Giovanni Mellini

Giovanni Mellini

Project Manager at Italtel

Rome Area, Italy

Current
Past
  • Network Engineer at Italtel
  • Engineering Consultant at Altran
  • Network and System Engineer at BT Italia
  • System and Network Administrator at alter.net
  • IT instructor at alter.net
  • WEB programmer at consultant
Education
  • Italtel Training Center
  • Cisco Systems - Career Certification Program
  • Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
  • Liceo scientifico "Carlo Jucci" di Rieti
Connections
148 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Giovanni Mellini’s Summary

Actually I'm the Project Leader of TOP Customers Consultancy group that works for Telecom Italia.

I'm highly motivated, with a strong organizational skill, I can work in a team as well as a single.

I worked as a network engineer, experienced in network design, administration and troubleshooting with an advanced knowledge of Cisco Systems devices

I have a deep knowledge of routing protocols (BGP, RIP, OSPF) and MPLS networks; good knowledge with VoIP (Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Call Manager Express), and security (Cisco PIX, Cisco ASA, NAC, 802.11x);

I use to work as a system administrator managing Linux based systems and Windows 2000 Active Directory domains

Giovanni Mellini’s Specialties:

Internetwork Troubleshooting (Routing: RIPv1, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, IS-IS, BGP, MP-BGP; Switching: STP, VTP, MLS, MPLS; Other: ISDN, Frame-Relay, ATM, Gigabit Ethernet), Network Architect (Planning and Design, Supporting and Implementation), Linux OS administration (Services: bind, smtp, dhcp, squid ), Windows 2000 OS (Active Directory plan, design and troubleshooting), Information and Network Security (VPN: VRF MPLS, L2TP, PPP, IPSec; IDS: Snort; Firewall: ACL, Cisco PIX)


Giovanni Mellini’s Experience

  • Project Manager

    Italtel

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2009Present (1 year 1 month)

    Engineering consulting for Telecom Italia (Platforms Evolution)

    Project Manager (July 2009) of Telecom Italia TOP Customers consultancy group

  • Network Engineer

    Italtel

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    August 2008January 2009 (6 months)

    Engineering, testing and management activities on the Edge Network of Telecom Italia

    Activities:
    - migration from Cisco 7500 to Cisco 10k edge routers for business customers
    - new DNS architecture engineering
    - test and validation of the new ENAV Italian optical network (Juniper M20 and M10i, Selex MFS ATM Switches, SAS1000 routers)

  • Engineering Consultant

    Altran

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALT.PA; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2007August 2008 (1 year 4 months)

    Main areas of consulting activities:
    - network management and support

  • Network and System Engineer

    BT Italia

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2007August 2008 (1 year 4 months)

    Involved in a new LAN Management project. The goal is to manage the BT customers LANs via CiscoWorks

    Backline support for IP MPLS TOP and TOP GOLD customers.
    Involved in backup test cases and network design verification

    During these days I wrote from scratch (using Linux and Open Source technologies) a web appliance to give a fast and consistent access to the MPLS Italian network; this system provides integation with different local databases accessing ATM and Frame Relay interconnections.
    The project won the BT Global Services MiniCup, that is a worldwide challenge with focus on customer experience and business improvement.

  • System and Network Administrator

    alter.net

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2003April 2007 (3 years 6 months)

    Managing Linux and Windows (Active Directory) systems on customers side providing interoperability; working with many Open Source software like DNS (Bind), Mail Server, (Sendmail, Postfix, Mimedefang, Spamassassin) DHCP
    Network administration (CISCO routers, catalyst and PIX firewall) and security related configurations (PIX Firewall, NAC)
    Customers support

  • IT instructor

    alter.net

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2000November 2003 (3 years 11 months)

    Working as instructor on HP and GKN (Global Knowledge Network) training centers.
    Arguments covered:
    - networking
    - network security
    - HP/UX OS
    - Linux
    - Microsoft Windows Active Directory

  • WEB programmer

    consultant

    (Internet industry)

    January 1999November 2003 (4 years 11 months)

    During university time I was working as a consultant to build server-side and DB access components of many Web Sites.
    My skills
    - PHP programming
    - Mysql, Postgres, ORACLE DB
    - Apache WEB Server


Giovanni Mellini’s Education

  • Italtel Training Center

    Project Management 20092009

    Project Management course on Italtel training center (Milan)

  • Cisco Systems - Career Certification Program

    Cisco Certified Network Associate, Internetwork Technologies 20082008

    CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate

  • Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'

    Engineer 19972003

    My Thesis is focused on optimization of bandwidth usage on wireless networks, using control messages between devices. This work is based on Antonio Pietrabissa PhD algorithm.
    The title is "Congestion Control for Wireless Networks"

  • Liceo scientifico "Carlo Jucci" di Rieti

    19921996


Additional Information

Giovanni Mellini’s Websites:

Giovanni Mellini’s Interests:

I love reading, traveling (Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe), playing guitar and do some trick with my Snowboard I'm a scuba divng instructor (CMAS)

Giovanni Mellini’s Groups:

Councilor of Torricella in Sabina (Lazio, Italy) city council since 22 June 2009

  •    Ubuntu Users ( 10.000+ members ) Official Group
  •    Italian Networking Project
  •    Linux Users
  •    Alumni of Università La Sapienza, Roma
  •    Italtel Affiliates
  •    CMAS "Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques"

Giovanni Mellini’s Honors:

- Winner of British Telecom Mini Cup 2008 - project "MPLS Fast Access"


Giovanni Mellini’s Contact Settings

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  • new ventures
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