Pablo Serber

Current

Consultant Architect at COLT Telecom

Past

Infrastructure Solutions Architect at IBM
Technical Project Manager at IBM Argentina
Client IT Network Architect IBM Team Lead at DIVEO Broadband Networks

Senior technical staff engineer at Argentinean Stock Exchange - Bolsa de Valores
Senior Network Consultant - Lead Project Manager at Lasertech – Liubob Informática

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Education

University of Sussex
Universidad de Palermo
Universidad de Belgrano

BAMI
Huergo

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Pablo Serber’s Summary

I am a senior IT professional with over 14 years of experience in outsourcing and off-shoring delivery of large and complex mission-critical infrastructures. I count with a vast expertise in IT consolidation and standardization within various industries and business segments such as finance, banking, information technology, security, Internet, e-Business, and engineering.

As well as high performance in meeting and exceeding clients’ requirements, I have developed a very strong result-oriented approach. I can easily integrate and lead work teams with people of different backgrounds while making rational use of technical resources and people.

I am a self motivated person, with the ability to excel in critical environments and under pressure, at both, personal and team level. I am skilled at adapting to changing situations and environments, and am continuously exploring new technologies to keep a broad understanding of the IT business.

Pablo Serber’s Specialties:

• Virtualisation Architect. Cloud computing. datacenter consolidation. Carbon and energy consumption reduction specialist.

• Certified Enterprise Architect (TOGAF v8)

• Project Management (PMI), Consulting, Architectural Thinking, Knowledge Management, Intellectual Property, Costs/Finance, ITIL v2/3 and Delivery models, Business continuity (BCRS)

• Definition of IT Strategic development plan. Due Diligence and delivery assessment management. Consulting and Delivery.

Pablo Serber’s Experience

Consultant Architect

COLT Telecom

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

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Infrastructure Solutions Architect

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer & Network Security industry)

December 2000 — June 2008 (7 years 7 months)

IT Infrastructure Architect and Technical Project Manager for new customers over the south American region, working cross tower within several IBM’s organizations, including external customers, Internal IBM Account, Off-shoring projects and projects in other geographies. Technical leadership of internal team members for implementation, transition and steady state of complex networked solutions.

Other: • Inventor. Patent authoring and submission entitled “Distributed Network Protection”. Intellectual Property Rights transferred to IBM Canada. Patent number CA 2532699 CIPO and WO/2007/073971 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Technical Project Manager

IBM Argentina

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Telecommunications industry)

December 2000 — June 2008 (7 years 7 months)
Client IT Network Architect IBM Team Lead

DIVEO Broadband Networks

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2001 — December 2001 (1 year)

Responsible for the outsourced IBM Network services. Lead the Network team developing and integrating outsourcing project for Diveo Broadband Networks including
WAN architecture in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Miami, implementing,
IT security standards, flow traffic analyser, firewalls, Intrusion Detection
Systems, multilayer IP/ATM/SDH networks, Quality of Service, Policy
Routing y Cisco Netflows collectors among others.
Senior technical staff engineer

Argentinean Stock Exchange - Bolsa de Valores

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Capital Markets industry)

July 2000 — December 2000 (6 months)

Network staff engineer and technical Project Manager for the analysis and implementation of the new MAN Network, including the mission critical stock exchange systems.

Responsibilities include:
• Build new full redundant MAN architecture for the migration of real time production systems.
• Negotiating with providers and vendor of services.
• Prototyping and testing of new designs and implementation in customers premises
• Design and implementation of new security perimeter with strong authentication for internal customers
• Technical coordination and implementation
Senior Network Consultant - Lead Project Manager

Lasertech – Liubob Informática

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

January 1993 — January 2000 (7 years 1 month)

Core responsibility included all the aspects of project management for the development of an Internet Secure Transaction and Network Architectures

Other responsibilities as a consultant involved E-Commerce/E-Business project leadership and development software architecture assessment, business analysis, risk management and international technical presentations. Cross-functional activities included Board Directory reports and presentations, project budget management and team members mentoring.

This position required leading a technical team of 16 to 18 on site IT specialist and programmers. Responsibilities also required RFQs, RFIs and procurement management across different suppliers in different countries. A strong interaction with prospective customers and sales forces were used for accomplishing business and project goals.

Pablo Serber’s Education

University of Sussex

Msc (Merit) , Technology and Innovation Management , 2006 — 2007

• Term Project: Consulting Project "Analysis of Core Business Processes for BAA Plc Information Management". Conducted in collaboration with BT Consulting Services. SPRU Jul-2007

• 10/2007 - MSc Dissertation “Transforming Wind into Wealth: Analysis of Argentinean Wind Energy Potential” University of Sussex. SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research).
Universidad de Palermo

BSc , Informatics , 1998 — 2005

• 12/2005 - Thesis paper: Universidad de Palermo “Identificación de Patrones en Redes de Datos” in Spanish. Palermo University “Data Networks Pattern Recognition” English 2005.
Universidad de Belgrano

Diploma , Project Management (PMI) , 2001 — 2001
BAMI
Huergo

Additional Information

Pablo Serber’s Websites:

Pablo Serber’s Interests:

- Art Painter - Collective expositions “Young painters” Centro cultural Recoleta 2002 and “IBM Internal Art 2005” - Virtualisation and Cloud Computing standards - Technology in general, new product development - Entrepreneurship and barriers of entries to new markets - Innovation Management, Invention, Human side of managing knowledge and creative groups - Collaborative work, Open Innovation and Social Networks - Virtual worlds/commerce. - Wind energy, electricity demand and market regulation

Pablo Serber’s Groups:

BCS (MBCS) British Computer Society Professional Member, IAEE International Association for Energy Economics, SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research, Univerity of Sussex

London Business School Active Startup Club
PrincetonEN V-Net
Friends of the British Computer Society
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Alumni Network - University of Sussex
SPRU Global
CISCO
Mainframe Security Gurus
UK IT Architect Professionals
Open Source Cloud Computing & Virtualization
DEFCON
IBM co/ex workers independent group
IBMers
Cloud Computing
TOGAF Certified Architects
The IT Architect Network
The Good COLT crown
CloudCamp - Unconventional Cloud Computing
Diveo Alumni Group
Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
The Transformation and Outsourcing Professional Network
BCS Information Security Specialist Group
Argentina Cloud Computing Group