Sam Youn

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Pleasanton, CA *****

(C) 650-***-**** (H) 925-***-****

Email: abjcdj@r.postjobfree.com

MANAGEMENT QUALIFICATIONS:

o Management: 15+ years of director level+ management experience to manage highly technical professional teams

o Budget: Manage annual budget of $15-20M OPEX and CAPEX projects

o Vendor manage: Manage and negotiate pricing and contract term for service global and regional network service

carriers, datacenter providers, network equipment vendor and application provider, and manpower contractors

o Manage technology roadmap with technical solution providers and a service & product technical roadmap

o Technical product lifecycle management working with product marketing organization

o Engineered and deployed user programmable (UI, system, network) Ethernet Exchange Service, Could Exchange

Service, telco systems engineering

o End-to-end engineering, deployment, and day-to-day operational capability of service automation

o End-to-end engineering, deployment and day-to-day operation of multi-datacenter Cloud Infrastructure, SDN

Network, global footprint MPLS, BGP carrier network, datacenter network, and enterprise network solutions

o Strong understand and information security compliance control requirement such as ISO27001-2013, SOC, PCI

and network security design and solutions (IDS/IPS, DDOS prevention, data encryption, data protection, and service

platform isolation

o Strong understand of business and product requirements and leading it to the technology direction

o Has a strong capability to drive solutions needs for customer

o Strong support on team work driven management

o Guide team to drive on technical innovation and customer oriented solutions

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

o Technical Co-Chair: Cloud Ethernet Forum (leading industry to adapt standard Cloud & NFV service definition)

o Very hands on technical experience

o Architecture for end to end system automation expert (service frontend, service backend, service infrastructure)

o Data Center Network:

• Multi datacenters to support 100TB+ capacity network with multi vendor switches, load balancers, and firewall

• Superior understanding and mastered network layer1, layer2, layer3 technology and SDN technology

• 10, 40G and 100G+ optical wave solution to interconnect in metro datacenters network

• Familiar with datacenter cabling infrastructure, and power system

• Familiar with global datacenter industry footprint, available services inside of datacenter

• Strong understand datacenter business model and business and service solutions around datacenter business

o Carrier Network:

• Mastered metro, regional, global carrier network design, deployment, and day-to-day operation

• Design multi ASNs global footprint MPLS and BGP networks in 4 regions with 10+ countries, 18+ metro networks

and 100+ network POPs

• Design, deploy and run global ISP network infrastructure

o Enterprise Network

• Design an enterprise network with multi tiers to support different business needs and requirements

• Application performance driven network design (call centers, application hosting DC, VoIP, Video) with multi data

center environments

• Cost effective enterprise network design with security control and monitoring system in placed

• Hybrid Cloud infrastructure solution design using public and private cloud services with private and public cloud

service connections

o Cloud Infrastructure Network

• Design SDN and NFV infrastructure network

• SDN based datacenter to datacenter SDN networks to support High Availability model and Disaster Recovery

model

• Design multi datacenter SDN network

• Design hybrid SDN and Legacy datacenter solutions

• Secure multi-tenant and multi-service SDN network architecture to segregate service platform layer with common

underlay

o Security and Network tools

• Security compliance (ISO27001, PCI, SOC)

• IDS/IPS, DDOS prevention solution, data encryption, data protection, and platform isolation

• DNS, NTP, TACAS+, Syslog, SNMP tools, SLA measurement system

o Solutions architecture (love to working on customer solutions)

• Develop hybrid cloud architecture solution for an enterprise network

• Network and infrastructure build solutions for client (POC, SVC)

EXPERIENCE:

Symantec: Mountain View, CA (April 2014 – present), Global leading security service provider

Sr. Director, Global Network Architecture & Architect, Cloud Platform Engineering

o Working to manage a product network technical requirement and solution with product management and product

development organizations

o Design and deployment global backbone network with 70GB+ network transit and transport capacity per network

POP with MPLS, ISIS, OSPF, and BGP protocols

o Manage all level of vendors (datacenter, metro/regional transport carrier, regional/global IP transit carrier, network

equipment vendors) to build global backbone network with 12+ global network datacenters and 6+ hosting datacenter

network

o Bring new global backbone and datacenter networks to meet security compliance requirements

o Manage to deliver a design and deploy 1-2 datacenter enterprise networks per month and bring it to meet security

compliance requirements

o Manage to build Symantec Cloud technology based service platform networks

• Global backbone network with multiple datacenters with wave and dark fiber circuits

• Plan roadmap for global backbone network expansion plan

• Legacy enterprise service provider data center network infrastructure

• OpenStack and SDN based service provider datacenter network infrastructure

o Manage and planning high number of datacenter migration projects (1-3 datacenter migration projects per month)

o Manage and planning high number of secure DevTest application development lab network infrastructure

o Manage many challenging priority projects with limited resource

Equinix: Redwood City, CA, (June 2009 – April 2014), Leading Global Datacenter Provider

Sr. Director, Global Architecture and Engineering & Architect

o Manage all technical product life cycle and requirements with marketing and business development organizations

o Manage service product technical roadmap and co-marking with product marketing team

o Design end-to-end network based services with user programmability using UI and fully automated service order

and provisioning systems

o Responsibilities:

• Managing Carrier and Cloud interconnection services architecture (Internet BGP Peering, Ethernet Exchange,

Cloud Exchange)

• Architecture responsibilities of customer service network, service exchange network, and corporate network

• Vendor management and vendor selection for new network, cloud, content service solutions

• Network platform deployment planning and network service platform maintenance and budget ($10M)

• Network service automation project include one touch provisioning, online service self-troubleshooting, service

dash board, service SLA measurement, and service statistics and service utilization gathering mechanism

• Internal and external network service API requirement and managing guidelines

• Network security and network NMS & EMS systems

o Global Customer Dev/Test Labs: SV, NY, DC, MI, LD, SG, SY locations

• Total ownership of deployment planning and road map planning

• Create show case demo with partner

• Validate reference architecture solution with customer’s design

• Evaluate technology in production and global footprint

o Core network service and technology

• Transit network technology: BGP, LD, FW, WPA

• Inter carrier (AS) vpn solutions: MPLS, VPLS, L3vpn, L2vpn

• Inter carrier layer 2 and layer3 vpn solutions for various of business partners

• Service CoS & QoS guidelines for L2 and L3 VPN services

• SDN, OpenFlow, Open Controller, Open Stack

o Focused solution area:

• Regional and global Carrier Ethernet, Transit carriers, CDN and content networks

• Financial industry

• Cloud service provider networks

• Enterprise networks

Reliance Globalcom (Formally Yipes): San Francisco, CA, (November 2007 – May 2009), Global Ethernet service

provider has footprint in US (18 metropolitan areas), Europe, and Asia.

Director, Field Service Engineering (Solutions Architect) and Network Architect

o Leading multi network architecture teams for migrating multi-ASN MPLS, BGP based service networks to

provide single global SLA matric

o Responsible for network and service integration with newly acquired networks

o Manage Internet peering policy with other ISP at various metro networks

o Manage and design network infrastructure include global network backbone

o Lead network architecture guidelines supporting industry technical trending and marketing trending

• Inter carrier (AS) vpn solutions: MPLS, VPLS, L3vpn, L2vpn

• Inter carrier layer 2 and layer3 vpn NNI solutions for various of business partners

• IGP and AS migration

• Metro Ethernet service: VPLS, (m/rSTP), EAPS, OSPF,

• Global transit services based on BGP

• Out of Band network migration

• Service CoS & QoS guidelines for L2 and L3 VPN services

• Multicast service (brokerage) using layer 2 and layer 3 multicast network features

o Training all technical teams to meet department technical expectation

o Vendor management for technical issues and technical guideline

o Manage 30+ DNS servers, and network authentication servers (Radius)

o Network and service ICB solution technical gate keeper

WiLine Networks: Foster City, CA, (July 2006 – November 2007), Metro Ethernet Service and Voice Provider based on

Wireless Transport Link Technology

VP of Network Engineering, Customer Support, and IT

o Managed organization to grow from 2 engineers to three teams with ~30 employee organization with in 2 years

o Planning and executing network and customer support budget

• Network planning include vendor selection and negotiation

• Resource planning for whole network engineering departments and customer support organization

• Network and service footprint expansion plan

o Network vendor management: Cisco, and Juniper other DSL devices

o Licensed and unlicensed wireless device vendor management: Bridgewave, Dragonwave, Trango, Redline,

Alvarion, and Aparto

• 3.4Ghz, 3.5Ghz, 5.3Ghz, 5.8Ghz,

• 11Ghz, 18Ghz, 23/24Ghz (Licensed)

• 60 (unlicensed V-Band), 70, 80Ghz (Licensed E-Band)

o Network design

• Core network (E, M, G, S-POPs) using fiber and micro (11, 18, 23Ghz) & miliwave (60, 70, 80Ghz) wireless

technologies

• Edge solution using DSL, Wireless (3.4, 3.5, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8Ghz), RJ45

o Lead cooperate system architect supporting network layout, inventory, and configuration management

o Leading develop network management and ticketing system

o Leading developing centric and managed VoIP solution for residential and commercial customers,

Gilead Science: Foster City, CA, (February 2006 –July 2006), Third largest biotech company in US

Sr. Manager, Information Technology Infrastructure (data network, voice network and security)

o Technical advisory role in the company

o Manage global resources in multiple locations in US and Europe

o Technical and management responsible for full scope of managing global data, voice network and network

security for 2000 employee company in world wide locations

o Responsible for managing department budget

o Lead technical and administrative issues within corporate global network and lead projects to meet business

requirements

o Technical and management responsible for Business Continuity Plan (Disaster Recovery) include complete

disaster recovery infrastructure with key business applications

o Standardize network security, network operational process, and operational procedure to meet SOX compliance

requirements

o Manage vendors for price negotiation, service contract and technical issue

Yipes Enterprise Services: San Francisco, CA, (August 2000 – January 2006), Global based Ethernet service provider

has footprint in US (dozen metropolitan areas), Europe (half dozen cities), and Asia.

Director, Customer Network Engineering (Solutions Architect) and Architect (January 2004 – January 2006)

o Responsible for network and service integration with newly acquired networks

o Manage Internet peering policy with other ISP at various metro networks

o Manage and design network infrastructure include global network backbone

o Technical and management responsible for all escalated network issues execute by NOC

o Architectural responsible for any network enhancement, expansion, and maintain integrity

o Architectural responsible for end to end network design, network implementation, and network management

o Architectural responsible for network security design, security implementation, security management

o Technical and management responsible for Root Cause Analysis on all critical outages – responsible for

implementing corrective action plans

o Training employee to meet department technical expectation

o Manage network equipment vendors to meet company requirements and time line

o Certify network vendor hardware and software to meet company requirements and minimize unknown risks

o Evaluate new vendor, device, technology and feature for future network expansion

o Initiate and manage SLA system using ICMP and Cisco SAA based measurement

o Develop customized design solution for customer requirement utilizing following protocols

• 15 domains of OSPF network with multiple areas on each domain (Cisco, Extreme, Juniper, Tasman)

• BGP with 30+ peering sessions with major tier 1 Internet carrier and interconnect 12 major US cities and 3 internal

cities. Some portion of iBGP connection established via Internet cloud (Cisco, Extreme, Juniper)

• ISIS and RSVP to support MPLS and VPLS network

• VLAN (802.1q), SpanningTree, 802.1ad, EAPS, VRRP, and HSRP

• CWDM and DWDM

• 802.1P (VLAN Pbit), Diffsrv, and TOS based QoS

o Manage sub team to support DNS system include recursive lookup, reverse lookup, hosting DNS (1000+

domains) and E-Mail relay. Manage and maintain 30+ DNS servers running on Solaris OS with Bind 9.2 version

o Provide highest level of Spectrum support within company

o Accountable for followings

• Corporate IT network design and security

• Design and end to end ownership of Out of Band network to manage production network

• Overall network integrity of production network

• Security design, configuration and enforcement of production network and corporate network

• End to end network performance

• Network design and network template

• New service design and documents

• Network access authentication system such as RSA, and Radius system

Excite@Home: Redwood City, CA, (May 1999 – June 2000), Cable Service Provider Company

SR. Network Engineer

o Manage full scope of designing commercial grade DSL service for small enterprise customers

o Evaluate new cable modem and CMTR (cable router) vendor based on DOCSIS 1.0 standard

o Certify new cable modem and CMTR device and software and report to MSO weekly based conference call with

major US MSO

o Carry pager to support 7x24 escalation calls from NOC for any major network and customer issue

Cisco Systems: San Jose, CA (March 1998 – May 1999)

SR. Network Engineer

o Support customer with any network management issue on full Cisco network device line up

o Support customer with any SNMP MIB, Trap, Syslog, and RMON issue

o Support any issue on Cisco router, switch, and management applications

MCI: Fremont, CA, (February 1990 – February 1998)

SR. Engineer and Unix/NT Admin

o Manage many networks include CAL IOS (California power grid network), WAMU, JPN, QUOTRON, and USPS

o Manage FW, DNS, Syslog, Mail Gateway, and NMS systems

o Admin Windows and Unix (SUN Solaris) servers

o Admin Oracle DB system

o Program to automate configuration of the device, floor layout drawing system (Micro Station CAD system with

DB2 system, and reporting systems

Xeltek: Santa Clara, CA, (January 1989 – January 1990)

Engineer

o Support EPROM, GAL, PAL, PEEL, and GAL programming device

o Program C+ and Basic to control device programming device

Education:

Michigan Tech University: Houghton, MI

Certification:

CCIE #4757 and Certified Solaris System Admin

Industry Forum:

Technical co-chair position at CloudEthernet Forum (CEF)

MEF and IEEE member

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