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MARC TEICHTAHL
“My passion is achieving business outcomes through
delivering technology innovation,
business leadership and people management”
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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Marital status: Married (2 Children)
Nationality: Australian
Date of Birth: 28/01/1975
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia
Passport: Australian
More detail can be found at http://www.teichtahl.com
EDUCATION
2012
Royal Melb. Inst. Of Technology Melbourne, Australia
Masters Of Business Administration (Executive with Distinction)
1993 - 1996
Royal Melb. Inst. Of Technology Melbourne, Australia
Bacehelor Of Engnieering ( B. Eng. Comp. Sys. )
Admission to a bachelor’s degree in engineering with a major in computer
systems engineering. Major subject focus was Very Large Scale Integration
(VLSI) design and digital communications systems.
1987 - 1992
Doncaster Secondary College
Victorian Certificate Of Education ( VCE )
Melbourne, Australia
Achieved graduation from the Australian matriculation systems, obtaining
entry into University. University entry score achieved was in top 10th
percentile nationally.
PATENTS AND INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION
PCT/AU2012/000070 6th August 2010
Method and System For Providing Mobile Content
Chairman – Cloud Computing and Gigabit Applications
2012 – 2013
Fibre To The Home Council Asia Pacific
Board of Directors – Amplifier Corporation Pty Ltd
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
November 2013 – Amplifier Agency
Managing Director and CTO
In the capacity of Managing Director my key focus ensure
independent oversight of the company strategy, execution and proper
running of the Company. Specifically, development and presentation
of the strategic and annual business plans to the Board for approval,
management of the the day-to-day operations of the company,
motivate, develop and lead members of the leadership team, ensure
that the Company has appropriate systems to enable it to conduct its
activities both lawfully and ethically.
Additionally, as a founder of this business, I was heavily involved in
raising over one million dollars in seed and series A funding.
In the capacity of CTO, my focus was to architect the software
systems and platforms required to support the product development
goals of the company. This resulted in the development of Adapptr.
This cloud based platform was designed specifically to adapt content
to cross platform mobile devices. This patented approach broke
through the constraints of App Store, Google Play constraints without
impacting the Apple and Android experience.
The products and platforms developed are now in use by leading
brands and businesses across the world.
August 2011 - November 2013 – Cisco Systems
Director, IP NGN and Optical, Office of the CTO APJC
As Director, IP NGN and Optical Asia-Pacific Japan and China for
Cisco Systems, I am responsible for leading an international team of
experts directing technology and product strategies for Next
Generation Core, Access and Edge architectures across the theatre.
Reporting to the APJC CTO, this position led a team of 15 Consulting
Engineers and Consulting Architects across Asia Pacific, Japan and
China. Responsible leading APJC technology insertion, strategy and
execution across IP NGN and Optical platforms.
Technology and industry leadership, focused at positioning Cisco at
the forefront of IP NGN thought leadership, innovation and
capability.
Led many key customer engagements including Korea Telecom Project Polaris – Transmission and SDN strategy, RIL FTTx Strategy.
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Led Cisco GPON strategy development for APJC including market
analysis, business case development, technology audit and OEM
arrangements.
Most recently, key focus on Software Defined Networks and the APJC
SDN strategy across transformational accounts including KT, Telstra,
NBN, Chorus, BBNL.
Development of Akamai partnership positioning paper as well as deep
involvement in the development of the Cisco Services Customer
Reference Architecture under the guidance of Services CTO, Monique
Morrow.
July 2007 – August 2011 – Uecomm Operations Pty Ltd
Head Of Engineering
Uecomm is a subsidiary of SingTel Optus. Being responsible for three
key business areas, the Head Of Engineering play a key tactical and
strategic role within the SingTel group of companies. Executive
activities include technical planning, strategy and whole of business
alignment through broad senior management and executive
engagement.
Reporting to the CEO the Head of Engineering is responsible for 4
direct management reports (Infrastructure and Design, Product and
Specials, and Network Infrastructure Design and Architecture)
representing approximately 48 full time staff members. Annual capital
accountabilities of ~AU$50M and on-going full platform
accountabilities for network assets in the order of AU$600M.
Uecomm is the leading Metro Ethernet carrier in Australia and as such
key technology accountabilities include core and access technologies
(Ethernet, SDH, xDSL, EFM, Fibre, 3G Mobile and Wireless). Given
the significant size of the Uecomm national infrastructure exposure to
complex large scale VPLS deployments as well as significant product
development activities including MEF based Etherner Service
Constructs, Ethernet Quality of Service and MultiService Ethernet
products. Furthermore, managed the vast national fibre footprint of
the Uecomm external plant including >1.5million Kms of fibre and
300 national Ethernet access nodes.
Led a team that obtained the first MEF 9 and 14 certifications in
Australia as well as being responsible for the largest deployment of
Ethernet Over Copper in Australia extending to over 200 exchange
locations including backhual, core and service design and architecture.
May 2006 – July 2007 - Virtuvian Consulting Pty Ltd
Director, and Founder
Virtuvian Consulting is a niche high touch, high-end consulting firm.
With a key focus on IP core infrastructure, Metro Ethernet solutions
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and Carrier Grade VoIP design and deployment. Along with other
engagements is/has been engaged in the following consultancies
Uecomm – At Uecomm responsible as the technical lead for the design,
testing, implementation and commercial productisation of a carrier
grade VoIP and switching infrastructure.
KMRT Pty Ltd – Board of directors and technical advisor. Responsible
for the technical over-sight, planning and strategy for a number of end
customers of KMRT. Specific focus in on mid-size enterprise and
government VPN solutions in combination with voice services.
Rutledge Engineering Pty Ltd – Technical lead. Advise and lead the
generation of cost saving network solutions with a focus on national
VPN solutions and voice toll-bypass services.
2005 - April 2006 - XB Networks
Director, Engineering
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
XB is a mid sized business to business IP services provider. Focusing
on MPLS VPNs, wholesale DSL, hosting and complex integrated
services products.
Responsible for 10 staff with a focus on systems design, network
architecture and technical product development., this position is a
continuation of previous senior engineering/management roles.
Work undertaken is that of backbone re-design, edge re-design (both IP
and ATM - in preparation for guaranteed bandwidth services), design
of voice over IP products and services, along with other general
customer specific designs and providing expert 4th level technical
support to the operations teams.
Being responsible for systems design a solid exposure to OSS and BSS
architecture and design, along with the development of in-house tooling
for automated DSL provisioning, VPN and QoS deployment.
2004(Dec) - 2005(July) Sim-Instruments BV
Netherlands
Chief Technology Officer
Sassenheim, The
As founder and shareholder of Sim-Instruments filled the role Chief
Technology Officer during 8 critical months of the start-up phase of the
company. This period included the management of 4 staff focused on
hardware and software design for components used in the creation of
simulator systems. Furthermore, was instrumental in the expansion of
staffing capacity including the hiring of a Chief Executive Office, Sales
Director and other key technical staff.
This company was recently (2013) acquired by Lockheed Martin.
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2004 - 2004(Nov) EasyNet Netherlands
Netherlands
Director, Engineering
Amsterdam, The
After the purchase of Novaxess by EasyNet my duties and
responsibilities remained unchanged. However, additional responsibility
was taken for network integration of the two companies as well as
assisting in the integration of technical product requirements. After the
acquisition the engineering team expanded to 17 people.
2003 – 2004
Novaxess BV
Director, Engineering
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
At Novaxess was responsible for a team of 14 IP and voice network
engineers. As a team we were responsible for the architecture, design
and deployment of a major STM-16 national infrastructure for business
to business data communications. This included IP leased line services
and voice over IP as well as a full implementation of QoS. The voice
over IP implementation was realized based upon Cirpack next
generation class 5 voice over IP gateways interconnecting with the
national carriers PSTN networks. In addition to technical duties was
also a member of the senior management team and investor relations.
Furthermore, I was also regularly utilized by account managers to assist
in top end sales presentations and to ensure a professional and cohesive
technical solution was provided to customers. During 2004 Novaxess
BV was purchased by EasyNet Netherlands.
2001 - 2003
Cisco Systems
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Consulting Engineer – Routing Architectures
As a consulting engineer my responsibilities included two major facets;
internal and customer facing.
Internally, focus was on service provide IGP and BGP design as well as
participating or leading many core internal activities.
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EMEA wide Virtual Team Advisor Role. Providing a focal point
for NSP1 IP and Optical field interaction and internal
development.
Interaction with business units and field systems engineers to
deliver updates and product requirements for IP and optical
technologies.
Representative in EMEA for service provider virtual team
Advisory Council.
Drive NSP1 requirements for training/development. Including
EMEA wide optical and IP boot-camp.
Provide input on new VT structure/programs.
Participate in Corporate SEVT meetings.
Technical lead for NSP1 focus team (for Ops level CE/CSEs)
Provided to systems engineers and the general field multiple
trainings and transfer of information sessions.
Liaison for ILSG and SE Training organization to ensure proper
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training content is delivered for the SE community.
Regular presenter and stream owner (Layer 3 services) at
Networkers EMEA.
Externally, my key focus was on customer consulting covering a wide range
of requirements.
• Provided key customer resource for IP technologies.
• Core routing expert for OSPF, ISIS, BGP and MPLS
• External routing (global internet, peering etc).
During my time at Cisco, customer for which I served as lead consultant
(in my specific field of experience) included;
• KPN and KPN Mobile (Netherlands incumbent telco provider)
• KPN Qwest
• Versatel Telecom
• Linx Telecom
• Deutshe Telecom
• Sita-Equant
• ESI-NED
1999 - 2001
Versatel Telecom BV
Manager, Data Network Design
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Was asked to manage the Versatel data network design team. This team
consisted of three people responsible for IP and ATM design. During
the time in this position, undertook expansion of the team resulting in
fourteen people focused directly on IP design. The direct outcome of
this team is the design, implementation and operation of the first
purely packetised OC-48 ring in Europe. Furthermore, was responsible
for the Versatel POP architecture, routing policy, overall architecture
and IP product designs. Responsibilities also expanded into the virtual
teams of network planning and capacity management. In these “teams”
was responsible for SLA reporting and capacity management.
Furthermore, my ability to communicate complex ideas in simple terms
has been used to provide technical support for product development,
senior management, investor relations and supervisory board
presentations.
1998 - 1999
Versatel Telecom BV
Manager, Internet Operations
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
After leaving SpeedPort was immediately moved into position
Manager, Internet Operations. In this role managed an 8-person team
responsible for the on-going design and support for the Internet
services for Versatel Telecom. This includes the design, deployment
and operations of the large-scale backend system that currently
supports ZON, the largest free ISP in the Benelux. This architecture
has since been replicated to support other large-scale ISP type backend
systems.
In addition to this role was also consulted by the Versatel Senior
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management for direction on architecture, technology and market
knowledge. I was also heavily involved in dial access design and
backbone topology and design issues.
1997 - 1998
SpeedPort BV
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Co-Founder and Director, Network Services
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As a co-founder of SpeedPort was involved in seed funding and other
financial and business activities. These activities included strategic
planning, business planning and network architecture. Based upon
these efforts, in co-operation with the other co-founders seed funding
was successfully obtained to build a small co-location centre and build
a tier 2 IP transit network. Once funding was secured I relocated to
Amsterdam and undertook to build the foundations upon which
SpeedPort would begin its commercial activities. This included
securing office space and rental contracts, commencement of vendor
relations and the first stages of the network and collocation facility
build. As the size of the company increased a more active role in the
facilities and network roll out was provided as an additional
responsibility. This include the design and architecture of the
collocation facility as well as network deployment aspects. The network
roll out included The Netherlands, leased line transatlantic connectivity
and a US based infrastructure. In addition to the roll out also executed
the building of a fully operational 24x7 network operations centre
including the selection and hiring of 11 operations staff.
In April of 1999 as part of the acquisition of SpeedPort by Versatel I
moved to the Versatel organization. Upon leaving SpeedPort the
collocation had been completed and sold, the network has expanded to
cover the Benelux and included an OC-3 trans-American network
including drop off at all US exchange points. The closure of the sale of
SpeedPort to Versatel was a successful exit from this start-up venture.
1998
Cisco Systems - Contractor
Design Analyst
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Working with Cisco Systems Australia was part of the Cisco account
team ( as a contractor ) for AAPT. Responsibility was to provide
technical backup pertaining to BGP routing and Internet services for
the AAPT account. As a deliverable for this job was the presentation
of a design analysis which was accepted by Cisco and used in
argumentation and justification to the customer in relation to their
designs.
1995 - 1998
Vicnet
Network Administrator
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Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Joined Vicnet at its start-up phase, and was responsible for network
design, implementation and strategy. Vicnet provided highly reliable
Internet access and IP capacity for government and semi-government
al bodies. Whilst at Vicnet, undertook the designed and deployed of a
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complex regional network based upon Cisco hardware including a large
dial access platform based up the Cisco access path product. Vicnet
was the first Asia pacific customer to deploy the access path product.
As a result, Vicnet discovered many bugs and in response was
deployed into San Jose to work with the Cisco access path design team
to rectify these issues. Furthermore, whilst at Vicnet undertook the
deployment of a T1 based US peering network based in the bay area of
California. In conjunction with this deployment executed a roll out of a
complex IP over satellite solution based upon PanAm Sat space
carriage to serve IP in to rural towns and cities of Australia. This was
the second deployment of IP over satellite in Australia.
1992 - 1995
Museum of Victoria
Part time customer service representative
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Melbourne, Australia
Worked as part of a customer service team providing customer service
to all visitors to the museum. In the later stages of employment was
responsible for daily money count and til reconciliation. In the final
year was given the task of weekend team leader. This involved the
management of 8 staff.
1988 - 1992
Explicit Computers
Junior Part Time Engineer
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Melbourne, Australia
Provided limited part time support to professional engineers. Duties
included construction and assembly of personal computer, troubleshooting of PC related issues.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
2002
Cisco Systems
Consulting Engineer, Routing Architectures
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Completed three day training course in conflict management and
resolution.
2000
Global Knowledge
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Manager, Data Network Design, Versatel Telecom BV
• Achieved course completion in Cisco BGP routing.
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Achieved course completion in Cisco ISIS routing.
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Achieved course completion in CCNP
1999
Juniper Networks
San Jose, California
Director, Network Services, Speedport BV
• Achieved course completion in Juniper Junos Configuration
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1997
Global Knowledge
Melbourne Australia
Network Administrator, Vicnet
• Achieved course completion in Cisco BGP routing.
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Achieved course completion in Cisco trouble shooting
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Achieved Introduction To Cisco router configuration certification
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Achieved Advanced Cisco Router Configuration certification
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Please see professional activities attached
LANGUAGES
Fluent English, both written and oral.
Conversational spoken Dutch.
Average to minimum Dutch reading skills.
Conversational French
TECHNOLOGY PROFICENCY
TCP/IP
Transport Protocols – SDH, ATM, DPT/SRP, DWDM, MPLS
Routing Protocols – BGP/4+, ISIS, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF,MPLS
IP QoS – Cisco MQC, CBWFQ, WRED, DSCP etc
Routing Platforms – Cisco 25xx, 26xx, 28xx,
36xx,72xx,73xx,75xx,76xx,12xxx, 9k, CRS, 90x, Alcatel 7750, 7450, Huawei
CX600-X
Switching Platforms – 29xx, 34xx, 35xx, 37xx, 65xx
Access Platforms – 5x00, Nortel CVX
Optical Platforms – Cisco ONS 15454, Huawei 18xx, 5xxx
Voice Protocols – H.323/SIP, MegaCo/MGCP
TDM – DMS100
ATM – Cisco MGX, Newbridge MainStreet
SDH – Nortel TNXx Range
Optical – Nortel TNxX range, Cisco DPT/SRP
Class 5 VoIP – Cirpack, Lucent, Cisco Call Manager V4.x
Asterisk
CA Spectrum
Layer two transport technologies, large scale network design and related
issues such as convergence tuning and routing optimization.
IP and Ethernet service deployments based on DSL, Fibre, Wireless,
Satellite, 3G (consumer & wholesale models), enterprise VoIP solutions
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(call managers, call centers) as well as residential voice solutions and
associated technologies such as billing, management etc.
Expert understanding of Unix ( Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux ) as well as
Internet type services such as DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SNMP, Radius,
TACACS
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROFICENCY
C/C++
Javascript including node.js (expert level)
PHP5 (expert level)
SQL and noSQL including elasticsearch and mongoDB
DevOps including puppet, chef, vagrant, git, composer,
require.js/common.js, jira, bamboo
REFERENCES
References available on request
PERMITS AND LICENSES
I have an Australian drivers license.
I am level 3 first aid trained.
HOBBIES
I enjoy playing squash and socialising with friends.