Lakdar Benasroune

• Delivering Infrastructure Cloudification and cloud security governance projects • Implement OpenStack based private cloud and operation procedures for platform upgrades, operations and 3rd Party integrations • Delivering IaC, GitOps and Terraforming for multi-cloud and cloud agnostic application portability, observability and security • Delivering Edge computing solutions with RedHat OpenShift AI , ACM , Ansible and GitOps • Articulate Red Hat’s value proposition in the context of MLOps and LLMOps • Delivering and implementing Telco-Cloud architecture and related platforms with Red Hat cloud suite for the VNF/PNF/CNF interoperability and MANO. Enable OSS transformation and Network Automation

My Role: • building key vendor partnerships, recruiting, and establishing an internal Professional services Center of Excellence for Commercial cloud and Red Hat/Linux Professional services • Maintain key customer relationships and develop and implement strategies for expanding the company’s customer base (driving new logo adoption) in countries across GCC • Enabling pre-sales, sales and technical delivery teams • Develop GBM digital transformation service catalogue around the Red Hat technology stack. • Execute Go-to-Market Strategy and drive revenue growth through effective sales closure activities. Key Achievements: • Delivered successful, fully managed inhouse Red Hat based professional service offerings. • Setup a Global Red Hat Services Practice in GBM now yielding close to $15M ACR. • Develop a Global AWS Services and Marketplace Practice in GBM now yielding close to $10M ACR. • Setup an offshore delivery bench for professional services. • Established appropriate partnerships with major vendors (AWS, Alibaba, Azure, RedHat GPS, OCI, Flexera, F5, IBM) • Raised the Red Hat skill level within the organization from almost zero to over 80+ certified individuals. • Recruited an eco-system of services partners to develop and expand GBMs Cloud and Red Hat based services portfolio. I have been actively engaged with most of the key strategic customers across the GCC region supporting them in their All-in cloud and digitalisation initiatives, and proposing large scale assessments, Datacenter migrations, and enterprise scale solution modernisation, rationalisation and deployments.

• Implement new features and update an IPTV platform architecture based on Cisco vCPE, Mirantis OpenStack and Vanilla Ceph. • Implement an optimization and monitoring framework for Ceph and OpenStack • Automate the provisioning and the update cycle of the Cisco virtual appliances

• Provide expert technical support across a range of applications integration on-boarding on Red Hat OpenShift, focusing on SQL/Oracle databases, operating systems, API integration and web servers • Deploy multiple OCP clusters and backend Ceph storage using Ansible playbooks. • Configuration and implementation of Day 2 operations (backup, scale-in/out, decommissioning, resource provisioning) • Development of a Jenkins pipeline to integrate internal Java applications and external big data cluster. • Integration of monitoring with external ELK, Prometheus, Splunk, and Grafana monitoring and logging systems. • Deployed and configured a multi-site Ansible tower architecture and use it for automated daily operations on the OCP clusters

My Role: • Provide strategic technology leadership while managing day-to-day engineering operations within Deutsch Telekom, Orange Business Service and Vodafone OSS ecosystems • Oversee and execute a tech transformation to modernize and scale OSS/BSS telco IT infrastructure. • Lead and mentor a team of 20 to 50 engineers, ensuring alignment with business goals from Huawei Headquarter in Shenzhen (China). • Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation between Dublin Lab and R&D centers in Shenzhen (China). • Support hiring efforts and team restructuring Key Achievements @Huawei Dublin Lab • Signed and promoted key activities of a Memorandum of Understanding with Deutsche Telekom on the scalability of Smart City, M2M and IoT Huawei ICT solutions • Successfully positioned the Huawei network slicing and network orchestration solution for the PAN-IP and OpenTelekom cloud in Deutsch Telekom. • Conducted several technical workshops for Deutsche Telekom's subsidiaries in Eastern Europe on Huawei OpenStack and Nested OpenStack solution as Huawei's new ICT-O (IT and CT orchestration engine) product. • Successfully merge different product line within Huawei Business Units to rationalise innovation effort and address immediate market needs along the next generation OSS product • Conduct a Huawei company acquisition for SDN data-modelling

- Customer facing technical interface with Deutsche Telekom AG on the technical vision of PAN-IP geographically dispersed cloud infrastructure. - Leverage Ubuntu and Canonical technologies, including MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service) and Juju (Openstack Charms), to streamline deployment and management practices for cloud platforms. - Integration of OpenStack for cloud computing, Ceph for distributed storage, and Canonical technologies for seamless orchestration. Cross-vendor application integration: Juniper SDN, OSS, Cisco, and OpenSource.

OSS service assurance. Consultancy for OSS service assurance transformation. Working on Next-Generation Multicast VPN and large Carrier and internet service provider MPLS deployments for Deutsch Telekom AG (DTAG)

My Role: • Capture requirements and drive system-wide architectural decisions. • Define and maintain the Data Warehouse target architecture • Lead the design of a scalable data warehouse architecture tailored for DTAG operations. • Determine product suitability and provide recommendations for effective use of assets and investments. • Design and implement sub-system (ITIL life processes cycle). • Deliver components through architecture projects, development projects, and infrastructure projects. • Provide depth and direction through development of standards, policies, architecture patterns, and frameworks. • Collection and analysis of all pertinent data essential to cross OpCo shared project requirements understanding • OSS KPI integration for performance and Fault management reporting and dashboarding Key Achievements: • Developed and implemented best practices for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes • Significantly improve data integration efficiency. Nightly ETL window reduce by 30% through optimised parallel processing and data partitioning strategies • Integration of new Performance Management tool: TNPMW, Cognos BI, Oracle and COST products. • Processes migration (Data collection, Data Virtualisation, mapping, summary aggregation, housekeeping reports, alarms, KPI) from Metrica NPR to IBM TNPMW.

My Role: OSS engineer consultant – Metrica/NPR platform expert for Fault and Performance Management (FCAPS, eTOM framework) • Specification and implementation 2,5/ 3G / Siemens IN / interfaces. • Specification and implementation of CDR Billing Interface. • Specification and implementation of Siemens VLR Rooming Interface. • Specification and implementation of Siemens SS7 interface. • Specification and development of OSS and BSS alarm scripts, Reporting and Datawarehouse transactions. • Alarm clearance tool and custom gateway to a TMN platform (Netcool) • Upgrade & Migration of Metrica NPR strategic platform Key Achievement: • Maintain a cross regions Metrica/NPR platform for KPIs monitoring • Data Model and Data Collection Design • ETL procedure with security assessment. • Technical Lead contact with IBM and Metrica Vendor, establishing work group for reviewing and understanding requirement and specifications

Technical support on NSS equipment and management based on GESTEQPT, GESTIMPL, GESTCNX, and RMR platforms: NE management, new NSS release implementation and traffic management. Technical support on NSS switching engineering based on GESTACT, GESTTRAD; GESTACT7 software:Route management, translator and SS7. Troubleshooting Technical support and technical project management of a BSS traffic quality tool interface. Environment: GSM, SSS, Radio, Oracle, SQL, Arcview GIS v3.1.