| Diego Achaval IP NPI Engineer/Network Architect Nokia Diego is a networking technology enthusiast with more than 12 years of experience in the realms of the network design/architecture. Currently working as an IP NPI Engineer/Network Architect, he is responsible for the introduction of new technologies and for designing/architecting solutions for our customers across the Americas. He also holds several industry certifications like Nokia SRA and CCIE | |
| Mustapha Aissaoui Product Line Manager, IP Routing & Packet Core, IP/Optical Networks (ION) Nokia Mustapha Aissaoui is a Product Manager in the Service Router Product Group of the IP/Optical Networks at Nokia. He holds an Electrical Engineering Diploma from Polytechnic School of Algiers and a MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa. Mustapha Aissaoui is an active participant of the IETF PWE3, L2VPN, MPLS, PCE, and SPRING working groups. He is a co-author and a major contributor to many drafts in these working groups. | |
| Shadid Akhtar Senior Consultant Nokia Bell Labs Senior Consultant, Nokia Bell Labs, Shahid has been with Nokia/ALU for over 11 years. He has held several senior technical roles in the video business unit and Bell Labs. He has consulted with many large operators on network design, video networks and performance optimization. He has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St-Louis. He has published several papers in the areas of network design and optimization, video and CDN networks and performance/QoE. He has over 17 patents – granted or pending and also contributes to several standards forums - IETF (TCPM/AQM/CDNI) and SVA. | |
| Ghaleb Al-Habian Nuage New Product Introduction Engineer Nokia Working in the Nuage NPI team, Ghaleb helps demonstrate and lead proof-of-concept trials of new and exciting SD-WAN and DC-SDN use-cases to interested customers. He has extensive experience integrating Nuage VNS/VSP solutions into Openstack, Openshift/Kubernetes, and 7750/SR products, as well as API/automation integration with Nuage. Ghaleb has almost 10 years of telecom experience covering the domains of IP backbone, carrier networking, routing-and-switching, Wi-Fi and cellular wireless EPC/Packet-core. Throughout his career he has held roles that span first-line support to integration to architecture and planning in both vendors and service-providers. He is currently based in Toronto, Canada | |
| Basil Alwan Co-President of IP/Optical Networks Nokia Basil was formerly President of IP Routing and Transport at Alcatel-Lucent, which was acquired by Nokia in 2016. Basil joined Alcatel in 2003 through the acquisition of privately held TiMetra Networks. TiMetra was a venture-backed Silicon Valley start-up focused on service routers for IP/MPLS networks where he was founder, President and CEO. Today, Nokia holds the #2 global market position in both service provider IP/MPLS routing and Optical networking, and wholly-owned venture Nuage Networks is a leader in the fast-emerging software-defined networking space. Basil is a recognized industry leader who enjoys working with entrepreneurs and sharing views on networking technology and industry evolution. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, in 1984, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. • Joined Nokia in 2016 • President of IP Routing and Transport, Alcatel-Lucent 2012-2016 • President of IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent 2003–2012 • Founder, President and CEO, TiMetra Networks 2000–2003 • Vice President and General Manager, Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel) Enterprise Products Division (EPD) 1997–2000 • Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, Rapid City Communications 1996–1997 | |
| Hooman Bidgoli Product Line Manager Nokia Hooman has 20 years of experience in IP/MPLS protocols and network solutions. He started with Newbridge Networks in LAN emulation solutions (VIVID products) and moved to 7670 MPLS solutions. He was one of the first software designers on 7705 SAR and he was responsible for IP/MPLS and L2/L3 services on SAR. As PLM, he is responsibility ranges from MBH and 5G solutions to Multicast solutions and Security on SR-OS (7705/7750). On 7705 specifically he is responsible for MPLS/Firewall/Nat/IPSec and router security features | |
| Denis Bouffard Product Line Manager Nokia Denis Bouffard, Product Manager in Network & Service Management (IP & Optical BU), is responsible for NSP Big Data (statistics/Telemetry collection and processing) and Analytics. Prior to his role at Nokia, Denis spent 13 years in PLM roles at various startups (AcceLight, Inkra and Radisys), and 14 years at Nortel in its switching, optical transport and EMS/NMS/OSS divisions. During this time, Denis held various roles in R&D, product management, and project leadership where his primary focus was management applications in support of the broader Nortel product portfolio. Previous and subsequent to Nortel Denis held various roles covering diverse products including geographic information systems, optical core switching and virtualized security and load balancing. Denis holds a Bachelor degree of Mathematics/Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Business Administration Diploma from the University of Ottawa. | |
| Shane Branton Subject Matter Expert Nokia Coming Soon! | |
| Tom Bresee Member of Technical Staff - Mobile Transport Design T-Mobile USA Coming Soon! | |
| Flavio Caracas Sr. Director – IP and Optical Networking Division Nokia Flavio Caracas leads a team responsible for IP/MPLS, Optics and SDN/NFV Consulting Engineering and Business Development support for Vertical markets in North America within the ION Division. Previously he was the head of Product Line Management of the 7705 SAR IP/MPLS Routing Portfolio and the Multiservice WAN Switches product families, with responsibilities for product strategy, roadmap definition, future development, and portfolio life cycle. Prior to Nokia, Flavio joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2000 through the acquisition of Newbridge Networks, having held senior management positions in Business Management, Systems Engineering, Marketing and Sales. Flavio has a very broad experience in Information and Communications technologies encompassing IP/MPLS networking, satellite communications, and radio transmission. Flavio Caracas holds a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering. | |
| Bill Carlson Technical Sales Intel Bill Carlson is a Technical Sales Specialist at Intel Corporation where he has been supporting networking customers for over 20 years. Bill focuses on network security applications, Intel Architecture processor technology, and guiding customers on the path to Network transformation through | |
| Nabeel Cocker Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Nabeel is responsible for the introduction, design and engineering of L2 and L3 solutions for carriers in North America. Nabeel has 16 years of experience in the networking industry in both Carrier and Enterprise networks. Before joining Nokia in 2011, he worked at Verizon’s Next Generation Labs for 10 years. Nabeel holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Telecommunication Networks. He is a MU Fan. | |
| Filipe Correia Regional Product Line Manager (North America) Nokia Filipe Correia is a Regional Product Line Manager and Consulting Engineer in Nokia Networks’ ION Division, focused on network management portfolio and solutions including Software Defined Network (SDN) Controllers for enterprise, web scale, and provider networks. Filipe is a regular speaker at Nokia Networks and industry conferences. Currently based in Plano (TX), Filipe has more than 18 years of experience in Nokia as well as over 11 years focused in the IP division working on Enterprise and Service Provider IP/MPLS networks including time based in Melbourne, Australia in the IP Division focused on Asian Pacific accounts and networks. | |
| Alp Dibirdi Director, Product Management – IP Routing Nokia Alp has over 20 years of experience in telecom industry. He joined Alcatel in 1998 and worked as a System Engineer, NW Architect, Product Line Product Manager on ATM Products and now IP Product Management. In his current role, he leads IP/MPLS/SR, Services, OAM and Traffic Management features on 7250 Interconnect Router and 7705 Service Aggregation Router product families. He is recognized as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in 2010 for his sustained outstanding technical contribution to Alcatel-Lucent by Bell Labs. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| Jim Doucette Product Line Manager Nokia Jim Doucette has been with Nokia (Ottawa) for over 20 years, with focus on network management products such as NFM-P and NSP. He has worked in the R&D division, various Support organizations, Training, and Professional Services. His current role is on the New Production Introduction team, with responsibility for customer demos, lab trials, and other pre-sales activities. | |
| Muhammad Durrani Sr. Dir Global network Architecture Equinix Muhammad Durrani is a Sr. Director Global Network Architecture at Equinix and responsible for Architecture and designing of Equinix metro , regional and global backbone. In this capacity he is working with Equinix technology partners in Web scale & cloud Providers market segments. He is veteran speaker with expertise in IP, MPLS , Segment routing, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS technology. Mr. Durrani has co-authored couple of RFCs and hold Dual CCIE (#12521) in Routing & Switching and Service Provider core. | |
| Steve Dyck Principal, Consulting Engineer Nokia Steve Dyck, P.Eng. Principal, Consulting Engineer, IP and Optical Networking at Nokia. Steve Dyck is a Principal Consulting Engineer specializing in WAN and Data Center networking including IP/MPLS, WDM and SDN technologies. Steve’s focus is on providing innovative solutions for vertical and enterprise markets including utilities, oil & gas, state and local governments, public safety, transportation, health care, financial services and cloud service providers. Steve has over 25 years experience in telecom and IT networking with roles ranging from R&D, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Business Development, Solutions Architect and Consulting Engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Engineering) degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada. | |
| Pierre El-Haddad Product Manager Nokia Coming Soon! | |
| Walid Elbokl Product Line Manager Nokia Walid is a product line manager in NOKIA’s service router team. In his current role, Walid owns decisions on definition, scheduling and lifecycle of NETCONF/EHS in Nokia’s 7x50 routers. He has over 18 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and is based in Ottawa/Canada | |
| Filippo Farina Solution Architect Radware Filippo is Solution Architect in Business Development and Carrier EMEA organization, responsible to drive complex projects in Telco and Service Providers market. With a long experience in IT, Security and network infrastructure, he started his career in R&D IP department. Moving to different system engineering pre-sale roles in major vendors, Filippo had chance to consolidate his competence with SDN, NFV and Cloud technologies. | |
| Footer Foote PLM / Consulting Engineer Nokia Footer has many more years experience in networking than he cares to divulge. To provide some context, he considered 4Mbps Token Ring connected SNA controller to Front End Processors some darn impressive technology. That was of course until he discovered the dipswitch that allowed for 16Mbps Token Ring, on the same card. What speed! What a technology! Everyone could move on, networking was now complete. What else was left. As time progressed and networking evolved, ventures into Ethernet switching, IP Routing protocols, and MPLS and the consumption of large steaks became the focus. The years flew by and about TEN years ago, yes TEN, IP & Ethernet OAM fault and performance management became the cool kid on the block. Footer lept at the opportunity to get involved in something so cool. Looking back to the Token Ring days, it was apparent he had always had an attraction to OAM. It was always fun to see how fast one could find a beaconing Token Ring NIC connected to a non-intelligent MAU using a stethoscope. OAM certainly has progress beyond the stethoscope days. It remains the wickedly cool, complicated and multifaceted technology that everyone wants to be involved with. Footer is currently a Senior PING Product Manager with responsibility for IP & Ethernet OAM strategy and architecture. He regularly attends the IETF quarterly meetings and participates in the IPPM working group, where excitement shines through on so many faces. His efforts in the working group include, “Why you need PING and why PING doesn’t need you.” As well as the most recent consideration, “PING PING PING PING, for the love of PING.” He joined Riverstone Networks in 1999, and through acquisition, merger, and acquisition, has 19 years as part of Nokia. Footer is based in Toronto, Canada and we believe he still has a Token Ring network in his house. | |
| Scott Fraser Product Line Manager Nokia Coming Soon! | |
| Keith Galway Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Keith Galway is a principal consulting engineer and regional PLM for the 7x50 product line and is based in Ottawa, Canada. Since 2004 he has been working with customers in the Americas responsible for introduction and design of advanced IP solutions focused on wireline business and residential markets. He has over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry ranging from engineering, product management, and consulting engineering at Newbridge Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo. | |
| Igor Giangrossi Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Igor Giangrossi is a Principal Consulting Engineer at Nokia’s IP and Optical Business Group working with the IP Transport and Mobile Core portfolios in the North American region. Igor has over 20 years of experience in the Data Networking industry, particularly within Service Provider networks. Prior to Nokia, he held various technical leadership positions in Latin America working on fixed and wireless infrastructure and managed services creation for selected verticals. Igor holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Instituto Maua de Tecnologia and is a Harvard Business School alumnus from the Program for Leadership Development. | |
| Brant Gifford Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Brant is a Principal Consulting Engineer in the North American Regional Business Center of Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks (ION) organization. He has been with Nokia (formerly Alcatel-Lucent) since 2013 most recently focusing on NfV and SDN (Nuage Networks) solutions for Mobile Network Operators and Multiple-System Operators. He has been in the data networking industry for more than 20 years, holding individual contributor and leadership roles in technical sales and support, network engineering, and operations organizations. | |
| Kevin Ginsberg HPE Presales Consultant, Chief Technologist Hewlett-Packard Enterprise 15 Years’ experience in IT industry working in the Financial Industry, IT OEM Solutions and Telecommunications. Provide technical consultation and recommendations on HPE products to go-to-market and aligning solutions with client needs. Technical account manager for our HPE’s most valued accounts or partners | |
| Alejandro Guevara Nuage Network Integration Engineer Nokia Alejo’s focus is on delivering customer’s SD-WAN and DC-SDN workshops and Proof of Concepts. He’s also part of the Nuage Integration Team responsible for Nuage design and integration activities. Alejo has over 18 years of experience in telecommunications and networking industry and he holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Universidad de Carabobo in Venezuela and multiple Nuage Networks Virtuoso Program Certifications including NNIS #1. He is currently based in Ottawa Canada. | |
| Greg Hankins Senior Product Manager, ION IP Routing & Packet Core Nokia Senior Product Manager, ION IP Routing & Packet Core Nokia Greg Hankins is Senior Product Manager at Nokia for the 7750 SR and 7950 XRS product lines, where he works with service providers around the world to deliver innovative internetworking solutions. He is responsible for several model-driven management features, and is lead product manager for the MD-CLI. Greg has been an active member of the network operator community for 20 years, and frequently speaks at technical conferences on network technology and operational topics | |
| Andrew Henkart Senior Consulting Engineer Nokia Andrew Henkart is a Senior Consulting Engineer with the Deepfield business unit which he joined in 2013. Andrew has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. His wealth of experience includes Big Data analytics, network engineering and design, network security, DDoS analysis, network operations, wireless and business consulting. In his current role, Andrew is responsible for the end to end design and implementation of the Deepfield software platform for numerous MSOs, Telcos, CDNs and other Nokia customers. Andrew has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Structural Engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder. | |
| Rudy Hoebeke Vice President, Product Management – IP Routing & Mobile Packet Core Nokia Rudy Hoebeke is Vice President of Product Management for Nokia’s IP Service Routing and Mobile Packet Core portfolio.He has over 15 years of experience in the communications and networking industry, in the areas of engineering, network design, technology & product strategy and product management. Formerly, Rudy was Vice President of Product Management for IP Service Routing and Mobile Packet Core in Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Division. He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brussels (VUB) and a Masters in Business Administration from the Vlerick Leuven-Gent Business School. Rudy is based in Mountain View, California. | |
| Ian Hood Chief Technologist - Global Service Provider Red Hat Ian is Chief Technologist, Global Service Provider for Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of in open source technologies. Ian brings more than 30 years of engineering and telecommunications technology leadership to Red Hat. Acting as a catalyst and trusted advisor, Ian brings together a wealth of industry and open source community insight to help our customers flourish in the digital transformation era. | |
| Jeff Jakab Product Line Manager Nokia A 20 year employee of Nokia, Jeff is the Hardware PLM director within the IP business unit. Jeff has extensive experience across a number of roles within Nokia ranging from engineering, support, marketing and PLM. Jeff has a focus on strategic responsibilities in the product portfolio as well as ownership of hardware technical marketing. He hold a B.Sc in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada and an MBA from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He presently works in the heart of Silicon Valley out of the Nokia office in Mountain View, California. | |
| Alastair AJ Johnson Principal Solution Architect Nokia Alastair Johnson (AJ) is a principal solution architect with Nuage Networks, based in Mountain View, California. AJ’s focus is working directly with customers to introduce, explain, and expand technology based on Nuage Networks portfolio of products – solving customer problems through new, innovative SD-WAN services for Enterprises and Service Providers that serve the Enterprise market. AJ was previously a senior product manager responsible for Nokia’s 7750 SR family of routers focusing on Internet related technologies such as IPv6 and Internet Peering/Backbone. AJ has been with Nokia for 14 years in a variety of roles located around the world, primarily focused in the IP/solutions space for service providers. | |
| Jesse Kamolsiri Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Jesse Kamolsiri has been the Network Architect for the Telecom group at the Lower Colorado River Authority, LCRA, for the past 2 years. During this time Jesse has redesigned the MPLS transport network that spans Central Texas and includes over 200 substations all running multiple internal customer services. Prior to this current position, Jesse was the lead Engineer at LCRA where he designed and implemented the first MPLS sites using Nokia products at LCRA. Jesse Kamolsiri has almost 20 years of Network design, testing and implementation experience across multiple industry verticals which include Manufacturing, R&D, Financial, SaaS and Utilities. | |
| Sunil Khandekar Founder & CEO, Nuage Networks Nuage Networks Sunil leads the vision and direction at Nuage Networks. Sunil brings over fifteen years of experience in the communications and networking industry, including his former role as VP of business development for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), as well as VP of global product management for Alcatel Lucent’s IP Division. Sunil gained expertise in the networking startup space in his time at TiMetra Networks, where he led product management and standardization. And before that, he held a variety of product management and consulting engineering management roles with Bay and Nortel Networks in New York and Santa Clara. Sunil has co-authored and contributed to multiple IETF drafts. He is also a regular speaker at industry events and conferences. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in CIS. | |
| Ken Kutzler Vice President and General Manager of Hardware Routing, IP/Optical Networks Business Group Nokia Joined Nokia through Alcatel-Lucent acquisition in 2016; V.P. Hardware Engineering and Hardware Product Management, Alcatel-Lucent 2003-2015; Co-founder of TiMetra 2000-2003; Director of Product Management at Synoptics Networks 1999-2000; CEO of Treseq Inc. 1997-1999; Product Line Manager at Bay Networks 1992-1997; Network Analyst at Ford Motor Company 1987-1991; Ken joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2003 through the acquisition of privately held TiMetra Networks, where he was co-founder. TiMetra was a venture-backed Silicon Valley start-up focused on service routers for IP/MPLS networks. Since the acquisition, Ken and his team have steadily grown Nokia’s IP strategy and hardware portfolio. The business has gained market share consistently for a decade, attaining the #2 position in service provider IP/MPLS routing and selling into 700+ customers including the world’s top 60 service providers. Ken is a recognized industry leader who enjoys being at the forefront of IP network evolution and portfolio development. He holds a Master’s Degree of Science in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. | |
| Craig Labovitz Deepfield CTO Nokia Craig Labovitz is Nokia CTO for the Deepfield business line. Previously, Labovitz was Co-Founder and CEO of Deepfield. Labovitz has developed the core technology, key patents, architecture and commercial strategy behind more than $1 billion in sales of large enterprise and telecom security products. His technology is deployed in more than 700 Internet Service Providers, cable operators, content providers, and mission-critical networks around the globe. Dr. Labovitz is an expert on Internet infrastructure and cloud evolution. In the 1990s, his seminal Internet research developed the foundation for Arbor Networks technology and served as a catalyst for significant changes in commercial Internet routing software implementations throughout the world. His work was recently recognized with the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in 2008. In addition to his extensive commercial product and research background, Dr. Labovitz has over a decade of operational network engineering experience, including NSFNet backbone engineering, Sprint's first Internet email infrastructure, design of the Department of Defense research network, and the first commercial aviation Internet service. Dr. Labovitz is an active participant in the global network engineering community, including service on the program committee and as the Chair of North American Network Operators Group (NANOG). Labovitz is the author of more than a dozen peer-reviewed networking research papers, journal articles and patents. His is a frequent guest on national television and radio news programs and his research is widely cited in national media articles and academic publications. Dr. Labovitz received his PhD and MSE from the University of Michigan. | |
| 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. | |
| Bo Li Product Line Manager Nokia A senior IP/LTE NPI engineer with more than 10 years working in Nokia IP product division. Nokia SRA certification since 2008 | |
| Dmitri Litvine Principal Consultant Nokia Dmitri Litvine is a Principal Consultant for the IPRT, providing consulting support for solutions and architectures based on classic 7750/7705/7210 products as well as SDN solutions such as Nuage VSP and VNS. Dmitri has almost 18 years of experience in various facets of data networking including network design engineering, network transformations, solutions and architecture consulting in different technology areas such as IP/MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, Carrier Broadband, EPC/MPC, SP WiFi, SDN/NFV etc. The last 5 years Dmitri is focusing on architecture consulting helping customers to leverage and benefit innovative solutions. Dmitri holds active CCIE, NRS-I and VCP5-DCV certifications, he is based in Calgary, Canada. | |
| Jon Lundstrom Consulting Engineer Nokia Jon Lundstrom has held a variety of technologies and business development roles in the telecommunications industry over the past 16 years. Jon’s network designs and financial modeling for IOC, ILEC, cable, and CLEC service providers, paved the way for successful deployments of optical, carrier Ethernet infrastructure, and MEF services. Since joining Nokia, Jon has provided product management and business development leadership for the introduction of next generation network management systems to address operational challenges, scale, and automation requirements for the largest service providers in North America. Jon’s current role is business development and product management of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), he is currently working with service providers to realize the operational gains and capture new revenue with cloud-based solutions. Jon holds a B.Eng in Computer Engineering from Carleton University. | |
| Andrew Missing Director, Technical Marketing, ION NAM + LAT RBC Nokia Andrew Missing is responsible for Technical Marketing & Federal Business Development in IP & Optical Networking’s (ION’s) North American (NAM) Regional Business Center (RBC). He has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of telecommunications. Andrew joined Nokia through a rather circuitous route of acquisitions, namely Alcatel-Lucent/Alcatel/Newbridge Networks. Prior to joining Newbridge Networks, he worked for Siemens AG in Munich, Germany in its Public Switching Division, when tin cans and string were the hot new thing in telecommunications. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” he graduated from Aston University, in England, with an Honors Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has now worked in the United States for more years than he cares (or can) remember and is based in Northern Virginia. | |
| Houman Modarres Head of Marketing, ION Nokia Houman Modarres leads the marketing efforts of Nuage Networks, Nokia's venture committed to removing the networking constraints and boundaries that hinder cloud services. Houman joined Alcatel-Lucent’s rapidly growing IP Division in 2008 as Senior Director of Strategic Marketing, prior to which he led the marketing and product management functions within Hammerhead Systems, a Silicon Valley start-up. In other past lives on the leading edge of shifts in networking technology, Houman oversaw the Carrier VoIP/Softswitch business line at 3Com Corporation, served in Product Management roles at Newbridge Networks, and held broadband & wireless systems engineering and network planning positions at Nortel. Houman holds an MBA from the University of California Berkeley and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. | |
| Chandan Mohapatra Senior Consulting Engineer Nokia Chandan Mohapatra is a Senior Consulting Engineer in the ION Business Unit. He has over 10 years of experience working with CSPs on their Routing and Switching; and Wireless EPC/Packet Core technology strategies. SDN, NFV and SDWAN are a focus area for Chandan and for the last two years he has been helping CSPs realize their goals of evolving their business services using Nuage VCS, VNS and VSS. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications Engineering from Carleton University. | |
| Freddie Morales Nuage Network Integration Engineer Nokia Freddie Morales is a Nuage Trials and Software-Define Networks (SDN) integration services engineer. He spent the first 20 years of his career working access, core and IP-Backhaul design and integration of wireless network technologies such as CDMA, W-CDMA and LTE. He has been involved with Nokia IP products since the 2006 Alcatel-Lucent merger. Freddie has been working on the Nuage Networks integration team since late 2015. Some of his accomplishments include proof of concept (POC) demos and production deployments of Virtualized Cloud Services (VCS) and Virtualized Network Services (VNS) for customers in Mexico and the United States. His current project involves a Nuage VCS deployment in the healthcare sector. Once completed, the customer production network will consist of a robust, scalable Nuage solution which will include up to eight VSD clusters and over 350 Nuage 210 WBX datacenter gateways, as well as Nuage Network’s VNS SD-WAN solution. His current project responsibilities are Nuage VSD cluster, DC fabric integration and config tool development. | |
| Steve Morin Director of Product Management for Application Assurance and DEM Nokia Steve Morin is Director of Product Management for Application Assurance and Dynamic Experience Management in the Nokia IP/Optical Networks (ION) business group. He has over 25 years of experience in the networking and data communications industry, within the areas of engineering, technology & product strategy and product management. In his current role, Steve has responsibility for the network and service architecture for internet application management in Nokia ION products and solutions. Steve holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and is a licensed Professional Engineer. | |
| Sasa Nijemcevic Vice President and General Manager, Network and Service Management Business Unit Nokia Drawing on over 19 years of experience in the network management domain, Sasa Nijemcevic is currently the Vice President and General Manager, Network and Service Management Business Unit at Nokia. Previously, Sasa has led R&D teams for IP/MPLS network management, wireless network management, and fixed/wireless policy management. He was instrumental in driving the success of Alcatel-Lucent's unified network management platform across the IP, Optical, microwave and wireless product portfolios. Sasa has a Master's degree in Telecommunications and Computer Science from the University of Zagreb. | |
| Alfred Nothaft Sr. Director, SR Product Management Nokia Alfred is the Senior Director of Product Management for the Service Router product group, focusing on IP routing, MPLS and Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services. Alfred has been involved the with 7x50 product lines since 2000, when he originally joined TiMetra Networks. Prior to that, Alfred was the Director of Network Architecture at BroadbandNow! and before that he held various management and engineering positions at Bay Networks and NASA. | |
| Hamid Ould-Brahim Senior Product Manager, DMTS Nokia Hamid Ould-Brahim is Product Manager in the ION division at Nokia focusing on productizing software control combined with analytics for automating peering interconnect developed under the Network Services Platform (NSP) combined with analytics such as NSP/Deepfield . Hamid has over 25 years of industry experience in telecommunications. He architected and pioneered a number of Internet related technologies and was a member of the first IETF industry design team that standardized L3VPNs technologies. Hamid holds over 100 patents worldwide that cover a wide spectrum of technologies. He edited and co-authored a number of IETF RFC standards and co-chaired successfully IETF routing area WG. Hamid was dubbed by Nokia in 2017 Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) and previously by Nortel as well in 2008 for outstanding achievements. In his previous roles, Hamid was a key technical driver for the unprecedented sale of Nortel patents for $4.5B to a consortium of top industry companies such as Apple and Microsoft. | |
| Avinash Pai Software Product Manager Nokia Avinash is 7210 Software Product Manager and is part of the IPD product management team. In the current role he is responsible for the 7210 software features. He has been with the 7210 team right from its inception. Previous to it, he has been associated with networking in various roles in engineering for about 10 years. He is based in Bangalore, India. | |
| Renee Pinter Product Line Manager Nokia Renee is a Product Manager for the Nokia Deepfield business line. Formerly a UX Designer and Project Manager, she strives to find the intersection between business requirements, product vision, and what users need to successfully do their jobs … and then aid the development teams in navigating how that comes to life, given the reality of project resources. Previous career experience includes much time spent in Agile development environments, small business operations, and creative agency design work. | |
| Leo Popokh HPE Distinguished Technologist, WW Strategist & Architect Hewlett-Packard Enterprise 25 years of experience in the Telecommunications, IT, Financial Services, Government Sector, Energy & Consumer Industries, and Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking. Strategy, architecture, positioning, with achievable plan and successful delivery to secure very first NFV Orchestration production deployment in major CSP in North America as End to End MANO layer. New technology, products and strategy evangelist (NFV Orchestration, Service Orchestration and Pan-HPE solutioning across multi-Business Units) Leadership in complex deals and architectures across World Wide Regions and Divisions. Industry Standards participation and contributions: eTOM/ITIL mapping, eTOM Business Process Framework for HPE solutions development, ETSI contributions, ATIS and 4G Americas Intellectual Property development and contributions (IP disclosures, patents and journal publications) | |
| Dennis Porteous Product Line Manager Nokia Dennis is a Senior Hardware Product Line Manager for the 7750 SR & Packet Core platforms, with over 24 years of experience in networking and data communications. Dennis has been involved with the 7x50 product lines since 2003, joined the hardware PLM team in 2008. Based in Ottawa Canada | |
| Denis Proulx IP/Optical/Nuage Professional Services Product Manager Nokia Denis Proulx is a Senior Product Manager for professional services with more than 32 years in the telecommunication industry. He has been providing Product Research and Development in the areas of Network Management System for our Global customers. With over 17 Patents filed, now his focus is on simplifying network operations through automation, reducing cost and time to market for the deployments of new greenfield or on existing networks. He is now involved in helping customers transform legacy networks to new technologies (SDN) using Nokia IP/Optical/Nuage products. | |
| Jorge Rabadan Senior Product Line Manager Nokia Jorge Rabadan is a Senior Product Line Manager at Nokia’s ION Business Unit, responsible for the development of Layer-2, EVPN and Data Center Gateway technologies in the 7x50 product family. Jorge is an active member in the IETF community, contributing and co-authoring several drafts in the BESS working group, and he is a regular speaker at Nokia and industry conferences. Currently based in Mountain View (CA), Jorge has more than 18 years of experience working on Enterprise and Service Provider IP/MPLS networks around the globe. He has been part of the former Alcatel-Lucent's IP Division for the last 10 years and prior to that, Jorge held different positions at Riverstone Networks and Nortel Networks. Jorge has a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Valladolid (EUP, Spain). | |
| Anand Raj NSP Product Manager Nokia Anand Raj is a product manager on the Carrier SDN controller platform (NSP) at Nokia. He’s and expert in IP/MPLS networking and centralized path computation algorithms. He has more than 20 years of experience in the data networking industry. He started out his career designing call control software on ATM switches and subsequently spent many years supporting and designing Wide Area Networks consisting of both IP and ATM for a variety of large scale customers. He was one of the key founders of the Alcatel-Lucent Service Router Certification program where he wrote and taught IP courseware in the areas of MPLS, QoS, Services and Triple Play. He has also contributed to the NRS I (Alcatel-Lucent Network Routing Specialist I Self Study Guide). | |
| Scott Ralph IP/MPLS Subject Matter Expert Nokia Scott Ralph is an IP/MPLS Subject Matter Expert in the Learning Services - Nokia IP/Optical Network Business Group. In this role, he works developing courseware and workshops for the Service Routing Certification program (SRC) and Nuage Networks Virtuoso Certification Program (NN-VCP). Previous to joining Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) in 2015 Scott worked in various network engineering roles encountering many different platforms and technologies. Scott currently holds various industry certification such as Nokia SRA (300), Nuage’s NN-SD-DC, NN-SD WAN, and CCIE (38389). | |
| Narayan Raman DMTS ＆ Principal Bell Labs Consulting Nokia Bell Labs Narayan Raman is a Principal and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff with Bell Labs Consulting. Narayan focuses on the business and technological evaluation of emerging telecommunications technologies, specifically addressing network virtualization and cloud services. He has led a number of initiatives on economic modeling and business case evaluation for network operators worldwide. Narayan has also published extensively on the optimization of telecommunications networks, product and network reliability, and distribution network design. Narayan holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, a PGDM (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management and a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology. | |
| Mike Reeves ION Professional Services Product Manager Nokia Mike Reeves is a senior product manager for professional services with more than 20 year in the telecommunication industry. His experience spans the areas of software development, IP/MPLS system consultation, product management and most recently product management for services and solutions. He has worked with customers to help them deploy IP/MPLS core networks, migrate from legacy infrastructure and move from 3G to 4G mobile infrastructure. He is now involved in the evolution of mobile core networks toward a cloud based infrastructure and software defined networking environment to help provide a more flexible and scalable solution for our 5G customers. | |
| Steve Regini Director Systems Engineering Palo Alto Networks Steve Regini is Director of Systems Engineering for Americas Service Providers at Palo Alto Networks. As Director, Steve runs a specialized cybersecurity team focused on Service Provider private IT, service delivery networks, and managed security services. Steve has 20 years of experience in Telecommunications and IT, and over 12 years experience working with global Service Providers. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Steve held global CTO and Systems Engineering leadership positions at Avaya, Sonus Networks and Lucent Technologies. With additional experience across IMS, Soft Switch, VoIP, CaaS-based Contact Center / Unified Communications, SDN, and carrier grade technologies, Steve engages with his customers as a trusted advisor. | |
| Reza Rokui Carrier SDN Director, Product Management Nokia Reza Rokui is Carrier SDN Director of product management. He is responsible for Network Service Director (NSD), which is fully automated policy-based service provisioning with network and service resource awareness. Reza was 5620 SAM Director responsible for support of all SR products in areas of Services, Routing, Policy and OAM features in SAM. He was also responsible for support of Nokia Evolved Packet Core (EPC) including MME, MG and PCRF in 562 SAM. He was one of the architects of 5650 Control Plane Assurance Manager (CPAM) route analytics, which delivers real-time visualization, surveillance and troubleshooting for IP/MPLS networks and IGP, BGP, MPLS and L2/L3 services. He also worked at Nortel Network and Prior Data Sciences (SPAR Aerospace) where he was responsible for International Space Station Robotic Work Station (RWS) software design. Reza holds a Ph.D. degree in Control and Robotics from Concordia University in Canada and a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. He possesses over 18 years of experience in telecommunication industry with track record in software engineering, research and development and product management with a diverse background. | |
| Aleksandar Sarenac Solution Line Manager Nokia Aleksandar is a solution line manager for NOKIA ION Virtual Networks Orchestration. In his current role responsible for the solution life cycle management through all the phases of development and Started fALU career in 2006 in 5620SAM R&D. Holds MSc Degree in Telecommunication. | |
| Adam Simpson Senior Product Line Manager Nokia Adam is a senior product line manager with Nokia. He is responsible for the IP routing & service features in the SR OS operating system software. He is the lead PLM for BGP routing and the route policy infrastructure. He owns the strategy for these areas and works closely with software and test engineers on architecture and design. He has been in this PLM role since 2009. Before that he held PLM and network engineering roles at Nortel. Adam is based in Ottawa, Canada but the scope of his work with engineering teams and customers is global. He has been a routine speaker at SReXperts events since 2010. | |
| Moataz Soliman Product Line Manager Nokia Product Line Manager on the Network Service Platform (NSP) at Nokia in Ottawa. In my current role, I’m responsible for NSP APIs and integration interfaces. I’m also managing NSP Connected Partner Program for certification and interoperability between NSP and the various partner OSS applications. Before joining the PLM team, I led product development of NSP Analytics, which is a big data and reporting solution, from initial concept to release. I hold a Bachelor degree in Software Engineering from Carleton University and a Masters of Engineering Management degree from University of Ottawa. | |
| Mauricio Subieta Energy Global Account Sales Engineer Nokia Mauricio Subieta is the Industrial Cyber Security Program Lead at Nokia, as well as the Private LTE solutions engineer focused on the energy segment, including electric utilities, oil and gas, and mining. Dr. Subieta completed his undergraduate studies in Systems Engineering (BSc) at the Bolivian Catholic University in 1997, and his master’s and Doctoral degrees in Telecommunications Management and Electrical Engineering at the Oklahoma State University, in 2002 and 2006 respectively. He was awarded the Fulbright scholarship for his graduate studies and was a distinguished researcher at the Advanced Communications and Systems Engineering Laboratory at OSU. His areas of research and expertise cover next generation wired and wireless networking architectures, network traffic characterization and optimization, protocol design and cyber security for industrial control systems and networks. | |
| Jody Sullivan Senior NSP Consultant Nokia Jody Sullivan is an accomplished network management specialist experienced in delivering professional services and support for Nokia ION products and solutions. Currently jody is focusing on providing Carrier SDN solution design and consulting services based on the Nokia Network Services Platform | |
| Yves Thibeault Senior Product Line Manager Nokia Yves Thibeault is a Senior Product Line Manager on the Network Services Platform (NSP) of Nokia in Ottawa and is specifically responsible for Network and Service Assurance applications. Before joining Nokia & Alcatel-Lucent, Yves was a senior R&D manager at Nakina Systems for 8 years responsible for a multi-vendor network management system and various OSS applications. Yves has over 28 years of multi-disciplinary telecommunication experience in Software Research and Development and Product Management in various network domains including voice switching, ATM, Frame Relay, Optical/SONET/SDH transport and carrier Ethernet at Nortel Networks, AcceLight Networks, JDS Uniphase, Nakina Systems and now Alcatel-Lucent. | |
| Rohit Tumkur Pranesha Product Manager, NSP Platform Nokia Rohit Tumkur Pranesha is a technology enthusiast with 10 years+ of experience working on Network Assurance, IP/MPLS/EPC & Cloud Technologies in various capacities. Rohit is currently exploring the possibility of applying machine learning to Network Assurance & Management. He holds a MS in Software Systems. | |
| Gunter Van de Velde Product Line Manager Nokia Gunter Van De Velde is a networking technologist with more than 20 years of experience with the implementation, architecture and operation of technologies involving routing, IPv6 and SDN driven network services. He has been founding Chairman of the Belgian IPv6 Task-Force since 2010, Secretary of the IETF Operational Directorate since 2013, and Chair at the IETF for the OPSEC (Operational Security) working group since 2011. Most recently, in he became Chair for the LSVR (Link State Vector Routing) working group to focus around Hyperscale Datacenter routing. Gunter holds a Master’s degree from the University of Antwerp, is a Cisco Certified Internet Expert, and has written seven RFCs and holds several patents. He is a Product Line Manager for Nokia’s IP & SDN technologies, responsible for IGPs (OSPF & ISIS) and for routing extensions introducing traffic steering, Segment Routing and routing analytics. | |
| Sanjay Wadhwa Sr. Director, Product Management, ION Nokia Sanjay has over 15 years of experience in data communications and IP networking industry. He joined Alcaltel-Lucent in 2010, prior to which he held executive roles in Engineering and Product Management at Fore Systems, Unisphere Networks, and Juniper Networks. At Nokia (via Alcatel-Lucent acquisition), he leads product management activities focused on residential broadband, carrier WIFI, home virtualization and NFV. He has a Masters in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering from University of Kentucky, and has completed an executive program in management from MIT, Sloan school of management. He is based in Mountain View, California. | |
| Andrew Weingart ION Consulting Engineer, TEPS Nokia Currently with a focus on transportation, State & Local government, I’ve spent the past 15 years working in MSOs and utilities focusing on the IP/MPLS and DWDM networks and recently have included working in SDN technologies | |
| Greg White Consulting Engineer Nokia Greg White, Consulting Engineer, Network Management Solutions within Nokia. Greg White is a Consulting Engineer in the IP and Optical Networking business unit focused on Network Management solutions for Strategic Industries customers in North America. Prior to serving Strategic Industries customers, Greg provided Consulting Engineering and Business Development services to MSO and wireless customers for Alcatel-Lucent in the US and Canada. Prior to Alcatel-Lucent Greg served customers in telecommunications, enterprise, government, education, medical, channel partners and resellers through various sales and technical positions. He has a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Christian Brothers University and currently resides in Nashville Tennessee. | |
| Sven Wisotzky Product Line Manager, NSP Platform: Service Management Nokia Sven is a senior network management consultant working for more than 20 years in the communications and networking industry. He has joined the Alcatel IP Division in 2004, working in the areas of product support, training, integration, technical sales, network and solution design and consultancy. Since 2017 he is part of NSP platform product management team working close with the Service Router product group, to drive multi-vendor service management, automation, nodal mediation and telemetry. He has a strong background in network management, NETCONF/YANG, performance monitoring and OAM. Sven holds the academic title of Diplom-Ingenieur (BA) in the field of Technical Computer Science from the Berufsakademie Berlin. He is based in the metropolitan area of Frankfurt/Main, Germany | |
| Rob Wright Principle Consultant Nokia Rob Wright is a Principle Consultant within the IP and Optical Networking division with special focus on industries segments. He has over 20 years of data network design experience on customer networks consisting of a few nodes up to hundreds of nodes. His roles have included initial design consulting, identifying feature requirements, configuration development, and implementation of final solutions | |
| Reza Yazdani Subject Matter Expert Nokia Coming Soon! | |
