Personal Profile

Enthusiastic electronic engineer offering versatility and adaptability. Wide knowledge of IT. Remarkable experience in IT management, security, sales and software development in multinational companies. Adept at preventing technical problems and also experienced in troubleshooting. Used to exploring and evaluating all options and data available before providing the best solution to a problem. Able to remain objective and to think laterally. Used to work in rapidly changing environment. Smart in prioritizing and reschedule activities according to the needs of the company. Intelligent and articulate, good communicator. Highly motivated to acquire new skills and quick to learn. Used to work in multinational / multiethnic environment. Excellent team player.

Ambitions

My past experiences of working within highly technical and specific fields, in conjunction with my experience in customer communication, provide me with an ideal base from which to further my career. I'm particularly interested in positions where I could use and develop my skills, working hard while learning: for this reason I attended some Cisco and VMware training in order to get the CCNA and Voice certification, the Regional Networking Certification and the VMware Certified Professional. I gained expertise in three areas which are not usually found in a single computer engineer: Networking, Server administration and Virtualization. I have also experience from different sized companies, located in EMEA.

SKILLS and EXPERIENCE

• 12 years of experience with infrastructure architecture, design, implementation and support. Incorporated best practices design, identified project risks and updated management on architecture/design process
• 6 years of experience with project managing complex IT design and deployment, external teams leading and integrating resources form different areas of IT
• 12 years of experience with project managing site relocations, datacenter design, infrastructure design
• 20 years of experience with Microsoft Windows products in design, implementation, and troubleshooting
• 10 years of experience with VMware virtualization products from vSphere v2.5 to v5.5, designing, installing, upgrading ESX/ESXi Hypervisor, Vcenter, HA, DRS, FT, rules and groups, scripting for automatic shutdown from UPS, snapshot, power up, clone, replicate
• 6 years of experience with VMware Horizon View for VDI and advanced graphical VDI workstations
• 6 years of experience with VMware Thinapp for application virtualization
• 6 years of experience with thin client and zero client Samsung, HP, Praim and OpenThinClient .
• 10 years of experience with VMware VM convert and P2V physical to virtual
• 3 years of experience with VMware VCOPs
• 3 years of experience with VMware consolidated back up
• 10 years of experience with VMware workstation
• 3 years of experience with EMC VNX 5300 and 5100
• 5 years of experience with Qnap 8xx series nas products
• 3 years of experience with Asustor 6xx series nas products
• 6 years of experience with iSCSI and Fiber channel
• 5 years of experience with HP servers 360 series and 585 series
• 5 years of experience with HP blade servers C7000 chassis
• 5 years of experience with HP blade servers proliant BL460 g7 and g8 series
• 5 years of experience with HP blade servers proliant WS460 g8 series mounting K2 nvidia graphical card
• 2 years of experience with HP VC - Flex 10 Gb switches
• 2 years of experience with brocade optical switches
• 5 years of experience with HP GbE2C brocade switches
• 3 years of experience with Cisco Nexus 5548 switches
• 8 years of experience with Cisco 45xx series and 3650 series
• 8 years of experience with Cisco ASA 55xx series
• 7 years of experience with Cisco Security Manager CSM and ASDM
• 6 years of experience with Cisco 17xx and 28xx series router
• 7 years of experience with Cisco Call Manager
• 7 years of experience with Cisco 79xx series IP Phones
• 6 years of experience with Cisco 12xx series wireless access point
• 1 year of experience with Extreme managed switch
• 1 year of experience with Unitrends PhD
• 15 years of experience with Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008/R2, Windows 2012, Active Directory, Sites Zones, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Group Policies, Security ncluding design, implementation, migrations and troubleshooting
• 2 years of experience with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Microsoft Exchange 2013 DAG
• 4 years of experience with CA Unicenter OS delivery, SW delivery, monitoring assets and licenses
• 3 years of experience with Project management using Systems Development Life Cycle SDLC and ITIL frame work
• 10 Years in infrastructure security, securing company resources using policies, vendor best practices, firewall security, Server access, SAN resources and other company resources.
• 10 years of experience with TCP/IP design, implementation and troubleshooting, VLANs, LACP, trunking, routing OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, HSRP, VRRP and GLBP, QoS, Load Balancing.
• Languages: C, C
• Database Platforms: SQL
• Operating Systems: Windows all versions, Linux Ubuntu/Kubuntu
• Hardware Platforms: HP Chassis blade systems, EMC Qnap Asustor SANs
• Networking: Cisco Firewalls, Routers, Switches, Access points Extreme, HP and intel switches

CAREER HISTORY

Confidential

I am working as senior system engineer and networking specialist. Information Architects now merging with Exigent is specialized in designing and deploying projects for small and medium companies that involve virtualization, data strorage, networking, security and disaster recovery. I am the architect for VMware solutions such as Vshpere and Horizon View providing the complete solution including: High Availability, capacity planning, performance analysis, back up and disaster recovery solutions. I am also specialized in P2V for legacy systems and in migration of old Data Centers into new completely virtual software defined Data Centers. I have been the project manager for complex migrations to virtual, providing expected results without any downtime for the users.

Confidential

I am working as I.T. senior system engineer and networking specialist, cloud architect. Tecnomare is part of Eni, Italian main Oil and Gas Company. It provides a massive team of designers for off-shore oil extraction platforms, subsea and space engineering. My focus is to develop and introduce new technologies in my company, from the state of the art from IT world. I'm working on Virtualization Desktop VDI using VMware Horizon View in Windows server environment. I was VMware Horizon View official beta tester v5.5 . I applied the VMware technology to create a private cloud that provided IaaS to my colleagues that needed different kind of servers with short notice. I virtualized the windows applications using Thinapp to provide flexibility in the number of PCs needed for consultants. Horizon View was configured to permit quick deployment of base PCs, graphical workstations or application servers. Performance monitoring and Capacity planning achieved using Operations Management. I have been also project manager for setting up the new offices: Venice, Cairo Egypt, Milan and Pisa. I delivered the complete IT infrastructure beginning from scratch, designing and setting up the whole infrastructure: Data center, LAN, WAN, Firewall Security and VPNs, Vlans and QoS, multilayer switching and routing protocols, Wireless, VoIP and IP phones, Videoconference, Windows Domain and Active Directory, DNS and DHCP, Group Policies, PCs and Software management, business continuity and disaster recovery, data replication. I'm also supporting all these systems: my experience in both Windows systems and networking/security allows me to supervise complex projects that deal and integrate multiple technologies while being very good in troubleshooting. Some projects that I have been responsible for are the redesign of the WAN/LAN/systems to allow geographic redundancy and Disaster Recovery between different sites, Tecnomare private cloud focused on 3D graphic, the server consolidation achieved with VMware in 2007, the centralized management of the firewalls and IDS/IPS using Cisco Security Manager, the patch management and companywide PC backup system, the internal help desk structure and troubleshooting system, the customization of C.A. Unicenter that cut down set up time of new PC from average 8 hours to less than one hour. I'm used to deliver solutions cooperating with my team or managing external experts and service providers. I support my manager in designing the requirements for the tenders Eni asks offers from at least three different providers and in the evaluation of the best solution. I've attended a VMware V-sphere training followed by VCP certification. I'd like to get the certification in LAN/WAN technology and security ideally whole CCNP, CCDA and SECUR . The last projects I was working on: migration of two middle company size data centers to HP blade system c7000 with EMC2 NAS VNX 5300 and 5100 on fiber channel and iSCSI technology, the upgrade of Virtual Machines to Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012, the start-up of the new office 450 desks including design of a new data center, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure integration in a multi domain environment using VMware VDI Horizon View technologies, the upgrade to 10Gigabit LAN, the activation of Intrusion Prevention appliances cisco and Forescout, the delivery of centralized applications to remote sites with security concerns Egypt, Kazakhstan, the redesign of the branch office in Cairo. On major innovative projects, I manage third parties consultants delegating and supervising their activities, from design and POC to final tests and first deployment. I'm experienced in working in cross discipline projects network, systems, security and NAS

Confidential

I worked as I.T. senior system engineer at . Yoox is an e-commerce company dealing with high fashion market. In its catalogue there are brands as Dolce Gabbana, Diesel, Cavalli, Fiorucci. My duties were to provide infrastructure management and system support: PCs and Servers administration windows server and Exchange, LAN/WAN, security and firewall administration. Moreover I looked after a special project: the site migration of the office and warehouse to a new building taking care of: LAN deployment, phone central device deployment, LAN/telephone integration, WAN design and definition, alarms and video surveillance.

Confidential

I worked as I.T. manager at . has its HQ in Portogruaro near Venice and 7 branch offices within the region. My duties were to provide the needed technological socket to the company over all the aspects: PCs and Servers administration windows server and Exchange, LAN/WAN administration, VoIP and MPLS communications, ERP, Web sites, Web Promotion, R D, resource management. As special project I was focused in the design of the technical infrastructure of new tourist village the company was building 2400 flats, 4 hotels, one commercial center, including apartments automation using RS232 standard.

Confidential

• I worked as programmer and then as vice I.T. manager at Centro Ricerche Fiat in Turin, one of the main research centers in Italy more than 1000 people between designers, engineers and technicians . C.R.F. provides new technologies not only to the automotive industry ABS, JTD a.k.a. common rail, hybrid engine, hydrogen engine were developed here but also to other segments such as aviation, mobile power generator, designing. C.R.F. is part of Fiat group, multinational automotive industry. My duties covered different areas and have been changing for the whole period according to the company needs, taking advantage of my flexibility. I started as software developer then I moved to managing area:
• Develop part of the software written in C used in the new Ferrari's engine. An embedded micro controller that controls in real time the opening of the valves thus optimizing the volume of air flow in the cylinders
• Manage projects supported by external software houses, writing and tailoring specific analysis about the company needs in order to realize new functionality for SAP or other applications
• LAN/WAN, PCs and servers administration, Windows 2000 server MS Exchange
• Software procurement and license management of the main company software Microsoft, Matlab, Labview
• Design the new Information Technology Development Plan that could help company directors in deciding how to allocate their funds and resources when they need to issue the budget for the year about 15M
• Managing Global Value IBM as the outsource IT service provider, preparing specifications for new projects requests, evaluating offers and contacts, supervising the effectiveness of the solutions provided, checking the respect of KPIs and SLAs, escalating main problems and addressing issues with users that were not happy with the provided service

Confidential

I worked as Sales Representative for Confidential, in the EMEA Head Quarters. I was Account Manager for the Italian channel market of Intel Advanced Network Reseller. I was part of a multinational and multiethnic team of 24 sales coming from different countries, looking after EMEA market for networking. I managed market funds and coordinated the sales activity between the English and Italian teams. I set up and managed training and business development seminars for Italian customers thus updating resellers with information about new products, and supporting them with commercial initiatives. I made frequent live presentations during reseller and end user seminars translating and adapting from English to Italian the content of the US presentations. Based on customer briefing, I designed and recommended the whole Network solution for their requirements, contact with the end user happened to be included in this process . Main training courses completed: Negotiate to YES, Versatile Sales, Presentation Skills, Access, Network Design, Ethernet Technologies, Wireless LAN, LAN Systems and Caching essentials.

Confidential

I operated in a technical position as C /C programmer and software test engineer in Linux environment in client server ERP application for firm management logistic, balance, orders and production . I started debugging for year 2000 bugs problem and code malfunctions developing ad hoc patches where needed. This involved the use of a multiversion managing system CVS in order to deal with all the different customizations. In few months I was promoted to analyst programmer so my duties became to analyze the requirements and develop the code customizing the application to deal with the specific problems and environment of the customer's companies. During the last period I became Technical Manager for the reseller channel and the second line tech support. This involved developing initiatives and strategies to improve the quality of service of our help desk and delivery of new releases and bug fixes. Since 1999 I was the tutor for all the new joined software developers, due to my natural teaching skill.

Confidential

I have been teaching since 1986 as the most effective way to finance my studies. I began giving private individual lessons to students from high school and university: Mathematics, Physics, English, Electronics and Electrics. Between 1997 and 1998 I run collective lessons about 20 people of MS Word, Excel, Access and other Office applications. Since I got the degree, I was allowed to teach in high schools. I was asked to run automation processes course for IPSIA High School: solving specific problems using 68HC11 microcontroller, developing SW in assembly. I run this semester course as part time with my job as SW developer. At the moment I'm still teaching and giving private lessons in my spare time.