Academia Cisco UPB

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

Colegiul Național "Mihail Kogălniceanu" Galați

CCIE #36818, Networking Solution Architect, CyberSec & DevOps Trainer

Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Strong focus on developing, designing and optimizing computer netwoking solutions by leveraging multi-vendor portfolios, including physical and software-defined networks. Tasked with adapting technical requirements to customer business cases and feature/cost optimizations for tenders and competitive engagements.

S&T Romania

Networking Solution Architect

Design, creation and delivery of custom, instructor-led live trainings for 500+ students worldwide on:- Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code, applied to AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and VMware vSphere- Docker and Container Technologies, Advanced Docker trainings- CompTIA Network+, Security+, CySA+ trainings

Cybersecurity & DevOps

Freelance Instructor for Cybersecurity and DevOps Technologies

Responsibilities include managing the Presales department of Cronus eBusiness by providing a mix of high technical acumen and solutions carefully tailored to customer business requirements. I am currently acting as a a trusted advisor for both our internal teams as well as for customer parties involved in our developed projects.Regular tasks and responsibilities include:- in-depth technology research on a wide array of vendor products and solutions, keeping up to date with technology and market trends;- building complex multivendor solutions while also leveraging tools such as demos, PoCs, industry experts and vendor presales teams;- technical solution design and validation covering routing, switching, security, and data center solutions, including software components;- providing technical consultancy for sales professionals;- providing consultancy for Cronus customers for solution, services and licensing guidance;- consolidating a product portfolio for specific Cronus-branded solution offerings;- writing business cases, technical offers, building customer-facing presentations, success stories and case studies.On-the job developed skills:- a wide variety of certification-validated technical skills (please see the certifications section)- soft skills / presentation skills;- some software development skills (internally developed a reporting tool in C# and PostgreSQL with REST API and file data sources) and some scripting experience (Bash, Python)- some experience managing VMware ESX and container (Docker) technologies, required to self-deploy and evaluate software products;- some Linux admin experience;- Security: CEH, Cisco Umbrella, AMP, FirePower, Stealthwatch- DevOps/Automation/IaC: Docker, Terraform- Cloud: Google Cloud, Oracle OCI, Machine-Learning-based Digital Assistants on OCI- Data: Elastic Search- Software development: Python, Apple Swift (hobby)

Cronus eBusiness

Presales Manager

Responsibilities included:- technical solution design and validation covering routing, switching, security, collaboration and datacenter solutions- providing technical consultancy for sales professionals- supporting the sales team in building demos, POCs, customer and internal presentations- providing consultancy for Cronus customers for solution, services and licensing guidance- consolidating a product portfolio for specific Cronus-branded solution offerings- managing partnership relationships with our main technology partners: Cisco, Fortinet, Solarwinds, Riverbed, F5, VMware

Presales Engineer

Local Networks CourseDesigning Computer Networks CourseSecuring Routing and Switches CourseCo-author for the "Retele Locale" book, Printech, 2008

Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti

Teaching Assistant

Teaching all CCNA Exploration courses: - Network Fundamentals - Routing Protocols and Concepts - LAN Switching and Wireless - Accessing the WANDesign of course, lab and exam materials.* Member of the technical support staff (network infrastructure, maintenance and troubleshooting) for Cisco Romania at CiscoExpo 2007, 2008 and 2010.* Network solution provider for the ACM international programming contest (2007)

Andrei Ciorba