Alfonso - Consultant VOIP

Title: Senior IMS Operations Integration Engineer

Role: Contractor for operations of a live IMS network in continental Europe.
Part of a team of IMS experts gathered from around the world to support a major network operator in Europe in the start-up of a commercial live IMS network.
My main task is the development of an automatic call generator to pro actively monitor the network. This is part of a set of tools to help monitor and troubleshoot the network that the operation team is developing.

Title: IP Network PlannerRole: Inside the Service Business Unit

I was a leading network planner for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and Next Generation Network (NGN) projects in a global team. I’ve supported mobile and fixed operators in Brazil, Finland, France, Austria, Italy, UAE, Mexico (locally) plus various projects supported remotely during RFQs, RFIs and RFPs. My role was first to support the account team during bids to quote and dimension the full IMS network (HSS, CSCF and various application servers) and then to give technical support during trials.

Role: Integration of the IMS into EMEA operators’

networks (for trial purpose). I’ve been working on projects in Italy, Turkey, Finland and Czech Republic.
May 2003 – Accenture, Milan (Italy)
Oct 2004: Title: Analyst Programmer
Dec 2001 – Secure-Edge, Roma (Italy)
May 2003: Title: Security Consultant
Nov 2000 – Nokia Oy, Helsinki (Finland)
Jun 2001: Title: System Administrator Trainee

Technical Training

Nov 2006: Consulting with Confidence, Espoo (Finland)
Nov 2006: Emotional Intelligence Workshop, Warsaw (Poland)
Nov 2006: IP Centrex Technical Training, Espoo (Finland)
Nov 2006: Session Border Controller Seminar, Espoo (Finland)
Nov 2006: Convergence Multimedia Communication Planning, Espoo (Finland)
Sep 2006: End to End QoS Seminar, Espoo (Finland)
June 2006: IMS 2.0 commissioning and integration, Espoo (Finland)
June 2006: IMS Planning Workshop, Espoo (Finland)
May 2006: Converged Multimedia Communications Hands On, Espoo (Finland)
May 2006: Fixed Mobile Convergence Seminar, Helsinki (Finland)
Feb 2006: IMS Seminar, Helsinki (Finland)
Nov 2005: NPM 2.0 Commissioning, Operation and Maintenance, Espoo (Finland)
May 2005: FlexiServer Operation and Maintenance 2.0, Espoo (Finland)
Jan 2005: Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (ICND), Milan (Italy)

This is the result of a test run by Nokia (by ******** ) before I got hired in 2000:

Work style and Efficiency
He is clearly a very active and curious person who wants to learn all the time more and explore things. He is not afraid of trying out unfamiliar things and he can work rather independently if he has clear understanding concerning his work's targets and rough framework. He is usually very energetic and his work pace is fast but his approach is also systematic and accurate in a normal way. So he can be at his best quite clearly more productive than people in general. He stands work load and other kinds of pressure at least in a normal way.

Information handling and problem-solving
His general information processing capacity is very probably clearly higher then the midrange of the Finnish master degree population. On the basis of that he should be able to learn quickly new things and reach high-level expertise in his field. Likewise, he is probably capable of utilizing his know-how well while solving work-related problems. His thinking is both analytical, logical and rather productive, too.
He can express is thoughts without problems in writing and speech and he manages well enough with his English language skills.

Interaction and co-operation
His social style is very outgoing, spontaneous and open. He is a people who take the lead in a team by his nature. He takes actively initiative and expresses his ideas boldly. So he can be very influential in a team but when he gets enthusiastic about his ideas he is so expressive that he very probably has difficulties in listening to others carefully enough. He is though ready to listen to others if they are active enough to capture his focus.

Summary and Conclusion
His strengths concerning this position and situation under consideration are connected with his strongly curious and actively learning attitude as well as his ability to be at his best very efficient at his work.
He is also socially easy-going and capable of joining different teams without any problems and getting quickly acquainted with others. He is fast learner and he can utilize well his know-how while working.
No remarkable or even very much worth noticing issues of uncertainty came up during the assessment day.

To conclude, he is very probably a potential person to work in this position under consideration.