Marc Rapoport

Current

Product Manager at Redback Networks, an Ericsson company

Past

Manager - Data Product Development Team at Completel
Chief Data Architect at Completel
Data Engineering Manager at Completel

Network Consultant at Devoteam
Network Consultant at LORE
Network Engineer at AGF

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Education

Institut Superieur d'Electronique de Paris

Recommended

24 people have recommended Marc

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

My Company

Marc Rapoport’s Summary

Marc Rapoport’s Specialties:

Technical : IP Routing,Traffic Engineering, QoS , IP Transit & peering, Ethernet VPN (VPLS), IP VPN, Internet, Hosting & security services, VoIP, Ethernet, ATM, SDH, WDM, Broadband

Functional : Architecture & design, business case, Project Management, Product Development, competition analysis, RFI / RFP, speaker at Telecom conferences

Management : team building, motivation, project allocation, results evaluation, team leading, negociation

Marc Rapoport’s Experience

Product Manager

Redback Networks, an Ericsson company

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

In charge of Edge Routing & Ethernet Aggregation Markets & Features (Ethernet, IP Routing, MPLS, VPN, VPLS)
Manager - Data Product Development Team

Completel

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 10 months)

In charge of the development of the new Data Products of Completel : IP VPN, Ethernet VPN, Internet Acccess, Hosting & Security Services

Management of a multi-fonctional team of 15 persons including Architects, Engineers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Process Analysts covering technical, process, and IT Specs of the design of Data Services.
Chief Data Architect

Completel

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CPT; Telecommunications industry)

June 2001 — July 2005 (4 years 2 months)

• Definition of the technical strategy: choice of technologies, telecom vendors and services, RFP and Network High level Designs
• Support to sales teams, pre-sales presentations for large Business customers, Special Bids technical answers
• Data services specifications in coordination with Product Marketing
• Technical & competitive intelligence, Pre-sales & post sales teams training
• Coordination with UK & German Engineering teams

Some major achievements:
Launch of the first Ethernet VPN Service in France based on VPLS technology
Choice & Design of the new multi service/multi access Network for Completel
Data Engineering Manager

Completel

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CPT; Telecommunications industry)

March 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 4 months)

• Management of a team of 8 engineers: Projects assignment & results assessment
• IP Transit capacity & Vendors CAPEX & OPEX Budget Management
• Network design validation, Operation and Special Bids teams technical support

Major Achievements:
Launch of the first Data Services for Completel
Network Consultant

Devoteam

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DVT; Telecommunications industry)

February 1998 — March 2000 (2 years 2 months)

• Pre-sale activity directed to Carrier customers, response to Consulting Request for Proposal
• In charge of the technical Team « Data Carriers » : management of the team, Training sessions organization, trainee management
COMPLETEL: Network Engineer in the Engineering Dpt
• RFQ and choice for the Internet Transit Providers, design of the IP Network and Internet Service
BOUYGUES TELECOM : IP Architect in the R&D Dpt
• Architecture scenarios for a Converged Voice & Data ATM/MPLS Backbone
• IP/Frame Relay topology & capacity specification for the GPRS Data Network
CEGETEL : Technical Infrastructure Manager in the IT & Network Division
• Functional and Technical specifications for the LANs and Servers
• Project Coordination & infrastructure team management
Network Consultant

LORE

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ALT; Telecommunications industry)

September 1996 — February 1998 (1 year 6 months)

CEGETEL : ISP Project Manager in the Residential Division
• Integrator (CAP GEMINI) coordination and progress evaluation
• Functional Specification of the network & security archicecture
SUN MICROSYSTEMS : Security Engineer in the Professional Services Dpt
• Security audit and Checkpoint Firewall-1 implementation for Business customers
SNCF : Internet & Intranet Project Manager in the R&D Division
• Project Management and technical expertise IP addressing & routing and DNS & Mail Services
Network Engineer

AGF

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AGF; Insurance industry)

September 1992 — September 1996 (4 years 1 month)

• Design and integration of SNA,X25 , and IP solutions : configuration, operational processes, 3rd level technical support

Additional Information

Marc Rapoport’s Websites:

My Company

Marc Rapoport’s Interests:

telecoms, carrier, product management, product development, product marketing, PLM, PRD, MRD, IP routing, service provider, Carrier, RFI, RFQ, Telecoms,telco, network, architecture, design, innovation,team leadership, team building, management, team motivation, conferences speaker, MPLS World Congress, collaborative tools,MBA, multicultural, Paris, San Francisco, startup companies, stock market, MPLS, VPLS, VPN,IPsec, SDH, WDM, optical, CPE, Metro Ethernet, MEF, IEEE,IETF, MEF, Router, BGP, Enterprise Services, Triple play, set top box, VoD, IPTV, media, broadband, BRAS, L2TP, IAD, wholesale, VoIP, ToIP, SIP, H323, IMS, SBC, Session Border Controller, Wifi, Wimax, 802.11n, FMC, convergence, social Web 2.0 technologies,silicon valley, bay area