1. Frédéric Bovy
Villa les 2 Sœurs. 21, Avenue Thiers 06600 Antibes, France
Tél : +33614461069 E : fred@fredbovy.com Web : http://www.fredbovy.com
Skills
20+ years experience with CISCO, TCP/IP
- 15 years CCIE #3013 (it was only R&S in 1997! And recertified every 2 years since this date)
- 18 years CCSI #33517 since 1994 (it was #95003)
15 years experience in IPv6
- IPv6 Forum Gold Certified Engineer
- IPv6 Forum Certified Gold Trainer
- 7 years Cisco IOS IPv6 Software Engineer (CISCO NSSTG Group)
- Hurricane Electric IPv6 Guru
12+ years experience in MPLS
I joined CISCO in 1999 and my mentor was Jim Guichard.
Other Networking Skills: QoS, Security. The SIP School Voice and Video over IP Certified.
Languages and Systems: Windows, MAC OS X, Linux, Solaris. Basic, C Language, Macro-Assembly,
TCL/Tk , PHP, MySQL, CLEARCASE, CVS, Emacs, Microsoft OFFICE. Web Site development
Experience.
2012- Fred Bovy EIRL. IPv6 For Life! http://www.ipv6forlife.com
IPv6 Consulting and Training
Manager, Consultant and Trainer. I am providing IPv6 and Open Software Training and Consulting.
My focus is to find solutions using Open Software Products where we can often find the best and FREE products.
I am also certified to provide IPv6 Forum Test to certify IPv6 Forum Gold and SIlver Engineer.
Since August 2011 I am the IPv6 Course Subject Matter Expert for Fast Lane Worldwide. I am responsible
for the IPv6 Training Curriculum for Fast lane Worldwide. My role consists of developing and delivering
IPv6 Training, presentations and Webinars, writing blogs and White Papers. I developed IPv6 Training for
the SP derived from IP6FD and delivered many sessions for CISCO with Excellent feedback.
http://www.fastlaneus.com/blog/
2. In 2010 I delivered many IPv6 Training, both CISCO IP6FD and self developed training.
2010 November- 2011 March. For ALTRAN Consulting for Monaco Telecom.
Monaco Telecom just was deploying an Alcactel-Lucent MPLS Backbone for a first projet called Africa
Next. The purpose of this project was to provide Data, Voice and Internet Access to companies in Africa
with Headquarters in Europe or Americas. I helped them to perform some testing to validate these
services.
2010 Mai-June CISCO Network Consulting for EDF.
I helped EDF to develop a CISCO Support Center in Nantes. The goal of this center was to validate
CISCO Architectures and to provide support to the EDF Technician. I trained their engineers to the
CISCO Troubleshooting.
2002-2009 Cisco Systems Inc
Software Engineer. Dev-test IPv6.
I was writing the Test Plan and the scripts in TCL. We were using CFLOW to measure the coverage of our
tests with a goal of 80% minimum. I have been in charge of dev-testing IPv6 over MPLS (6PE, 6VPE),
Netflow for IPv6, SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND).
1999-2002 Cisco Systems Inc.
NSA Network Consulting Engineer
I was responsible of two major customers: VIVENDI and EQUANT.
I was providing them with recommendation for any change or improvement they wanted in their
network. For EQUANT I was also on call for any outstanding issues that the CISCO TAC could not resolve.
I supported EQUANT and VIVENDI while they were launching a brand new MPLS-VPN Backbone.
I supported EQUANT to launch a differentiated service using QoS over the MPLSL-VPN as they were a
CISCO Beta customer for QoS. I finally supported EQUANT to launch a service using MPLS-TE Fast Reroute
to provide resiliency in less than 50ms in the backbone.
1997-1999 Institut ERIS (Global Knowledge France)
I was the CISCO Training manager and trainer myself. In 1997 I became CCIE #3013 and I was providing
a CCIE Bootcamp training of 2 weeks. I was certified to teach almost all the Cisco Training.: ICRC,
ACRC, IMCR, CIT, CID, MCRI, MCSI, CLSC, CATM, MCNS. I was also providing other training like a TCP/IP
training I had developped.
1994-1997 ITS – Groupe SITA (Now Orange FT)
I was a Cisco Certified System Instructor (CCSI #95003). I was providing CISCO Training around the
world in Paris, New York and Singapore Equant Offices. But I was not only a Cisco Trainer I was also
giving some other Training like UNIX or TCP/IP and some LAN products.
1989-1994 ITS – SITA Group (Now Orange FT)
Pre Sales Technical Support, Project Manager.
I was helping our Salesman to answer the customers request. Then I was also acting as a project
manager. I was also supporting our customers. The products I was supporting were the EXPRESS
PRODUCTS from System Strategies (Nynex company). This was a range of products running on UNIX
platforms to connect TCP/IP world to SNA and X.25 using the EMULEX Adapter,
I was also supporting EICON products for the same need on MS-DOS LAN. I was also supporting X.25
switches and PAD from OST and TELEMATICS and Routers from CISCO and Proteon.
1988 La Règle A Calcul
Pre Sales Technical Support.
1987 EXTENT IA (Synchronix)
Analyst Programmer in C Language and 80286 Macro-Assembly.
I was in charge of writing communication protocol to interconnect heterogeneous system from
PROLOG OS to MS-DOS. I wrote a terminal emulator and a file transfer application.
1986 RANDOM OPS
I was doing PCs and NOVELL Netware Local Area Networks Installation and Maintenance.
3. 1986 Eurotron
Maintenance on Apple and IBM PCs Micro computers, 3COM Local Area Networks and Electronic
measurement devices (Multimeters, Data Acquisition system)
Studies
1985 AFPA Niveau IV (BTS) AMMSI. Micro-System Maintenance Technician.
Duration 9 months. I have learned the maintenance of a micro-computer down to the component
level using oscilloscope, logical state analyser, microprocessor emulator, device driver in assembly
development, etc...
Bac C.
References
Michel Laudet (Senior Architect. FT ORANGE) in 2011
Qualités principales : Très efficace, Expert, Créativité
“Fred, Thank you for these 2 days training really excellent. This advanced course fit exactely the Service
provider current and future needs. I think the title " transitioning safely to IPV6 " is a good title since it
contains as you know the 2 essentials components which are the coexistence V4/ V6 with tunneling and
tranlation mechanisms and the security. All the other aspects of service providers needs are present in
this course : inter domain, multicast, COS, VPN, mobility, tunneling, translation , CSC, 6PE, 6VPE ...with all
the techniques past, present and future that we need to know and understand. I liked the drawing that
you put and the IETF reference that you always made with the mention of the RFC. It was worth
attending, and I think you can replay it both for entreprise and Service provider customers. As you know,
demand is growing and expertise like yours is unique and it was difficult for me to find a course which fit
my needs as good as this one. I know that you will continue to develop this course with passion and
enrich it with your experience. Fred, it was a pleasure to meet you and see you again during these two
days. Its always a pleasure. I think you are among on the top people working with IP V6 today and your
skill and experience is very much appreciated. I am sure we will continue to discuss open points that
ybtbvrtt44ou raised today in the future.” 10 novembre 2011
Nicole Wajer-de Bruijn (CISCO SE )2011
Qualités principales : Très efficace, Expert, Haute valeur ajoutée
“Fred was the trainer for the IPv6SPSE training. It was a great pleasure having this course from him. Could
not wished a better trainer. He great indepth knowledge on ipv6 made it a pleasure listening to him. He
also was challanged with some labs problems but he always found the solution and able to explain
what went wrong. He is a great assest.” 18 décembre 2011
Homero Ribeiro (CISCO SE) IPv6 Training 2011
Qualités principales : Très efficace, Expert, Haute valeur ajoutée
“I've attended an IPv6 Foundation, Design and Implementation training by Fred Bovy last week and
strongly recommended him not only as an instructor but also as a consultant. He demonstrated a huge
knowledge on IPv6 and other related subjects that's under discussions on Service Providers,
Corporations and other types of organizations. Besides, Fred is a very nice person really prone to help
and make all effort to achieve his objectives.” 3 août 2011
Manuel Serrano IPv6 Training Instructor en 2011
Qualités principales : Très efficace, Expert, Intégrité
4. “A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend an IPv6 training called 'IPv6 Fundamentals,
Design and Deployment'. Our instructor, Fred Bovy, was instrumental in the successful development of
this course. Fred has extensive experience and broad understanding about this and other subjects; he
complemented the course material with detailed explanations and shared with us some of his
experience as a consultant for various projects for Service Providers and Enterprise customers. I highly
recommend his work. Manuel Serrano CCIE Service Provider # 28574” 9 août 2011
Stephane Labetoulle, Network engineer, Cisco Systems (collègue)
a travaillé directement avec vous
était employé par une autre entreprise quand il a travaillé avec vous
“Few weeks ago I had a 5-days IPv6 training with Fred Bovy as Instructor. I recommend him as an IPv6
Specialist with in-depth design and implementation knowledge at this matter.” 10 août 2011
Frederic Farcy , President, TNTMAX, LLC
“Frederic Bovy worked with our company TNTMAX while he was a software engineer at Cisco and
provided us with very professional support. His expertise in the Cisco product line and operating system
is excellent; we highly recommend him to anyone in need of great Cisco software engineer.” 20 juin
2009
Steve Glaus Software Engineer, Cisco (collègue)
“Fred's a diligent and hard working engineer who can always be relied upon to give 100% until the job's
done.” 17 juin 2008
Greg Boland Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
“Had the pleasure of working with Fred in many projects whilst at Cisco. He was very knowledgeable in
his field and a talented and friendly individual and would love to have the chance to work with him
again in the future.” 18 juin 2008
Jeffrey Cheng Technical Leader, Cisco (collègue)
“Fred is a talented engineer. I had been worked with him for about 3 years and had deep impression on
the IPv6 VPN over MPLS project. He nicely made the complicated testing environment into structured
scripts and made the automation possible. Even we were far from each other (US, FR). I can feel his
dedicated on working smart solution.” 30 août 2008
Mandy McDiarmi Software Development Manager, Cisco Systems (collègue)
“I worked with Fred over a number of years on Netflow IPv6 development. Fred is a conscientuous test
engineer with an impressive array of Cisco knowledge which he gained from being a Cisco instructor.
Fred is an excellent team player and integrated very well into the team.” 30 juillet 2008
Michel Laudet (SITA EQUANT) NetworkArchitect 2002
“J'ai toujours beaucoup de plaisir a travailler avec Frederic hier et aujourd'hui et de beneficier de son
expertise qui apporte beaucoup en ouvrant de nouveaux horizons techniques et technologiques. Sa
collaboration est precieuse et son amitié aussi. Michel” 21 juillet 2011
Olivier Tafani Sr Telecommunication Architecte, Equant (relation professionnelle)
“It's a real pleasure to work with Fred. I could appreciated his wide technical expertise in several large
international projects and his talent to communicate, negotiate and take the lead several times. He has
an extensive knowledge and practice of IP networking , that leads to successfull results.” 8 octobre 2009
Denis Churlet Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems (collègue)
“Fred and I worked in the same team for some time. Fred always demonstrated strong technical skills
and positive attitude. His advanced networking expertise, his reliability and his dedication to success
5. made him a very valuable colleague to work with. Fred always liked sharing his kwnoledge and
experience. Highly recommended professional.” 19 octobre 2009
Serge Dupouy AS Services Director, Cisco Systems (collègue)
“Fred is a very experienced CCIE that have delivered years of consulting in many service providers in
the French Market He is also a certified cisco trainer Last postion was to test complex features in the ios I
strongly recommend Fred as a lead ingeneer or consultant for every organisation that have a Cisco
infrastructure to optimise and mange” 1 juillet 2009
Jean-Louis Suzanne Network Consulting Engineer, Cisco System (collègue)
“Frederic is a very talented individual who has demonstrated an impressive level of knowledge in
networking during my interaction with him. His understanding of the technologies and the market in
place are usually shown after many more years - but Frederic has this today, and anybody looking for
an extremely talented Engineer should not hesitate one single second. I strongly recommend Frederic.”
20 juin 2009
Ovilier Corto, Software Engineer, Cisco Systems (collègue)
“Fred and me have been working on different teams but on all the occasions that we've been in
contact for work Fred has shown good communication skills and having a good understanding of his e
Stephane Labetoull, Network engineer, Cisco Systems (collègue
“Fred has great networking skills. He holds a CCIE for many years but also has worked in the IOS
development team which gives a very detailed view on the implementation, architecture and
deployment of Cisco networking products.” 22 juin 2009
Bertrand Gatellier Director Business Development, Equant (collègue)
“I have worked closely with Fred for a few years and I can say that he is passionate and dedicated in
whatever he undertakes. I have no reservations in recommending Fred as I know he will always go the
extra mile to deliver beyond your expectations.” 10 juillet 2009
Philippe Gomez Managing Director for France, Global Knowledge (collègue)
“Fred was reporting to me as the Training Manager of Institut ERIS. He is a straight forward person, always
pushing his team to achieve the goal on which he committed. His technical expertise is a mix of high
end theory and practical experience regarding complex problems to solve. He is an easy guy to work
with, very fast to react, which makes him an ideal person on which you can rely for Tech items. I strongly
recommend Fred as manager of a Tech Team or as an Expert.” 7 juillet 2009
Stephane Labetoulle Network engineer, Cisco Systems (collègue) 2008
“Fred has great networking skills. He holds a CCIE for many years but also has worked in the IOS
development team which gives a very detailed view on the implementation, architecture and
deployment of Cisco networking products.” 22 juin 2009
Laurent Furdelle Global Service Manager, Cisco (collègue)
“While working at Cisco, I had a chance to work with Fred on different accounts. Fred is an high end
network engineer who is very dedicated to his work and responsibilities.” 17 juin 2008
