Professional experience and career objectives: I have 15 years experiance in the IP Communications industry, with much of that time spent with a major integrator and then later a manufacturer. I have done much IP designwrk for major ISP and other service providers
Skills and areas of expertise: IP, MPLS, VoIP, Storage, Optimisation. I am a pre 10K CCIE (lapsed) a currnet JNCIE, I am also qulified in ATM (Fore/Marconi) and have spant much time with Riverbed and combined storage solutionsfor DR and remote backup. My primary skill has alwas been, design and development of SP backbones.
Current Employment
Head of Network Services
Central Government
(Public Sector) - United Kingdom
april 2009 - Today (7 months)
Former Employment
Technical Consultant
Zycko
(Telecommunication) - United Kingdom
december 2005 - november 2007 (1 year 11 months)
Responsible for design, integration and implementation of IP networking solutionsfor the WAN & LAN
Technical Product Manager
Huawei Technologies
(Telecommunication) - United Kingdom
january 2003 - december 2005 (2 years 11 months)
Responsible for EMEA IP Routing & Switching product based Technical pre-sales and concultancy, mainly service providers such as Tiscali, Opal, BT 21CN, Thus, Clara-net, Fibernet/Cable & Wireless. Also product manager for the Next Generation IP products.
Senior Technical Support Engineer
Telindus
(Telecommunication) - United Kingdom
february 2001 - january 2003 (1 year 11 months)
Team leader for the 3rd line technical support group. Responsibl for end customer technical support engineering, included on an on-call rota. Installations, fault finding and design for prodominently Cisco & Juniper Solutions. I was also seconded to Israel for a major network design project.
Network Manager
BMW Financial Services Group
(Finance) - United Kingdom
february 1997 - january 2001 (3 years 11 months)
Resposible for ongoing support and upgrade of ATM to the desktop network
Education
The Open University United Kingdom
, september 2000 - january 2004
MBA - Working Degree, Telecommunications
University of Essex United Kingdom
, september 1990 - november 1994
UGD, Astro Physics
Chelmsford College of FE United Kingdom
, september 1988 - september 1990
A * As level + Electronic Engineering, Physics, Maths - Micro Circuits
About me
Interests:
Science & Technology, Golf, movies, health & fitness, Family living.
Other:
I have a keen interest in pyhsics and Quantum mechanis, general relativity studies and history. I am an avvid golfer holding a current handicap of 4. I enjoy cooking and family life along with holidays with my family to interesting places.
Languages:
English, Hebrew
Groups and associations:
PGA, Martial Arts Association