Stephan Spittaler

Global network designs and enhancements. Improvements in network automation and resilience. Testing and seamless integrations of new technologies, e.g. SD-WAN, microsegmentation, private and public cloud infrastructure, DIA, IoT. Mentoring and internal technical trainings. Actively closing the gap between network, security, data center, client and collaboration teams.

Network improvement initiatives. Passing of network engineering designs. Introduction of overlay network on top of service provider MPLS and Internet transports for scalable and efficient network segmentation. Design and coordination of global Network Access Control rollout.

Migration of customer WAN backbone from traditional FR to MPLS. Migration of customer wireless network from autonomous to centralized/controller-based. Standardization and establishment of centralized management of 80+ customer LANs. Network designs, planning and executing multiple large acquisitions and spin-offs.

Migration of 80+ company sites from full provider to self managed WAN, utilizing leased lines to build global MPLS core network and regional service provider MPLS transport. Introduction of global separate management VRF.

Maintaining and troubleshooting LAN and DMZ networks. Network monitoring based on open source and commercial tools. Network documentation.

Master thesis: SDN in Enterprise Networks

Bachelor thesis 1: Advantages and benefits of resource optimization with MPLS Traffic Engineering Bachelor thesis 2: Wired Network Access Control and identity-management with IEEE 802.1X

Diploma project: Cisco Lab Router Simulation