• CCNA, CCNP, CCIP, CCIE RS wrt

01/01/2015–01/11/2015 Core Network Operations and Development Manager Liberty Global (UPC Romania), Bucharest (Romania) ▪ managing Operational and Development Network teams of IP, Optical, Telephony and Servers Engineers. ▪ managing CapEX and OpEX budgets ▪ coordinating development projects like: – adding 10Gbps on core ring – distribution and access routers upgrade – migrating UPC Romania core network IGP from OSPF to IS-IS – implementing IPv6 on UPC Romania core network that include the folowing steps: – establish technical requirements and define the proper BoM – realize Design Architectures, LLD, HLD – follow up PO/PR steps – instalation configuration and integration of new network equipments (routers, switches, ADMs, servers) – establish and supervise the Acceptance Tests performing

01/01/2014–01/01/2015 Support Operations Manager Liberty Global (UPC Romania), Bucharest (Romania) ▪ coordinate 3 support/operational departaments having 3 direct reports (Team Leaders): ▫ B2B Support(Support for B2B and Wholesale customers) ▫ LFM (Local Fault Management) ▫ NOCs (Optical, IPs, Telephony, Servers) ▪ provide tehnical presales courses to Sales B2B departments. ▪ automatization the migrating UPC Romania B2B and B2C customers CPEs from VoIP MGCP to SIP toghether with migrating the VoIP platform from BTS to OpenSER in order to make budget savings on the OpEX side. ▪ identification and coaching of potential talent for the professional growth within the structure

11/02/2013–01/01/2014 B2B Support Manager Liberty Global (UPC Romania), Bucharest (Romania) ▪ rebuild a team of 12 noc engineers for according tehnical support by email/phone to strategic and wholesales UPC customers. ▪ improving specific KPIs from 70% to 98% and assign SMART objectives ▪ establish requirements for a new crm that automatise daily support tasks in order to maintain and improve specific KPIs ▪ improve engineers carrier path by providing tehnical/softskills meetings/workshops/courses/coaching and promote them to upper level departaments.

01/01/2008–10/02/2013 Senior Network Engineer GTS Telecom, Bucharest (Romania) ▪ designing customer solutions for services like: Internet Access, BGP Sessions,Ethernet PrivateLines (EPL), Ethernet Virtual Private Lines (EVPL), National and International Leaded Lines,EoSDH; Voice MGCP, SIP, IP Centrex, ISDN, 3G, ADSL ▪ implementing these solutions end to end on Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel, Huawei,Cirpack, Keymile, Allied Telesis and Mediatrix equipments ▪ implementing customer oriented services on CPEs: IP services (DHCP, NAT/PAT),routing services (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, static routes), security services (ACLs,zone-based firewall,CBACs, IPSec tunneling for Site to Site and Remote Access),QoS services (LLQ, CBWFQ,traffic shaping/policing, WRED), traffic engineering(main and backup solutions, loadbalancing, route filtering and redistributions) ▪ thoroughly documenting the new solution in the matter of customer and site locations,installed/proposed services, bill of materials, equipment configuration/templates, capex and opex costs ▪ providing support for sales and pre-sales teams on last mile and backbone evaluations for bidding, upselling and business cases ▪ cross functional collaboration with other departments: Optical Metropolitan Network team,Field, Telecom Purchasing, subcontractors, other GTS countries operations departments in order to complete the installation within the given deadline as technical project manager ▪ performing solution acceptance testing with the customer and circuit acceptance testing with the field team and subcontractors in order to check the desired circuit ▪ solving escalations from NOC department on the subject of tickets, redesign and optimization for SLA improvement ▪ follow up meetings with the customers to clarify the business and technical requirements in order to provide the most competitive solution and agree on an implementation plan ▪ offering dedicated support for strategic customers with different business areas ranging from commercial banks, food and drinks companies, car dealers, private healthcare providers with approximately 50 locations and services like: VPN, hosted and managed data center services,Internet, voice ▪ regular meetings with the these customers to analyze recurrent faults and agree on an improvement plan ▪ performing planned works for GTS customers and integrating 3rd party service providers in GTS network:

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1999–2004 Bachelor's Degree Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics – Computer Science Department, Craiova (Romania) 1

2/10/2009–12/10/2015 CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate Cisco Systems Related document(s): CCNA.pdf 17/04/2011–17/04/2014 Cisco Certified Network Professional Cisco Systems Related document(s): CCNP.pdf

07/09/2012–07/09/2015 Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional Cisco Systems Related document(s): CCIP.pdf

18/10/2012–18/10/2015 Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert R&S Written Cisco Systems

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