Jonathan Senecal

Working with a team of network gurus, I manage, automate and scale Mindgeek's network footprint to allow for continued growth and performance.

Key achievements:

• Initiated and managed Network automation projects to provide new methods, solutions and improvements on existing services and infrastructure;
• Managed and improved business critical systems to allow Mindgeek to improve efficiency and reliability of their network deployment;

Improved business critical processes and related infrastructure to support cloud based connectivity and telephony services.

Key achievements:

• Reviewed and analyzed existing applications effectiveness and efficiency, and then developed strategies for improving or leveraging these systems;
• Researched and made recommendations on both hardware and software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts;
• Provided technical direction and best practices to be followed by the team;

Responsible for the restructuration and scalability of everything related to technology I allowed ZAP to reach their next milestone in growth.

Key achievements:

• Managed and improved business critical infrastructure providing services to 100k+ end users;
• Restructured the business processes to enable ZAP to be more agile in its deliveries;
• Performed a cloud migration for some business critical systems;

Responsible for the restructuration and scalability of everything IT,
I had to ensure the systems and network would survive it and support an IPTV deployment at scale.

Key achievements:

• Lead the team responsible for the construction of a new data center;
• Redesigned the core network infrastructure to offer value added services based on MPLS technologies running on Juniper MX and ACX series routers;
• Designed an authentication and access control system for a client subscription and access management service designed to allow for extreme scalability;

Thorough my time as Director of R&D at ZEROFAIL I designed a complex Network Operations and Business Support System and led initiatives to improve solutions and services.

Key achievements:

• Initiated and managed Research and development projects that provided new methods, solutions and improvements on existing services;
• Managed and improved business critical systems to allow ZEROFAIL to reach higher levels of efficiency and enabled new sources of revenue;
• Designed and led the development of a complex Network Operations and Business Support System leveraging technologies such as Graph Databases and Python's 3.5 asyncio;
• Designed and built domain specific electronic and mechanical systems to help field technicians with their duties.

I started at ZEROFAIL in the Technical support department where I quickly learnt my ways through the different systems of the company. I became someone people would rely uppon to help fix issues, the simple and the complex ones.

Later on, as the Director of the Network Management Group at ZEROFAIL I designed and built a very extensive MPLS network accross Canada and the north of USA along with the most extensive private wireless network in the metropolitain area of Montreal.

Key achievements:

• Managed and planned the deployment of a very complex MPLS network leveraging a wide range of hardware from Juniper;
• Implemented and managed business processes to allow for greater operations efficiency;
• Lead teams consisting of many ad-hoc technicians working in many departments.
• Operated and managed a very large number of customer's internal network infrastructures using Cisco, HP, DELL, Juniper and Arista switches and firewalls;
• Managed multiple companies IT infrastructures composed of many workstations and physical/virtual server environments based on Windows Server technologies as well as RedHat and Debian based Linux Distros;
• Configured servers and network devices to grow the hosting infrastructure;
• Offered an outstanding technical support to the customers.