Novell – Desclos Consulting

Experience with Novell

Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare.

Under the leadership of chief executive Ray Noorda, NetWare became the dominant form of personal computer networking during the second half of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. At its high point, NetWare had a 63 percent share of the market for network operating systems and by the early 1990s there were over half a million NetWare-based networks installed worldwide encompassing more than 50 million users. Novell technology contributed to the emergence of local area networks, which displaced the dominant mainframe computing model and changed computing worldwide. Novell was the second-largest maker of software for personal computers, trailing only Microsoft Corporation, and became instrumental in making Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development.

During the early to mid-1990s, Noorda attempted to compete directly with Microsoft by acquiring Digital Research, Unix System Laboratories, WordPerfect, and the Quattro Pro division of Borland. These moves did not work out, due to new technologies not fitting well with Novell’s existing user base or being too late to compete with equivalent Microsoft products.

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IT Operations Manager - [18 Months]

Management of the IT department providing day-to-day support for the company’s head office (1,200 workstations, 52 servers) with an annual budget of FF 60 million,
=> various migration projects, such as a messaging system to Lotus Notes, and network operating systems from Novell Netware to Windows NT.
Management of workstation and network support outsourcing operations, from defining requirements to managing the team itself (22 people) and monitoring performance in accordance with the SLAs also defined.
- Project Management,
  – Relocation of head office and data centre,
  – Architecture and implementation of a monitoring solution (CA)…
- Application Support (Oracle, Lotus Notes – 2 people)
  – Administration of business applications (6 Oracle, 1 SQL Anywhere),
  – Implementation of a Lotus Notes cluster, architecture and administration of applications.
- Day-to-day support
  – Definition of network strategy (management/organisation/redundancy of V-LANs, etc.),
  – Voice and data purchasing management.

Deployed technologies : Alcatel, Cisco, Compaq, Computer Associates, Digital, Lotus Notes, Novell, Sun, Windows, Xylan

Used languages : English, French

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Technical Director - [58 Months]

La Dédicace Informatique

- Supporting the company in its transformation from a simple equipment reseller to a VAR (Value-Added Service Company).
- Development of the technical department (from 4 to 47 people), to become one of the main multi-brand after-sales service centres (Compaq, IBM, HP, Cisco, etc.) in the Ile-de-France region, as well as a software support centre (Microsoft, Novell, Lotus, etc.),
- management of the internal IT system (14 servers).

Deployed technologies : 3com, Check Point, Cisco, Citrix, Compaq, HP, HP OpenView, IBM, Lotus Notes, Novell, OS/2, Sun, Windows

Used languages : English, French

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Network & System Engineer - [21 Months]

Ingénieur Système & Réseau

Deployed technologies : 3com, Cisco, Compaq, Dos, HP, HP OpenView, Lotus Notes, Novell, OS/2, Windows

Used languages : English, French

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Technical Manager - [33 Months]

Responsable Technique

Deployed technologies : 3com, Cisco, Compaq, Digital, Dos, HP, Kyocera, Novell, Windows

Used languages : English, French

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