About the Technical Reviewers

Fernando de Almeida, CCIE No. 8831 (R&S and SP), has more than 18 years of experience in telecommunications and networking. Fernando joined Cisco in 2000 as a TAC engineer and moved on to other functions in Advanced Services, focusing on service providers and enterprise customers. He has had active participation in design and implementation of the biggest service providers in Latin America, in technologies such as MPLS, TE, VPLS, QoS, and BGP, and has worked as a Solutions Architect for the biggest banks in Brazil, integrating key environments, such as core wide-area networks, data center networks, network security, and wireless networks. He has been a speaker at various network conferences (including Cisco Live), and he is currently involved in Internet of Things projects, mainly in Smart Grid. Before joining Cisco, Fernando worked as a pre-sales engineer and instructor at Nortel. He graduated with an electrical engineering degree and an MBA in IT management from Universidade de São Paulo.

Adilson Silva, CCIE No. 30110, is a Cisco Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems involved in public and hybrid cloud Cisco architectures as well as cloud managed services solutions through Cisco partners. Adilson’s expertise includes data center virtualization, routing and switching, hypervisor solutions, and hybrid cloud using Cisco Intercloud Fabric solutions for business as well as for providers including Cisco Powered partners, Cisco Cloud Architecture for Microsoft, and OpenStack, which includes Cisco Metapod solutions for private customer clouds.

During his more than 14 years of experience in the networking industry, Adilson spent his last 7 years at Cisco Systems. In the last 3 years he has covered Cloud & Managed Services for the whole of the Latin America region.

In addition to holding his CCIE certification (Routing & Switching), Adilson holds a degree in science computing from Estácio University (Brazil) and an MBA in communication services from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF-Brazil).