Moved to Portugal for family reasons, and have since been working on acquiring new skills
in software development and cutting-edge technology to apply in startup initiatives.
Arrived in 2014 as the first network engineer of the Tech Services Engineering team,
hired to support the IT assets delivered with new, modern attractions such as
the Harry Potter rides.
I quickly realized the scope was much bigger than just networks, including baremetal servers,
storage backup, firewalls, hypervisors, virtual machines, applications, ride-critical wireless LANs
and everything cybersecurity from access control to vulnerability management.
I then devised and executed a multi-year plan to create a new team that I named Attractions Technology team,
with dedicated expertise in support of each IT function present at the attractions. The plan
required significant capital investment, approved by senior leadership.
When I left the company in 2022, the AT team was fully operational, policies
where in place to govern and standardize the "Ride & Show Networks" (RSN) and the other
Universal theme parks around the world were starting to mirror the Orlando AT team organization.
Moved to Califoria in 2006 to go work for Cisco Systems, a dream of mine since I started
in the field of network engineering.
During my tenure at Cisco as a software quality assurance engineer, I had to learn in depth
the inner workings of Cisco devices and operating systems, as well as become proficient with
all the most popular routing protocols and VPN architectures in demand by both enterprises
and internet service providers.
Additionally, the requirement to automate all testing so as to expedite regression testing,
as well as feature and system integration testing, gave me extensive experience with the TCL
scripting language, which is quite similar to Python.
Waterfall and Agile were the methodologies used for software development.
Started at SIAC (Securities Industry Automation Corporation), a subsidiary of NYSE,
the New York Exchange, as a consultant network engineer from a consulting and staffing company
named ThinkInternational LLC at that time.
My job was to test and validate proposed network designs to be deployed at the several
networks supporting different NYSE services such as the trading floor, AMEX, etc.
There, I took my first steps in quality assurance and automation, and learned how to use
network traffic generators to simulate real life (or extreme) network conditions.
At the time, SIAC used network equipment from Cisco, Juniper and Nortel Networks.
