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Wolfram Servizi Tecnologici

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Personal Information

Name: Sabino Lanza
DOB & place: 1971, Rome, Italy
Military service: served (1993 to 1994)
Marital Status: single
E-mail: s.lanza@wol-fram.it (rimuovere il trattino tra wol e fram)

Sabino Lanza



Educational Qualifications

1991 to 1993 Politecnico, Milan
Studies of Chemical Engineering.
1989 to 1991 ITIS G. Feltrinelli, Milan
Diploma in Industrial Engineering specialised in nuclear engineering and nuclear medicine.



Additional Courses and Certifications

11/2000 Telindus K.NET, Reading
Juniper M40 Backbone router architecture and configuration, JUNOS routing policy, Traffic Engineering using MPLS.
07/2000 Portcullis Security, London
MIMESweeper for SMTP, set-up & administration.
07/1999 Azlan, Milan
CISCO router on ISDN.
06/1999 Azlan, Milan
CISCO router introduction course.
04/1998 Lotus Education, London
System Administration for Lotus Notes.



Work Experience

09/2002 to 02/2004 Allied Telesyn International
03/2002 to 02/2004 Technical Services Manager
    • Responsible for the Albenga International Training Centre Facility, also hosting the TechSupport and Testing Depts. for which I was directly responsible.

    • Responsible for the Testing and Technical Support dept. for Southern Europe; my functions in the tech support arena consisted in managing a team of 7 "internal" engineers spread across Europe, several "external" engineers from other companies and the L2 call centre, located in Albenga too, managing prioritization of calls and day to day problems of field engineers and customers alike.

    • Also I performed on site interventions when the situation was critical or the customer required an official technical authority, in this role I am greatly helped by my excellent communicational and social skills, that helped me to manage even the "hottest" situations.

      09/2001 to 03/2002 Training Manager
    • Responsible for the training department of Allied Telesyn International, the position initially foresaw also the role of trainer, but unfortunately this aspect had to be weeded out as a consequence of the great effort that had to be put into the restructuration of the training dept. During my work as Training Manager I worked in a joint team with marketing, in UK and developement, in NZ, in order to renew and expand the courses portfolio, revising and updating related documentation and incorporating new features and enhancements. On this role I got involved also in Technical Support and Testing matters, this side eventually grew predominant in my everyday task list so I had to hire new staff to supplement the growth and to nominate a new training manager to replace me.



01/2001 to 07/2002 WESTREAM Streaming Multimedia Technologies

Chief Technological Officer
    • Responsible for the development and implementation of an innovative narrowband multimedia player application and its related Hardware and Network components. During this experience I had also extensive exposure to audio/video production and multimedia operations on several different formats, including, but not limited to, CD, SVCD, DVD, Betacam, various codecs and encoding tools and procedures.

    • Responsible for the planning of a pan-european, multimedia enabled, real time CDN (Content Delivery Network) in cooperation with UUNet–WorldCom. In this experience I designed the IP layer of the WAN on top of their ATM network and thus had a significant infusion of ATM networking culture, furthermore I had extensive exposure to local loop current topics and issues.

    • Set up and remote management of the Milan office LAN and the related mail system (exch. 5.5).



08/2000 to 01/2001 ADURONET Advanced European Network
Technical Sales Support Consultant - Southern Europe
    • Responsible for the prequalification of potential partners from a technological and network compatibility point of view, particularly regarding the aggregation-link related potential network engineering issues.

    • I was also, involved in the ß testing and the deployment of the VPN product that ADURONET offered, this gained me a wide overview of all the phases involved in setting up a working and serviced network link between the business partner and ADURONET’s backbone, from RFP to Physical set up.

    • In the course of my duties I also had a considerable exposure to the central NOC of ADURONET, becoming familiar with the environment and with the related network monitoring and troubleshooting procedures.

    • Set up an SDH link on a STM-1 interface between Milan and Paris on an M40 router.

    • Gained experience in field engineering Juniper routers M40s, this was later (11/2000) integrated by a proper Juniper course.

    • Dealt extensively with Télefonica of Spain for set up of local ADURONET POP, furthermore I was responsible the local partner’s (First Mark) technical prequalification.



02/1998 to 08/2000 ANTAL International Group of Companies
Group IT Manager - based in London
    • Responsible for the complete company network (from NY to Beijing) development and support, coordinating a team of 7 people.

    • Project Manager for the renewal of the company’s Lotus Notes databases, which was accomplished using internal and external resources.

    • Y2K project, which involved extensive travelling to many ANTAL offices around the world. Involving the check-up and upgrade of HW & SW making sure it was Y2K compliant.

    • Planned and partially deployed a WAN VPN based on CISCO routers and IPSec. compliant encryption HW to replace the current dial-up networking set-up of the company.

      European IT Manager - based in London

    • Complete planning, set-up and administration of ANTAL London’s office LAN, this was set up so to become part of the POD comprising also NY and HK, as the basis for the company’s planned WAN restructuration.

    • Migration from Win 3.1x to Win 95 and from 10 Mb shared to 100 Mb switched network.

    • Planned & configured the company’s internal (Lotus Notes) and external (SMTP) mail system.

    • Opened 8 new Antal offices around the world this involved planning and installation of the network, NT and Domino servers with related clients, provided system usage course to local workforce and managers.

    • Constantly on-call for all Antal offices and providing both direct and remote user support, also using remote management software.

    • Co-ordinated and trained a team of 3 people.



07/1997 to 02/1998 ANSIBLE SERVIZI INFORMATICI s.a.s
Founder & managing partner
    • Dealt with small client enterprises of all sectors: outsourced, development, installation, configuration and administration of LANs and consultancies services.

    • Worked as a contractor in an hospital as network administrator and support specialist; the network comprised roughly 350 nodes on a routed/switched TCP/IP environment distributed across several floors by means of an FDDI ring.

    • HW supplies to small companies and web-site development, build of PCs and related hardware to customer specifications.

 

1993 to 1997 TEKNOCOOP s.c.r.l.
Partner and founder
    • Electronic circuits project design and prototype creation of a RF-based homing and tracking device.

    • Working within a press environment as a type of contractor.

    • Planned and installed, several local area networks in COAX, UTP Ethernet and thin Ethernet.

    • Worked as a contractor for support in several environments.

 

Languages

Fluent English & conversational Spanish.

 

Other professional experiences

  • At the University "Politecnico di Milano", I held a course on advanced HW architectures, which was part of an Engineering Diploma course.

  • Planned, created and patented an electronic radio device (Homing & tracking).

  • I am cooperating with an optics firm to realize a PC-Telescope interface and a remotely operated unmanned observatory.

 

Technical Knowledge

In-depth knowledge of general systems and of HW and SW associated.
Security:
Knowledge of security principles, SKIP, ISAKMP, PKI, IPSec, VPNs, implemented a VPN IPSec based WAN.
Operating Systems:
Very familiar with Windows 3.x, Windows 9X, DOS, Windows NT 3.51e 4.0, Win2K, IOS 12.0T, JUNOS 4.0.
Applications & GroupWare:
Microsoft Suite "Office", Lotus Suite "Smartsuite", MS Exchange / Outlook, Lotus Domino / Notes 4.x, many other applications and software. (VNC, SMS, PCAnywhere, back-up SW & tape management, Ghost, Partition Magic, antivirus, video and graphic editing (Adobe, PSP, etc.), sound processing (Cooledit2000, Spectrogram, etc).
Networking:
In depth knowledge of all network equipements, from Modems to bridges, hubs, switches, routers; extensive experience in LAN & WAN networks set-up and administration.
Wide exposure to various environments from the edge to the core of the network having set up aggregation links and remote access services; Conversant with various network software such as Networks sniffers, port scanners, port listeners, and various other network management tools.
Very familiar with various Routing protocols, both internal and external, such as IGRP, EIGRP, EGP, BGP4, OSPF, IS-IS, RIP, worked with (but not only) CISCO, Juniper, Cosine, 3Com, Ascend, and various DSL, ISDN, POTS and RAS technologies.
 

Notes

I am a very flexible and motivated worker, don’t mind travelling on duty, having succesfully carried out working assignments in the following countries: Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom.
My ideal job is a contract-to perm position in an heavily networked environment, it should have a considerable amount of hands-on time but I don’t mind also interfacing with upper level management or consulting in planning and developing the current network infrastructure.
Possibly it should be in a very international environment to take advantage of my language and communicational skills, I am a very quick learner and willing to constantly improve, I expect my job to be challenging, demanding, pressuring at times, and to require a constant attention and training.
I am well suited to work in shifts and am used to be consantly on call.

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