Aruba – Desclos Consulting

Experience with Aruba

HPE Aruba Networking, formerly known as Aruba Networks, is a Santa Clara, California-based security and networking subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.

The company was founded in Sunnyvale, California in 2002 by Keerti Melkote and Pankaj Manglik. On March 2, 2015, Hewlett-Packard announced it would acquire Aruba Networks for approximately $3 billion USD.[1] On May 19, 2015, HP completed the acquisition. As of November 1, 2015, the company operates as the “Intelligent Edge” business unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, which encompasses all of HP/HPE’s networking and security related operations and acquisitions. The company’s products include network switches, access points, hotspots, and wireless controllers.

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Cyber Security Consultant - [ Ongoing ]

Interim Management

Deployed technologies : Aruba, AWS, Datadog, Imperva, Lansweeper, Palo Alto, Sentinel One, Vade Secure

Used languages : English, French

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Networks & Telecoms Manager - [16 Months]

Interim Management

Group-wide harmonization and standardization project (~3,500 sites),
- Defined LAN & WLAN standards,
- Designed a global SD-WAN architecture based on Zero Trust Exchange technology,
- Led global negotiations with key vendors.
Support to subsidiaries (42 entities),
- Facilitated change management and alignment with network, telecom & security standards,
- Implemented shared global services (DDI, Software Defined Network, etc.).
Group infrastructure
- Managed annual budget (~€1.5M) and vendor relations,
- Oversaw network & telecom infrastructure operations and maintenance (3 sites).

Deployed technologies : Active Directory, Aruba, Azure, Citrix, ITIL, Palo Alto, SD-Wan, Zscaler

Used languages : English, French

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Project Manager & Telecom Architect - [6 Months]

Consolidation and redesign of the headquarters LAN

Business constraints analysis,
Study of the existing,
Searching for partners and negotiating services,
Project management and supervision of production start-up.

Upgrading and rationalising the LAN at headquarters

Deployed technologies : 3com, Aruba, Dell, Force 10

Used languages : English, French

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