Curriculum Vitae

Name: MARTINEZ Sylvain

Email:
martinez@asi.fr
sylvain.martinez@encryptsolutions.com
bugs@bcrypt.com
Sylvain.Martinez@netcourrier.com (Personal)
Sylvain_Martinez@ml.com (Work)

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


COMPUTER SKILLS
 

Hardware:
Peripherals installation, Computer assembly, Computer repair
Operating Systems:
Windows 95, Windows NT, Novell, Unix, Linux
Programming languages:
Turbo Pascal, C, C++, JAVA, Cobol, SQL, Fortran, Prolog, Lisp, DELPHI, Visual Basic, Visual C++
Software Packages:
Windows 3.1, Deluxe Paint, EXCEL, WORD, ACCESS, TRAMIS
Network Acquaintance:
- Mainly NT and UNIX network (LINUX, HPUX, etc)
- Conflicts solution and Network configuration
- Network administration
- Network programming (Client/Server, protocols : TCP/IP, UDP, ...)
Security:
- IT Security Administrator for an important financial group in London (UK).
- Passion for cryptology that drove me to make my own crypt's algorithm and find information about the legislation of cryptology.
- Network security (theory and practical)
Methodology :
Merise, Z



EMPLOYEMENT RECORD


1999, 2000: MERRILL LYNCH Investment Managers (London, UK)
Unix Solaris Administrator.
- Unix system administration: package, patches, filesystem, network load, user administration,etc
- Unix network administration: DNS, NIS, NFS, SAMBA, FTP
- Unix support
- Development of an extra FTP layer allowing automatic and secure FTP transfer
- Shell and perl script developpement, HTML web pages for unix report.
- Use of Autosys, netbackup, jumpstart, FIREWALL-I
- Training course: FIREWALL-I (Administration and Advanced), Solaris 7.0 Administration (Part I and II), TCP/IP Networking

1998, 1999: Mercury Asset Management / MERRILL LYNCH (London, UK)
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 15 minutes 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.
- 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.

1997, 1998 : Network security consultant for a French Internet Provider (ASI)

1997 :

Waiter in an English restaurant. 01/07/96 - 31/08/96 : Internet Provider ASI (Access & Solutions Internet)
- 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)
1994: Baccalaureat D with Computer Science option ( 'A level' equivalent specialising in Biology and Mathematics)



ACHIEVEMENT

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).

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 2.

  • 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

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




MISCELLANEOUS