignment with these external factors
- Identify future business/ICT requirements against the current enterprise architecture, perform gaps analyses, develop Requirements for Technology Architectures (RTA), and prepare migration strategies
- Assess the feasibility of migrating from the current state to the target business architecture and enabling technologies and identify the risks associated with migrating to the target business architecture and technologies and make recommendations for risk mitigation
- Identify business and technology trends that create opportunities for business improvement, advise on ICT trends and emerging technologies and the impact on the organization's and government ICT architectures and business strategies
- Produce an architectural evolution plan, recommend prioritization of architecture evolution initiatives, and develop and/or implement an architecture evolution plan
- Manage the development and implementation of an architectural improvement plan
- Coach, mentor and train the organization to perform any of the above
- Develop enterprise level software architectures using Siebel CRM, Adobe, Microsoft SQL Server, WebSphere MQ and Microsoft .NET technologies
- Develop enterprise level technology architectures including server planning and sizing
- Direct a group of application and technology architects to develop solutions that meet business and technology requirements; and provide related briefings and status reports to management.
IT Architect
Ottawa Fastener Supply
04.2022 - Current
- Provide support to existing infrastructure
- Create design and detailed build guides for new infrastructure focus on security and redundancy
- Build, manage and maintain physical and virtualization technologies: VMWare, Azure, M365, MS SQL, Windows deployment, Fortinet firewall, Cisco routing and switching, VoIP system, POS systems
- Avigilon surveillance infrastructure, NVR and 30 cameras for two sites.
IT Security Design Specialist - Level 3
SSC
05.2022 - 10.2022
- Provide Engineering support to existing as well as test new physical and virtual security platforms within GoC
- Contribute expert advice regarding the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), ITSG, NIAP, CCECG
- Creating high level designs and detailed build guides for hardware and virtual infrastructures
- Build, manage and maintain lab environment with use of physical and virtualization technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure) along with test tools to evaluate throughput and/or bandwidth for Disconnected, Intermittent, and Limited bandwidth environments.
Senior IT Security Design Specialist
DND
11.2017 - 02.2022
- Provide Engineering support existing as well as test new physical and virtual security platforms within DND/CAF such as Palo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet, VMWare, Hyper-V
- Contribute expert advice in regard to the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), ITSG, NIAP, CCECG
- Project consultant for creating the build guides or also known as the Configuration and Deployment of hardware and virtual for the Department of National Defence
- Test and evaluate vendor features for future deployment of new technologies DND/CAF for classified and deployed networks
- Build, manage and maintain lab environment with use of physical and virtualization technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure) along with test tools (Spirent, Ixia) to evaluate throughput and/or bandwidth for Disconnected, Intermittent, and Limited bandwidth environments.
Senior Systems Architect
Field Effect Software
06.2017 - 12.2017
- As a young and rapidly growing company Field Effect Software required a senior level expert to structure public and private cloud infrastructure using Office 365/Azure, VMware, Linux, and MS Windows to aid in development of software, as well as guide hardware appliance resell
- Tasks: Manage and maintain Juniper SRX 240/320 devices, site to site VPN's
- Manage and maintain Dell servers and switches
- Linux administration for CentOS and Ubuntu
- Dell Compellent and Synology storage
- Manage and maintain mix environment of Linux Bind DNS/DHCP with Windows DNS/DHCP for MAC's, Windows 10, Ubuntu clients
- Support disconnected network (Air Gaped) with no internet access as well as internet facing network, and data diode usage
- Managing and maintaining two infrastructures with Active Directory, Mail system (Exchange/O365, Azure)
- VMware 6 and 6.5, vCenter appliance, HA Clusters
- Microsoft WDS, SCCM 2012, WSUS, PXE
- Customized software deployments for customer hardware using Ubuntu preseed unattended, CentOS/RHEL Kickstart.
Technology Architect
Communications Research Centre Canada
12.2016 - 03.2017
- CRC having implemented and made operational Virtual Research Domains (VRDs) in at least two Cloud Service Providers (CSPs - AWS, Azure)
- The VRDs will be manageable working environments for the CRC researchers work on Spectrum Environment Awareness (SEA) utilizing big data analytics, which includes as a minimum-security controls and policies, user identity management, software and license management, and storage management
- Provide expertise to the IM/IT team on configuring Cloud services (e.g
- Firewall Web/URL filtering, Active Directory, identity management, storage management, HPC … etc.) as necessary
- Following ITSG 33 and 38 guidelines
- Conduct self-education on CSPs' offerings as directed by IM/IT team
- Provide technical advice and guidance to IM/IT team on Cloud computing issues as expertise and circumstances allow supporting VMWare 5.5/6/6.5, Hyper-V, Azure, AWS, GCS
- Document best practices, lessons learned, etc
- Provide written status updates to the IM/IT team
- Conduct other related activities to support the IT and Information Management teams.
Senior Network Analyst
House of Commons (HoC)
02.2016 - 11.2016
- Revitalization of converged service delivery infrastructure to all constituency offices
- The Constituency Communications Network (CCN) provides interconnection between the House of Commons Parliamentary Precinct Network (HoC PPN) and-currently-387 constituency offices across Canada
- Provisioning Cisco 800 ISR Series router and McAfee NGF 300 Series technology environments
- Coordinated multiple tasks and technical groups (other members on the IT team) at the same time providing business and technical architecture documentation for CCN project including usage policies, flowcharts and network diagrams to aid in business continuity planning, along with providing issue and change management, troubleshooting, supporting and implementing and configuring new devices
- Provide issue/change management and react quickly to incidents & troubleshooting/supporting this large enterprise network's issues on 800 devices (switches, servers and routers) with a team of 4, using monitoring and issue logging tools such as KIWI Syslog, Prime, ISE, Traverse in order to provide quick client support and maintain efficacy and stability of the IT infrastructure
- Provisioned Cisco switches to Cisco Nexus 7000 and 9000 technology from Avaya and Nortel
- Supported migration by working on remotely configuring switches
- Developed and wrote business and technical architecture documentation for migration to new cisco product, including usage policies, flowcharts and network diagrams to aid in business continuity planning as well as future deployments
- Troubleshoot, implement & configured firewalls (McAfee, Crossbeam) on this enterprise level network, setting up DMZ, IDS (Intrusion Detection) Web/URL filtering, creating and modifying flows, manage whitelists and blacklists as part of filtering to remove certain URLs and IPs from accessing the networks.
Security Operations Support Specialist
Shared Services Canada
09.2015 - 01.2016
- Installation, troubleshooting, upgrades, Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls, Bluecoat, Barracuda Web/URL filter, and VPN appliance, setting up DMZ, IDS (Intrusion Detection), creating and modifying flows, manage whitelists and blacklists
- Designed, implemented and administered Enterprise VMware virtualization solutions and infrastructures vCenter, HA Clusters, VDI/View
- Hardening, administering and tuning systems running on Windows and Linux servers and ensuring that all incidents and issues are resolved immediately
- Developed business and technical architecture documentation to help introduce new staff to complex firewall infrastructure including usage policies, flowcharts and network diagrams to aid in business continuity planning.
Senior Technology Architect
Airbus DS Communications
09.2014 - 08.2015
- Design, implementation, troubleshooting, testing and support of network infrastructure and virtualization solutions
- Design, development, implementation/deployment, testing and administration of Enterprise VMware virtualization solutions; vCenter, HA Clusters, VDI/View
- Hyper-V and AWS/Azure IaaS, SaaS applications (Perforce for code management, Confluence for document collaboration and JIRA for project and issue tracking) and PaaS (database and web server) components all utilizing MS server 2003/2008/2012
- Followed industry best practices in terms of securing the large enterprise corporate network
- This included designing, implementing, building, deploying and supporting corporate network infrastructure Cisco and HP switching, McAfee firewall management and monitoring - adding/removing rules, whitelisting/blacklisting, Web/URL filter, F5 BigIP load balance and VPN appliance setting up DMZ, IDS as well as anti-virus and malware management tools
- Supported over 600 devices (routers, servers, HVAC, switches) across the US and Europe, collaborating with clients to provide quick and efficient service and to coach them on recurring issues
- Support Linux (CentOS/RHEL), MS server 2003/2008/2012 software development in R&D LAB and productions environment using WDS, SCCM/SCOM/SCO 2007/2012, WSUS, PXE, Kickstart
- BES 5 and 10 upgrade to BES 12 using only secure blackberry devices no other device permitted
- Capacity planning for storage requirements, messaging, network benchmarking and monitoring solutions using Solarwinds NPM-NBA, Kiwi Syslog, Cisco Prime, Cisco ISE
- Designed, implemented and supported Cisco VoIP infrastructure
- Provided Clustered and non-clustered SQL server 2005/2008 database infrastructure installation, deployment, configuration and administration, along with data monitoring and management, which included tuning and troubleshooting it in order to maintain its performance
- Implemented Symantec Enterprise Vault 10/11
- Managed and maintained Backup Exec 2012 and perform various disaster-recovery procedures
- Automated tasks using multiple scripting languages bash, batch, PowerShell.
Senior Technology Architect
Manderley Turf Products Inc.
04.2013 - 08.2014
- Migrated onsite Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Lync to Office 365 Enterprise cloud (SaaS application) plan to reduce infrastructure costs
- Migrated, configured, managed and maintained hybrid AD DS onsite and Azure private and public cloud solution, DNS, DHCP on MS server 2008/2012
- During transition to Azure Cloud developed/built, tested, managed, deployed and supported VMWARE infrastructure- vSphere HA Cluster, Hyper-V virtualization solutions (IaaS, Saas) and data management of onsite NetSuite solutions
- Designed, implemented and managed advanced storage system administration NetApp, Synology
- Removed BES 10 to implemented Microsoft Intune supporting iOS, Android and windows
- Designed, implemented and supported TCP/IP based networks for 7 locations across Canada maintaining data security using encryption and authentication tools setting up firewalls, DMZ, IDS, Web/URL filtering
- Planned, developed, and managed all IT services, programs, and support throughout the organization, configuration and management of SQL 2000/2005/2008 server
- Developed, implemented, deployed, secured and tested virtual server and network infrastructures (multi-tier POS applications as IaaS and SaaS with IIS/Tomcat application server) running on Windows/Linux with Microsoft SQL/Oracle as DB back-end on VMware and Azure
- Provided internal IT support, hardening and tuning systems running of major Operating Systems MS Windows, Linux Redhat and CentOS
- Installed, configured, managed, and maintained windows desktop and server deployment using SCOM/SCCM/SCO 2007/2012, WSUS, Intune
- Hybrid configuration of VMWare and Azure
- Assisted senior management with the direction and facilitation of IT strategic and tactical planning
- Developed business and technical architecture documentation, processes and procedures to help network administrators with understanding the infrastructure including usage policies, flowcharts and network diagrams to aid in business continuity planning
- Researched, designed, and implemented the appropriate technologies to support and improve corporate communications, access to information, and end-user productivity as directed
- Liaised with vendors and service providers to ensure efficient and cost-effective acquisition of technology purchases; oversaw warranties and service agreements
- Capacity planning for storage requirements, messaging, network benchmarking (tuning) and monitoring solutions using Solarwinds NPM-NBA, Kiwi Syslog, Cisco Prime, Cisco ISE.
Technology Architect
Canadian Real Estate Association
11.2008 - 03.2013
- Provided Storage Area Network design, administration, tuning and implementation of CIFS, iSCSI LUN's, Replication manager, AWS, Azure platform, NetApp, EMC Celerra, and Synology
- Managed recoverability and availability of IT systems and developed, implemented and enhanced backup/recovery strategies and configurations for all IT platforms
- Managed, coordinated and assisted peers and other IT systems analysts by serving as a consultant with expertise in matters of IT system storage Service wide
- Designed and implemented as well as Supported a server 2003/2008 Web Farm environment using IIS6/7 web applications, SQL2005/2008 clustered and non-clustered, F5 BIG-IP, ACELive, Webmetrics, SharePoint
- Deployed, installed, configured, troubleshot and secured network infrastructure, multi-tier applications in a diverse environment with the following application servers (Websphere, Weblogic, and TomCat), running on different Operating Systems (Linux and Microsoft Windows), supported by different back-end Databases (Oracle, MsSQL, and MySQL)
- Deployed windows 7 desktop images using SMS 2003, successfully upgraded to SCCM 2007, WDS, WSUS
- Managed multiple domains, Exchange 2003/2010 and Active Directory 2003/2008, DHCP, SMTP, FTP
- Implemented, configured and managed monitoring and alerting tools, namely SCOM, Solarwinds NPM-NBA, Kiwi Syslog in order to alert of any potential small or large security threats or system failures
- BES installation and administration
- Management for around 100 devices at two sites Ottawa and Toronto, issue logging following standard process and change management using ServiceNow logging tool on the server, and troubleshoot Server Connectivity issues using monitoring tools such as SCOM, Solarwinds in order to maintain client IT infrastructure and good client service and support
- Complete infrastructure upgrade, implementation, configuration, support and troubleshooting from HP Procurve, Nortel Baystack to CISCO network access and core switches, with addition of Cisco Prime and Cisco ISE
- Developed/built, tested, implemented, deployed and administered Enterprise VMware virtualization solutions and virtual server infrastructures (vCenter/vSphere, ESX, HA Clusters, VDI/View), Hyper-V which included data management (Oracle database), SaaS, PaaS and IaaS components in order to virtualize the environment
- Provided Database design, administration including supporting, tuning MS SQL 2005/2008, MySQL v4/5 databases to ensure consistent performance
- Administered, hardened and tuned Linux apache web servers RHEL 4/5/6, CentOS 5/6 to maximize effective performance at all times
- Hardening systems running all major Operating Systems (Windows, Linux)
- Coordinated multiple tasks at the same time, supporting 24/7 environment with extended hours including weekends, with on-call rotation and urgent deadlines
- Maintained system and network security and managed, monitored and maintain multiple Cisco ASA firewalls, setting up DMZ and IDS (Intrusion Detection), Web/URL filter, Access control list (ACL's) and McAfee Antivirus software management and virus detection/monitoring
- Developed and wrote business and technical architecture documentation to help explain newly created infrastructure to upper management which including usage policies, flowcharts and network diagrams to aid in Business Continuity/Recovery plans
- Documented architecture and technical processes and procedures through the diagrams and flowcharts.
Education
Microsoft Technology Associate: Cloud Fundamentals -
Electronics Engineering Technology - Electronics And Computer Engineering Technology
Loyalist College
Skills
- Incident Management
- Stakeholder Communication
- Capacity Planning
- Cloud Architecture Design
- Performance Tuning
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Network Troubleshooting
- Database Administration
- IT Security Management
- Virtualization Technologies
- Integration planning
Language profile
Fluently Bilingual (English and French)
Certification
Microsoft Technology Associate: Cloud Fundamentals
MCP ID: 13159618
Additional Information
SECURITY PROFILE:
Level: Top Secret (Level III)
Expiry Date: 2027-04-05
Timeline
Senior Infrastructure Architect
IRCC
03.2023 - Current
IT Security Design Specialist - Level 3
SSC
05.2022 - 10.2022
IT Architect
Ottawa Fastener Supply
04.2022 - Current
Senior IT Security Design Specialist
DND
11.2017 - 02.2022
Senior Systems Architect
Field Effect Software
06.2017 - 12.2017
Technology Architect
Communications Research Centre Canada
12.2016 - 03.2017
Senior Network Analyst
House of Commons (HoC)
02.2016 - 11.2016
Security Operations Support Specialist
Shared Services Canada
09.2015 - 01.2016
Senior Technology Architect
Airbus DS Communications
09.2014 - 08.2015
Senior Technology Architect
Manderley Turf Products Inc.
04.2013 - 08.2014
Technology Architect
Canadian Real Estate Association
11.2008 - 03.2013
Microsoft Technology Associate: Cloud Fundamentals -
Electronics Engineering Technology - Electronics And Computer Engineering Technology
Loyalist College
Microsoft Technology Associate: Cloud Fundamentals
MCP ID: 13159618
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