PARVIZ YEGANI, PhD

Laguna Niguel, CA *****

408-***-****

aduijd@r.postjobfree.com

Leader and innovator (50+ patents) with over 25 years of experience working at Cisco, Juniper, IBM, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Futurewei Technologies (Products & Solutions CTO Organization), and ERX/ISD.

Seeking an exciting employment opportunity focusing on solutions based on cloud-native 5G/IOT/ENT architecture and technology innovation;

Leveraging my vast experience on cloud/edge computing, network orchestration, automation and analytics platforms, SDN, NFV, Cloud-Native (CNCF) technologies, wireless networking (3G/4G/5G, ORAN), and ICT network harmonization/FMC solutions.

OBJECTIVES:

Passionate to design, build, and operate innovative, fully-automated, and cost-optimized ICT networks.

Constantly working with leaders across telecom, cloud, IoT, and enterprise to define 5G technology solutions, cloud-RAN mobile networks (ORAN/eCPRI/rAPPs/xAPPs), open-source software, and standards-based technologies.

Drive Telco’s digital transformation leveraging 2G/3G/4G existing infrastructure, SDN/NFV, FMC (LTE, WiMAX, DSLAM, P2P ON, GPON), Harmonized Communication Networks (intranets, DCs, LANs, WANs, IPsec VPN/SSL, EVPN, BGP MPLS/L3-VPN, Cellular/Wi-Fi6, Satellite networks, MPLS-based transport networks encompassing all network segments (access, aggregation and core), WAN optimization/DR, Cloud VPN/SD-WAN (on-prem, cloud-enabled) and modernizing existing WANs with VPC, SR and other DCI technologies.

Help push company views in leading industry Fora/SDOs and promote product strategy/vision with senior execs of OEMs, customers and ecosystem partners.

Analyze SPs/Enterprises business landscape and define measures to tackle the challenges they’re facing to migrate to a new architecture (digital transformation journey) by enabling cloud concepts that can help ensure rapid innovation, automation and greater agility and flexibility.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., EE Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN

MSc., EE/CS Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Networking 5GC/SBA, LTE/4G EPC, IMS, VoLTE, GRX, IPX, NFV, SDN, SD-WAN, ADC, GiLAN Security/Policy S/Gi (Network)

Wireless 4G/5G: 5G Core (AMF, SMF, UPF, PCF, NRF, NEF, UDM, NSSF, AUSF), NG-RAN (ORAN, ..), MEC/CUPS.

GTP FW, Diameter Security, SIP/IMS Security, IPSec, Gx/Gy/Gz.

SME of network protocols and technologies: BGP, ISIS, GRE, MPLS, VXLAN, IPSEC.

Cloud-native: Kubernetes, Service Mesh (Istio/Envoy), Prometheus, OpenCensus/Open Tracing, DevOps.

Expert knowledge of architecting large commercial systems (e.g., Telco’s/CSPs) as well as Enterprise LANs/WANs with mixed workloads (PNF/VNF/CNF), serverless applications, leveraging open source software platforms, cloud-native orchestration and automation technologies.

Deep experience (HW/SW) in various platforms including Juniper, Cisco and Huawei in large scale, telecom and enterprise environments.

Plugged-in to latest technologies to determine optimal solution/support customer future requirements and technical roadmap, CSPs digital transformation.

Strong inter-lock with senior executives (CXO level) and customers’ senior management teams.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

VP of Architecture for network routing, switching and security protocols, software design and development Led Open Contrail integration into OPNFV platform (Brahmaputra Release).

Led various projects involving Mobile 3G, 4G/EPC and Fixed Access (network architectures, service models/tiered services, service provisioning, differentiated billing, SP/OTT revenue sharing strategies).

Led IP mobility standards in 3GPP/P2, TIA, WiMAX and IETF, helped with product/ standards alignment (gap analysis, value-added features and capabilities).

Led NFV/SDN open standards and open source initiatives, served on OPNFV Board and Technical Steering Committee (TSC), contributing to upstream projects in OpenStack to meet carrier-grade service delivery requirements, chaired ONAP Architecture WG.

Official technical liaison engagement for architecture alignment between 3GPP, BBF and ETSI NFV ISG (gap analysis, architecture migration from legacy to NGN paradigm).

Constantly worked with the R&D team, PLM and network architects to identify product design gaps, propose innovative ideas/extensions, helped reshape company’s product strategy and propose necessary improvements leading to new products and solutions.

Delivered technical presentations to customers, spoke at leading conferences (mostly by invitation), represented the company at significant SP-sponsored workshops and other major industry events.

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Strong standards knowledge (both traditional standards and open source), led and influenced the architecture evolution work in IETF (Mobility protocols), 3GPP (Evolved Packet Core), 3GPP2 (All-IP Arch), MWIF, WiMAX, ETSI NFV ISG, and numerous industry ad hoc efforts by serving in leadership roles across various organizations:

Chair of ONAP Architecture WG.

Lead SDN architect at ONOS/ON-Lab.

Head of Juniper Delegation, 3GPP SA Plenary (2010-2012),

Lead Architect/major contributor to EPC/WiFi integrated architecture (aka SMOG or S2b Mobility based on GTP), Head of Juniper Delegation, 3GPP SA2 Architecture WG (2008-20012)

Head of Cisco Delegation 3GPP SA (Plenary), SA2 (Architecture), CT3 (Policy) and CT4 (GTP/PMIP), SA1 (Services) (2007-2008).

Hired top talents to join Juniper “Mobility” standards team.

Head of Cisco Delegation for 3GPP2 TSG-X/TSG-A WGs (2000-2008) Chair 3GPP2 TSG-A All IP Ad Hoc Group (2000-2001),

Chair TIA TR-45.6 Subcommittee (2003-2006) two terms,

Chair Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) IP RAN WG (2000-2002), Chair WiMAX Forum Security Ad Hoc Group,

Member of IETF CAPWAP architecture design team,

Co-authored IP Mobility RFCs in IETF (PMIPv4/PMIPv6, DHCP, IP QoS, GRE), Founding Member, BoD & TSC, Open NFV Platform/OPNFV (2014-2016), Head of Juniper Delegation, ETSI NFV ISG (2013-2016),

Lead Architect/major contributor to ETSI NFV Software Architecture (SWA) WG,

Serving as ETSI NFV ISG-BBF mutual Liaison to ensure Architecture Alignment for Multi-Service Broadband Network (MSBN) (2013-2017).

Customer Interlock

Engage in customer interlock activities to evangelize Company Mobile Vision and promote thought leadership ideas. Deliver technical presentations to customers, speaking at leading conferences and industrial events.

Working diligently with operators to establish Juniper as an innovator and a viable player in the Mobility, IP Routing, Switching and Security.

Partner with mobile/converged service providers and ecosystem partners to jointly drive architecture and standard specifications to provide guidance to the company to build products and solutions in the IP networking space, Network Convergence, etc.

Drive alignment of product roadmap with mobile/fixed networking industry direction, customer business plans and priorities.

Competitive Analysis

Constantly engage in dialog with the Engineering team, PLMs and SEs, to drive market-defining solutions for the company.

Review proposals from other vendors (particularly our competitors) and evaluate their impact on Juniper business and develop an action plan accordingly.

Cross Business Unit Coordination

Collaborate with PLM, Advanced Technology (CTO Group), Engineering, Marketing, Strategic Alliance to determine Juniper’s overall direction and success across different business groups.

Work diligently with both regional as well as global account teams (architects and center of excellence/CoE experts) in different theatres to help generate new revenue streams.

Provide leadership and guidance to enhance training tools and techniques for global talent/SEs/TMEs buildup.

Contributes to discussion on company’s strategic and cultural direction. More specifically, focused on the following strategic areas: Leadership in Wireless/Convergence segment and its role in emerging as well as next gen technologies (e.g., NFV, SDN, 5G), Customer Engagement - Institute and execute internal and external standards process and customer engagement,

Standards Compliance - Foster a culture of standards compliance and multivendor interoperability (a key to Fixed-Mobile Harmonization success).

Patents/Publications/Standardization

A prolific inventor (50+ patents), a visionary who loves technology and highly recognized for my pioneering work “Software-defined Cloud Networks”. I have made key technical contributions to major software-defined cloud networks and network automation/analytics platforms (ONOS, ODL, ONAP, OPNFV), open standards organizations such as IETF, 3GPP (20+ yrs), IEEE, BBF, WiMAX, NGMN Alliance, and Mobile Wireless Internet Forum.

At Cisco (9 yrs) I led projects on system design, architecture and protocol enhancements for mobile GW products (PDSN, GGSN, SEC GW), helped standardize 3GPP 4G/LTE Architecture, WiFi IWK and wrote several IETF RFCs.

At Juniper Networks (8 yrs) and Futurewei Technologies (4 yrs) I made key contributions to enhance product architecture with integrated 5G/SDN/NFV/Cloud network service capabilities. I did expend considerable effort to ensure that the company cloud-driven networking products are closely aligned with the industry standards (ETSI MANO, TOSCA, YANG), software-defined network cloudification and open source analytics/automation platforms such as ONAP, OPNFV, ONOS, and ODL.

I have deep understanding of Service Providers' networks and Cloud Providers' computing services platforms (Google/GCP, Amazon/AWS, Azure/AKS, ..). I keep myself always plugged-in by constantly interfacing with customers, ecosystem partners and major players from both telco and cloud networking industries. I drive architecture thought leadership and serve in leadership roles at various capacities promoting Cloud/NFV/SDN architecture in industry.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CTO & Vice President Telecom Strategy & Architecture, HCLTECH, Sunnyvale, CA July 2020 - present

Responsibilities:

Led HCLTECH 5G/IoT, cloud native CNFs products design for both telcos and enterprises leveraging NFV/SDN for network orchestration, automation and resource optimization, AI/ML algorithms and cloud native tools & technologies.

Helped develop a cost-effective ERX software solution powered by the NFV acceleration on a SmartNIC (in collaboration with Intel), lowering TCO by 35% via freeing up compute capacity to accommodate new services and scale using existing server infrastructure.

Architected a cloud-native software solution architecture for 5G CNF products (AMF, NSSF, PCF, BSF, NWDAF,) for both telco applications and industry leading vertical use cases using the key enabling technologies (3GPP network slicing) and CI/CD best practices. Such a methodology proved to meet a wide variety of 5G network operators’ requirements.

Worked on the engagement model with the ERX partners to design and build 5G CNF products leveraging CI/CD digital pipeline, APM, CNI, Kubernetes and more.

Designed a software microservices-based architecture (an ERX innovative solution) to seamlessly integrate the 3G/4G PCRF capability onto a 5G cloud native PCF platform. This led to a combo next-gen PCF/PCRF platform to help align with telcos cloud-native migration strategies.

Worked with cloud providers to enhance cloud native orchestration with ERX workload automation on various cloud platforms.

CTO Office, Futurewei Technologies, Inc. Santa Clara, CA July 2016 – June 2020

Chief Architect - Cloud Networks

Responsibilities:

Worked on several projects since joining the CTO office at Futurewei Technologies and ERX Software Solutions:

Led a sizable team (network architects and engineers) to enhance the commercial geo-distributed SDN controller architecture (enhanced KVS for distribution/persistence), MANO service orchestration stack (NFVO/VNFM), WAN optimization in collaboration with our ecosystem partners and multi-cloud adaptation for sharing resources (PNFs, VNFs, CNFs) in hybrid cloud environments (OpenStack, GCP, AWS, Azure, VMware, ..).

As part of this endeavor I was able to successfully demonstrate improved products performance via key differentiation and optimization techniques, helping expand our products footprint while making them commercially more viable, to support use cases such as, vCPE, 4G VoLTE and 5G Network Slicing capabilities.

Participated/led open source projects such as ONOS, ODL and ONAP. I led/chaired the ONAP architecture WG responsible for defining the software architecture for network automation platform, with emphasis on the hierarchical SDN controller, Multi-Cloud mediation layer (through APIs), and DCAE enhancements (ONAP Data Collection and Analytics Framework) to support real-time data streaming and events processing.

Proposed ONAP architecture enhancement to support not only the legacy infrastructure but also dynamic workflows in virtualized and containerized environments, leveraging cloud-native ecosystem software tools (Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Prometheus, Grafana), service orchestration standards (ETSI MANO) and network modeling tools (YANG, TOSCA, HEAT) across various cloud infrastructures incl. on-prem, private and public clouds (AWS, Azure and GCP, ..), hosting any mix of PNFs, VNFs and CNFs.

More recently, I started working on a cloud-driven network automation platform, a flagship project to develop a geo-distributed unified network telemetry end-to-end solution. This is to support real-time streaming across all domains/layers (L1-L7), leveraging an innovative decentralized pub-sub/KV store for data acquisition and unified data sharing framework at cloud scale (spanning all segments; Edge, Fog, Cloud and Multi-Cloud)

Chair, ONAP Architecture WG 2016 – 2019

https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Architecture+Tiger+Team

Responsibilities:

Chaired the Architecture WG in ONAP to define a new cloud-ready open network automation platform architecture (based on merged ECOMP and Open-O platforms' capabilities/APIs).

Had to add new components, functional modules (mainly Microservices) and APIs to transform the ONAP initial software platform towards a Microservices-based architecture (a multi release project)

The ONAP platform architecture is driven by operators' SLAs/SLOs performance objectives (SA, HA, S3P,)

This platform was enhanced to support not only the Telco’s' monolithic legacy infrastructures but also the distributed Microservices-based architecture in multi-vendor and multi-tenant environments, leveraging cloud-native ecosystem tools and open standards (Kubernetes, Istio service mesh, PNDA/DCAE, ETSI NFV-compliant NFV-O) plus an External API that provides access for 3rd party frameworks such as MEF, TM Forum and potentially others, to facilitate interactions between operator BSS and relevant ONAP components.

Juniper Networks Sunnyvale, CA 2008 – 2016

Vice President, Network Architecture

Responsibilities:

As VP of architecture, continued to drive the engineering design and system architecture for JUNIPER's High IQ networks. This architecture was designed to incorporate the emerging technologies such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Besides engaging in internal projects, also led a team effort to ensure Juniper vision is closely aligned with the industry SDN/NFV direction. This encompasses IETF work across several WGs; the work at ETSI NFV ISG, the SDN/NFV work at Broadband Forum (BBF) and the OPNFV initiative.

Served as a member of both the Board of Directors and Technical Steering Committee (TSC) at OPNFV. At the same time, I served on a technical advisory role both at the Broadband Forum (BBF) and the ETSI NFV ISG. On this role I was primarily responsible for aligning the virtualized multi-service broadband network (MSBN) architecture, with the ETSI NFV Group Specifications, system requirements and architectural framework.

Early in my tenure at Juniper (2008-2013), initiated an architecture thought leadership program within the company to develop a unified architecture for the converged networks, encompassing both wireline and wireless access technologies. Successfully managed a sizable team (Engineering, PLM, SEs) to align Juniper product vision with customers technical roadmap.

This resulted in an end-to-end solution architecture (blueprint) driving a range of key carrier-grade networking products including the Mobile Next (Juniper packet core), the flagship mobile backhaul solutions (ACX family of products) plus the Cellular-WiFi interworking and traffic offload solutions.

Strong interlock with various customers' technical and business leads (mostly tier-1 operators) proved to be instrumental in producing a leading architecture for Juniper products.

Board of Directors, TSC Member at OPNFV 2014 – 2016

(3 yrs.) Hosted by Linux Foundation

Responsibilities:

Served as a member of Board of Directors (BoD) as well as Technical Steering Committee (TSC) at OPNFV. The project (led by telco operators) intends to advance the evolution of NFV and to ensure consistency, performance and interoperability among multiple open source components (OpenStack, Open Contrail, Open Daylight and more).

Mutual Technical Liaison at BBF and ETSI NFV ISG 2013 – 2017

(4 yrs.) ETSI NFV ISG, BBF

Responsibilities:

Elected by both BBF and ETSI NFV ISG Technical Steering Committees to lead and coordinate the architecture design, implementation and migration for multi-service broadband networks (MSBN) leveraging the ISG NFV recommendations and SDN-related industry standards.

Chief Software Architect at ETSI NFV ISG 2013 – 2017

(4 yrs) ETSI NFV ISG

Responsibilities:

NFV along with SDN brought an exciting new direction to propel the next generation networking paradigm. This prompted me to mobilize forces in Juniper to actively participate in the ETSI NFV ISG initiative from the very beginning (Jan. 2013).

Established a team to push Juniper vision, encourage network innovation and collaborate with ecosystem partners and customers in various ISG NFV WGs.

I made numerous contributions to Software Architecture (SWA WG), Management and Orchestration (MANO WG) and NFV Infrastructure (NFVI WG) towards the completion of the NFV Phase I Group Specifications (targeted for 4Q2014)

Mobile Packet Data Networks, Cisco Milpitas, CA 2000 – 2008

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

Over my rather long tenure at Cisco (~ 9 years), Led a number of projects across various business units (see below). The main focus was on system design, architecture and protocol enhancements for Cisco mobile GW products (PDSN, GGSN, SeGW).

While I was engaged in multitude projects internally. I was also driving a wide array of standards activities to promote an IP-centric architecture in industry including:

Led Cisco mobility vision to help design a future proof architecture to meet customer requirements. The products developed based on this architecture were to secure Cisco leadership position in industry. Key factors influencing the design process were the dynamic nature of mobile networking landscape and the challenges the operators were facing to cope with rapid changes in their network infrastructure (mobile Core+RAN subsystems)

Work closely with the R&D team, PLM and network architects to identify product design gaps, propose innovative ideas/extensions, help reshape company’s product strategy and propose necessary improvements leading to new products and solutions,

Delivered technical presentations to customers, speaking at leading conferences (mostly by invitation), representing Cisco at significant SP-sponsored workshops and other major industry events,

Led IP mobility standards in 3GPP, 3GPP2, TIA, WiMAX and IETF, focusing on product/ standards alignment (gap analysis, adding new features and capabilities, etc),

CDMA Packet Data Networks, Ericsson, San Diego, CA 1999 (1 year)

Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

Participated in several projects at Ericsson including:

Continued to lead Ericsson delegation in 3GPP2 (shortly after E/// acquired QUALCOMM's infrastructure division), Led the architecture design for the R-P GW products to support CDMA2000 packet data services,

Worked with the R&D team to optimize implementation of the packet access GW, Co-chaired 3GPP2 TSG-A architecture working group,

Led the packet GW architecture standardization efforts in 3GPP2 and IETF. This interface was the key to enable multi-vendor inter-operability in 3G CDMA networks.

Mobile Networks, Qualcomm San Diego, CA 1994 – 1998

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

Led architecture, protocol design and standardization for 3G packet data networks including: Signaling protocols for high data rates in CDMA networks (TSB-74, IS-95-C),

RAN sub-interfaces to support soft handoff (IP-based) and priority access services (patented), Protocol optimization for CDMA RAN sub-systems (IS-634 and IOS interoperability),

Signaling protocols (based on IS-95 core standards) to support Global Star systems, Head of delegation for QUALCOMM in 3GPP2 TSG-A Subcommittee,

Co-chairing TSG-A RAN Architecture WG, driving the R-P interface specification,

Migrate the CDMA RAN network (radio-packet interfaces) towards the all-IP architecture. This was a huge effort encompassing RAN-AGW and intra-RAN interfaces per IS-634 specifications.

Networking Division, IBM 1990 – 1994

(4 yrs.) RTP, NC

Advisory Engineer

Responsibilities:

Engaged in several R&D projects at IBM T.J Watson Research Center in White Plains while at SUNY. After the first year (late 1990) I took a sabbatical leave and joined the IBM Networking Division in Research Triangle Park, NC. Working at "Big Blue" was quite fascinating.

Despite my passion for having a career in academia I decided to resign from SUNY and joined IBM permanently.

At IBM (for about 4 years) I was engaged in designing an architecture for high speed packet switching network leveraging the IBM flagship fast packet switching fabric (aka PARIS).

This architecture laid the foundation for IBM future ATM networking products.

Also drove IBM-sponsored ATM research projects at Columbia University, NC State University and Michigan State University (MSU).

As an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science Dept. at MSU I helped establish an ATM fast packet switching lab (partially funded by IBM) to drive the thesis research for the PhD students I was supervising.

State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 1990 (Jan-Sept)

Assistant Professor, EE Dept.

Responsibilities:

Joined as a tenure track faculty member of Electrical Engineering Department at State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook, New York,

Taught graduate-level courses (mostly PhD students) covering various topics on advanced digital communications and computer networking,

Supervised PhD students’ thesis research on high-speed computer communications networks,

Late 1990, while employed at SUNY, moved to IBM (on sabbatical leave) to work full-time on networking projects (beginning the era of ATM/Fast Packet Switching).

Parviz Yegani – Bio Sketch (Summary)

Pioneer in the cloud/telecom/networking industries with over 25 years of technology leadership experience and proven track record of success.

Expert knowledge with Mobile Core technologies, EPC Virtualization, LTE, 5G, IoT, IP and mobility standards in 3GPP, 3GPP2, IEEE and IETF.

Major contributor to RFCs on MIPv4/PMIPv4, MIPv6/PMIPv6, 4G architecture development for Local Breakout (LBO), WIFI-Cellular integration and traffic offload and optimization.

Expert knowledge in Cloud Foundry, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices Architecture, Service Mesh (Istio/Envoy, Zero-Trust Network Security Model),

Expert knowledge of Public Cloud Security Architecture/Software/Tools (mTLS, Network ACLs, SEC Groups), Monitoring (Logging, Metrics Collection, Open Telemetry), Performance Management Tools (APM, NPM and UPM).

Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) of the application services across environments, location, and hybrid models.

Expert knowledge of telemetry/analytics solutions (L1 through L7) using CNCF and other open source software tools.

Expert knowledge of Enterprise/SP architectures, hybrid access (wireline/wireless), service delivery platform (emerging IP services leveraging application-driven routing, connectivity models and transport optimization), next gen architecture (interfaces, APIs, protocols), open standards as well as open source software platforms (OPNFV, ONAP, ONOS, ODL).

Expert knowledge of networking architectures and protocols (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, TCP).

Expert knowledge of IP/MPLS networking protocols and architectures (L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, transport optimization, SDN WAN, DC Interconnect (DCI), network slicing (multi-tenancy) and more.

Expert knowledge of SDN, NFV and cloud technologies, sufficient industry knowledge of cloud implementations (public/private/hybrid), SP/enterprise use cases, emerging technologies/tools such as DevOps, Big Data, AI/ML, edge computing and more.

Intimate knowledge of AAA (RADIUS, DIAMETER), policy, QoS, billing/charging (prepaid/postpaid), quota management, sponsored connectivity, OTT traffic charging model (via TDF).

Numerous leading roles in industry standards (see list above).

A great team player with tons of experience dealing with people with varying degree of personalities. A prolific innovator and inventor (50+ patents), accomplished speaker and strong business acumen:

Drive the innovation agenda across the board (Engineering, Product Management, Account Teams, Corporate Marketing, Strategy and BD team).

Constantly interface with customers to evangelize company’s vision and to co-innovate (gathering requirements and proposing new products/solutions).

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