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FABRICE ALBERT, PMP
140 Euclid Avenue ~ Los Gatos, CA 95030
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15 years of industry experience in dynamic fast moving environments (financial startup and internet companies) Proven track record of technical innovation and leadership in a breadth of disciplines spanning carrier, datacenter and enterprise architecture, infrastructure, operations and application Focus on generating value added service to customer and to the business while ensuring the architecture is stable, reliable and scalable Advocate of the KISS principle Focus on Cloud, SDN, low latency infrastructures and market data History of driving teams and projects to completion Breadth and depth of technical expertize in all areas of the infrastructure: networks, systems, storage as well as application knowledge Ability to cultivate strong relationships with business and technical groups Strong project and resource management skills, responsibilities included management of projects with over 25 resources, managing a team of 7 engineers during a datacenter build out and two full time resources Responsible for Network Infrastructure budget, over $3m annually Cultivate business and technical relationships with hardware, software vendors and carriers Great interpersonal skills, ability to train people on new technologies at multiple levels of the company, great whiteboard, documentation and diagram skills Outstanding troubleshooting skills, with the ability to resolve critical issues rapidly Good listening skills, ability to consume large amount of information and synthetize into a cohesive plan Good understanding of the business process and its needs, constantly looking to save money and improve the value of the infrastructure.
EDUCATION Master of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering INSTITUT SUPERIEUR D'ELECTRONIQUE DE PARIS (ISEP), Paris, France. Fluent in English and French.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE EQUINIX, San Jose, CA
09/2012 - Present
Senior Manager Service Architecture (2013 – present) Network Architect (2012 – 2013) •
Equinix Cloud Exchange: L2VPN / L3VPN service – Equinix Internet Exchange o Thorough understanding of multiple Cloud Service Providers’ offering (AWS, Azure, GoGrid, Cloud Sigma, SoftLayer etc..) o Work with Engineering, Development and Product teams on integrating those service’s into Equinix’s platform (aggregated Cloud Access) o Service documentation o Participated in the development of Equinix’s SDN – a programmable network, with automated provisioning o Participated in the definition of Network API’s
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Solution Validation Center o Design, manage and supervise the implementation of a global technology validation center o Showcase new technologies in the Equinix platform to attract customers and generate revenue in multiple verticals ! Cloud /Network / Carrier /Enterprise / Ad Exchanges / Financial ! NA / AP / EMEA presence
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Understand the needs of Equinix’s customer and work closely with them to recommend the best technology solution Provided L2/L3/Compute services to customer to validate technologies with a special focus on Hybrid Cloud (NetApp / AWS / Azure) Worked closely with AWS (Direct Connect) and Azure (Express route) validation
Other responsibilities o Technology leadership: part of the CTO organization ! Test, validate and recommend new technology to the company ! responsible for Equinix Validated Design – setup and tested various technologies to recommend our customer (compute / storage / network and network services (LB/ FW / WAN Optimization) ! Documentation (Standards documents / RFP creation) o Vendor relationships o Equinix Video Conferencing solution – deployment of a Global VC solution and creation of value added services
INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES EXCHANGE (ISE – Deutsche Boerse Group), New York, NY
2000 – 09/2012
Network Architect (2010 – 2012) Senior Manager - Network Engineering (2003 – 2012) Split role between architecture and engineering management Senior Network Engineer (2000 – 2003) •
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Low latency project - 2012 o Created a revenue generating offering that provides a ultra low latency solution for ISE’s members o Architected the solution from scratch, selecting network and system hardware suppliers o Lead infrastructure, operations to implement the new infrastructure o Requested application code modification to meet the requirements of the low latency infrastructure o Latency gain of over 100 μs leveraging Juniper QFX switches and Solarflare cards Exegy project - 2011 o Coordinated infrastructure and application teams to replace an outdated market data distribution infrastructure with Exegy (feed delivered over Infiniband and 10G) o Significant cost savings due to the elimination of more than 60 servers o Achieved far above 500 μs of latency reduction (due to Exegy’s use of FPGA) in incoming market data Optimise project – 2008 /11 o Participated of the creation of a new trading system as the infrastructure expert o Established all communications for the new trading system o Focused on low latency leveraging an Infiniband core and WLLM messaging o Drove infrastructure requirements to the application development team to ensure a successful roll out (burst handling / intermittent routes / failure recovery handling) Datacenter implementation project - 2009/10 o Technical lead in the implementation of 2 datacenters in the NJ area o Managed 7 resources and a budget of $14m o Lead the design and integration of the new infrastructure to the existing 2 production sites ! Created proof of concept, tested hardware capabilities and various design options ! MPLS core with multiple managed 10G circuits between sites (Pseudo wires / TE – FRR) ! 10G connectivity (Cisco Nexus) for all servers (blade infrastructure) / Infiniband core ! Drove the facility layout and cabling plant (fiber cabling / end of row setup) ! Multicast data distribution between datacenter and to ISE’s members (MSDP / Anycast / re-brand of RP’s) ! Allowed backhaul communications while the trading system was migrated ! Revamped operational and management tools (scripting) o Generated costs savings with the ability to resell services to ISE partners (Hanweck / Direct Edge) Mergers o Infrastructure lead in the failed merger with NYSE – worked for a year on aligning processes and planning for a global infrastructure o Infrastructure lead in the merger between ISE and Deutsche Borse following the 2007 agreement ! Provided communication between the 2 companies ! Worked on a unified infrastructure and operation !
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ISESTOCK 2006/09 o Infrastructure lead in the creation of a new stock exchange in 2006 o Early adoption of Infinband to meet the low latency requirements o Managed teams to implement the design to production o Became the TAM for the ISESTOCK platform ! Coordinated all technical teams (Dev / QA / Infrastructure and Operations) ! Team meetings / upper management communications / release management / issue escalation and resolution / prioritization ! Achieved platform stability within a year allowing it to be sold to DirectEdge Other notable projects o Adapted ISE’s network to the changes in the financial industry ! Lead the seamless upgrade of the entire trading system from FDDI to GigE in 2003 ! Continuous refresh of the network infrastructure to meet throughput demanded by the options industry ! Managed the connection of ISE to SFTI twice (6 access centers) o Created ISE’s market network – 2005 ! Worked with application team to create the software needed to distribute market data ! Designed and implemented the infrastructure to support the delivery of multicast to ISE’s members o Extranets ! Connected ISE to all Extranets (SAVVIS / BT RADIANZ / TNS / Reuters / OCC / DTCC / etc…) ! Manage relationship with all those vendors o Internet connectivity ! Dual home connectivity – full internet routing table - BGP o RFP responses ! Assisted in providing responses to large scale technology solution for the financial industry (Turquoise) Additional responsibilities o Technology Strategy ! Formulate long term strategy for the network infrastructure ! Participate in regular meeting with the business to ensure alignment with IT o Resource management ( 2 full time employees) – objective / review process o Yearly network roadmap creation o Budgeting (telecommunications / hardware) > $3m o Vendor management o L3 escalation – on call duties o Documentation ! IP management / Visio diagrams /High Level design / Low level design ! Project plans / PowerPoint
CERTIFICATIONS Project Management Professional (PMP), 2007, still valid. Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), 2007 Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT), 2010 Trained in Management and Social Skills Amazon Web Service certification and Python training
