SYLVAIN MARTINEZ

Email address:
martinez@encryptsolutions.com
bugs@bcrypt.com
sylvain.martinez@netcourrier.com

Date of birth: march 1975
Nationality: French
Status: Single
Languages: French mother tongue, fluent in English, notions of spanish


TECHNICAL SKILLS

HARDWARE SYSTEMS:
Sun Ultra Enterprise 4500, Sun Ultra Enterprise 4000, Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000, Sun Ultra Enterprise 450, 420, 250; Sun Ultra 10, 5, 2, Sun SPARCstation 10, Sun Multi Disk Pack, Baydel Storage Array, Shiva Terminal Severs; Bay 350T Ethernet HUB

STORAGE SYSTEMS:
Sun StorEdge A5000, StorageTek Robotic Tape Libraries, Quantum DLT Tape Drives

OPERATING SYSTEMS:
Sun Solaris 8/7/2.6, HP-UX, Linux, Windows NT, Novell

LANGUAGES:
C/C++, JAVA, Bourne Korn and C shells, Perl, Cobol, Fortran, Prolog, Lisp, DELPHI, VB

SOFTWARE:
Solstice Disk Suite 4.0, 4.1; Veritas Volume Manager; Veritas Netbackup; Checkpoint Firewall 1; Sun Jumpstart; Apache Webserver 1.3, Solstice, VNC, CITRIX Metaframe, Samba, XCOM, Sun RAID Manager 6.2.2, AutoSys 3.4.4, GNU C/C++ compilers, WU-FTP, NcFTP servers, Star and MS Office, COPS, TIGER, SATAN.

DATABASES:
Sybase 11

NETWORKING:

  • Mainly NT and UNIX network (Solaris, LINUX, HPUX)
  • Conflicts solution and Network configuration
  • Network administration
  • Network programming (Client/Server, protocols : TCP/IP, UDP, ...)
  • Ethernet, Token Ring

    PROTOCOLS:
    TCP/IP, POP, DNS, NFS, NIS, NIS+, FTP, HTML


    EXPERIENCE


    Sengen, Mt. Laurel, NJ (USA / Mar 2001 - Present)
    UNIX System Administrator

    Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (London, UK / 1999 - 2001)
    Unix Solaris Administrator

    While at Merrill Lynch my duties were split between project work and manning the UNIX support desk, which was rotated around the team on a daily basis.

  • Project Work:

    -Development, implementation and support of an extra FTP layer allowing automatic and secure FTP transfer. It has been done in C-shell/Perl script and was transferring critical financial data to company's worldwide offices. The main difficulties were to deal with all the different type of file transfer servers (XCOM, ftp on Unix and NT) and all the different file systems using SAMBA. The key words for this project were security, modularity, efficiency, reliability.

    -Development, implementation and support of an "intelligent" packages installer script in Perl. Checking packages on all the Unix servers against the software installed, version, hardware, operating system. Generating HTML, CSV and text file reports.

    -Optimisation of all the shell script generating the HTML files used by the Unix team to check the Unix network and servers configuration: disk space, network connection, network services, hardware/software listing, firewall/web server/ proxy status.

    -Find, evaluate, document and implement the possible replacement of Solstice used by the developers to access the Unix servers from their NT workstation. Evaluation of VNC, SAMBA, Citrix Metaframe.

  • General UNIX Administration Duties:

    -Setting up new user logins or deleting old users
    -Performing file restores
    -Adding additional disk space to systems if required
    -Adding new packages and patches
    -Providing support and consultation to Sybase DBAs
    -Provided support and consultation to Network Management Team
    -Resolving any problems with hardware, operating system and various third party applications under the management of the UNIX team
    -Installing any new Firewall policies that were required.

    Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (London, UK / 1998 - 1999)
    IT Security Administrator for the NT and UNIX (Solaris) network.

    -Access control management: setting the security policy, users access on files/servers, security risk evaluation on new projects, security support for other teams.

    -I wrote an application in Visual Basic to automate the Access Control Management (Adding, deleting, moving users, access on files/servers, algorithm to find UserID from part of a full name, etc). This saves up to a third of the time needed for each Access Control problem.

    -Remote access management: Managing the 'ACE' server from Security Dynamics, SHIVA. Setting and auditing the Firewall-1.

    -Penetration testing: Maintaining an up to date security database, testing security problems. This was done by a daily check on security web sites/mailing list.

    -Unix security report: Evaluating and checking the security level of the Unix company network.

    -WEB Security report: Evaluating and checking the security level of the WEB server used by the company.

    -Financial Information eXchange (FIX): This was my most important project as I had to evaluate the security risk of the whole project, work with all the different teams and third party involved and find a solution to all the security issues. This project was mainly about cryptography and PKI. As a result of my report, the designed of the project has been changed.

    ASI (Lyon, France / 1997, 1998)
    Network security consultant

    -Find information about network security
    -Make an automatic bank deduction program
    -Make a vocal courier service
    -Make a network activity monitoring robot (in C and shell script)


    EDUCATION


    1996 - 1998: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (University of TEESSIDE, UK)
    1997: DUETI informatique (equivalent to a computer science degree)
    1994 - 1996: DUT informatique (equivalent to an HND in computing specialised in network and programming)
    1994: Baccalaureat D with Computer Science option ( 'A level' equivalent specialising in Biology and Mathematics)


    ACADEMIC PROJECTS

  • BSc Project (1998):
    Create a cryptography algorithm.
    Implement my own cryptography algorithm in a Unix and Windows 95 application.
    Provide a very good graphical user interface.
    Find many enhancements for my application (Hide a message in a picture, copyright a picture, find a strong crypt's algorithm, use fractal function to crypt, etc).

  • BSc Placement (1997):
    Top Gun Karting (Hartlepool)
    Making an application to manage a real time car race on Windows 95
    Graphical User Interface, statistics, Graduation algorithm,
    communication with a radio system, etc
    Learning DELPHI.

  • DUT Placement (1996):
    Provider ASI (Access & Solutions Internet)
    Find and develop a solution to make secure financial exchange on the Internet.
    Find information about network security
    Hotline

  • DUT Project (1996):
    LINUX network's installation and administration (real case)
    in the aim of the knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, NFS and NIS, FTP ...


    CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

    List of recent courses/certifications:

    -Sun Solaris 7 Systems Administration I
    -Sun Solaris 7 Systems Administration II
    -Sun Solaris 2.7 TCP/IP
    -Sun Solaris 2.8 System Security
    -Integralis Firewall I Administration
    -Integralis Firewall I Advanced
    -Securing the Distributed Environment


    MISCELLANEOUS


  • Winner of the European individual computing competition (Artificial Intelligence) organised by EPITA: PROLOGIN 1996 where 4000 people participated and 100 finalists had to program during a 36 hours non-stop final. (see additional note)

  • My cryptography algorithm (BUGS) is referenced on the US NAVY WEB Site and I have designed a web site for this project: http://www.encryptsolutions.com