David has work in the IT & Internet Industry for over 15 years, specialising in IP networking, security and cloud services. Prior to OptaNet David was part of the founding team at StratoGen a rapidly growing VMware hosting provider. As Network Manager of Mistral Internet David grew the network from a small dialup network to and multinational MPLS enabled service provider. Mistral was later sold to Kingston communications where David stayed as Network Manager and carried out the network integrations of sister company Eclipse Internet. At the same time David have been building and supporting some of the world’s largest tradeshow and conference networks around the world for many of the industry’s leading IT companies.- Internetworking engineer with broad experience.- Cisco and Broadsoft call manager experience.- Extensive Cisco Service Control experience.- Complete Service Provider networking.- Building large-scale networks for European trade shows.- Enterprise networking environments.- Service Provider integration.- Technical solution design and implementation.- Networking pre-sales including complex hosting.- Product development.- Network virtualisation and cloud computing.- Vendor/Supplier relationship development.- Cisco and Foundry networking.- Operational cost analysis and management.- Technical project management.- Team management including HR and employment law.- ITIL v3 Foundation networking.