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Career Summary
IT professional with +10 years of experience in the computer networking industry in delivery, consultancy and sales roles.
Experience across service provider and enterprise markets in EMEAR.
Lisbon MBA alumni and CCIE/AWS/GCP certified.
Currently working as Systems Architect at Cisco, helping EMEA SP and IT partners build compelling B2B offers.
Systems Architect | EMEA Partner Organization
- Pre-Sales Architect helping EMEA SP and IT partners build compelling B2B offers leveraging Cisco technologies.
Tech Focus: Enterprise Networking, Network Security, SASE, SD-WAN, SDA.
Architect Business Development Manager | EMEAR CX BDM Team
- Architect Business Development Manager in the Customer Experience (CX) organization for Large Enterprise, Public Sector and Service Provider segments in the EMEAR region.
- Focused on growing the adoption of Cisco services for Network Automation, Orchestration and Assurance solutions.
- Responsible for providing CX pre-sales support and technical architecture guidance to Cisco account teams and customers.
- Translated business and technical requirements into professional services proposals.
- Provided business performance analysis up to VP level stakeholders, including forecasting and pipeline management.
- Developed business case and level of effort (LoE) tool for network automation projects now adopted at the EMEA level.
Part of the team that sold the first major multi-million USD xHaul 5G transport project in a Western European SP.
Tech Focus: Network Automation, Orchestration and Assurance, Telco Cloud, CICD.
Systems Engineer | EMEAR SPaaCH Team
- Sales Engineer for Western Europe in the Service Provider as a channel (SPaaCH) team.
- Worked with service providers in a consultant role to create new B2B managed services.
Introduction of first combined SD-LAN/SD-WAN managed service in The Netherlands targeting the SME market.
Tech Focus: SD-WAN, SDA & Network Automation.
Systems Engineer | Cisco Portugal Sales Team
- Sales Engineer for Large Enterprise and Public Sector Markets in Portugal.
- Responsible for leading the Enterprise Networking Routing & Switching architecture in Portugal.
Spearheaded efforts to kick start adoption of cloud-based networking solutions in-country, achieving growth of +150% YoY.
Network Consulting Engineer | EMEAR Advanced Services
- Designed, tested and deployed solutions based on Cisco technologies for Service Providers.
Tech Focus: Service Provider Routing (MPLS/MP-BGP Networks), Network Management, Mobile Packet Core (LTE EPC).
Associate Network Consulting Engineer | Cisco Graduate Program
- 7-month intensive training program to align recent graduates with a consultant role within Cisco.
Telecommunications Engineer | IT Department
- Created and evaluated RFPs for REN telecom networks and handled technical project management.
The Lisbon MBA Executive
Católica | Nova
Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico
Erasmus Programme
Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
Portuguese
Native speaker
English
Fluent speaker
Spanish
Intermediate speaker
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