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Charles Kounakowitch

Network Engineer

Networking
Automation
LAN - WAN
Netdevops
NSX-T
35 years old
Driving License
Amherst (03031) United States (New Hampshire)
Employed Open to opportunities
Network Engineer with a growing range of industry experience looking to bring strong knowledge and a record of successful projects, migrations and automation to an expanding team

Network Engineer

Dassult Systèmes
Since 2022
  • LAN projects and refreshes, automation of config optimization and compliance.
    Cisco Catalyst 9000 series based
  • SD-WAN deployment - Fortinet solution
  • VMWare NSX-T full deployment - private cloud automated with VRA
  • NetDevOps, automation based on single source of truth (netbox) for multiple projects (WAN, LAN, DC)
  • Datacenter network deployment - Arista EVPN solution

Senior Audiovisual Engineer North America

Dassault Systèmes
September 2017 to 2022
Full-time
Waltham
United States - Massachusetts
  • Manage new meeting room deployments across the US and Canada
  • Manage AV projects for new office creation and office move (Bellevue WA, Long Beach CA, Milford CT and others)
  • Extension of the North American HQ in Waltham MA
  • Creation of a 500 seat Multi purpose room in the US headquarters Campus
  • New training center and Customer Briefing Center, video wall + 40 touchpanels for first class customer experience in the US Headquarters
  • New IT monitoring center in Montreal QC, videowall solution to help ensure business continuity in case of major IT disruptions
  • Update the WW AV meeting room standards
  • Automate provisioning and updates of devices and deploy monitoring solution

Audiovisual Engineer French HQ

Dassault Systèmes
September 2013 to September 2017
Full-time
Vélizy-Villacoublay
France
  • Opening of a new building in HQ : Creation of 60 meeting rooms, a multipurpose room and a new control room
    Project management from start of RFP to end-user training
  • Upgrade our 300 seats auditorium to new digital standards
    In charge of the RFP with multiple contractors
    Lead the integration of the new hardware (Fiber matrix switcher, 4K seamless switchers, digital mixer)
  • Create a control room that monitors the 3Dexperience platform
    Network based solution that displays data large format video wall
  • Manage meeting room creation & upgrades
  • Manage the creation of a large video wall used for realtime immersive applications
  • Support the VR room & AV setups

Virtual Reality Engineer

Dassault Systèmes
September 2011 to September 2013
Apprenticeship
Vélizy-Villacoublay
France
  • Upgrade immersive room (CAVE - Virtual reality center)
  • Upgrade network of CAVE to 10Gb per endpoint
  • Manage IT aspects of Paris 3D project
  • Manage IT aspects of DDay project
  • Create VR Room for Waltham (MA - US) campus
  • L2 VR support

Windows System Engineer

Dassault Systèmes
September 2010 to September 2011
Apprenticeship
Vélizy-Villacoublay
France
  • Design & write a dashboard that monitors Windows OS deployments on a globlal scale
  • Deploy the tool to all geos
  • L2 Windows support

Support technician

Dassault Systèmes
September 2009 to September 2010
Apprenticeship
Vélizy-Villacoublay
France
  • Create a dashboard that compiles data from incident management & finance tools. This helped finance decide how long we should keep IT assets
  • End user IT support

Support technician

Sitel
February 2009 to August 2009
Temporary Work
Troyes
France
  • Technical phone operator
  • Solve DSL related issues

IT Technician

Daniel Juvenelle
June 2005 to June 2008
Part-time
Bar sur Seine
France
  • Install & manage Active Directory
  • Setup central storage system
  • Implement new backup solution
  • Day to day IT support

Master's degree

Université de Versailles

2010 to September 2013
Computer Science
Network & System engineering

Professional Bachelor

IUT de Nice

2009 to 2010
Network & Telecommunication

Associate of Engineering

IUT de Troyes

2007 to 2009
Industrial automation and electrical engineering
Skills

Networking

  • VMware NSX-T
    Advanced
  • Cisco Catalyst
    Advanced
  • Cisco DNAC-C
    Advanced
  • Routing protocols
    Good
  • Fortinet SD-WAN
    Good
  • Python
    Good

Audiovisual & IT

  • Crestron Programming
    Good
  • System administration
    Good
  • AV architecture
    Expert
  • Powershell
    Good

Project Management

  • Communication
    Advanced
  • Managing tight deadlines
    Advanced
  • Team Work
    Expert
  • Negociation skills
    Intermediate
  • Problem solving
    Good

Virtual Reality

  • Manage VR events
    Good
  • Setup tracking system
    Advanced
  • Setup cluster or multipipe solutions
    Good
  • Problem solving
    Advanced

Certifications

  • Cisco CCNP Enterprise
    ENCOR + ENAUTO
  • Cisco DevNet Professional
    DEVCOR + ENAUTO
  • Vmware VCAP-NV
  • Avixa CTS-D
  • Avixa CTS-I
  • Home automation, combination of multiple solutions synchronized through a Crestron processor and a Home Assistant instance
  • Multiple homelab setups to tinker with various IT solution, used mainly for training, or home related tasks
  • Photography
  • Gallery / Museum
  • Self taught in most mechanic tasks
  • Trackdays
  • Autocross events