Dr. Rephael Benhamo Nationality: French Israel 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
I hold Ph.D. in computer science and mathematic from the Hebrew University. DARPA (USA) have given me, Ph.D. Thesis award - Optoelectronic Semiconductor Design & Fabrication. I hold B.S.c, M.S.c and MBA from NYU-Polytechnic of NY. I thought several course in the Courant Institute of Mathematic, Tel-Aviv and Hebrew Universities.I worked for over eight year as a researcher on multi-layered optical and packet network routing, optimization, operation and services in AT&T Bell Laboratories.I hold several patents on elastic networks and content integrity.
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.
I'm providing services design and deployment for Huwaei, Amdocs, ECI and Nokia customers (see Figure 1). This includes, per-sales activities, PoCs, system integration, services provisioning, automation, HLD, LLD and DLD documentations review with customers and system development teams. Support for RFQ, RFI and review of standards drafts.
IProfile An innovative and highly skilled Technical Executive offering support and solutions to customer queries. pertaining to the design of CSP digital stack architecture and strategy transformation, RAN network coverage optimization, topology management, open-source software. Design integration and deployment of Cloud Native (AWS-Cloud9), Azure, 5G SA, SBA, PoCs. Open-APIs and MEC deployment, autonomous network operation, adapts OSS/BSS and OCS to 5G. TM Forum contributor: leveraging Open-APIs and digital twin for Closed Loop Automation (CLA AI/ML) models for continuous monitoring, assessment, and refinement of QoE, specified intent and policy framework for ZTP, NaaS, CaaS. Experience in data content integrity, locality and mobility, smart cities (5G Private network, LTE-M, NB-IoT, LoRaWAN,..), energy consumption management, and Blockchain applications Education NYU-Polytechnic Institute, New York, NY - B.S.c EE 2000 NYU-Polytechnic Institute, New York, NY - M.S.cCS 2002 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ISRAEL - Ph.D. CS and Mathematics 2007 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ISRAEL - MBA. Finance 2009 Awards AT&T Bell Laboratories Graduate award, 2002 DARPA Grant, Ph.D. Thesis award: VLSI Optoelectronic Design & Fabrication, 2005 AT&T Distinguish Member of Technical Staff, Fellowship award 2009
USA Patents No.: 6,301,267 B1: "Optical Smart Switch in Elastic Networks", 2009 No. 98/987.776 "SDN Load Balancing & Scalable L7 Visibility” (pending) 2017 No. 16/176,580 "System and Method for Content Integrity” (pending), 2020 Skills Developed MEC and 5G ecosystems involving a broad range of stakeholders for V2X, slice planning, video analytics, location services, IoT, AR/VR, optimized local content distribution, data caching, to enables procreative anomaly preventions using 5G KPI to build, sperate and secure dedicated logical networks on a shared infrastructure and support for fixed access and SD-WAN accesses. Derive Autonomous network operation model based on Intent and Open-APIs. Define and engineer Digital Twin (DT) solution architecture to fulfill a cognitive modelling approach, blueprint, data strategy, design, use cases data modeling and implementation using CLA and AI/ML/RL models and data analytic for CSPs and vertical markets to enable data-driven intelligent decision-making. Ole noas defined in NGOSS BSS/OSS cloud native Microservices Architecture based on distributed management architecture
Work Experience HCL Technologies 2019-Present: Sr. enterprise architect: Design 5G Lab with Metaswitch, Altiostar (Raktune), VMWare. TM Forum contributor: use of eTOM, SID, FF. 3GPP ETSI ZSM, GSMA, ITU-T, MEF, BBF, IETF, CNCF, Linux Foundation, ONAP, Open-O, Apache Foundation, OCP Oasis Foundation, ONF, IETF, IRTF, RCS, OMA-DM, ISG, ITU-T, ONF, IEEE 802.1a/b/g/n/ac, ITIL3.3/BPF, HGI, OSGi, OMA-DM to adopt an open-source approach. Worked on Close Loop Automation (CLA), Digital-Twin, AIOps, NaaS, CaaS, ZTP, Data Governance and Market places to specify information models for CLA, ODA components, Autonomous Network (AN), and Open-API’s. Consulting to AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast, Nokia, (USA) – digital transformation SD-WAN automation and 5G slice adaption to enable end-user automated provisioning. Using Versa edge as policy enforcement and integration point, Amdocs A&AI, and Palo-Alto to enable NaaS & SASE Convergence: NGFW and UTM, I instantiated VNFs/CNFs using dynamic micro-segmentation, service chaining and compliance, provisioning & activation
Design and deploy PoCs: core network based services: vIMS cloud native 4G/5GC SA SBA, vSBC, vTAS, using SBI to leverage UV, VoLTE, VoNR, ViLTE, FWA, eMBB, mMTC & MIoT. Implemented EN-DC interworking based on microservices NF packaged in containerized image, orchestrated by Openstack helm, Kubernetes, Airship on network slice instance to automate provisioning & Management.
Assess operation challenges in 5G network: slice lifecycle management, “Zero touch” operations: creation, provisioning, service enablement, closed-loop assurance, self-healing, predictive, and pro-active network/service 5G and NGOS cloud native transformation. Management. Network slices data performance analysis: create, activate, & manage network slice instances and services in real-time. Network slice instance CNFs are monitored & integrated using KPIs automated data analytics AI/ML, SBA & MEC for IoT & URLLC.
Integration: multi-vendor ecosystem, VIM/NFVI and PNFs, data models, on-boarding, resilience applications decompose into smaller functionalities that runs on PaaS APIs services
Develop and deploy hosted services program: technical architecture governance and E2E operational model and remote help desk (NOC in India), APIs exposure program for 3ed party vendors, feasibility, design, analysis and E2E deployment, SDP/SOA/ES
MSP Cloud transformation planning: M/R/E- CORD, ONOS and ONAP for wireless, terrestrial, and optical access & transport networks
Amdocs- 2014 – 2016 Director Business Development - engaged with Amdocs’ Customers; BSNL Mumbai IN, SingTel (Quora SG) OSS/BSS system design, Zero-Touch automated provisioning, Data analytics and quantitative modelings for devices to improve device performance, quality, user QoE, QoS. Device analytics and performance, Statistical modeling of wireless network and device QoS/KPI/KQI, user behaviors. Visualize the analytical results using data visualization tools. ML algorithms: forecasting, clustering, classification, reinforcement learning, deep learning. Data extraction/transformation/loading, text mining and statistical analysis using Python, R, Matlab, VBA, Java Scripts. Spark, Hadoop, MySQL, MS Excel, VBA, TeraData SQL, MS SQL.
Nokia 2011-2014 Lead Solutions Architect - Engaged with Nokia’s Customers: BT, EE, 3UK, VF UK (London, UK), DT (Munich DE), Orange (Paris FR), KPN (Amsterdam, NL), VF (NL, IN, ES, GH): Planning, design, integration and deployment of VoIP services in multi-vendors network. Design and deployment FTTH ODN Optical Distribution System, IP networks transformation and network services migration planning. Design 21CN IP transport network: Separation of control and user plane applications (DNS, DHCP, Radius, NTP, LRSI), routing protocols and architecture deployment of BGP, OSPF, FWs, IPSec, SSL/TLS, AES (CBC & GCM), 3DES, PKI, backhaul and front-haul aggregation.
SeRIQA Network, 2006-2011, Founder/CEO/CTO - Engaged with Seriqa’s customers: AT&T, Verizon (NJ, NY USA), BT (London UK), Orange (Paris FR), Proximus (Bristle BE), Bezeq, Partner, Cellcom, HOT, IEC and IDF (Tel-Aviv IL), INWI (Casablanca MA), MTC (Ulaanbaatar MN). Developed and deployed Network Optimization and Data Analytics Tools for IP-Optical synergy & traffic engineering.
AT&T Bell Laboratories NJ, USA. 2005-2010.DMTS - Optical and Packet Network Research, Packet network research: mixed transport technology performance measure, broadcast algorithms design, planning, simulations and deployment. Cross-layer network optimization, small cells enterprise integration, and control and management.
Proficiencies
Protecting communication channels from adversary attack using DLT, VNF & SDN reroute of malicious traffic. Radio analytics with information on estimated downlink radio throughput and adjusting TCP congestion control (social, analytics, video, surveillance, etc.
Data collection and storage, clustering, dispersed analysis, network structures, consumer demand and availability, R and Python. Splitting video content into small segment, distributed CDN cashes, MEC video distribution stream analysis & surveillance. ADC, DDoS, URL filtering and offload application suing SDN, clustering, routing, operations, and performance optimization. L0, OTN-L1, Packet-L2
