Thomas Switala

Business development as an assigned Client Partner. Managing large scale technical consulting projects with local, multi-national and international operators, including; strategy, network design and planning, technical due diligences and network audits. Knowledge specialist on infrastructure sharing for both fixed and mobile operators, extending into; strategy, regulatory, intermediary setup and planning. PDL (People Development Leader) responsible for performance of junior consultants.

Project lead for technical managing consulting projects. Responding to customer terms of reference and new business proposal writing. Executing technical consulting projects with operators; network audits, preparing RFx for new network procurements, technical due diligences. Service costing models for operators and regulators for termination and wholesale regulated pricing. Preparing business cases for operators.

Development and strategic lead for new business within IP Competence Centre in the Eastern Europe, former CIS Countries, Nordics and Baltics. Focuses on IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet technologies. Responded to the RFx issued by some of Europe’s biggest carrier networks for their IP Mobile Backhaul, IP Core and Metro Ethernet networks. Customer workshop facilitation, aligned to existing products and product innovation.

Designed and planned a national service provider offering business and enterprise IP services. Migrated a legacy Frame Relay network to a new IP/MPLS network. Rolled out a Fixed Wireless Network and VSAT Teleport covering West Africa. Managed the technical and operational team of K-Net. Generated business for K-Net on their infrastructure.

Consulted to new network deployments during the pioneer days of the Internet in Nigeria. Developed for a South African Satellite solutions provider (Q-Kon Ltd) an IP based firewall and gateway developed on Linux and using PHP as user interface (VPlus). Provided supporting solutions on Linux to service providers (DHCP, DNS, Caching, Firewall etc).

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