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Principal Solutions Architect

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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.

Cisco Systems 6 roles

Systems Architect | EMEA Partner Organization

September 2021 – Present Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 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

2019 – 2021 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 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.
Key Achievement

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

2018 – 2019 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 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.
Key Achievement

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

2016 – 2018 Lisbon, Portugal
  • Sales Engineer for Large Enterprise and Public Sector Markets in Portugal.
  • Responsible for leading the Enterprise Networking Routing & Switching architecture in Portugal.
Key Achievement

Spearheaded efforts to kick start adoption of cloud-based networking solutions in-country, achieving growth of +150% YoY.

Network Consulting Engineer | EMEAR Advanced Services

2012 – 2016 Lisbon, Portugal
  • 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

2011 – 2012 Brussels, Belgium
  • 7-month intensive training program to align recent graduates with a consultant role within Cisco.
REN - Redes Energéticas de Portugal

Telecommunications Engineer | IT Department

2010 – 2011 Lisbon, Portugal
  • Created and evaluated RFPs for REN telecom networks and handled technical project management.

The Lisbon MBA Executive

Católica | Nova

Lisbon, Portugal • 2018 • 17/20

Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Instituto Superior Técnico

Lisbon, Portugal • 2010 • 17/20

Erasmus Programme

Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya

Barcelona, Spain

CCIE Routing & Switching #38532
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
ID: LF-1shsjwcg0d
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
ID: YOWGP7ZDKEB4QT5H
GCP - Professional Cloud Architect
ID: 24747341
GCP - Professional Cloud Network Engineer
ID: 28014753
GCP - Associate Cloud Engineer
ID: 21307458
Devnet Associate
Meraki CMNA
ITIL 2011 Foundation

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