Christian Aprile

Current

• Technical Account Manager at Vantrix Corporation (Formerly VoiceAge Networks)

Past

• EMEA Senior Support and installation Engineer at Empower Interactive
• VAS Integration and Delivery Engineer - Contractor at Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM)
• Networking and Linux system engineer at Comdata SPA

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Telecommunications

Christian Aprile’s Summary

International Telco’s professional with strong field experience gained as proactive member of the sales team interfacing with direct customers and partners across Europe, Middle and Far east.

I am specialized in cross region sales support and Technical Account Management within a region pool spacing from fast growing economies such as India and China to well established markets such as middle east and Europe.

I have a strong technical background in VAS services design, integration and deployment and a deep knowledge of the complex business and political balances within the worlds top mobile network operators

I am 28 years young and I am constantly looking for new challenges

To get in touch: aprile.christian( at )googlemail.com - please no cold connection requests.

Christian Aprile’s Specialties:

* Technical sales consultancy
* Account Management
* Partners Management
* Solutions Design

-- experience in:

- Convergent Video Streaming
- IPTV, Mobile TV, WEB TV
- Mobile Messaging platforms
- Unix/Linux High Availability solutions
- Firewalling, Routng and Load Balancing

Christian Aprile’s Experience

• Technical Account Manager

  Vantrix Corporation (Formerly VoiceAge Networks)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  December 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Cross region sales support activities across EMEA and APAC providing technical consultancy to the sales process of media optimization, next generation mobile streaming and IPTV solutions in the mobile network operators and media content providers space.
  
  Extensive cooperation with the product management team and the Product Line for architectural improvements to the product and roadmapping of the customer requirements.

• EMEA Senior Support and installation Engineer

  Empower Interactive

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  December 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Configuration, deployment and integration of messaging gateways, messaging routers and content blocking systems.
  
  Onsite relationship management with the customer technical and project staff

• VAS Integration and Delivery Engineer - Contractor

  Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM)

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; TI; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2005 — December 2005 (10 months)

  Supervision and coordination of the development of a geographical balancing and disaster recovery site for MMS and WAP browsing services based on Nokia (NSN), LogicaCMG (Acision), Comverse/Mobixell and Telecom Italia Mobile proprietary platforms.
  
  Troubleshooting of network related issues and support for the configuration of cisco network devices, Nokia IPSO firewalls and Unix-like servers. Protocol analysis of MMS and WAP related traffic.

• Networking and Linux system engineer

  Comdata SPA

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CEN; Financial Services industry)

  2002 — May 2005 (3 years )

  Design, configuration, optimization and administration of linux based platforms such as Web servers, Mail Servers, DNS Servers, Proxy and DHCP servers and Linux Firewalls.
  
  Configuration and administration of Linux based Firewalls and IP routers, administration of the company MPLS VPN (12 sites interconnected nationwide), security hardening and monitoring.