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Julian Castano Roa

Vancouver,BC

Summary

I have more than fourteen years of experience in different telecommunication fields, I am passionate about my work and what I do, I am able to combine technical and management skills to achieve different goals. I have experience working in multicultural environments, skilled to lead high performance teams and solve problems creatively. Wide experience in Telecom Service Provider companies

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Information System Consultant

Affinity
12.2022 - Current
  • Conduct site assessments to identify areas for improvement
  • Perform migration of settings and replacing components as required
  • Analyze and identify areas of improvement of new and existing IT infrastructure
  • Network monitoring and management
  • Configure routing, firewall and NAT policies on internet firewalls
  • Troubleshoot, diagnosing and resolving network problems
  • Coordinate with vendors to replace a legacy Metro circuit with a new CE circuit and the decommissioning of legacy metro circuit
  • Maintaining LAN/WAN infrastructure.
  • Support the vendors pre-field, staging, and implementation activities for circuit replacement
  • Provide support with additional hardware components related to the work above.
  • Other related duties as assigned

Senior Specialist Transport Design

Columbus Networks
06.2014 - 12.2022
  • Develop and maintain core network engineering standards and operational practices incorporating industry best practices
  • Deploy, configure, integrate and test all core IT network elements
  • Design LLA core network infrastructure optimizing network investment and functionality
  • Establish core network design guidelines and configuration templates
  • Develop and maintain core network engineering standards and operational practices incorporating industry best practices
  • Design and Architecture definition for the IPTV network that serves most of LLA’s BUs
  • Activities related with Pinot Project (merging with Claro Panama), which involved configurations to integrate both networks, capacity analysis and Mobile Core integration activities
  • IT transformation project: Leading the process to move more than 100+ Site-to-Site VPNs to a more secure, redundant, and better architecture over our MPLS networks
  • Leading the process to replace all the EoS/EoL IT equipment (30+ devices) which serve business critical applications in several countries
  • Consolidation of Corporate Mobile customers into new infrastructure to avoid EoS/EoL issues and operational problems
  • Act as a Technical Leader for Regional Projects that requires several engineers from the design team to be involved in the Design process
  • Evaluate transport requirements submitted by internal departments
  • Produce HLD/LLD Documents and topologies based on project objectives and technical requirements
  • Maintain control of all the phases of the project’s lifecycle while focusing on providing all the required inputs to the transport implementation and transport operations teams
  • Provide Tier-3 support for major data network incidents as assigned or request by supervisor
  • Support CAPEX planning based on identified improvement points on LLA’s transport networks
  • Perform regular verifications of the transport and IT networks to identify weak points and elaborate plans to enhance and improve their performance and capabilities

Manager LAN/WAN

Ecopetrol
06.2011 - 05.2014
  • Company Overview: one of the most important companies oil and gas in Colombia
  • I was in charge of the management and design of the LAN/WAN/WLAN network in Ecopetrol
  • Architect of the network
  • One of the most important companies oil and gas in Colombia

Project Engineer

Axesat S.A
12.2009 - 05.2011
  • I was in charge of the execution of different projects in Axesat S.A
  • I was in charge of the CORE IP renewal
  • Satellite hub implementation with Idirect vendor

Education

MBA MASTER OF BUSINES ADMINISTRATION -

Universidad Sergio Arboleda
01.2015

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER -

Universidad Santo Tomas
01.2009

Skills

  • Data networks
  • VoIP
  • IPv6
  • MPLS
  • LAN
  • WAN
  • OSPF
  • BGP
  • QoS - Voice - Media signaling
  • Network quality of service
  • ACLs
  • VLANS
  • Network security,
  • Firewall policies
  • VPLS
  • Data Center
  • EIGRP
  • Service provider
  • IS-IS
  • SSL
  • VRF
  • ITIL
  • Project management
  • Customer relationship management
  • Vendor relationship management

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional

Certifications

CCNP R&S | CCDP | JNCIA | MBA

Hobbies and Interests

  • Running
  • Soccer
  • Travel
  • Reading

Timeline

Information System Consultant

Affinity
12.2022 - Current

Senior Specialist Transport Design

Columbus Networks
06.2014 - 12.2022

Manager LAN/WAN

Ecopetrol
06.2011 - 05.2014

Project Engineer

Axesat S.A
12.2009 - 05.2011

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER -

Universidad Santo Tomas

MBA MASTER OF BUSINES ADMINISTRATION -

Universidad Sergio Arboleda

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