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With over 25 years of experience leading engineering and operations teams in submarine and terrestrial networks, as well as managing data center operations. My expertise lies in assisting clients to achieve the best outcomes and transforming their networks and data centers. I am committed to network optimization, resource efficiency (space and energy), budget planning, customer delivery, and network support service, all aligned with the highest market standardsExpert in Data Center Supervision and Management, I possess solid experience and knowledge in the comprehensive supervision and management of Data Centers, excelling in the effective administration of teams and the optimization of processes and workflows. My proactive approach to critical and emergency situations has enabled me to develop and refine contingency and disaster response plans, ensuring operational continuity and resilience.In the management of infrastructure services, I specialize in negotiating agreements, adhering to SLAs, and implementing preventive and corrective maintenance, ensuring maximum system availability and performance. As a professional with extensive multicultural experience, I am recognized for my proactivity, dedication, and reliability, with proven competencies in managing global and multidisciplinary teams.Strong expertise:* Engineering and operations transformation projects* Terrestrial and Submarine System (growth, maintenance and repair).* Network Architecture and Planning (design, deployment, testing and production)* Big Project management* Network Operations center* Customer delivery transformation* Datacenter, POPs and colocation areas (infrastructure and operation)* Budget optimization (CAPEX y OPEX)* Relationship with the main brands (Network and infrastructure)* Creation and Improvement of Processes and Workflows* Certificaciones (ICREA, Uptime, ISO, ITIL)

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

In January 2022, I also assume the Engineering director roll in addition to my role as Director of Operations, allowing me to lead the Datacenters growth and transformation of the subsea and terrestrial network, including the expansion of capacity and the adoption of best technologies and infrastructure. My experience in both operation and engineering allows me to lead the most complex projects with the best guarantee, quality, productivity and costs.I lead the engineering and operations team with more than 60 engineers and responsible for other areas like customer delivery, provisioning, Infrastructure, Subsea & terrestrial network, IP & Security. I am in charge of more than 26,000 km of submarine and terrestrial network, 9 cable landing stations, 12 Pops and 2 Datacenters.Achievements;Transformation and Teamwork: I created an environment of collaboration and exceptional support between all the areas supervised. This allowed agile work with the highest quality standards and guarantees.Budget Management: I am responsible for $13M Bduget (CAPEX - OPEX), used for network grow (18 Tb in 2 years) and infrastructure upgrades, maintenance, support agreements, marine service, storage, etc... Network Planning and Design: Responsible for planning, design and implementation of terrestrial & Submarine networks (more than 26000km). Optical Network Experience: Lead the construction and upgrade of terrestrial & submarine optical networks using leading brands such as Ciena, Infinera, Tyco, ASN, Xtera.. With focus on optimization, best practices, quality and cost.Protection, Restoration and redundancy: I designed protection and restoration strategies for Transmission and IP networks, with the best optimization solutions on the market, guaranteeing service continuity in failure situations. Also integrating Geomesh technology, improving network efficiency and redundancy.Certifications ISO27001, ICREA AND ECOII (sustainability) I led main certifications in the market.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

I lead the operations team with more than 50 engineers and several teams like customer delivery, provisioning, Infrastructure, IP & Security and IaaS. I am in charge of more than 26,000 km of submarine and terrestrial network, 9 cable landing stations, 10 Pops and 2 Datacenters in North America, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. I lead all projects, maintenances services, infrastructures, and changes management with more than $11M budget (CAPEX and OPEX). I have many experiences working with the more relevant brands in the market like Ciena, Alcatel, Xtera Infinera, Juniper, Cisco, Huawei, Nokia, etc... And the best last miles providers. I led more than 9 subsea cable cuts from the detection, vessel mobilization agreement, repair, and payment and more than 5 terrestrial event in the fronthaul segment.Also, responsible of NOC 24x7 service, keeping and monitoring more than 3500 services with total focus on customer service and relationship. Responsible for operating the big projects of the company like the new Datacenters in Fortaleza-Brazil (400 racks) and Barranquilla-Colombia (200 racks) and the new Malbec subsea cable deployment in 2020 and 2021 between Rio, Praia Grande (Brazil) and Las Toninas (Argentina)

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

I lead a team with twenty-five engineers in the Americas, operating and maintenance seven subsea cable stations and one Datacenter, more that 23000km subsea cable around the Americas. I’m in charge of all the projects, operation services and maintenances related with the Infrastructure or network of the company. Also, I lead the provisioning team, getting better of delivery of circuits, space, rack powers and other customer services.Also, responsible of NOC 24x7 service, 15 operators, and supervisors, keeping more than 1000 services.I am taking care of all maintenance the technology and infrastructure implemented in our cable stations. Full CAPEX/OPEX responsibility (vendors management).

Madrid, Madrid, Es

Led all the projects and services related with the Infrastructure of the company across Europe. I am in charge of planning and managing the field operations for the biggest business division of the company, which is the carpark services for airports in Europe (23 airports including Madrid-Barajas, Gatwick London, Stansted London, Lisbon…). I am taking care of all the technology and infrastructure implemented on them (NOC operations included). Full CAPEX/OPEX responsibility (vendors management) and revenue recognition. In addition to that, I am charge of all the Infrastructure (Networking, Datacenter, Cloud…) of the company giving support to more than 2000 users and more than 178 sites at international level.

Pozuelo De Alarcón, Madrid, Es

Led all the Infrastructure strategy for 19 countries in two paths, internally providing services to the users, but too aligned with sales and presales teams being Infrastructure the main "show room" during the selling and preselling processes. Additionally: - Developed and led the most known quality and security standards: ISO20000 and ISO27001. - Led the optimization of the cloud platforms of the company. - Defined the plan and design of the new voice, video and data architecture (including telepresence environments). - Defined the cloud strategy managing on premise and cloud datacenters globally for the 19 countries orchestrating all the operations. - Managed all the OPEX & CAPEX at global and regional level (more than US $ 3MM). - Led the iNOC/iSOC operation for Europe in the different layers and in charge of a 24x7.

Pozuelo De Alarcón, Madrid, Es

Led the User Support Center, with over 1200 users spread across 14 locations. Leading a group of eight operators: - Performing, preventive and corrective maintenance of hardware and software platforms. - Budgetary control of the area, shopping, renting of equipment and material. - Planning, management and maintenance support of the communication platforms and infrastructure Datacenter's. - Coordination and maintenance of security policies (Firewall, Anti-spam, tunnels, VPN access, etc...) - Management and improvement of supplier agreements with 3rd parties (Fixed / mobile / Data) and definition of savings plans

Es

Led transformational projects as well as the creation of the business continuity plan for the company through ITIL best practices. In addition to that: - Responsible of managing all the IT Budget. - Led the negotiation & execution responsibilities with all the technology 3rd parties. - Orchestrated all the internal company projects stablishing metrics and kpis to all of them.

Bachelor Of Science In Information Systems, Computer And Information Sciences, General

Specialist In Computing Management Systems, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration And Management, General