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- Product Management: Leading the comprehensive management of the NSX product, focusing on advanced Networking, Routing, and Multicast features. This included overseeing product development, feature integration, and performance optimization to ensure market competitiveness and technical robustness.- Strategic Collaboration: Played a pivotal role in shaping the product's strategic direction. Engaged closely with VMware field teams, customers, and partners to gather insightful feedback and market intelligence. Conducted thorough analyses of competitor products and industry trends to inform strategic decisions and product enhancements.- Engineering Collaboration: Actively collaborated with engineering teams to guide the NSX product development. Fostered a synergy between product management and engineering to ensure the seamless integration of new capabilities and enhancements. Emphasized a hands-on approach in working with developers, leading to high-quality outputs and adherence to technical specifications.

Manage Nuage Networks VSP product in several aspects, including Openstack integrations and data plane acceleration networking.Responsible for Nuage SDN integration with Openstack platforms, including Red Hat Openstack Director and Nokia Cloudband Infrastructure.Understand Telco and Service Provider infrastructure needs to evolve Nokia and Nuage Networks solutions for Telco Cloud and NFVi architecture.Interaction with Nokia field teams, customers and partners determining the strategy and direction of the product through investigation of the competition’s products and the direction technology evolves. Interaction with the R&D departments to build and maintain the product with the necessary capabilities, quality and documentation.

Position Nokia & Nuage Networks technologies, strategy, and product roadmaps to customer executives, technical management and technical engineers.Understand and articulate the benefits of Network Virtualization and Security to customer’s traditional IP networks, driving transformation to modern and secure networking architectures.Work collaboratively with sales associates, product management, technical marketing and engineering during the development, launch and continuing refinement of Nuage Business Unit products.Provide technical guidance and architectural recommendation to Nokia field teams and customers when designing and deploying Nuage SDN solutions and Openstack integrations in Telco Cloud NFVi environments.Maintain, grow, and leverage technical pre-sales relationships with key partner field organizations.

Position HPE Datacenter Networking solutions to solve customer’s requirements, helping them to transition from legacy traditional Data Centers to Software Defined & Cloud Architectures.Data Center Network Solutions: HPE FlexFabric portfolio, Arista Networks portfolio , White box solutions: Cumulus, Pica8, Big Switch Networks)Network Virtualization Solutions (Nuage Networks VSP and VNS (SD-WAN), VMware NSX)NFVi Projects collaboration across HPE Business Units and partners, including Cloud Management Systems, Orchestration systems, servers, storage, and telco packet core applications.Networking SDN integration with Cloud Management and Orchestration Systems such as HPE Helion and Red Hat OpenstackNetDevOps and Automation tools: Rest-API, Python, Ansible, Puppet

Responsible for developing business opportunities with Telco and Service Provider customers positioning networking solutions and content delivery applications.Responsible for relationship with partners engineers to analyze opportunities and select products, solutions and new technologies for business development, including Cisco, F5 Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Infoblox, RedHat, Nutanix, Intel McAfee, Riverbed, Forescout and others.Designing solutions for Service Provider customers including NFV Infrastructure, Routing and Switching, 3G/LTE UMTS Core, WiFi Service Provider, Managed Services, DDI, Datacenter, Security, Application and Content Delivery.

Responsible managing and designing 3G and 4G LTE IP Backhaul Transport Networks for Nextel Latin America markets: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Chile.Responsible for vendor homologation, architecture design and technical specification for LTE RAN, Mobile Backhaul and UMTS Core Network.Responsible for defining 4G/LTE NFVi Cloud based evolution for next generation Nextel Packet Core and Backhaul IP Backbones.

Projects of technology evolution in IP Networks (IP Core, Broadband fixed and mobile IP Edge, Enterprise Services, Backhaul and Metro Ethernet)Technical Leader of the Design and Architecture teams, responsible for prospection, evaluation and vendor selection of emerging technologiesProjects: - Modernization of Telefonica IP and Metro Ethernet networks with 100G capable routers, including Juniper, Cisco, Huawei and Alcatel Lucent.- IPv6 design and deployment across Telefonica and Vivo networks and services (broadband, mobile and corporate VPN)- IP Backbone unification between Telefonica and Vivo Autonomous Systems

- IP Backbone design and planning- Projects of technology evolution of ISP Broadband Services, Corporate Services (MPLS VPNs) and BGP Peering Interconnections.- Responsible for IPv6 Project of Telefonica’ IP Network

• Performance Management of ISP network and services.• Configuration of data-collection methods and network testings.• Collection and analysis of performance data.• Proactive management and reporting.• Managing the consistency and quality of network devices and services.• Capacity Analyses of the network, KPIs.• Recommendations for performance improvement.• Development of KPIs to indicate the performance/health analysis of Telefonica's IP backbone in the medium/long term

Advanced Technical support for AT&T Global Network Services (IP BGP, MPLS, ATM and Frame-Relay) for Americas region (Canada and Latin America).Support and troubleshooting of backbone and customer issues in Cisco routers and switches. Design recommendations upon recurring service interruption and performance issues in customer’s VPN.

Implementation of Campus Network Services : SMTP Servers (MS Exchange and Sendmail), DNS Servers (Bind), Domain Services (Unix, MS Active Directory), Backup Servers.Connectivity and Network Services management.Support and enabling of WAN and LAN campus connectivity.Design of network solutions for campus backbone and internal customers (local/remote departments and faculties).Responsible for written technical solution on RFP’s for all areas inside UNICAMP and discuss technical solution with the providers.