Vodafone Italy

Oct 2010-now

              Sr.Core IP/MPLS Eng

Developed Core infrastructure based onCisco ASR99xx, ASR1K, Nexus9K, IOS-XR 5.3.4,Cisco CRS-1/3.

Daily use withCore protocols such as MPLS TE-FRR, BFD, MPLS BGPVPN for business clients, MP-BGPv4/v6, ISIS, OSPF (NSSA,standard areas), BFD, L2VPN,PWE3, BVI,VPLS, QoS OPTIMA.

In-depth knowledge of Cisco Routing and Switching (near CCIE level).

Hard Skills /Successful Projects fulfilment

ü  Currently introducing Segment-Routing + TI-LFA in the dual-plane Core infrastructure

ü  Delivering Telco over Cloud systems such as vMME, vTAS, vSBC, vENUM, vPGW, NVI Data Center

ü  Delivered Traffic Engineer Path protection in the Core Infrastructure.

ü  Ongoing delivery of Corporate/Enterprise Customers into the MAN/Group wise MPLS network

ü  Delivered IPX/Grx architecture based on BGP Inter-AS Option A/B.

ü  Implemented TIM,Facebook, Google-Cache/Akamay private peering to give better mobilecustomer experience and reduce Network Costs.

ü  Successfully designed and implemented IPv6/6VPE to give dual-stack IPv4/v6 connectivity.

ü  Provided sound support when implementingMobile LTE/4G Packet core nodes like S-GW, PDN Gateway, MME, SecGW,CSDB/AuC,PCRF, and related 3GPP reference points such as SGi,S1-U,S1-MME, S8/Gn, Gy, Diameter S6a.

ü  Delivered DSL/FTTH internet community based routing architecture to better load-balance.
Strong 2/3rd line Network Support knowledge for FRT/Corporate customers.
Fluent English speaker (daily use with Cisco troubleTickets as well as with HQ UK)

FixedBroadband Engineer

2008- 2010, Group-wide position, my main focus was aboutBNG/MSER,xDsl/FTTx access,IETF/BBF standards,RFQ,RFIseditingfor global vendors selection, technical recommendation delivery,vendors roadmap management,driving the deliveryof new features together with product releases, technical internal workshops with VF OpCos to define long-term strategies,publish internally clear “best practice” documents to meet business requisites, facilitating project trade-off decisions both at the projects list level (deciding which projects proceed and which don’t) and within projects (e.g. scoping which features are must-have vs. should have).
Successful Projects:

IPv6transition strategies at Fixed Broadband access (CPEs/MSAN+BNG/LNS/PEs)

VF-QATAR (6 months duration)à RFP for Fixed Broadband Accesswith final scores and selection of the vendor.

VF-ES  BNG/PE local E—Auctionto award BNG vendor platform according to spanish local requirements (Tele2 BB integration).

VF-GHANA (3 months duration)à HLD review of their Fixed Broadband Access, DPI introduction.

 TeleTu spa(Wireline Operator)

2006-2008Broadband Planning & Engineer

Design, develop, and manage the implementation of technology based solutions in accordance with business requirements and systems compatibility, work closely with Project Managers to support ongoing projects activities in the area of networking and security, when needed,i participate to steering group meetings as a projects representative for technical issues applying my knowledge in network engineering specifically in the areas of Cisco Core network architecture, redundancy design,bandwidth and capacity planning, IP Planning notes, maintaining documentation of all engineering designs and proposals,implementation of IP Dslams (Alcatel-Lucent) at the access layer.I was responsible for three main activities in the team: build the long-term strategy designs and standards for the group, build scalable design for the core infrastructure, keep up to date with the emerging technologies, answer specific design requirements raised by business line.

 AGS for HP

Jan 2004-2006on behalf ofVodafone IT and Intesa-SanPaoloBank

Installation Configuration and proactive management of 3500+ Routers,multilayer switches and Firewall, IDS,bandwidth shaper, Web Proxy Cache (Bluecoat),DNS, analysis of trends and capacity plan of application and security resources – Definition and monitoring of SLA and OLA,OS patch management, vendor and suppliers management, case management, knowledge of OS such as Microsoft, Linux.

Computer-line (2000-2004)

On-site technical support engineer mainly in Microsoft environment, WinNt4, XP, sound practice on Dns,Wins,Dhcp, File & Printer servers, IIS/FTP.

Education

2018   Attended SDN/NFV Klabs training on REST API, OpenFlow, Cloud-CPE,SD-WAN, Python.

2018Attended Cisco NG-MVPN training to support Multicast Customers streams re-using existing MPLS core (PIM-free).

         Attended Cloud-Computing training (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).

2017Attended Cisco BGP advanced training on Ethernet-VPN, SDN, INTER-AS Option C, BGP LU, BGP-LS, BGP-FlowSpec, Segment-routing.

2016   Attended Cisco Nexustraining on 7K,9K

2009   Attended Broadband Roadshowarranged by Ericsson promoting a range of new upcoming broadband services (LTE/FTTx)

2007   Attended Voip training course on SIP protocols in GKI learning center.

2006   Attended Redback University and got Certification on SmartEdgeLNS/BRAS router for the Wholesale Broadband adsl market scenario.

2005  Passed written Cisco CCIE securityexam.

Got a Recertification asCSI as a secure network designer,WLANFEforwireless Lan, CCNA recertification,Juniper-Netscreencourse about Firewall technologies.

Security seminar attendance on penetration techniques within Ux/linux platform kept in “Bocconi” University in Milan.

2003      Windows 2000 server Microsoft certified Professional; ongoing updates about various subject such as Malware threats, malicious code,ethical hacking.

2002   CCSP, CCNA, CCDA (design), MCNS (network security), CSIDS (Intrusion detection system), CSPFA, CSVPN (virtual private network).

1997   Office automation course focused on MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PPT, Internet.

1996   Got English Certificate with excellent results from CAPAC school in Milan.

1990   Diploma of “Perito Elettronico” achieved in Milan (ITIS Lagrange Institute).

Soft skills:

I am a team worker but also independent and self-running.

Ensure customers' expectations/Projects are met in a timely manner, cost effective.

Able to work under pressure  in ever changing conditions and above all, really capable to interact with massive live critical Internet traffic environment