Nick Pope Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga

Greater Atlanta Area

• Currently managing a small team of architects providing:...a reference design and subject-matter expertise for company-wide PaaS layer based on Kubernetes that must deploy both in AWS and on-prem...guidance on packaging and deployment automation (Ansible, Jenkins)...deployment/networking/security best practices for Kubernetes, AWS and on-prem environments...logging and monitoring architecture based on EFK+Kafka and Prometheus/Grafana...analysis of AWS and on-prem BOM costs including changes to reference design to optimize costs.• Provide pre- and post-sales support for deployment best practices of the PaaS layer and the Video Delivery Platform for customers worldwide

Greater Atlanta Area

- Managed a small team of architects providing:... a reference design and subject-matter expertise for company-wide PaaS layer based on Kubernetes that must deploy both in AWS and on-prem... guidance on packaging and deployment automation (Ansible, Jenkins)... deployment/networking/security best practices for Kubernetes, AWS and on-prem environments... logging and monitoring architecture based on EFK+Kafka and Prometheus/Grafana... analysis of AWS and on-prem BOM costs including changes to reference design to optimize costs.- Provide pre- and post-sales support for deployment best practices of the PaaS layer and the Video Delivery Platform for customers worldwide

Greater Atlanta Area

- End-to-end systems architect for SP video delivery platform- Part of a team of architects that provided expertise and guidance on virtualizing Cisco’s video delivery products and, later, containerization of same- Helped design, build and document new control plane components within Cisco’s SP video delivery platform- Provided pre- and post-sales support for all SP video delivery platform customers worldwide- Established best practices for deployment, networking and security of Cisco’s SP video delivery platform

Greater Atlanta Area

- Primary solutions architect for company-wide IP video solution- Published design guide for IP video delivery with Cisco networking products for use by customers and Cisco sales teams- Provided training to sales teams on best practices for using Cisco products in the delivery of consumer video/entertainment services- Provided Video-over-IP subject matter expertise for sales teams selling Cisco products to cable and telco customers

Greater Atlanta Area

- Overall architecture lead across BellSouth account for all Cisco products- Coordinated with other tier-1 telco sales teams to find common requirements and design/deployment patterns for Cisco products- Served as liaison to product management and engineering teams on major features and additions to product lines driven by Tier-1 Telco customers- Presented customer use-cases and reference designs for Cisco products in the tier-1 telco space at Cisco customer events

Greater Atlanta Area

- Managed team of 10 engineers supporting BellSouth IT and IP packet core- Coordinated response to major BellSouth RFPs- Served as liaison to product management and engineering teams for critical new features and product updates driven by BellSouth requirements- Served as liaison to Cisco TAC and engineering teams for major outages/incidents involving Cisco products at BellSouth

Greater Atlanta Area

- Lead MPLS & MetroE SE for BellSouth core routing & switching region- Helped plan, sell and deploy BellSouth’s Metro Ethernet service- Part of focused SE team supporting BellSouth MPLS primary packet core

Greater Atlanta Area

- Pre- and post-sales support for Sonus carrier packet voice products for major accounts in the southeastern U.S. sales region, including: - BellSouth class-4 packet voice tandem network - CBeyond class-5 packet voice network

Greater Atlanta Area

- Helped refine business plan and raise $3M in venture capital 1st and 2nd round funding- Helped hire key management team members- Primary architect of InfraStream network designed to provide converged voice and data services to businesses in commercial real-estate properties- Headed up engineering team and managed product requirements for all InfraStream products

Greater Atlanta Area

- Pre- and post-sales support for all Cisco products across military and civilian U.S. government accounts, including RFP responses and customer design and installation support.- ATM, frame relay and packet voice technology specialist for Cisco Federal sales area.Trained Cisco Federal area sales teams on: - Core routing and switching technologies - Large-scale WAN design - Transitioning legacy voice networks to packet voice- Obtained Routing & Switching CCIE certification (#3916)

Atlanta, Ga

- Primary systems admin for campus-wide mail, news and UUCP servers- Design and maintenance of ~80-subnet, campus-wide network backbone including transition from RIP to multi-area-OSPF/BGP with VLSM and summarization.- Design and maintenance of Georgia Tech’s primary network BGP peering connections to NSFnet and other major educational network backbones in southeastern U.S (including experimental high-speed ATM/SONET links to other major educational institutions)- Provided volunteer support and network setup for non-profits in Atlanta area, including Fernbank Museum and Fernbank Science Center.