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AtlantaLead the team responsible for assessing business requirements and creating complex technical solutions focused on the Air Transport Industry (Airlines, Airports and related Organizations), creating the overall architecture, performing vendor evaluation and selection, providing input and reviewing the Business Case, participating in the Business Approval process, and producing customer facing proposal and documentation.Promote SITA through customer meetings and workshops, with comprehensive information on current products roadmap and new innovative solutions.

- Technical Lead for PENS' evolution, NewPENS.- Responsible for the commercial and business development strategy for the Air Traffic Control (ATC) & Airlines sector, competitive positioning, structure, negotiation support and non-standard terms and conditions.- Manage and coordinate business expansion of the SITA solutions portfolio for the ATC, Airlines and Airports sectors- Creating, structuring and negotiating commercial aspects of offers/contracts to address customer needs as well as SITA's financial, commercial and corporate policy requirements.- Assist in linking commercial structure with technical design, bid and sales strategies to optimize returns and win probability;

Responsible for the design and implementation of the Pan European Network Services (PENS) and its components (hardware, software, datalink, et cetera).

- Responsible for the design and implementation of the worldwide ISP migration project. The scope of the project involves the migration of 200+ worldwide company sites including Data Centres, Headquarters, Commercial Offices and Factories. - On-call support. - Centralized wireless management deployment. - Network management and monitoring tools setup. - Cisco Telepresence & Skype for Business (S4B) service design and roll-out.

Responsible for Bank processes outsourcing projects across the company’s network, from design through support, ensuring operational continuity & meeting strategic business objectives. Responsible for network design and deployment, migration procedures in production environments and B2B Negotiations with hardware and service providers. Designed and deployed a low-cost VPN-IPSec solution to provide 3rd party companies access to BBVA internal network. Operations team lead. Developed new standards for secure and reliable access for outsourcing companies accessing the Bank’s network over leased lines. Acting as 3rd level incident support.

Contributed to the network design & implementation for a high-availability data & video network environment. Checkpoint Firewall administration and troubleshooting. Staff training & customer faced technical documentation elaboration. IT Airport Authorities assistance in network issues. NMS software deployment and training. Network inventory. Level 3 on-call support.