Bjørn Skovlund Rydén Email & Phone Number

Castile-La Mancha, Spain

London, United Kingdom

Being treated with all the good stuff from CNCF. Kubernetes, Helm, Ceph, Rook, Ansible, Mongo along with the all the delicious infrastructure to support it, being on-premise or cloud.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Glostrup

Managing 2nd Level network department, internal IT department and operational IT department.

London, United Kingdom

Technologies:Juniper EX, MX, QFX, SRXSpaceSecure AnalyticsCustomers:UniversitiesHospitalsFinancialGovernment

London, United Kingdom

• Managing Internal IT Services, Core and Access Networks and Level 2 Support.• Restructured into a more simplified setup with Network Operations and Development.• 15 people and 1 manager in reference.• Responsible for company-wide security .• Short time in role, but managed to increase focus on strategic manoeuvring, while rebuilding the energy in the teams.• Still haven't lost an employee, which I take as the biggest compliment and achievement in my managerial roles.

Reported to COO.• Responsibility for core, edge and distribution network, Cirpack VOIP platform and Linux/FreeBSD servers.• Rebuilt and restructured the Core Net department.• Formed the new network strategy .• Outsourced surveillance center to TDC.• Increased robustness through processes and documentation.• Heavily improved image of department in the rest of the organization, making especially the support department very happy.• Formed a framework for network/systems education mainly to improve competences in support.• Hired for attitude, taught skills.• Continuously participated in leadership education, growth initiatives and the management forum for the subsidiary .• Responsible for network and systems security at compliance level.

Been the last line of defense on all technical issues in the network.• Extended the network from roughly 20 POPs to about 130.• Supported a DSL customer growth from 2.500 to 150.000.• Migrated the infrastructure from one subnet with 2.500 customers to a national network with 10 core-sites in a BGP mesh and IGP in the distribution network.• Worked out subscriber management design for eBSA products (reselling incumbents DSL lines). Design was later changed to run with RADIUS backend and enabling IPv6 and VRF.• Responsibility for peering and transit arrangements.• Helped on servers, DSLAMs and other technical aspects of running an ISP.• Done the monthly finance reports and yearly budgets.• Responsible for vendor choices.• Key role in both business and technical aspects of the IPTV project.• Implemented MPLS - technology and services.

• Technical deployment and administration of the corporate worldwide network and the development setup based in Copenhagen.• Managing relations to our managed hosting partner, Cable & Wireless in London and later with Armada Hosting in Denmark.• Created a configuration management tool to maintain the 6 different development platforms, total of about 40 servers. Mostly based on VMWare virtual servers.• Mapping business processes for content-delivery, fault-handling and ordering (also developed a requisition system to use for this process).• Continuously helped the company as a consultant 2 years after I resigned.

AppleCare is Apples call centers and I worked in Cork, Ireland. This was mainly just to try living abroad. Apart from learning to love Apples products and struggling with their customers, I mainly just did slavery work – which was the point of it all.

Coordination of surveillance-, operational and teletechnician-personnel. Developed systems for planning deployment of new DSL equipment.

Network administration on national ISP network, on IP, ATM and DSL layers. Had systemadministration on FreeBSD, mainly through part of the call-duty.Developed, implemented and measured on ISO processes for the technical division.

Support on ISP sollutions, mainly DSL connections.