CONTACT DETAILS
Mr KALFANE Réza
Date of birth: 22/07/1976
Nationality: French (Indian origin)
Work permit: EU Citizen, G Swiss permit
Address:
23, rue du Bourg
74140 Messery, France
Email: reza@kalfane.org
Mobile: +41 79 347 19 01
EMEA Sales Engineer

Middleware, Identity and Access Management
CAREER HISTORY
05/2008 - now
Oracle
Oracle, Geneva, Switzerland (http://www.oracle.com)
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company. Oracle is the only company capable of implementing complete global e-business solutions that extend from front office customer relationship management to back office operational applications to platform infrastructure.
EMEA Sales Engineer:
- Pre-Sales activities covering the full Oracle Fusion Middleware stack: Oracle Business Process Management Suite (BPM), Oracle Service Oriented Architecture Suite (SOA), Oracle Service Orchestration (BPEL), Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite (ECM), Oracle WebCenter Suite (E2.0, Portal, Collaboration), Oracle Business Intelligence Suite (BI, Reporting), Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite (OIM, OIA, ORM, OAM, etc.).
- Pre-Sales activities in Western Europe (UK Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Nordics). Multiple Proof-of-Concepts, answers to Request for Proposal for different industries (private banking, education, insurance, aviation, construction, public transportation, administration, etc.).
- Product training for sales, pre-sales, consultants, partners and customers.
- Identity and Access Management projects, Oracle Identity Management Suite implementation, provisioning and deprovisioning, data synchronization, Password Management and Password Synchronization, Workflows implementation and customization, Access Management, Single Sign-On, Identity Federation (Cetrel, Nokia-Siemens-Networks, CMA-CGM, Sanofi Aventis, Rolex, Private Bank in Geneva, etc.).
- Internal Initiatives: Proof-of-Concept Toolkit, Demo initiative and Project Methodology initiative. Knowledge Management activities (internal Wiki). Use of Virtual Machines to build different demo / PoC / project environments.
05/2003 - 04/2008
Novell
Novell, Geneva, Switzerland (http://www.novell.com)
Novell is a leading provider of information solutions that deliver secure identity management, web services and application integration, and cross-platform networking services, all supported by strategic consulting, technical support and educational services.
CH Sales Engineer:
- Multiple Proof-of-Concepts in the Identity Management area (Novell Identity Manager) and in the Middleware area (exteNd Director for application server and portal framework, exteNd Composer as integration tool, data hub). Use of Virtual Machines to build different environments. Answers to Request for Proposal.
- Product training for sales, pre-sales, consultants, partners and customers.
- Identity and Access Management projects, Meta-Directory implementation, provisioning and deprovisioning, data synchronization between Novell eDirectory, Active Directory, SQL databases, LDAP directories, SAP systems, Password Management and Password Synchronization between eDirectory, Active Directory, SAP User Management, Workflows implementation and customization (projects at Etat de Genève, Etat du Valais, Skyguide SA, IMD International, Cablecom GmbH, CSS Versicherung, Barclays Bank, Interroll SA, Straumann AG, Rolex SA, Clariden Bank, Helvetia Patria, Basler Versicherung, Serono/Merck).
- Portal requirements analysis project at Central Bank of Kuwait (needs capture, requirements analysis, quality assurance plan, project plan).
- Portal development using exteNd Director framework, JSR-168 specifiations, component oriented programming, Java, XML and XSL developments, Content Management, Portal, Rule Engine, Search, Workflow, PageFlow, XForms modules (projects at United Nations, Tribunal Fédéral de Lausanne, Etat de Genève, TAG Aviation).
- J2EE application programming, system integration, consulting services, pre-sales and post-sales missions (J2EE, Java, XML, XSL, JSP, XForms, JSR-168, multi-devices).
- Member of Novell Geneva social committee, organisation of events for employees.
10/2000 - 01/2003
Wokup SA, France Telecom
Wokup SA, France Telecom, Rennes, France (http://www.wokup.com)
Wokup SA, a spin-off from France Telecom, is the leading European software provider in mobile solutions for enterprise applications. Wokup main product (Wokup! Server) can publish any type of content from a client information system (databases, existing web-sites, XML flows, Java sources) on any type of devices (PC, PDA such as PocketPC or Palm, WAP phones, iTV, Minitel, Voice services).
EMEA Sales Engineer:
- Pre-sales technical support (frequent travels to Paris, London, Brussels) with technical presentations and demonstrations of Wokup products (Java based server and Java/Swing based IDE). Multiple Proof-of-concepts using Wokup products, partners products (SMS with MobileWay and SWAPCOM, Voice with Nuance and Telisma, iTV with TeamLog, etc.).
- Product training for sales, pre-sales, consultants, partners and customers.
- Application programming, consulting services, post-sales missions (Java, XML, XSL, JSP).
- Technical support for Orange, Paris, helping developers with Wokup products, developing parts of Orange Pro PDA and WAP portal.
- Application programming for France Telecom R&D, Rennes (JSP, Java, Swing, XML, XSL), web application allowing users to quickly create simple multi-access websites for PC, PDA and WAP phones, technical lead with architecture/Java APIs conception.
- GUI developments for an Integrated Development Environment written in Java, Swing. Development of multiple Wizards written in Java / Swing to easily create multi-devices applications. Integration in a Java IDE.
- Digital Television developments (Canal+, Teamlog). Development of a Java gateway that requests data from Wokup server, aggregate them and send the results to a transformation server using SOAP, FTP.
06/1999 - 09/2000
Webmotion
Webmotion, Ottawa, Canada (http://www.webmotion.com)
Webmotion is a full-service Web development firm specializing in rapid, scalable online business solutions.
Web Development Engineer:
- Dynamic web-sites development, creation of customizable web components (news, survey, search, forum, games components). Use of Oriented Object Php.
- Developments for the Washington Mutual (http://www.invest1to1.com).
- API development for secured and dynamic web-sites, such a web forms API with error handling, validation using RegExp, secured applets using RSA.
- Use of Open Source projects (Php3, Php4, MySQL, Apache under Linux, Java).
01/1999 - 05/1999
Junior Entreprise ENST Bretagne
Junior Entreprise ENST Bretagne, Brest, France (http://www.gertelecom.fr)
The Junior Entreprise is a real company within ENST Bretagne engineer school. This company provides different services from technical translations to software / web sites development.
Web Development Engineer:
- Dynamic web-sites development using Open Source projects (Php3, Php4, MySQL, Apache under Linux, Java). Development of a complete Php shopping cart.
- Whole design and developement of two commercial web-sites: Librairie La Galerne, Le Havre, France (http://www.lagalerne.fr), Librairie Dialogues, Brest, France (http://www.librairiedialogues.com). Use of a Php forum, search engine. Development of a whole CMS for these web-sites using Php, MySQL, JavaScript.
EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
1997 - 2000
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, Brest, France (http://www.enst-bretagne.fr)
ENST Bretagne is a french "Grande Ecole d'Ingénieurs" and offers a wide range of courses (Engineering, Mastères, MSc, PhD foundation years, PhD theses, Continuing Education) linked with the fields of New Information Communication Technologies. It also has a major role in research in this domain and works in partnership with the principle companies in the public and private sectors.
Telecommunications Engineer:
- Human-Machine Cooperation and the Ergonomics of Telecommunications, New Information Technologies specialisation (Master of Science / MSc level).
- Telecommunications (fix and mobile telephony), economy, HCI, electronics, information technologies, software development courses.
1994 - 1997
Lycée Jean-Perrin, Lyon, France
Engineer school preparatory classes:
- Maths Sup. (maths, physic, chemistry, computer science).
- Maths Spé. M / MP (mathematics specialization).
Language skills

fr en de gd

French: mothertongue
English: excellent written and oral skills
German: basic skills
Gujarati: basic oral skills
COMPUTER SKILLS
OSUNIX (Solaris), MacOS X (10.6.x), Windows (2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT / 7 / XP), Linux (Oracle Enterprise Linux, OES, SLES, SLED, SUSE, Red-Hat, Debian)
Cloud and VirtualizationOracle WebLogic with JRockit Virtual Edition, Oracle VM, Oracle VirtualBox, VMWare Server / Workstation / Fusion / Player
NetworkTCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, SSH, Firewall, Access Management (reverse proxy, SSL VPN, web access control)
MiddlewareOracle Database 11gR1 / 11gR2, Oracle WebLogic 11g, Oracle Service Oriented Architecture Suite 11g (SOA), Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g (BPM), Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g (ECM), Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g (E2.0, Portal, Collaboration), Oracle Business Intelligence Suite 11g (BI, Reporting)
Identity ManagementOracle Identity Management Suite (identity, role, access, directory, audit, compliance, federation), Oracle Identity Manager 11g, Oracle Identity Analytics (ex-Sun Role Manager), Oracle Role Manager (ex-Bridgestream), Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition (ex-Sun LDAP Server), Oracle Internet Directory, Novell Identity Management Suite, Novell Identity Manager, Novell Access Manager, Novell eDirectory, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Audit and Compliance, LDAP, PKI
DatabasesOracle Database 10g / 11gR1 / 11gR2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Anywhere, HSQL, JDBC
Application ServersOracle WebLogic 11g, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, OC4J, exteNd AppServer, IBM WebSphere, IIS
I.D.EJDeveloper 11g, SQL Developer, Eclipse, Forte for Java, NetBeans, JBuilder, exteNd Director (content management, portal, rule engine, search engine, workflows)
OO frameworksADF, Struts, Tiles, Hibernate, Cocoon
OO languagesJava, J2EE, SOAP, JSR-168, Servlets, EJB, UML, Design Patterns, Swing, JMS, C++
Scripting languagesJSP, JSF, BeanShell, Python, Taglibs, SQL, Php, Perl, JavaScript, XSP, ASP
Markup languagesXML, XSL, VoiceXML, HTML, XHTML, WML
Web DesignHTML / CSS / JavaScript / AJAX, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, The Gimp, Inkscape, 3D (LuxRender, Yafaray, Blender)
INTERESTS
SportBadminton, Volley-ball
ArtDigital art (2D, 3D), Music (live concerts), Photography, Cooking
TravelUS, Canada, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Indian Ocean