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I’m Roman Gischig, born 1973 in Basel Switzerland.
From a young age I was interested and fascinated by Technology. This started with LEGO, then RC cars and finally I got my first computer, the Comodore 64. I learned a little bit of Basic programming. Computer kept me fascinated over the years so I did an apprenticeship as Electronics at the Swiss Post (today Swisscom) where I learned how to work precise and and under pressure.
In order to learn Englisch, I was able to spend 8 month in Sunnyvale California supporting my Uncle at his startup, Bear Instruments (mass spectrometer development). Here I first got in contact with he Internet, a whole new world. I’ve helped creating new websites, beefed up the PC’s and built a local network so all PC’s where able to communicate with each other.
Back in Switzerland I went to the Electronics engineering school FHBB – Fachhochschule (Basel) and did my diploma in Electronics. In March 2000 I begun to work at Cisco in various roles which are described below.
By now I have a family and live in Effretikon, near Zürich. I find my balance doing Ju-Jitsu at the WLZ and going hiking and snowboarding in the mountains. A big part of my interest is now in photography and taking videos with my drone. So I’m never bored and I have always new ideas on what to do. And my two girls also keep me busy….
2010-current: Technical Solutions Architect in the Swiss Collaboration sales team
As Collaboration Technical Solutions Architect in the Swiss Collaboration sales team, I’m responsible supporting the sales in selling the Cisco collaboration portfolio to our customers. My customers ranges from a Swiss University or Mid-Sized (KMU) company to the Fortune 500. Each customer is different so I must adopt quickly to the their needs and requirements. Is it going to be a new Webex-Teams Cloud solution or the traditional on premise Callmanager this depends on listening carefully to the customer and his requirements. With by background and knowledge about the Cisco portfolio I can create a custom solution for each and every customer. Being active in the Cisco collaboration space since 2002 in various roles, I have a strong and deep understanding of the Cisco collaboration portfolio.
An important part of my role is to support our Swiss Cisco Collaboration partners. We deliver trainings and technologie updates in regular intervals to a large audience. Further we support the partners in RFP’s and RFQ’s if needed. Over the years the work with the partners have developed a trusted relationship.
With the move to cloud a lot of new topics have come to the table. From guiding the partner and customer on how to design the network to support the new ways the data travels has become as important as teaching how to integrate app’s into his business workflow.
Diverse and creative work keeps me motivated
Work History
2007-2010: Cisco Network consultant engineer in the EMEA UC/Video Practices
| Cisco Unified Voice practices team (EMEA) | Project deployment of Cisco Telepresence Solution | Low Level design documentation Solution implementation documentation Handover testing documentation End-user Training Administrator Training Cisco ATP partner development APT partner consulting services Cisco Telepresence Virtual Team host contribution to Best Practice for Telepresence Close relation ship with Cisco Telepresence Business Unit Telepresence lab Project Engineering |
| Customers | E.ON Tesco Swisscom Swiss Innovation Forum BWI Germany Telefonica Bayer Roche Swiss Post Dassault TeliaSonera (Finland/Sweden) Nokia Siemens (Germany/Finland) TDC (Denmark/Sweden) Vestas (Denmark) Accenture (Germany/UK) | |
| Technology | Telepresence | CTS-3000 /CTS-1000/CTS-500 Cisco Unified Callmanager 5.x ; 6.x Cisco Telepresence Manager Microsoft AD Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007 Cisco Telepresence Multipoint Switch Cisco Telepresence interoperability with legacy video endpoints .h323 endpoints Tandberg Edge 95 |
| Network | QoS Campus and LAN QoS Cisco Catalyst 6500 Cisco 3750G / 3560G WAN QoS Cisco 3750G-ME Cisco 7200 VXR Cisco 7301 Cisco 38xx WAN capacity planning for international Telepresence deployments Telepresence Network readiness | |
| Environment | Acoustics Light HVAC |
2005-2007: Cisco NOS support engineer in the Swiss Advanced Services Team
| Nationale Suisse Insurance | Network IPT readiness assessment | Detailed Network assessment with the main focus that it would be able to carry VoIP services. |
| Novartis | Network migration of a manufacturing plant in Turkey | New Low Level Design Migration strategy and documentation Onsite Network migration Admin training and network handover |
| L.Hoffman-La Roche | Maintained the good relationship with the Roche Network Engineering Team. | Worked on:
Wireless Core MPLS migration strategy VoIP, Cisco Unified Callmanager EIGRP/BGP routing LAN-Switching Datacenter This engagement ended by September 2007 due to my personal changes within Cisco |
| UBS | Supporting the UBS networking team on stabilize and optimize there network with a big focus on the LAN switching infrastructure | Cisco Catalyst 6500 (Native and Hybrid configuration) EIGRP routing BGP routing Software strategy Software evaluation and validation |
| L.Hoffman-La Roche | Working in a close relationship with the Roche networking engineering team on standardize there network designs and configuration | Delivering Cisco advisory services to Roche in Network design questions |
2005-2006: Cisco Network consultant engineering the Swiss Advanced Services Team
| Swisscom Broadcast | Proof of concept for Multicast audio streaming over ADSL | ADSL (ISDN and Analog) AAA access security with Cisco ACS server OSPF, RIPv2 & BGP routing QoS on ADSL access links Multicast routing IP-PIM sparse design Low Level Design and implementation document for multicast Radio streaming |
| Design and implement the out of band management network for Swisscom Broadcast remote antenna sites | ADSL ISDN Dial-In GPRS access Leased line AAA access security with Cisco ACS server OSPF, RIPv2 & BGP routing DM-VPN IP-SEC over GPRS creating the Low Level Design, Network ready for use and test procedure documentation | |
| Supporting Swisscom Fixnet as Network consultant | Basic and Advanced Lan Switching training for Cisco 6500 and Cisco 3750 platform | Switching |
| Lab manager in the Swiss SP-Lab | Routing and Switching |
2002-2005: Cisco AVVID TAC engineer in the Brussels world wide TAC
| 8 weeks | Brussels | Voice over IP speed-up Callmanager boot camp CVoice CCNA CIPT CCIE Voice Drake test (7/2003) KT Troubleshooting course |
| 3 Years | Brussels and Zürich | Working as AVVID TAC engineer for the Brussels AVVID TAC, covering a wide variety of technologies around Cisco Callmanager. Applications (Callmanager/IPCC Express/SoftPhone/Unity) Voice protocols (SKINNY/H323/MGCP/ISDN) Access technologies (E1/T1/BRI/FXS/FXO/E&M) IOS gateways (2600/3600/4500/3700) Voice gateways (VG200/VG248/VG224/6608/6624/CMM/ATA186) IP Phones (79xx/ATA186) Voice QoS Wireless (7920) Switching (L2 configuration/InlinePower) Video for Callmanager General L3 troubleshooting Windows Server knowledge & troubleshooting skills MeetingPlace Solution Cisco Unity Voice Mail Setting up the Swiss AVVID TAC lab |
2000-2002: Cisco Network consultant engineer in the Cisco Professional Services EMEA Team
| 6 weeks | San Jose | Telenor MPLS project (Oslo) working as project engineer during network staging in San Jose for 6 weeks |
| 1 week | Training in Brussels | Advanced BGP course |
| 6 months | UK | 360 Networks Global MPLS IP network Working for 6 months on implementation, roll out and installation plans Performed network testing and handover Delivered GSR training to 360 Networks operation |
| 2 months | San Jose, Saudi Arabia | STC (Saudi Telecom) MPLS/ATM network deployment Network staging in San Jose as team lead with partner resource (Intracom) Network roll out & testing in Riyadh Network handover to customer |
| 6 weeks | Warsau/Switzerland | Energis Polska MPLS/Voice Network Backup project engineer,4 weeks in Warsaw Roll out & installation of network Network handover testing |
1996-2000:
| 4 Years | Muttenz, near Basel | Electronics engineering school FHBB - Fachhochschule (Basel) |
| 2 Years | Reinach (Basel, Switzerland) | Part-time IT support for MCS AG in Reinach (Basel, Switzerland) |
1995:
| 1 Year | USA at Bear Instruments (San Jose) | Network Support Web design Helping in developing GC-MS-MS Mass-Spectrometers (Now sold by Variant as 320-MS) |