Rob Kennedy

Current

Senior Manager Systems Consulting at ADVA Optical Networking

Past

Product Line Manager at ADVA Optical Networking
Senior Systems Engineer at Quantum Bridge Communications
Systems Engineering Manager at FORE Systems / Marconi

Consultant at Networks Plus Ltd
Senior Technical Consultant at Madge Networks
Technical Support Engineer at Nuclear Electric PLC

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Education

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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Telecommunications

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Rob Kennedy’s Summary

Highly experienced pre and post sales engineer / technical manager. Currently employed by ADVA Optical Networking as presales engineering manager for Northern Europe.

Rob Kennedy’s Specialties:

Pre-sales engineering and product management. Carrier Ethernet network consulting, design and implementation. Detailed Layer 2 and Layer 3 (including MEF, IEEE, IETF and ITU standards efforts) knowledge.

Rob Kennedy’s Experience

Senior Manager Systems Consulting

ADVA Optical Networking

(Public Company; ADV.DE; Telecommunications industry)

December 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

Responsibilities include pre-sales engineering and development of technical sales strategy for partners and customers as well as management of a team of high performing individuals. Also responsible as a pre-sales engineer for several individual accounts / direct customers.

ADVA Optical Networking is a leading global provider of Optical and Ethernet networking solutions for high speed data, storage, voice, and video services in the metropolitan and access area.
Product Line Manager

ADVA Optical Networking

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

March 2002 — December 2006 (4 years 10 months)

Reporting to the VP of Product Line Management, in this position I was responsible for the full product life cycle and margin of the Ethernet Access product lines in ADVA.
Senior Systems Engineer

Quantum Bridge Communications

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

January 2001 — January 2002 (1 year 1 month)

One of original 6 members of Quantum Bridge EMEA team. Team established company bridgehead in EMEA and developed initial customer base from scratch.
Systems Engineering Manager

FORE Systems / Marconi

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

June 1998 — January 2001 (2 years 8 months)

Held positions as Systems / Network Engineer (Pre Sales) and eventually as Systems Engineering Manager UK BBRS team.
Consultant

Networks Plus Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 1997 — June 1998 (1 year )

LAN, MAN and WAN technical consultant. Specialist knowledge in ATM, Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI technologies. Lead consultant on projects with organisations such as British Airways and Citygroup.
Senior Technical Consultant

Madge Networks

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

April 1993 — July 1997 (4 years 4 months)

Positions held:

Senior Technical Consultant (1996 - 1997)
Field Software Engineer (1995 - 1996) - USA Based
Technical Support Engineer (1993 - 1995)
Technical Support Engineer

Nuclear Electric PLC

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

September 1990 — April 1993 (2 years 8 months)

LAN and WAN data and voice communications Support for MAGNOX, AGR and PWR Nuclear Reactors. IBM mainframe, Token Ring and Ethernet. Early Cisco router network deployments.