Olivier E.

Background

About Olivier E.

Product and Graphic designer turn to be a Mac Sysadmin. I’m based in Paris. With an unlikely background, I graduated in industrial design, and sliped on graphic design. My career evolves in parallel of graphic Desktop publishing birth, the rise of network Technologies – emails – Ethernet) and in a way … Apple Company. I first met Apple Computers back in the 80′s with an Apple //e in boarding school and still have my Apple //c from that time where I learned Basic. After my industrial design cursus, I begun working in a B2B Agency, went freelance, founded a desktop publishing studio Company then transformed it in a R&D Tech company based on an Ethernet “invention of mine”. I now work in an IT company and as IT freelancer to administer and deploy Mac centric Networks. 20 years practice on graphic software suites and 10 years on 3D modeling. 26 years on Mac Os including 21 years on Mac Os X and 10 years on Mac Os X Server- Installation, deployment, maintenance, updates and administration for Mac Os X centric networks with OpenSource or proprietary Solutions and scripting - Windows Servers:( AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO… FSMO )- Linux: Servers admin (LAMP) on Ubuntu, Debian.|( VMs, mutualised, dedicated )- pfSense My favorite graphic and product softwares are (mostly): Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, C4D, Catia. My favorite MacSysAdmin tools concerns light imaging and deployment such as munki, autopkg, MDS & many OpenSource ressources from the macadmins community and MDM tools such as Mosyle or inTune. I too publish some code on my github space. Either in Desktop publishing or Computers Management, if I have to do things more than once I’ll do all I can to automate it. I like scripting in Bash and begun python.( Do some Windows cmd or Powershell from time to time if needed ) In 2013-2014, I made SFOTT. Sixty Four On Thirty Two (SFOTT) is a script that automate with ease the creation of an Installer to get 64bit Mac Os X on "some" unsupported 32 bits Macs (note: it is based on Tiamo's work) quite a success with downloads. Lately I was the main IT Admin for the Saguez & Partners Agency from 2014 to 2022.(150+ devices, 3 hosts, 15 VMs ) I actively worked on the conception and IT infrastructure design of their New Building "La Manufacture 2" in 2015, it’s production launch and relocation in 2016 ( zero downtime) and then it’s daily administration until april 2022. Now proud to be an IT Engineer at Helsing. If I can’t do it (yet) I know I will