Cavell Associates
All Cavell associates are encouraged and supported to continue growing not only their technical expertise and qualifications but also the skills required to be focused on business success and customer satisfaction. Cavell looks for its associates to have understanding of the following ITIL, PRINCE2, ISO9001 and other relevant industry standards.
Amin Amor
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Amin Amor is a multilingual Network consultant, with over 10 years experience in designing and implementing new IP products for ISP and corporate markets. He is dedicated to maintaining high quality network standards with first-class analytical, design and problem solving skills. Prior to joining the Cavell Group in 2008 Amin worked in key roles for various service providers as senior network designer (Cisco and Juniper based network), Network consultant for KPN telecom and for the KLM account. Amin holds the following qualifications; university degree in Electronic Publishing, CCNP, JNCIA and MCSE NT. Amin is a world traveller with a good knowledge of Asia, South America and Eastern Europe. Languages: Arabic, French, English and Spanish and learning Chinese. Practice Area: Technical Services |
Nuno Antunes
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Nuno is a seasoned IP/MPLS Network Engineer with more than 6 years hands-on experience in the field. He has in-depth experience of Juniper M, T and MX series equipment as well as the BRAS-oriented Juniper E-series. He is JNCIP-M and JNCIP-E certified and is currently working on his JNCIE-M. Nuno has a strong background in the service provider sector, where he has experience in technical support, conformance and stress testing, network design, migration design, and operation and implementation. His international experience includes successful projects in Cameroon, Cape Verde, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK. He is a graduate in Computer Science, Networks and Communication Systems, is now finishing his MSc in Telecommunications, and is planning a PhD within the same area. Languages: English, Portuguese (native) and Spanish. Practice Area: Technical Services |
Bassili Ataya
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Bassili has over 20 years experience in the communications industry in both commercial management and technical roles. He has deep experience in budgeting, forecasting and capacity planning functions that tie together product and network. At WorldCom he led planning and implementation for backbone projects and then led a 100 person team for local network planning throughout Europe (fiber, SDH, Class 5 voice). He also has held a variety or product marketing and commercial roles in both Worldcom and Motorola. He was chosen by Carlyle Group to be an entrepreneur in residence in 2001 where he helped evaluate deal flow in the telecom's area. Early in his career he led implementation teams for microwave networks. Bassili holds the Juniper Networks engineering qualification JNCIS. Languages: English, French and Arabic Practice Area: Training & Consulting
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Erik Barentsen
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Erik is a experienced salesperson in the telecommunication market with over 20 years experience in presales system engineering, direct account management and sales management positions. He has successfully implemented sales plans and sold network solution for industry leaders as Stratacom, Cisco, Juniper and Redback to service providers in the Northern European market (Benelux, Nordics, Baltics and Russia). Most recently Erik focussed on multiservice broadband access and policy management solutions for both fixed and wireless operators using Sandvine products. Prior to working for telecommunication solution manufacturers Erik worked as product manager at Philips Telecomunication and Information Systems, KPN and Unisource responsible for maintaining and selection of a competitive service and solution portfolio. Erik holds a bachelor degree in telecommunication technology and marketing (NIMA-B). At Cavell Erik's mission is to grow to market awareness and develop business plans for our services. Erik is also available for interim sales positions in order to help innovative vendors te enter the European market. Erik is also passionate about educating young people (10 to 17) about internet and IT. In his spare time he is working on a program to provide computer (summer) camps for these kids. Languages: Dutch and English. Practice Area: Sales |
Axel Beghin
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Axel is an accomplished entrepreneur in the wireless businesses. He has strong business analytical skills backed by technical knowledge. Axel successfully founded a fixed wireless business in Belgium which was sold to Clearwire. He also has held executive positions at Broadnet and France Telecom (Mobistar). As a consultant he has led projects in Morroco, Algeria and Belgium. Axel is experienced in setting product and technical strategy, vendor selection (including RFP generation/review), network deployment, license acquisition and regulatory strategy. His particular area of expertise is broadband wireless (mesh, WiMax and LTE). Axel is a WiMAX Forum RF Network Engineer(TM), and holds two masters in Economic Science and Telecommunications Engineering. Languages: French (native), English and Russian (basic). Practice Area: Training & Consulting
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Jeffrey Belles
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Jeffrey is an experienced network engineer with 8+ years in designing an operating large ISP's and Triple-play networks on both the access and core layers. Jeffrey's strengths are MPLS-VPN design and triple-play L2 & L3 access design, support and activation with wide experience in designing, testing & qualifying and documenting of multi-protocol, multi-technology networks for e.g. IPTV, voice, Cisco's SONA-model, storage services and server virtualization. He has worked for MCI-Worldcom, UUNET, Intouch and BBNED. Jeffrey has the following certifications: Juniper Networks NOC specialist, Juniper Networks MPLS Advanced certification. Currently also enrolling in the Juniper E&M-series certification-track and CCIP. Languages: Dutch, English, French, German and Norwegian Practice Area: Technical Services |
David Briggs
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David has over 15 years of hands on experience as a Cisco and Juniper Networks Network and Systems Engineer. He is a results-driven professional with demonstrated strengths in Wide Area (WAN), Local Area Network (LAN) and Firewalls and (Unix/Linux) systems. David’s expertise in data communications and Internet technology includes design, implement and support a large office network of Juniper M20 routers and Cisco 4006/6509 switches, designed networks with iBGP, OSPF, ISIS, and operational support and troubleshooting of IP, Frame, ATM, MPLS networks. David is a Linux/Unix systems experts and has worked with Sun, Solaris and NettgGain supporting implementation with 250 Unis workstations, 172 Win2K servers/ workstations. He is also an expert in Design, testing activation and documentation, testing and qualification of Juniper software releases and has designed and implemented several large multi-vendor networks. Languages: English, Dutch and German Practice Area: Technical Services |
Sushil Chatterji
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Sushil has worked in Information Technology in the Asia Pacific Region for over 25 years, including for IBM and META Group. He undertakes advisory consulting and training as a specialist in the areas of Governance of IT, and Enterprise Architecture. Sushil works together with associates to provide learning, facilitation and assessment services to organisations in integrating process, knowledge, technology management and change approaches for improving IT-business alignment and organisational performance. He trains and provides advisory services using latest best practices, frameworks and process-improvement methodologies. Sushil is also a qualified trainer for professional certification such as CGEIT and TOGAF, and certificate courses in COBIT and Implementing Governance of Enterprise IT. Languages: English Practice Area: Consulting and Training
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Jean-Luc Desseille
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Jean-Luc has over 25 years experience in the IT and communications industries. His current focus is in convergent solutions for Telecom Service Providers over Next-Generation Voice and Multi-Media technology. Prior to this, he led the deployment of a Pan-European Advanced Hosting Services portfolio. He has been active in the European roll-out of BT, MFS, WorldCom, UUNET and Netcentrex in functions including Business Development, Sales Operations, Bid Management, Product Marketing and Partnerships. Languages: French and English. Practice Area: Consulting
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Colin Finn
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Colin is an experienced engineer with an MSc in Microelectronic & Information Systems. Coupled with excellent interpersonal, management and troubleshooting skills, he has consistently proven himself to be an effective team member during his 18 years in the industry, whether dealing efficiently with day-to-day responsibilities or managing crisis events. His career started with GPT Ltd in his home city of Liverpool and from there, Colin went on to work in variety of networking roles for several UK based multinationals and Liverpool John Moores University before taking a career break to travel. This eventually brought him to Spain where he is currently based, although more recently he has been working on Cavell projects in The Netherlands. Languages: English, Spanish and French |
Duco Jaspars
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Duco is a versatile consultant with 13+ years of experience in networking, storage and datacentre infrastructures, focusing for the past 5 years on virtualisation. Duco has worked for NLnet and UUNET both as a network engineer and in management roles. He founded the professional services organisation of Dataman, focusing on datacenter infrastructure solutions based on Sun servers and storage, Juniper routers and switches, EMC storage and VMware virtualization software. He acted in both Consulting and Professional Services roles, and lead a team of technical specialists. Duco has worked on creating Business cases, virtualisation assessments, health checks, deployments and jumpstarts (guided installations) for several large customers in the Benelux. Duco is a VMware Certified Professional and holds several VMware Services accreditations, and is currently completing the VMware Certified Design Expert certification track. Languages: English and Dutch Practice Area: Technical Services
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Fred Kies |
In a career of more than 25 years Fred has held several executive positions responsible for driving change, shaping strategy at International companies within ICT and Telecommunications sector. Fred has a strong business, analytical, technology and outsourcing background with the sensitivity to effectively coordinate the Business, Operations and Finance ‘triangle and has led several complex transformation programs such as: Manager IT Operations at Nuon, Program Director at ABN AMRO / Verizon Business, Strategic Sourcing Director at Atos Origin. Fred was Vice President and Enterprise Client Executive for EDS responsible for business management and strategic development of the EDS’ relationship with Ericsson.Fred also served with Ericsson as Managing Director at Boston, USA, and was Head of Professional Services with Ericsson Telecom AB in Stockholm where he successfully outsourced Ericsson’s European repair activities. Fred studied Business Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. He subsequently carried out post-graduate studies in (mobile) telecommunication, computer science, organization theory, quality management, logistics, marketing and sales. He is a graduate of the Ericsson Management Program. Fred is a citizen of The Netherlands, travels extensively around the globe, and is based in Amsterdam. Languages: Dutch, English, German & Swedish Practice Area: Consulting |
Timo Krjukoff
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Timo is a Senior Consultant and Instructor based in Göteborg, Sweden, and has been active in the industry since the early 1990’s. He has worked as design engineer, training material developer/trainer and on several occasions has additionally lead or managed a wide variety of communication projects both for the public sector and for large Swedish and multi-national corporations. Timo has in-depth experience of network planning, analysis and design, as well as extensive expertise in competence analysis and competence planning within the technical IT training field. He also has broad experience of developing training curricula and training materials in this area. Timo has the following Juniper certifications: JNCIS-M, JNCIS-ER JNCIA-EX, JNCI (Juniper Networks Certified Instructor). Languages: Finnish, Swedish and English Practice Area: Training
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Herminio Martínez
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Ciarán McGorrian
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Ciaran is a highly qualified network engineers with over 13 years experience in designing and implementing network technology in large-scale Telecom and Data communications environments. Prior to joining the Cavell Group in 2007 Ciaran has worked in key roles for Telefonica Germany, Cable and Wireless, Amraf Training and Toughglass. Ciaran holds the following qualifications; BSc (Hons) Pure Mathematics, Statistics & Operational Research, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert (JNCIE #149), CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional), BCLP (Brocade Certified Layer 4-7 Professional), BCNP (Brocade Certified Network Professional), MCSE 2000 (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer). He has travelled widely across Europe, America and China. Languages: English and German Practice Area: Technical Services |
Efrayim Metin
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Efrayim (MSc.) has been working in the Telecom industry for the past decade. Starting as a research analyst within the field of mobile communications, he published articles, and delivered public seminars. In addition to his specialization in IP networking (CCIP) he has experience in many fixed and mobile technologies for both data and voice services. His project management experience is founded upon a strong technical background in software & network design, testing and implementation. Particularly Efrayim has strong experience in defining system requirements, creating solutions, conducting strategic account plans, managing the relationship with customers and suppliers, and supervising teams. He has worked on a great variety of projects for major corporations, small/medium enterprises and partner-channels as a leading sales consultant (ABN Amro, ING, Fortis, Ministery of Justice, Adecco, OAD, KNVB, Holland Casino, Siemens). Languages: English, Dutch, Turkish, German Practice Area: Technical Services |
David Morse
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David is qualified in Electronic Engineering and has over 30 years experience in the CCTV and Electronic Security industries, including service with Chubb and Thorn-EMI. He has extensive systems design and project management experience gained both in the UK and Middle East. He now advises System Integrators about the application of CCTV to IP networks from the camera right through to the end product. David’s activities are not limited to purely technical issues but also encompass the application methodologies required to deploy CCTV technology to maximum benefit within the constraints of budgetary, operational and & legislative frameworks. To this end he uses the UK Government’s highly-developed methodologies embracing the setting of Operational Requirements and Policy, Command Centre Operations, Organisation Process Modelling and Training provision. David served a two year term as the Chairman of the CCTV Section of British Security Industry Association and is a member of both the UK CCTV User Group and The Security Institute. Practice Area: Technical Services & Training |
David Owen
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David is a management consultant with extensive experience of business process design and the ISO international standards, based in London. He started his career with Marconi and then worked as an international management consultant across Europe and North America. He was in at the start of PIPEX and helped create and grow the UK first ISP. He continued to consult for Unipalm, UUNET and MCI-WorldCom where he worked on the design, improvement and ISO certification of the management processes and systems. David has worked with a number of software development companies in developing and formulating their internal business processes and taking them through ISO certification. He has worked with ISO 9000 Quality Management, TickIT, ISO 14000 Environmental Management, ISO 20000 IT Service Management, ISO 27000 Information Security, BS 25999 Business Continuity Management. Practice Area: Consulting |
Michael Pincher
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Michael Pincher has worked in Information Communication Technology since the arrival of the networked PC. His key driver is what can IT do for business? Consulting to the IT vendors (Lotus, IBM & Microsoft) some of their key customers (Unilever, Smith Klien Beecham, Barclays, Eli Lily, and Bovis) as well as working with management consultancies (Capgemini & PWC) his experience as a business analyst, facilitator and presenter means he can develop and communicate vision and direction. Following six years as Head of IT for Crossrail, a complex, multi-billion pound infrastructure project, he has a first hand knowledge of the workings of Government and other public bodies. His responsibilities included telecoms, facilities and resource management designing enterprise architectures and managing software development and deployments. Practice Area: Consulting |
Tom Plisson
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Based in France, Tom is an IP Network Engineer with a strong background in the design, rollout and service creation of large IP/MPLS networks. He is at home with multi-vendor environments, including Lucent, Juniper, Cisco, Nokia-Siemens, and is a Juniper Networks Certified Instructor (JNCI) holds a JNCIE-M certification (Juniper’s highest level qualification). He has in-depth experience in pre-sales, engineering, professional services, and consultancy, and his most recent assignments have focused on Next Generation Network technologies (NGN). Recent clients include BT21CN, OPTUS, H3G & Telstra Languages: French, English Practice Area: Technical Services and Training
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Tony Razzell
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Tony specialises in developing business plans, core pricing and business strategies, systems that manage the sales process from quote to bill and management reporting and analysis tools. He has 10 years' international management experience running Commercial Finance and Pricing functions in the telecommunications sector at director and VP level. In roles at MCI, FLAG Telecom and KPNQwest, he established a respected reputation for understanding the relationship of corporate financial requirements to those of both the sales function and customers and then translating these into readily saleable pricing programmes. He especially understands the requirements in building commercial strategies for products that are new to a market. Prior to working in the telecoms arena, he gained 8 years experience in all financial disciplines at Reuters. He has worked in the USA, Europe and Asia. He has lived in the Netherlands and has residency in the UK and USA. Practice Area: Consulting |
Terry Reed
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Terry (MIoD, MIMA, MCMA, MBCS, CITP), has over 35 years experience in IT, Telecommunications and Operations at a Corporate level. His career includes 20 years with GE (USA) where his roles included Director of Corporate Telecoms for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Director of Procurement for Telecoms Services across EMEA, where he saved GE many millions of dollars per annum. Since leaving GE he has been a CEO of a Telecoms Consultancy company, specialising in Telecoms Auditing and Analysis, enabling companies to save significant Telecoms’ costs per annum. He has also had assignments with high profile multi-national companies, assisting them in RFPs and supplier negotiations for voice networks, and data networks such as MPLS. Terry has had a number of assignments with various international Law Firms that required assistance to migrate from traditional voice services to a converged IP Telephony and Data Networking environment. He has a good understanding of the requirements of Law Firms and can translate their business needs into IT/Telecoms’ solutions. Terry has also been a Non-Executive Director of a UK Telecoms’ Services company, and helped to drive their growth from a £5M/annum revenue company to a £30M/annum revenue company within 4 years. Language: English. Practice Area: Technical Services |
Peter van Roosmalen
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Peter is a versatile network, security and datacentre consultant with over 10 years experience in the telecommunications industry. In 2000 he founded the hosting services provider 2Fast, which merged in 2005 with TrueServer. Peter has a wealth of experience in network and systems design and implementation, in leading network and security implementations and migrations, and in project management. He has worked with such major integrators as Imtech Telecom, Dataman, several ISP's, the Dutch railway maintainer ProRail, and with several healthcare companies and hospitals. Peter has in-depth knowledge of IP-networks (routing, switching, firewalling, VPN-infrastructures, IPS/IDP), with MRV WDM networks, and with a variety of operating systems such as Linux, Solaris and IRIX. He is certified with Juniper (JNCIS-M, JNCIS-FWV, JNCIA-IDP, JNCIA-SSLVPN) and Brocade (FNCNE + FNCNP), and is currently working toward his Juniper Professional level (JNCIP-M) and JUNOS Security (JNCIS-SEC) certifications. He is also familiar with system virtualisation technologies, and has partner-level accreditations with VMware. Languages: Dutch and English Practice Area: Technical Services & Consulting |
Samuel Rosa
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Samuel is a Network Engineer with a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Additional certifications include Juniper JNCIS (M/T & J series), Extreme ENS #5151 (Extreme Networks Specialist) and Cisco CCNP, and he is currently working on his Cisco CCIE. He is very familiar with multi-vendor (Cisco, Juniper & Extreme) WAN/LAN environments, and has hands-on experience with the implementation, operation, and troubleshooting of large-scale networks. He has also a strong background in the customer support area where he has been highly successful in the tracking and resolution of customer network problems. Samuel is a highly motivated professional with international experience, having worked both in Portugal and UK. Languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese. Practice Area: Technical Services |
Antonio Sardinha
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Antonio, based in Portugal, is a network engineer with experience in design, implementation and operation of networks in enterprise and service provider environments. He is certified as Cisco CCNP & CCIP and as Juniper JNCIS for M/T series. Prior to joining Cavell Antonio developed most of his career with Siemens Communications Services, designing and sporting packet switched core networks for mobile carriers in EMEA and integrating technologies like GPRS/UMTS, WiMAX and WiFi. He is also experienced with VoIP for enterprise and service providers and he has been involved in several projects in this area. Languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish Practice Area: Technical Services |
Wim van Sebroeck
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Wim is a Senior Network Engineer with over 14 years experience in the telecommunications industry and a solid background in LAN/ WAN technologies and datacenter and server operations. He has broad experience in the design, project management, and team leadership of numerous major network and server technical implementations. He has worked with USG-People, Verizon Business, MCI-Worldcom, UUNET, Belgacom and the University of Antwerp, and has in-depth knowledge of SDH and CWDM/DWDM networks, IP network operations (routers, firewalls and dial-in infrastructure), Linux and Solaris based server systems, datacenter design, and customer project management. Languages: Dutch, English, French and German Practice Area: Technical Services & Consulting |
Matthew Townend
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Matthew is a respected analyst who has led a number of high-profile consultancy projects for multinational clients such as BT, Level 3, and KPN. His market analysis skills combined with his product management & sales experience enable him to undertake broad-based market and business analysis and to develop comprehensive business plans & market strategies. Matthew's focus has been very much the development of new markets. Early in his career he launched the first UK magazine devoted entirely to the Internet, and he then went on to join PIPEX, the first commercial provider of internet access in the UK. When PIPEX was acquired by UUNET he was appointed Product Director responsible for launching one of the first multinational VPN services in Europe, and subsequently became Senior Director of all indirect channel activities for Verizon in EMEA. After leaving Verizon he became Marketing Director at Inclarity, one of Europe's earliest providers of VOIP services. For the past 4 years Matthew has been running his own company, providing Market Analysis and Business Analysis services to a range of customers. Matthew brings a passion and professionalism to every project he undertakes. Practice Area: Consulting |
Theo van Opzeeland
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Theo is an experienced Network Engineer and Designer with hands-on technical expertise in designing, implementing and supporting network technology in large-scale Telecom and Datacom environments. Theo is results-driven with demonstrated strengths in Wide Area, Metropolitan Area, testing and Local Area technology and a broad expertise in data communications and Internet technology. Theo holds the following qualifications Cisco CCIP & CCNP and is working towards his CCIE and JNCIP certification. Languages: English, Dutch, German and French Practice Area: Technical Services |
Hans Verbrugge
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Hans is an experienced systems administrator / software engineer with 10+ years in designing and writing client/server based software for large ISP businesses. He started building his IP skills in ’95, when he joined NLnet, the first commercial ISP in the Netherlands. Hans has been responsible for setting up an EMEA wide system for fault monitoring networks, servers and services, based on Netcool/Omnibus; many solutions where hand tailored to fit new equipment in this setup. Hans’ strengths are software design and engineering, administrating Unix systems and scaling soft and hardware. He has over a decade experience with Perl, C, SH, SQL. Languages: English and Dutch Practice Area: Technical Services |
Adriaan Voeten
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Adriaan Voeten is a successful senior project manager with 20+ years of experience beginning with building the initial network modems. After networking and designing LAN/WANs at Lucent Technologies, Adriaan moved into engineering and architecture, including a milestone; a LAN migration from a RS-232 network to the first available “Switched Network.” He was a pivotal part of the Lucent Technologies' mobility for large enterprises architecture team generating proposals for Bell Technologies. Adriaan has also lead several major projects; which include implementing AVAYA based VoIP technology for ABN AMRO and Verizon Business; and a very large Newtel Essence call centre project for both the CWI and UWV. Currently he is leading data migration for two large mobile communications core networks into one major environment. Languages: Dutch, German and English Practice Area: Technical Services |
Luis Ximenez Gomez
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Based in Spain, Luis is a senior Network Engineer with extensive experience of network implementation, testing, and operation. His credentials include a number of Cisco technical certifications (CCIP, CCNP, and CCDP) as well as Juniper engineering qualification at the JNCIE level. In addition, he is a Juniper Networks Certified Instructor (JNCI). Luis has many years of hands-on experience in the industry with UUNET, MCI/Worldcom, and AT&T, and has recently completed a project as a Juniper Resident Engineer working at Telefonica. He has an impressive record of successful accomplishments in network implementation and support on a number of high-profile projects throughout Europe. Languages: Spanish, English, French and Dutch Practice Area: Training
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