Antonio Bernard

Background

About Antonio Bernard

A technology professional with 20 years of experience in internetworking, carrier environments and financial enterprises and specializing in delivering cost effective technology solutions in large environments. • As a Sr Vice President/Director, I turned a cost center into a profit center by extending the firm’s product portfolio to three core network products, achieving a ROI of 100% on network assets and increase the Alpha on our annual revenue. Ensure change management procedures are strongly adhered to when implementing network solutions resulting to 15% decrease in network outages per NOC reports. Conducted weekly design reviews of existing environment, to identify and offer solutions to existing clients, and existing performance issues resulting in an increase of 25% uptime. • As a Chief Architect, I lead the company IT infrastructure in architecture, engineering, and deployment of a global backbone spanning APAC, EMEA, and US regions to meet business requirements of a highly resilient/A&B ring, ultra-low latency network. In parallel developing & closing new sales and ensuring significant growth account growth. The architecture behind the design minimized the backbone latency by 32% on the implicit paths and 47% on the explicit paths.• As Business Development, I developed and facilitated the “Go To Market” strategies, and target list for the US. Responsible for developing bid strategy, qualification of deal, deal structure and pricing for proposals and utilized these to leverage maximize opportunity to win business and profitability. Developed and launched channel Partners strategies and established strategic ecosystems with market data providers, data center providers, and application service providers (ASP).