Loïc Castel

3, Place de la nouvelle aventure
0383264409
Loiccastel AT gmail.com
21 years old, french, single

Student in engineer school on the fourth year, Telecom Lille

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Education

Telecom Lille

2004 – 2007, Lille, France

Master of Science in Networks and Telecommunications Engineering in Telecom Lille, at Villeneuve d’Ascq (59)

School year 2006 - 2007 : Fourth year of a five year Master's degree in Telecommunication and Network Engineering at Telecom Lille 1. French "Engineer School" in the aim of Information and Communication Technologies.
University of Lille 1, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France.

First Specialization : Network security.

Fields of competences: Network and Internetworking of computers, Theory of the Signal applied to Telecommunication , Computer programming, Marketing - Business' Economy, Electronic A/D.

Scientific Baccalauréat

June 2004, Eu, France

French Scientific "Baccalauréat", Specialization Mathematics. Obtained in June 2004 with honours.

Main subjects including Mathematics, Physics, Biology, History, Geography, Phylosophy and Languages.

Professional Experience

IT Software Engineer : Vanksen Group

October 2007 -January 2008

Internship in the Developement and IT department, in Vanksen group, which do brand monitoring and protection, and also web marketing.

I developped a WCF service doing important data synchronisation. The service is controlled though an administration panel, that I coded too.

Managing of an entire project concerning the service, and creating and linking these data with SQL Reporting.

I also did a security audit on all websites (around 10) of the group, finding several web security holes and network vulnerabiliies.
I helped to fix these.

Security Internship : Lumension Corp.

August-October 2007

Internship in a QA department of Lumension Corp, Microsoft Gold Partner society.
I discovered and managed a "End-point security solution"
software called Sanctuary .

I wrote several test cases for the software and did some user integration tests.
Security audit of some aspect of Sanctuary :
-Client Hardening, which is a limitation for the client-side part of Sanctuary. I tested how to desactivate this feature.
-File Type Filtering, with the use and the writing of scripts doing "Fuzzing", and also data injection.
--Bypass of some security feature of the software. in order to correct some vulnerabilities and security holes.

French Embassy in Thailand - Marketing and Communication placement

Marketing and Communication placement - 3 months

During this placement I have realised E-Marketing and IT activities :

Creation of some communication tools for the Embassy, in the press department.
Audit of the governemental website and upgraded it. I also added a newsletter system.
Integration of an administration software that I created with PHP/MySQL, and also an user part, in order to manage french movies database.

Furthemore, I have written some press revues, in English and French, and organized Presse Conferences in Bangkok.

Orange, France - Network and Telecommunication placement

April to July 2006, Lille

Masterizing of the GSM/UMTS architecture, in mobile networking.
Managing of differents networking and detection tools, like mobile tracking, base station indicators,...

Création of a mobile detection tool which is an user/administrator application in Php 4, that mean I manage to learn several programmation languages, and web languages like Html,Xhtml,Xml,...

Inter-marché

September-December 2005 - Neuves-Maisons, France

Accounting and Financial internship in a distribution firm.

Assistance in accounting department, daily management and financial analyse.

Boiron (pharmaceutical corporation)

February-April 2005 - Nancy, France

Internship in the department of conditioning and sending of pharmaceutical orders.

Being involved in electronic cards creation from research & development (realisation of drawings, plans) to production (layout of components) and selling work.

RTE (electrical corporation)

Summer 2004

Summer Job

Skills

IT Skills

Programming and Networking

Telecom & Network
Software
- Sniffer Pro Network Associates.
- Ethereal.
Networking
- Configuration: Wi-Fi, TCP/IP, Routeur, NAT, PAT, Firewall, Bluetooth.
- Theoretical knowledge: GSM, GPRS, UMTS, Network's architecture.

Server Administration
OS
- Microsoft Windows 2000, XP.
- UNIX: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware Linux, OpenBSD notions.
Installation, Configuration, Maintenance
- DHCP Server.
- DNS Server.
- Files Server.
- Microsoft Virtual Server.

Database technologies
Languages
- MySQL / MsSQL /SQL.

Programming
Software / Web site / Graphics
- Languages: C, C++, PHP, HTML, Visual Basic, CSS, SQL.
- Object Oriented Programming.

Languages

English
Very good knowledge. Spent 3 months working in Bangkok, Thailand, with a current using of that language.
TOEIC: 880 pts May 2006

French
Mother tongue

German
Good knowledge.

Japanese
Basics.

Hobbies

Extra-Scholar activities

Taek-Won-Do, Jogging and Swimming practice
Music playing (Piano, Bass et Jazz Guitar)
Treasurer of LIVE, an Erasmus association, which welcomes foreigner students et manages meetings and travellings in order to help them to discover french culture and society.

References

2007 : French embassy, Bangkok, Thailand

Madame Vinh FAROUX

Press director, Second secretary of the embassy
Tel: contact me

French