Daniel Lacroix

Daniel Lacroix is a Senior Systems Analyst with 15 years of experience in IT, specializing in designing, deploying, and supporting systems on a small to large scale while also managing teams of administrators and overseeing project planning.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, which equipped him with knowledge in human relations, staff management, project management, and project profitability and analysis.

Daniel excels in various areas including team management, project management, resource training, and incident management.

His technical expertise spans multiple operating systems such as Solaris, Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu), OpenBSD, and AIX.

In addition to his extensive operating system knowledge, he is skilled in languages like BASH, Ruby, and Python, as well as virtualization technologies including VMware, OracleVM/Xen, OpenVZ, LXC, and Solaris zones.

He is well-versed in cloud computing platforms such as PaaS, Azure, Cloud Foundry, Bosh, and Terraform, and proficient in a variety of web servers, mail servers, voice over IP systems, configuration management tools, databases, monitoring tools, and networking technologies and hardware.

Daniel's educational background includes studying Electrical Engineering Technologies (Telecommunications) at Limoilou College and Electrical Engineering at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieure.

He has held key positions at reputable organizations like Desjardins as a Solutions Architect, and has previous experience as a Consultant at Warp 6 Consulting Inc., Unix System Administrator at Hydro Québec, System Administrator at La Presse, Sr. Systems Analyst at Rogers Communications, Unix System Administrator & Team Lead at Sun Media Corporation (Canoe Inc.), Unix System Administrator at Voipra, and Intern / Tier 2 support at BroadSoft.