Polycom

Skills and tasks
  • Network Design
  • Network Engineering
  • ECI/Ribbon routing and switching, Huawei routing and microwave, Aviat switching and microwave, Cisco routing and switching
  • IP, BGP, MPLS, QOS, Ethernet, WAN, E-LINE, E-LAN, E-TREE, SDH, PDH, Office LAN

CV

16. DECEMBER 1979

Born in Wesel, Germany
raised in Hünxe, county of Wesel, Germany

Since 01/2022

Senior Network Engineer WAN at AXPO Systems AG in Belp, Canton of Bern

Current main projects

Within the project we desing and engineer an upgrade to inteconnect the production plants for hydro, nuclear, biomass and wind power with the controll rooms as well as interconnections between different manned sites, unmannd sites such as substations, masts and security equipment installations for electricity transport services such as still required E1, V24, V11, V35, C37.94, 4W E&M interconnections. Furthermore we enable the parallel build network to allow the offering of services based on Ethernet with technologies like FlexE for the transport and EVPN for carrying layer 2 Ethernet traffic as well as offering low-latency and high bandwidth IP private or public serivces such as MPLS based IP-VPNs or DIA.

Skills and tasks
  • Network Design
  • Network Engineering
  • ECI/Ribbon routing and switching, Huawei routing and microwave, Aviat switching and microwave, Cisco routing and switching
  • IP, BGP, MPLS, QOS, Ethernet, WAN, E-LINE, E-LAN, E-TREE, SDH, PDH, Office LAN
  • Public IP routing and routing policies for traffic engineering

08/2020 - 12/2021

IT Networkengineer - Bern University of Applied Sciences | BFH in Bern, Switzerland
For the Bern University for Applied sciences I provided a network automation strategy, network design, build and operations within the Linux & Infrastructure Team of the IT Services. WAN, LAN, WiFi and Internet connectivity for all teaching, research, on/off-the-job training, office sites and DCs.

Added global networking experience to a Linux team that acts on conviction about openness, sharing with the community with heavy focus on Free and Open Source Software to be used in Software Defined Networking (SDN) for the BFH network ressources (Ansible, EVPN, VxLAN)
For the Bern University for Applied sciences I provided a network automation strategy, network design, build and operations within the Linux & Infrastructure Team of the IT Services. WAN, LAN, WiFi and Internet connectivity for all teaching, reasearch, on/off-the-job training, office sites and DCs. Adding global networking experience to a Linux team that acts on conviction about openness, sharing with the community with heavy focus on Free and Open Source Software to be used in Software Defined Networking (SDN) for the BFH network ressources (Ansible, EVPN, VxLAN)

Skills
  • Network Design
  • Network Engineering
  • Network Operation including Helpdesk
  • BGP, Ethernet, WAN, Cisco ASA Firewall and VPN, IPv6, LAN, EVPN, VXLAN, Ansible, Linux, DNS, Knot

04/2020 - 07/2020

Customer Solution Authority - Vodafone Group Services GmbH in Düsseldorf, Germany
Providing a dedicated customer account with technical and engineering expertise
Working with the dedicated account team to develope the account with improvement in terms of revenue und technological adaptation

12/2018 03/2020

Sales Engineer - COLT Technology Services in Düsseldorf, Germany
Changing my carreer from Operations to Pre-Sales I now work in the Professional Services Department of Colt
providing Market Trends and Insight to customers which are in need for expertise about Digital Transformation, Best Practices and Professional Solutions to meet their Business targets.

01/2016 - 11/2018

Administrator 2nd Level Data - 1&1 Versatel in Essen, Germany
Maintaining AS8881 and fixing problems for customers
Again it is a position that is heavy on technology and thinking straight to isolate and fix problems
Also new is that I work with Huawei forming a well connected NGN

03/2008 - 2015

Moved to Dortmund, Germany, to work at Verizon Business
Consulting Engineer - Network Planning and Engineering Europe
Technology responsible and backup contact for european core and backbone AS702
After several re-organisation initiatives and changes in tasks since I started with Verizon,
I did work with a wide area of technologies and solutions including the following technologies and tasks (excerpt)

Skills and tasks
  • Juniper Networks M/MX/T-Series, PTX 5000 routers
  • Cisco GSR/CSR routers
  • BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, RSVP-TE, LDP
  • Design and Engineering of solutions to manage End of Life issues
  • Vendor relationship for engineering
  • PoC for Product Marketing public IP EMEA
  • Arbor TMS
  • Traffic engineering guidelines
  • International cable system delay optimization
  • Private and public peerings
  • Firewalling, Layer2/3 VPN services (LDP, IPSec, L2TP, VPLS), IPv4 and IPv6
  • Engineering for DSL/Dial platform in Europe
  • L2TP and legacy ATM interconnects with local Telcos across europe
  • Local tails via Ethernet/TDM/xDSL/WLL with different local Telcos across europe
  • Radius authentication and accounting

01/2003 - 02/2008

Hansenet in Hamburg, Germany
During a reorganization of the Network Operations department
I was offered a position as IP Network Engineer in the third level IP network support AS13184

01/2002 - 12/2002

Hansenet in Hamburg, Germany
I took the opportunity to switch into the new established 24/7 IP NOC department.
I started to work as Technician IP Network

09/1997 - 02/2001

Moved to Wuppertal to start my vocational training
vocational school, graduated
vocational training at Deutsche Bahn AG in Wuppertal, Germany
Communication electronics technician

03/1996 - 08/1997

public secondary school Wesel, Germany

08/1991 - 03/1996

public secondary school Voerde, Germany

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