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Practice: Content Management Distribution Systems IP Platforms Function: Solution Architecture Contact: 571-292-6230, stephen.zlatos@gmail.com Summary of Professional Experience: Member of Technical Staff with Alcatel-Lucent's Business Development Content Management Distribution (CMDS) Team. Steve is a Subject Matter Expert as a Solution Architect. Steve's career spans 20 years, with assignments in Ascend Communications, Lucent Technologies', Bell Labs, and Alcatel-Lucent. Steve has been granted a U.S. patent for the I-Optimize Service. Stephen acts as a leading authority on PS service offerings in the industry. He draws upon this knowledge to identify and articulate new solutions such as CMDS, SDN, NFV, IMS, VoIP and Next Gen Networks. He utilizes his technical expertise to architect, design and deliver complete solutions to the customer. Steve participates on the pre-sales team to identify customer requirements and assist in defining/designing the customer solution and gain concurrence with customer. Participates in development of business case and evaluates new competitive products/solutions that are released in the market place. Acts as SME for the practices in recommending and designing repeatable solution sets. Defines and audits existing customer network profile in conjunction with the Practices and acts as a temporary specialist advisor on multiple projects. Develops the high level network topology, technical requirements/design/statements of work profile in conjunction with the Practices Steve is a member of the ATM Forum. Stephen acts as a leading authority designing, integrating, analyzing, and troubleshooting SDN, NFV, IMS, VoIP, IP networks and ATM/Frame/Sonet/Optical equipment including, ALU-IPD, Juniper and Cisco. Steve holds multiple certificates from Cisco, Juniper, Ascend, and Alcatel-Lucent. Assignments include Solution Architect/Project Management/ /Senior Network Engineer on multiple complex projects that mainly involved planning, design, integration, implementation and upgrades of complex switch networks which comprised of operational support systems, network management systems and network element hardware. Experience with Highlights and Achievements Skills Summary: Management - Successfully managed teams responsible for designing, implementing and troubleshooting of operational production networks. IP routing and switched Ethernet network design IPv6 Planning, design and implementation Service Provider Technologies including BGP, MPLS, and Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs Alcatel-Lucent Service Router Portfolio including 7750 and 7450 series Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM Multi-vendor networking exposure and experience Project management: customer project planning, update & deliverable documentation team scheduling, expense & travel coordination RFP management cable plant planning and installation Network/System support, planning and Design - End-to-end network/systems planning and design, redundancy strategies, specifications, documentation, platform sizing, client/server applications, vendor selection, LAN segmentation and WAN link sizing. Covered technologies such as IMS, VoIP, FR, ATM, TCP/IP, FDDI, Fast Ethernet, T1, T3, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, OC -192 operating system software support entails UNIX, NT on a multi-vendor hardware platform. Backup and disaster recovery planning. Operations Architecture Design - End-to-end operations process and system architecture planning & design covering FR, ATM, IP, IP-VPN, SONET, Optical, and DSL. Extensive knowledge of management protocols and traffic engineering. Troubleshooting and Implementation of: Cisco, Juniper, CBX, GX, BSTDX, STDX, PSAX, Stinger, DSL Terminator, Remote Access Server, IPNAV, NavisCore, and NavisXtend. TCP/IP design, implementation, & support: network addressing/subnetting RIP/OSPF/EIGRP routing protocols SNMP device configuration RADIUS authentication services (Ascend, Lucent, Juniper, Cisco, Nortel, Solaris 2.6/8) Network assessments & audit reporting: configuration auditing performance monitoring & testing (Lucent NavisCore NMS suite, Sybase 11.9.2/12.5, Solaris 2.6/8, Windows 2000) Certifications, Education, and Professional Associations: IMS Certificates - Certificate IMS Boot camp 2008 Juniper Certificates - Certificate Technical Associate M-Series training boot camp - 2006 Broadworks - Certificate Technical Associate FS3000, Application Server, Network Server, Media Server boot camp - 2005 Ascend/Lucent Certificates - CBX, GX, BSTDX, ATM, FR, IPNAV, NAVIS, NAVIS Xtend, TNT, MAX/Pipeline, Radius Authentication, PSAX, SAHARA - Lucent Certificates for Network Design, Installation, Maintenance, and Operations - 1998 - 2001 American Research Group - Introduction to Cisco Router configuration, certified in TCP/IP Internetwork engineering, Certificate in Telco Fundamentals Member ATM Forum - 2001 Member of The Association For Services Management International - since 1999 Erol's Guide to Cyberspace - published as technical consultant for a Internet guide ISBN 0-965-4604-0-1 Bell Labs Journal - Published September 2005 I-Optimize: A Software Compatibility for Analyzing and Optimizing Connection-Oriented Data Networks in Real Time US Patent under patent number 20060159021 July 20th, 2006 Northern Virginia Community College Electrical Engineering Participation in industry trade conferences, and development of papers on various architecture areas.
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