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Latin America And Canada

Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to help identify, qualify, and develop features critical to Fortinet's success;Subject-matter in pre-sales design reviews and authoritative consultant to Field System Engineers by providing technical guidance and leadership;Participate with SE peers to lead the design and architecture of secure Public Cloud - utilizing and leveraging all aspects of Fortinet product line to create superior solutions in competitive environments.Products scope: AI for Cloud Security, DevSecOps, CNAPP, CWPP, CSPM, CIEM

- Responsible for propose Cloud Architecture alligned with business and technical requirements for all the enterprise aplication;- Discovery new services and methodologies apllied to Cloud environment;- Automation of AWS products and services(IaC);- Networking and Security Architectures;- Monitoring and Observability tools.

Expertise in the proposal of architecture and services for Telco Cloud, 5G, Open Network, NFV, SDN for Tier 1 operators in the LaTam and Europe market, including: Telefonica, DOCOMO, TIM, Claro.Technical leadership in the implementation of Telefonica Brasil Unica Next Platform, with the following vendors: VMware, Cisco, Openstack, Arista, HP, Dell, Infoblox, PKI.Architecture development and deployment of 5G Network Slice (end to end), with the following players: Telefonica, AWS, Cisco, Mavenir, ONAP, OSM, Dell, FibrolanProspecting for technologies and partners applied to the Edge Cloud and 5G market.Development of complex architectures for Hybrid Cloud, Networking and Security.Development of technical/commercial solutions, and RFI and RFP responses.Teaching on Cloud, SDN and Network AutomationTelco Cloud and SDN evangelist.

Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Acting as Solutions Architect in the Cloud product squad (IaaS and PaaS)Architecture Chapter Leader at Tribe of ICT Solutions

Prospecting technologies applied to the Telco and Data Center businessIT governance structuring focused on the Telecom businessSupport in the transformation of a Telco to the Digital modelStructuring and conducting a PCN for the IT businessMaking the design and RFP of Cloud and Network Data Center projectsEvaluation of technical/commercial proposals with a decision matrixGlobal Market Maturity Level Benchmark on NFV AdoptionProposal for the evolution of services considering the ETSI NFV Architecture (VNF-M andVNF-O) Prioritization of functions to be virtualized (VNF's) based on market maturity.Responsible for defending the CAPEX of the annual ICT portfolio

Development of initiatives for Algar Telecom's Data MonetizationResearch of market trends, suppliers and consultancy for ideationStudy of application of IoT, ML, Big Data, AI and Analytics technologies to the Data Monetizationbusiness.Assessment of the Regulatory Landscape with LGPDPrototyping of business MVP's with B2B clients Algar100% Agile methodology

Uberlândia E Região, Brasil

Responsible for the technical and financial planning of CAPEX related to the products of theData Center line.Support in the structuring of the annual Roadmap of ICT products.Expertise in defining the technical architecture of the ICT demands of the B2Bsegment. Support to the marketing area in the implementation of products, such as:- Cloud- MultiCloud- FWaaS- VaaS- Cloud Backup- SD WANTechnological prospection in the lines of DevOps, Cloud Computing, Telco Cloud and SDN/NFVSolution design for deployment of vEPC, NFVi(VMWare and Redhat Openstack), SDN(Cisco ACI),SDS(Redhat Ceph)Support for strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) decisionsSupport in strategic decision making based on consultancies such as: Gartner andIDC Participation in:NFV World Congress - San Jose, CA - May 2017Gartner IO & Data Center Summit - São Paulo - April 2018AWS Summit - São Paulo - June 2018VBC - VMware Briefing Center - Palo Alto - July 2018

Uberlândia E Região, Brasil

- Prospecting and implementation of 2 Private Cloud Mirantis OpenStack environments. -Definition and publication of policies for applications using the Cloud Computing environment- Planning together with the virtualization team to revitalize the Corporate Data Center. - Cisco4510 Network Core upgrade to Cisco Nexus with FabricPath and Blade servers. - Delivery oftraining on the Data Center networkInstallation and operation of elements of Algar Telecom's Corporate network (approximately 500elements):- Cisco and Juniper routers and switches- Fortinet and Cisco Firewall- F5 BIG-IP balancer- Cisco WiFi Controller- Video Conference System: Avaya and Cisco- Backup, monitoring and network management systems

Uberlândia E Região, Brasil

Working as Customer Engineering, providing specialized support to pre-sales team in customizes B2BprojectsDesign, pricing and defense of data communication solutions (MPLS, VOIP, DedicatedLink) Support to commercial offices in the interior of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro capital.Working on projects for strategic clients such as Petrobras, Embraer, CNI, among others.

Uberlândia E Região, Brasil

Activation and Operation of the Corporate security environment of the Algar Telecom network, and ofB2B customers with data and voice communication products:- Operation of Fortinet, Cisco, Juniper, Linux and Check Point firewalls- Activation of Data Center customer network- Legal interception processes- Log Analysis- Mitigating action in DoS attacks- Administration of DNS, Proxy and Radius servers- Deployment of CPE's Cisco, Juniper, Huawei in MPLS clients- SSL VPN / IPSec VPN deployment and operation

Uberlândia E Região, Brasil

Technical support to B2C and B2B customers of NetSuper Internet products and Netsite provider.

Uberlândia E Região, Brasil

Maintenance in Hardware and Software of micro computers and peripherals.Deployment of network servers (proxy, firewall, dns) based on Linux.Maintenance of HTML websites

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