| Milo Andelic Network Engineering and Planning Tool Product Line Manager Nokia Milo Andelic has comprehensive expertise in creating, evaluating and delivering telecommunications solutions that effectively address needs and business challenges in markets that span Europe, Oceania, Asia and North America. He is the Network Engineering and Planning Tool Product Line Manager and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from The University of Auckland, New Zealand. | |
| Marco Belotti Optical Certification Program - Trainer Nokia Marco Belotti is a Training and Certification Professional and he deals with the “Optical Networks Certification” Program. Prior to joining the Learning Services, he played as Project Manager and TEC engineer, with focus on Optical products (1830 PSS, 1350 OMS, 1850 TSS, etc.). He handled introduction, management and configuration of optic/electric transmission systems in major customers’ networks, becoming a world traveler by joining more than 60 projects in about 25 countries worldwide during his 10-year experience in Nokia. | |
| Matt Briley VP Optics NAM Nokia Matt currently leads the North American Optical Networking business at Nokia. With 19 years in the telecommunications industry working for multiple manufacturers, service providers, and consultants he possesses a diverse and compressive view of the Optical Networking industry. Previously, Matt led the server provider business at LightRiver Technologies, held a direct sales roll at Infinera where he brought in over 25 new clients including several multimillion dollar accounts growing the region to require multiple sales and engineering resources. Matt has also spent time at Ciena where he was a Director of Engineering for the Verizon Business and AT&T account teams. | |
| Sam Bucci SVP & GM, Optical Networking Business Unit Nokia Sam Bucci is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Optical Networking Business Unit at Nokia. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent in 2009, Sam worked at Nortel and Siemens and has held global leadership positions in General Business Management, professional services, R&D, Supply Chain, System Engineering, Product Line Management, and Business Development. He has managed complex global business for over 20 years. Sam joined Nokia through the Alcatel-Lucent acquisition in 2016. Sam holds a B.Eng. from McGill University in Canada. | |
| Sylvain Chenard Product Line Manager, IP/Optical Networks Business Group Nokia Sylvain has over 20 year of experience in the communications industry. His main focus is on transport network security and cloud computing/networking. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a B.Sc.A graduate from the Département du Génie Electrique, Université Laval in Québec, Canada. He holds a technical degree in Micro-électronique from the Collège de Sherbrooke in Québec, Canada. He is also a member of the IEEE Communications and Computer Societies and of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec. | |
| Tim Drake Principle Consultant Nokia Tim Drake is a Principle Consultant within the IP and Optical Networking division with special focus on the Partner and Alliance segments. Prior to joining Nokia he has held multiple technical and business development positions. | |
| Randy Eisenach Optical Networks - Product Management Nokia Randy Eisenach is responsible for Optical Networks Product Line Management at Nokia. He specializes in optical transport technologies, next generation wavelength routing architectures, and high speed photonics. Randy has over 25 years of optical transport and networking experience and has held a wide range of senior level positions in systems engineering, product management, and product marketing. He has authored several papers and spoken at many industry conferences. Randy recently joined Nokia after previously holding similar positions at Fujitsu and Nortel. Randy has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (BSEE ’83). | |
| Marco Faccin Transport Trial Delivery Customer Engineer Nokia I´m employed in Nokia since year 2000, before in Nokia Italy , then, from 2001 in Nokia Brazil. I followed 1350OMS development since 2000, starting with Level 2 support , then in Network Integration. Currently I´m in Trial and Delivery Team. | |
| Kyle Hollasch Director of Product Marketing for Optical Networking Nokia Kyle Hollasch is Director of Product Marketing for Optical Networking at Nokia where he is responsible for promoting the company's broad portfolio of packet optical transport solutions. Prior to Nokia, Kyle held roles in sales engineering and product line management at Cisco Systems, including responsibility for marketing, sales enablement and strategic customer engagements involving optical technologies across both service provider and enterprise markets. Kyle began his career as a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies, performing research involving high speed data transmission over unshielded twisted pair cabling, and leading the deployment of long haul DWDM systems. Kyle holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. | |
| Chris Janson Product Marketing Manager Nokia In his current role with Nokia, Chris Janson follows trends in optical networking technology and their application to finance, healthcare, utilities, government and educational customers. Mr. Janson has been a speaker at many conferences including Interop 2014, Internet2 annual technology meetings, and a 2015 series of executive forums sponsored by CenturyLink and CIO magazine. He has also shared his work through many webinars, written publications, on-line videos and articles. Mr. Janson also serves on the boards of directors of the Rural Telecommunications Congress and the non-profit OpenCape Corporation. He holds an MBA from Boston University and Bachelor of Science in engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology. | |
| Karyn Lennon Senior Director, IP/Optical Networks Learning Services Nokia Karyn Lennon leads the Learning Services function for Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks Business Group. In her role, Karyn is responsible for setting the strategic direction and development of Nokia’s Optical educational services which includes the Nokia Optical Networks Certification Program. In addition to the Optical program, Karyn directs both Nokia’s flagship IP/MPLS certification program, the Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program which has over 14,000 individuals participating globally and the Nuage Networks Virtuoso Certification Program (NN-VCP). Prior to her role in Learning Services, Karyn held various PLM and Marketing positions at Newbridge Networks and Alcatel-Lucent. Karyn received her Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa. | |
| Lieven Levrau Product Line Director Strategy, Optical Networking Nokia LIEVEN LEVRAU received an M. Sc. degree in Applied Physics engineering (Photonics) from the University of Brussels (VUB) in 1994 and he has studied Avionics at the University of Ghent. He has participated in several European and national research projects. His current research interests are focused on design issues related to multi-layer network control architectures for core, metro and data center networks, especially in network virtualization related issues, security and multi layer optical packet and transport networks for service providers and cloud providers. In his currently role as Product Line Director within the Optical Networking Business Division, he is responsible for the Business Unit strategy covering 5G and mobile transport solution. He is an IEEE member and Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy (ALTA08) member. | |
| Hector Menendez Product Marketing Manager, IP/Optical Networks Nokia Hector is focused on optical networking solutions. In this role, he develops and markets service provider solutions on topics including mobile fronthaul, mobile backhaul, and secure optical transport. Hector has over 25 years of telecommunications experience and has held a variety of positions including project analyst, events management, market development, and solutions/product marketing at AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nokia. He is co-author of several technical articles and papers and is a frequent speaker at events. Hector holds an MBA from the School of Business at Rutgers University, New Jersey. | |
| Dat Ngo Product Line Manager Nokia Dat Ngo received his B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from New Mexico State University. His post-doctoral research on applicability of light scattering was done at the Army Research Lab in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He has been with the company since 1996 during its transformation from AT&T/Lucent/Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia. Dat has in-depth knowledge and experience in IP/Data & Photonics/Optical Networking, having worked as system engineer and system architect in various product lines throughout the years. He has published technical papers in peer review journals, and holds a number of patents related to his work. He likes to dabble in security enhancements in his spare time. Dat is currently the Product Line Manager (PLM) for the 1830PSS Engineering Planning Tool (EPT). | |
| Nicola Pietrantonio Product Manager Nokia Nicola Pietrantonio is product manager for Optical Planning Tools at Nokia with focus on multi-switching layers networks planning. Nicola has been direct supporting in the last 5 years the design of key complex optical transport networks including restoration, leveraging this experience to define the functionalities of the product and promote the benefits of an optimized planning at customer and public events. Nicola holds a MS in Telecommunication Engineering from Pisa University. | |
| Phil Pilgrim North America Business Development Leader for Optical Subsea Market Nokia Philip Pilgrim has recently joined Nokia’s business development group for subsea. He has a rich and diverse experience from working within many organizations that operated submarine cable systems or provided submarine cable system equipment and guidance. His work has touched over 40 submarine cable systems which included: operations, maintenance, deployment, purchase, capacity expansion, planning, design, commissioning, testing, restoration, RFP creation, RFP response, contract review, training, or repairing. Philip's area of interest is in real-time wet plant health monitoring and automated fault locating using electrical and optical methods. Philip also has an active interest in the history and research of very early submarine telegraph cables. Philip is based in Nova Scotia, Canada. | |
| Allen Rush Solutions Architect and PLM, Optical Networking Nokia Allen is focused on optical networking solutions architecture, currently on applications for backhaul of MSO cable access network fiber deep / distribution access architecture deployment. Allen has 30+ years of experience in the communication networks industry, with roles ranging from hardware design, system architecture, systems engineering, technical marketing, and product management. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master's of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of California, Berkeley respectively. | |
| Samrat Sood Product Line Manager, Packet Optical Portfolio Nokia Samrat Sood with experience of 12 + years in Telecom Industry is Product Line Manager for Packet Optical Portfolio. He has worked in various extremely competitive markets like Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Canada helping numerous customers to design, optimize and build cost effective and future-proof networks. In his current role, he ensures that Packet Optical Portfolio enables customer networks for future capacity growth with flexibility and using resources to full potential. | |
| Lubo Tancevski Director, Transport SDN Solutions Nokia Lubo Tancevski is currently in the Nokia Optical Business Unit PLM organization. He is responsible for Product Strategy and end-to-end solution for Transport SDN and Cloud services. Prior, he worked on various aspects of transport networks, including Data Center Interconnect, and Ethernet for LTE Mobile Backhaul. He also worked on early developments in Carrier-Grade Ethernet, including IEEE 802.1 standardization activities. Lubo has more than 20 years experience in the telecommunication industry, has authored numerous papers and patent, and invited presentations and talks at industry’s main events. He joined Alcatel in 1998. He holds BSc, MSc, and PhD in EE from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. | |
| Glenn Warnock Curriculum Architect ION Learning Services Nokia Glenn has a long career in telecommunications consulting and training. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, he worked on network design and security for a variety of companies and government departments in Ottawa. These included Prior Data Sciences, AT&T Canada and Apple as well as eight years as professor in the Computer Studies department at Algonquin College. Glenn joined Alcatel in 2006 to lead the design and development of content for the Service Router Certification (SRC) program, and more recently design and development of the Nuage Networks Virtuoso Certification Program (NN-VCP). Glenn has authored two books; Alcatel-Lucent Network Routing Specialist II (NRS II) Self-Study Guide: Preparing for the NRS II Certification Exams and Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing Architect (SRA) Self-Study Guide: Preparing for the BGP, VPRN and Multicast Exams. | |
| Peter Winzer Director Nokia Bell Labs Peter J. Winzer received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1998. Supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), he investigated photon-starved space-borne Doppler lidar and laser communications using high-sensitivity digital modulation and detection. At Bell Labs since 2000, he has focused on various aspects of high-bandwidth fiber-optic communication systems, including Raman amplification, advanced optical modulation formats, multiplexing schemes, and receiver concepts, digital signal processing and coding, as well as on robust network architectures for dynamic data services. He contributed to several high-speed and high-capacity optical transmission records with interface rates from 10 Gb/s to 1 Tb/s, including the first 100G and the first 400G electronically multiplexed optical transmission systems and the first field trial of live 100G video traffic over an existing carrier network. Since 2008 he has been investigating and internationally promoting spatial multiplexing as a promising option to scale optical transport systems beyond the capacity limits of single-mode fiber. He currently heads the Optical Transmission Systems and Networks Research Department at Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. He has widely published and patented and is actively involved in technical and organizational tasks with the IEEE Photonics Society and the Optical Society of America (OSA), currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology and as Program Chair of the 2015 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC). Dr. Winzer is a Bell Labs Fellow and a Fellow of the IEEE and the OSA. | |
| Szilard Zsigmond Product Line Manager, Optical Networking Nokia Szilard Zsigmond is the Principal Product Line Manager of photonic line systems, amplifiers and node configurations at Nokia. He is also the Product Line Manager of Terrestrial-Subsea integration. Szilard has extensive knowledge of optical communication systems and expertise of fiber-optics communication. Before joining Nokia, Szilard was working as researcher and lecturer at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He was also visiting researcher at NICT-National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japan. From 2010, he joined Alcatel-Lucent where he was responsible for Central & North-East region of Europe serving as a solution architect. From 2012 become the solution architect of Asia-Pacific region later becomes the head of Asia-Pacific regional Product Line Management. From 2014 joined the core Product Line Management team being the principal Product Line Manager of photonic line systems. Szilard holds a PH.D. from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, has numerous speaking in various conferences; he has published more than 40 scientific papers. | |
