Youssef Largou

Profile:
· Highly proficient infrastructure and system architect with eight years of experience.
· Decisive, action-oriented and result-focused professional on project management.
· Seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning; execution, monitoring and resource balancing
skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects.
· Leadership and management to the Information Services IT Architecture Systems department including
staffing management, budget development and control, project development and oversight, and strategic and
business planning
· Leader of Morocco WebSphere User Group (Leader of the year WW 2008 and best performance group
WW 2008) http://www.websphere.org/websphere/Site?page=ug...
· Beacon Award Finalist for Outstanding Virtualization and Consolidation Solution 2010 (first IBM
XIV reference MENA)
· Regular speaker for IBM Innovation Centre Casablanca Morocco
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Skills:
· Cloud Computing
· Virtualization and consolidation
· WebSphere architect
· WebSphere, Tivoli and AIX instructor
· Animate Proof of technology for IBM (ITCAM for WebSphere, Process Server ,XD, ITCAM for RTT,…)
· Project Management in complex environments
· Multi-platforms team coordination
· WebSphere Portal, version 5.0 to 6.1
· WebSphere Application Server, version 4 to 7
· WebSphere Extended Deployment 5.1 to 6.1
· IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere 6.1 / RTT
· IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1
· AIX version 4.3 to 6.1
· HACMP version 4.3 to HACMP 6.1 (PowerHA)
· TSM version 5.1 to 6.1
· WebSphere MQ version 5.3 to 7
· Mercery Load Runner, OpenSTA, Jmeter, Tivoli Performance Viewer,Rational Performance Tester
· High availability, disaster recovery plan
· System Architect (SAN, DS4000, DS5000, DS8000, ,XIV,ProtectTier,…)

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IT Certifications
· IBM Certified Database Associate DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family
· IBM eServer Certified Specialist -- p5 and pSeries Technical Sales Support
· IBM Certified Specialist -- IBM System p Solution Sales V5.3
· IBM Certified Administrator Websphere MQ 5.3
· IBM Certified Administrator Websphere Application Server Network Deployment V7
· IBM Certified Administrator Websphere Application Server Network Deployment V6
· IBM Certified Administrator Websphere Application Server Multiplatform V5.0
IBM Certified Administrator Websphere Portal Multiplatform 6.0
· IBM Certified Administrator Websphere Portal Multiplatform 5.1
· IBM Certificate of Proficiency for AIX 5L Performance and System Tuning
· IBM Certificate of Proficiency for AIX 5L Problem Determination Tool and Techniques
· IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert - pSeries and AIX 5L
· IBM Certificate of Proficiency for AIX 5L Installation, Backup and System Recovery
· IBM eserver Certified Specialist pSeries AIX 5.1 System Administration
· IBM eserver Certified Specialist pSeries AIX 5.1 System Support
· IBM eserver Certified Specialist pSeries AIX System 5.3 Administration and support
· IBM Certificate of Proficiency for Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2
· IBM Certified OnDemand Designer V2
· IBM Certified SSM Signature Selling Method
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Publications:
· Author of “Benchmarking WebSphere Application Server 6.1 using Tivoli Composite Application
Manager for WebSphere 6.1 and Rational Performance Tester 7” published in websphere.org
· Author of “Websphere Application Server 6.1 on Solaris/SPRAC : virtualization mechanism and best
practices” published in websphere.org
· Author of “Running WebSphere Application Server 7 with PowerVM Live Partition Mobility: Case
study on AIX Version 6.1/Linux RedHat and POWER6 systems” published in websphere.org
· Beacon Award Finalist for Outstanding Virtualization and Consolidation Solution 2010