Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Enterprise Networking and Data Center Infrastructure with over 25 years of experience spanning multiple functional areas, including: ° Pre-Sales Engineering with deep expertise in networking and cybersecurity across Cisco, Fortinet, and multi-vendor environments. Certified in CCDA, CCNA, CCNP, Dell Networking, Allot (Associate/Professional), CEH v9, and Fortinet NSE4; ° System Administration of Linux, Windows, and VMware platforms. COMPETENCIES ° Network administration: Router, switch, WiFi device, firewall, VPN, data center architecture; ° System administration: Linux/UNIX, Windows, CiTRIX, VMware, KVM, Virtualbox, automation tools; ° Test plan development, strategy definition and execution of testing campaigns: chipset/modem validation, certification and IOT/IODT carrier acceptance; ° Team Leader: responsible for mobile device features (radio and apps) assessment, effective team members allocation and device certification. EXPERTISE AREAS ° Internet protocols: IP, TCP, UDP, RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP, HTTPs, SMTP, FTP, ICMP, IGMP, ARP, SNMP; ° Networking: Routing (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS), Switching (VLAN, STP, EtherChannel, High availability), Wireless solution, Monitoring (Netdata, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Ostinato), Testing (Spirent, Ixia), Troubleshooting (Wireshark, Nmap), VPN (IPSec, SSL), Security (ACL, AAA, Firewall, Policing, Nessus, Snort, Pentesting), Virtualization (KVM, K8s, VMware, Citrix), Scripting (bash, Python); ° Cloud: GCP, Forti-Stack, Azure. Currently expanding focus on advanced routing, next-generation network architectures (5G, SD-WAN, SASE), as well as ethical hacking and penetration testing.
• Design, implement and maintain pre-sales International Data Center (DC) security and efficiency; • Install and configure OS and software: Linux, Windows, Fortinet OS, KVM, K8s and VMware; • Administer servers, Fortinet devices, VMs, networks; • Monitor nodes and networks to ensure availability of services; • Troubleshoot problems reported; • Analyze, isolate and fix issues in timely manner; • Make recommendations for DC evolutions, identifying user needs; • Write and regularly update DC setup documentation; • Automate recurrent system admin tasks; • Collaborate with the Fortinet product specialists.
• Act as a technical focal point for Allot partners/customers; • Troubleshoot and conduct in-depth analysis of system log files and possible causes of issues to resolve customers’ problems; • Use intensively the technical lab in order to replicate the issues. Participate to maintain the lab up to date in version and documentation; • Work with the latest networking / QoS / Cyber Security technology in complicated / multi-vendor environments (Linux CentOS/Red Hat, VMware, Wireshark, SNMP, SQL, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®), Routing Protocols, VPN); • Main customers: Telefonica, Vodafone, Telecom Italia, Novotelecom, WIA Czech, BBBell, NGI Eolo; • Technical trainer for Allot partners and customers.
• Delivering Tier3 resolution for Dell Networking customer escalations through troubleshooting, research, environment replication & identification of workarounds; • Actively supporting the customer in all aspects through to problem resolution while keeping the customer informed throughout life of the incident(s); • Interlocking with Resolution Managers (RMs), Technical Account Managers (TAMs) and Regional Sales Account Managers (SAMs) to address customer issues and queries; • Products supported: DELL/Cisco L3 switches (Ethernet, FCoE, FC), Aruba/AeroHive devices (WiFi) • Main customers in Spain, Italy, UK, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Finland, Germany
• Inter-Operability Testing and 3GPP compliance validation of multimode 2G/3G/LTE platforms against the main network vendor infrastructures (Ericsson, Nokia, ALU, Huawei, ZTE, Samsung); • Partnership management between NVIDIA and Ericsson (roadmap/validation alignment meetings); • Bring up (IODT) with Ericsson of 3GPP Rel. 10 features: CA, VoLTE/IMS, 4x2 MIMO, eMBMS, TM9 (features readiness assessment, session planning, validation and report); • Mobile network implementation at NVIDIA premises (design, testing, troubleshooting); • GRID cloud gaming over Orange LTE network Joint Trail session (Shield Tablet); • Frequent travels to Sweden, Germany, Canada, China.
• Technical Project Manager for the Mobile Broadband division at Vodafone Italy; • Planning and management of the certification activities of the mobile connectivity products and services (Internet keys, embedded modules, netbooks and PC/Mac dashboards) selected by VF-IT; • Coordination with the testing team and direct experience with the local and global Vodafone departments. Supporting over-all activities within Terminal Validation team; • Supporting the Marketing team in all technical matters regarding pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales; • LTE kick-off (from the end of 2011): o Backhaul network configuration to connect Radio Access (RAN) to Evolved Packet Core (EPC) Network (Tellabs 86xx and 8840 devices); o Comparison between 2 end-to-end network chains: “RAN Huawei - EPC Huawei” vs “RAN NSN - EPC Ericsson”.