Dr. Refael Ben Hamo Nationality: French and USA Citizen 121 Avenue D’Italie 75013 Paris France Tel: +1 (914) 627 9746; Email: refael@itbery.com
Personal Profile Summary & Area of Expertise – Lead researcher and Business Development
Services and Operations Pre-sales Architecture Design and PoC Deployment: SD- WAN automated network solutions, using chain VNF instantiation based on Versa SD-WAN platform, PaloAlto and Fortinet security: NGFW and UTM, unifi ed automated service management from a digital enterprise portal, active & available inventory, order delivery & VNFs orchestration, service aware routing and traffic steering, service assurance measures, P4, Openfl ow and ODL, behavioural analysis, VNS, uCPE, security, provisioning and activation. Automation Service Assurance: policy management and zero-touch real-time operations, big data analytics (integration/streaming APIs), AI and ML. With strong background in the mathematical and information algorithms for the design of very large wireless and terrestrial undersea fiber optical networks. Over twenty years of experience in business and operational understanding of mobile, telecom, media, security and BSS/OSS process automation. Past five years working on cloud orchestration and VNF onboarding, design and dimension of the infrastructure, VNF life cycle management on telco cloud infrastructure: vMBB, vIMS, vEPC, vVoiceMail, vEmail, vCPE, vDNS, vMTAS, vHLR, vHSS, vIN, vTelco, M-CORD and MEC placement, private/public/hybrid cloud interworking and dynamic orchestration for agile service-driven environment, automation and behavioral analysis of ToC using ONOS and ONAP. Presently, lead SDN cybersecurity research team for algorithm development to eliminate adversary traffic using Ethereum based Blockchain solution
IHold a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Hebrew University. I hold MSc. and BSc. In electrical engineering from NYU-Polytechnic Institute in New York. Ph.D. thesis granted me a scholarship from the USA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to implement optical interfaces to large-scale integrated circuits). I hold several patents on smart switches and biometrics identity measures on Blockchain
