10/17/2023 updated

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Solution Architect

Dumbravita Timis, Romania
Dumbravita Timis, Romania

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DevOps/ Cloud/ Enterprise Solution Architect – Consultant.
Intrapreneurial Thinker Planning & Development »Turning Ideas into Viable Business

Highly skilled and results-driven professional with over 20 years of experience in the IT&C industry. Problem solver. Experienced in defense telco and network infrastructure. Romanian citizenship – EU(EEA) passport. NATO clearance.
 
  • Cloud and Mobility services: NFV, VNF, CNF - (Kubernetes, Docker, RedHat OpenShift, OpenStack, ROSA, AWS – EKS/Snowball, ECS-Fargate, GCP – ABM/GDCE, VMware, rancher), security (DPI, CGNAT and SeGW), IoT.
  • Datacenter infrastructure – including Edge DC. Design, implement & maintain new IT&C environments, infrastructure T&T, CI/CD ecosystem incl. Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Git/GitLab, Jenkins)
  • E2E Solution Architect - Network and Voice expert on several technologies: Smart metering, Mission Critical, Microsoft, IPsec, VoIP, VoLTE, VoNR, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, FWA, O-RAN and Small Cells networks.
  • Professional Services, Technical Sales, Service Level Management, Operations, Change Management,
  • Customer facing role 10+ years, 7+ years as field engineer.
Interested in REMOTE contracts, about anything that involves Cloud, K8S, K3S, OpenShift, AWS, GCP, Azure, FWA, 4G, 5G, MPN, MPW.

Skills
- SRE: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS with SBA (cloud microservices) scalable and resilient
- E2E Solution Architecture – Mobile Core (EPC/SDM/IMS/MCx) on bare metal, appliance, and cloud (private, hybrid, and public).
- Experienced in automating CI/CD pipelines for optimized development processes
- Develop and maintain an Enterprise Cloud Architecture that is aligned to the overall business strategy to provide effective technology solutions that supports the business
- Scalable datacenter design with redundancy and load balancing + disaster recovery automation and procedures
- Proficient in TOGAF, ITIL, Agile, and Waterfall methodologies, demonstrating comprehensive IT and project management understanding.
- Hands-on: Python, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, ELK, Git, Chef, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Istio, Nginx, Prisma, IPSEC, MPLS, BGP, OSPF
- RFx (RFP, RFQ, RFI) Analysis, Tender & Solution Document Preparation: PoC, SoW, TCO, BOQ, HLD, LLD, Presales.
- Stakeholder & market input translation into business value propositions and End-to-End solutions
- Technical Product Owner & Roadmap Management with business opportunity analysis and customer negotiations
- Identifying & developing new opportunities, creating customized and optimized solutions for customer business improvement
- Creating workable repeatable solutions/blueprints - meeting variable margin targets
- Customer-focused consultation & interaction, supporting global sales teams for product/service strategy execution
- Coordinating mixed teams as Technical Lead/CSO for offer submission, delivery, and implementation
- Active learner and customer interface with a focus on customer needs

Languages

EnglishGoodRomanianNative speaker

Project history

Solution Architect

Casa Systems

500-1000 team member

Solution Architect/Sales Solution Manager

Nokia
Mobile Network / Nokia Software - Product Sales - Core Cloud
Nokia acquired Alcatel-Lucent, from January 2016 -> company name changed to Nokia.

I worked as Sales Solution Manager from pre-sales side, with an Architect role on ISP/CSP/GEPS (Government, Transport,
Enterprise, and Public Safety) projects delivering E2E HLD / BOM / BOQ / SoW / SoC being involved in the defense phase
too. After the contract was signed, I performed the smooth transition to the delivery side for the implementation, validation,
and acceptance phase. Several projects were for UE MoD/MoI - NATO Clearance and NDA.

Tendering Presales Engineer

Alcatel Lucent
Wireless EMEA Regional Business Center - Tendering & Regional Demand Planning

I was acting as Technical Lead for RFx (RFQ/RFP/RFI) and preparation and delivery of the compliance documents.
I want to mention here the role of Security Consultancy for Air2Ground (https://networks.nokia.com/solutions/4g-lteairports-and-air-ground
)

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