Arnaud de Prelle

Current

Network Engineer at an international bank

Past

Telecommunication Consultant at Thomson
Consultant at Altran Europe
System & Network Administrator at Bureau des Etudiants de Polytechnique (BEP)

Master Thesis Student at IIHE
Internship at Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI)

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Education

Université libre de Bruxelles
Athénée Royal de Nivelles

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Industry

Telecommunications

Arnaud de Prelle’s Summary

See my professional experience below in my profile.

Arnaud de Prelle’s Specialties:

IPv4, IPv6, ATM networks and all related technologies

Arnaud de Prelle’s Experience

Network Engineer

an international bank

(Banking industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Managing the following technologies at an international bank: BGP, L2 SW, MC, FW, LB (L2 to L4), VPN, VoIP, DNS, MX, SNMP, IPv6, ...
Telecommunication Consultant

Thomson

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TMS; Telecommunications industry)

August 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 4 months)

System Integration & Testing Team leader for the France Telecom ADSL Triple Play Residential Gateways (Livebox 1 and Livebox 2).

Keywords (Area of action & knowledge):

ADSL, ATM, DSLAM (ASAM/ISAM), TCP/IP (Layer 1 to Layer 5), IPv4 & IPv6, Routing, Linux Embedded Systems, Linux and FreeBSD Servers, C Programmation, VPN's, Fixed-Mobile Convergence (UMA), VoIP (H323 and SIP), WiFi 802.11x, IP/ATM QoS.

Main tasks performed:

* Coordination and supervision of the validation team.

* Establishment of low-cost L2 tunnels between Paris (Thomson Boulogne) and Belgium (Thomson Edegem) allowing multi-VP/VC on multiple ADSL lines to be transported. Final goal was to provide a reliable mean of testing from a country where ADSL lines are not available.

* Deployment of local multi-VC triple-play setups simulating the Orange France network.

* Technical trips at client's site (London and Paris).
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Consultant

Altran Europe

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

August 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 4 months)

- Member of the TELAS Workgroup (Telecom, Electronics and Applied Sciences).

- Giving Technical support to customer offers through TELAS
- Giving Technical presentations (UMA) to others consultants.

- Helping managers to find new recruits.

- Giving triple play trainings to new recruits.
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System & Network Administrator

Bureau des Etudiants de Polytechnique (BEP)

(Computer Networking industry)

October 2003 — August 2006 (2 years 11 months)

Network System Administrator, Coordinator and Team Leader for the Bureau des Etudiants de Polytechnique (Student's Union Office).

Tasks performed:

- Deployment/installation/maintenance from scratch of FreeBSD and Linux AMP servers.

- Deployment of IPv6 connectivity at the BEP in relationship with the IIHE (Interuniversity Institute for High Energies).
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Master Thesis Student

IIHE

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)

See details below in Eductation
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Internship

Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

July 2003 — July 2003 (1 month)

Tasks performed:

- Development of automated tools to enhance the SGI database of contacts.

- Installation and setting up of an IRIX rack-server at UCB.
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Arnaud de Prelle’s Education

Université libre de Bruxelles

Master , Master degree in Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering , 2000 — 2006

Polytechnic School/Faculty of Applied Sciences

Thesis:
"Capture, Detection and Synchronisation of the IceCube Experiment datas."
The goal of the thesis was to capture raw datas coming from Neutrinos/Muons telescope and the analysis of the results in order to better understand the origin of the Universe.
Technical environment was: TCP/IP networking, Particle Physics, GPS, C/C++ development (System programmation and high-level applications), Embedded Systems, Real Time OS (MicroC/OS-II) and ROOT analysis framework.

Honours (Distinction)

Activities and Societies:

Member of the BEP IT task force since its starting, System and Network Admin of the BEPolytech.be server and its hosted services, founder of the ULB Thawte Certification Group, writer and owner of the www.oraux.be website which regroups plenty of exams passed by student of the polytechnic school, student representent at the Faculty Council.
Athénée Royal de Nivelles

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry 1994 — 2000

Additional Information

Arnaud de Prelle’s Interests:

Alpine skiing, ice-skating, roller-skating, tennis, Ducati motorbikes, news, telecommunications, ICT

Arnaud de Prelle’s Groups:

TELAS, BEP ASBL, Thawte Web Of Trust Notary, ULB Thawte Certification Group

FrenchWeb.fr - le groupe des professionnels du net francophone
Telecom Professionals
NZNOG
RIPE community
NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group
Network engineers with Cisco as speciality
Association des Ingénieurs sortis de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (AIrBr, ULB, Belgium) - Alumni
Ducatisti
THOMSON ALUMNI CLUB
networking-forum.com
IPv6
Living/working in Brussels
Les Amis de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles - The Friends of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Apple fans
Altran: Past, Present & Future
FRnOG
Ducati owners
IP / MPLS Traffic Engineering and Capacity Planning