Michael Magera has over 25 years of experience in telecommunications project management and installation. He has worked for various organizations including the United Nations, Volt Telecommunications, and Ficom Corporation. Some of his responsibilities have included managing telecom projects, designing voice and data systems, overseeing cabling installations, and training and supervising teams of technicians. He has extensive experience working on complex projects and has a strong technical background in structured cabling, VoIP, and network infrastructure.
TWD & Associates, Inc. is a 21 year old firm based in Alexandria, VA. that specializes in IT infrastructure support for the Federal Government. TWD offers clients a one-stop-shop with expertise in a wide variety of fields, including:
• Network development, security, operations and maintenance
• Telecommunications (including wireless communications and alert systems, teleswitch installations, voice and data circuits, satellite support, classified communication centers and other specialties)
• Structured Cabling.
• Video teleconferencing
• Multi media support
• Program Management Support Services that encompass a wide range of disciplines.
I am a top-performing, versatile, IT Professional, with over 20 years of experience in the various areas of the IT Field (Networking, Telecommunications, Video Conferencing, and Structured Cabling). I have proven expertise in communication, vendor management, customer service, systems and network monitoring. I’m a detail-oriented, self-starter, with exceptional troubleshooting skills in tackling and solving complex business and technical problems. I’m a dedicated team player and trusted colleague, able to learn new technologies quickly and consistently meet and exceed expectations
TWD & Associates, Inc. is a 21 year old firm based in Alexandria, VA. that specializes in IT infrastructure support for the Federal Government. TWD offers clients a one-stop-shop with expertise in a wide variety of fields, including:
• Network development, security, operations and maintenance
• Telecommunications (including wireless communications and alert systems, teleswitch installations, voice and data circuits, satellite support, classified communication centers and other specialties)
• Structured Cabling.
• Video teleconferencing
• Multi media support
• Program Management Support Services that encompass a wide range of disciplines.
I am a top-performing, versatile, IT Professional, with over 20 years of experience in the various areas of the IT Field (Networking, Telecommunications, Video Conferencing, and Structured Cabling). I have proven expertise in communication, vendor management, customer service, systems and network monitoring. I’m a detail-oriented, self-starter, with exceptional troubleshooting skills in tackling and solving complex business and technical problems. I’m a dedicated team player and trusted colleague, able to learn new technologies quickly and consistently meet and exceed expectations
Reporte Diario Bursátil del 10 de Noviembre del 2015Grupo Coril
Mercado Local
Los índices de la bolsa local se redujeron en línea con las bolsas externas y los metales. Los sectores de mayor retroceso fueron Industrial y Minería, en contraste con el sector Consumo.
En particular, resaltaron las caídas de Buenaventura (-8.3%), Southern Copper (-0.6%), Cementos Pacasmayo (-4.3%) y Graña y Montero (-4.4%). Además, el holding financiero Credicorp se redujo en 1.1%.
Mercados Globales
Asia
Las acciones japonesas subieron a un máximo en dos meses y medio por un aumento del apetito por el riesgo tras sólidos datos de empleo en EE.UU., y las acciones chinas cayeron después de que los valores de las firmas financieras se debilitaron, pero las pérdidas fueron limitadas por las perspectivas de reformas económicas y financieras.
Europa
Las bolsas europeas cerraron en terreno positivo en una sesión volátil, con el apoyo de un euro más débil que compensó las pérdidas de las acciones vinculadas a los commodities y la incertidumbre política en Portugal.
A nivel corporativo, el grupo británico de telefonía Vodafone aumentó en casi 4% tras informar un crecimiento mejor de lo esperado de los ingresos del segundo trimestre.
Estados Unidos
Wall Street cerró en terreno mixto, en una sesión en la que se
mantuvo en rojo la mayoría del tiempo.
El principal lastre estuvo en Apple, que cerró con una fuerte caída del 3.15 %, tras un informe de Credit Suisse que asegura que redujo en un 10% los pedidos de componentes.
En el plano económico, se informó una caída mayor a la esperada en el índice de los precios de importación en octubre.
Divisas
El tipo de cambio cerró en S/. 3.316, un nuevo máximo de más de nueve años por compras de dólares de empresas y de bancos ante un avance global del dólar en medio de las expectativas de un alza de la tasa de interés en diciembre.
El BCR vendió US$ 69 MM a un tipo de cambio promedio de S/. 3.3145 para evitar una mayor apreciación del dólar. Durante el 2015, la divisa acumula un avance de 11.28%.
Commodities
Los commodities bajaban por un avance del dólar frente a sus
principales pares, no obstante, el petróleo cerró al alza luego de que la Agencia Internacional de Energía estimara que la inversión en crudo caería más de 20% este año.
Los metales básicos se perjudicaron por débiles cifras de inflación china. Además, el oro y el cobre tocaban mínimos en tres meses y seis años respectivamente.
Fuente: Reuters, Bloomberg, MarketWatch.
Reporte Diario Bursátil del 10 de Noviembre del 2015Grupo Coril
Mercado Local
Los índices de la bolsa local se redujeron en línea con las bolsas externas y los metales. Los sectores de mayor retroceso fueron Industrial y Minería, en contraste con el sector Consumo.
En particular, resaltaron las caídas de Buenaventura (-8.3%), Southern Copper (-0.6%), Cementos Pacasmayo (-4.3%) y Graña y Montero (-4.4%). Además, el holding financiero Credicorp se redujo en 1.1%.
Mercados Globales
Asia
Las acciones japonesas subieron a un máximo en dos meses y medio por un aumento del apetito por el riesgo tras sólidos datos de empleo en EE.UU., y las acciones chinas cayeron después de que los valores de las firmas financieras se debilitaron, pero las pérdidas fueron limitadas por las perspectivas de reformas económicas y financieras.
Europa
Las bolsas europeas cerraron en terreno positivo en una sesión volátil, con el apoyo de un euro más débil que compensó las pérdidas de las acciones vinculadas a los commodities y la incertidumbre política en Portugal.
A nivel corporativo, el grupo británico de telefonía Vodafone aumentó en casi 4% tras informar un crecimiento mejor de lo esperado de los ingresos del segundo trimestre.
Estados Unidos
Wall Street cerró en terreno mixto, en una sesión en la que se
mantuvo en rojo la mayoría del tiempo.
El principal lastre estuvo en Apple, que cerró con una fuerte caída del 3.15 %, tras un informe de Credit Suisse que asegura que redujo en un 10% los pedidos de componentes.
En el plano económico, se informó una caída mayor a la esperada en el índice de los precios de importación en octubre.
Divisas
El tipo de cambio cerró en S/. 3.316, un nuevo máximo de más de nueve años por compras de dólares de empresas y de bancos ante un avance global del dólar en medio de las expectativas de un alza de la tasa de interés en diciembre.
El BCR vendió US$ 69 MM a un tipo de cambio promedio de S/. 3.3145 para evitar una mayor apreciación del dólar. Durante el 2015, la divisa acumula un avance de 11.28%.
Commodities
Los commodities bajaban por un avance del dólar frente a sus
principales pares, no obstante, el petróleo cerró al alza luego de que la Agencia Internacional de Energía estimara que la inversión en crudo caería más de 20% este año.
Los metales básicos se perjudicaron por débiles cifras de inflación china. Además, el oro y el cobre tocaban mínimos en tres meses y seis años respectivamente.
Fuente: Reuters, Bloomberg, MarketWatch.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Michael Magera resume
1. 63-60 102
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Street
Apt. A7
Rego Park, NY 11374
Cell 917.500.3368
Home 917.300.4125
mlmagera@gmail.com
Michael L Magera
Work experience United Nations Headquarters – Aastra–Intecom, NWP-USA
New York, NY
Project Manager/Telecom Technician June 2009 –
February 2016
• Managing and participating in the day-to-day event response, incident management, and problem management
for the voice/data networks, and network hardware in order to minimize the duration of network service
interruption for multi-building United Nations Headquarters campus (6) and swing-spaces (13) totaling over
2,000,000 square feet and close to 10,000 staff members plus visitors and affiliates
• Design and implementation of challenging telecommunication pathways, redesigns, spaces and cable plant
projects at United Nations Headquarters complex and multiple swing-spaces
• Layout and design of telecommunications systems, as well as voice, data, structured cabling (horizontal and
vertical), security access control, intrusion detection, and other low-voltage systems
• Reviewing and interpreting work orders, wiring lists, wiring diagrams and equipment drawings and following
standard practices in the performance of job duties
• Coordinating system scope, design layout and drawings with client and other disciplines
• Performing site surveys for documentation and cost estimating of existing system and building conditions
• Overseeing project from inception through final transition working with senior management, client and
subcontractors ensuring that schedules and resources remain in check
• Responsible for gathering project requirements from multiple projects and managing the efforts under a program
structure, which includes oversight of multiple projects.
• Determining staffing requirements and forming project teams and responsible for their technical and functional
development, performance, and/or termination during the project or projects.
• Liaison with data connectivity support to receive patching schedules and requests and responsible for fulfilling
patching (installation and testing) and MAC requests
• Installing racks, shelving, power strips, rails, cable management within data center and labs
• Installing T1, BRI, PRI & ISDN circuits while supporting circuit extensions for Verizon/at&t & Motorola
• Providing and maintaining connectivity to the Secretary General's residence and office for UN Security
• Technical liaison for high-profile visitors to the United Nations; e.g. White House, Secret Service, US State Dept.,
FBI, NYPD, NYFD, foreign diplomats and leaders and Google & Facebook social media events.
• Consistently working with complex or high visibility projects
• Developing and maintaining productive working relationships with project /program sponsors and vendors
• Collaborating with other project teams to coordinate interdependencies and issue resolution
• Managing preparations for and maintaining the 65th through the 70th General Assembly meetings
Troubleshooting vendor circuits for inter-building all-call system / staff notification system
• Cisco Systems VoIP transition and roll-out support
• Installation & maintenance of Cisco Voice Gateway analog equipment & cabling
• Security camera installation and maintenance
• Hubbell Pro-Click fiber-optic terminations and testing
• Providing project teams with constructive feedback as it pertains to project/program performance using past
experiences to identify potential areas of improvement
• Mentoring and training individuals and supervised teams of up to 15 technicians for cabling projects
• Performing other related duties as directed by UNHQ-IT management
• Successfully completed numerous projects on time and under budget
2. Volt Telecommunications Group San Diego, CA &
New York, NY
Technology Resource Manager March
2005 – July 2008
Responsible for VoIP solutions sales ( Fonality & Avaya) to commercial mid-market in territory
Responsible for creating & executing joint marketing events & activities
Responsible for identifying and executing existing client sales opportunities
Developing and maintaining product and service expertise
Avaya Definity ECS G3R and series 7 / Cisco VoIP MAC support for 500,000 square foot 12 building Pfizer
campus with over 1,000 users
Led U.S. Postal Service upgrades, United Parcel Service and Red Cross installations
Surveyed and estimated corporate voice and data cabling projects
Installed T1, DSL, Frame Relay, ATM, IMA, ISDN and BRI circuit extensions for SBC/at&t
Led NMCI (Naval Marine Corp Intranet) voice and data installs at US Military installations
Assisted in the candidate selection, hiring, training and development of junior technicians
Cisco Systems VoIP transition and roll-out support at Pfizer
TechStyle Consulting San Diego, CA
& New York, NY
Freelance Telecommunications Consultant September 2004 – March 2005 & August 2008 –
May 2009
Provided freelance consultation services for residential/commercial installation and maintenance
Responsible for identifying and executing client sales opportunities
Voice, data, DSL, T1, FR, CATV, router/modem installations, test and turn-up ; PC set-up and repair
Major clients in CA: Core-Tech, Pro-Soft, Max-I-Mize Wireless, LRD Networking, Nexus & Speedwire
Major clients in NY: Speedwire (Toys-R-Us & Victoria’s Secret installations ) & PM Telco (Avaya support)
FICOM Corporation
San Diego, CA
ISP-OSP-RF Lead Installer/Project Manager May 2003 –
September 2004
Led NMCI (Naval Marine Corp Intranet) voice and data installs at US Military installations
Fiber Optic Communications Underwater System (FOCUS), a repeaterless, gigabit underwater fiber system now
linking San Nicolas Island and Point Mugu.
Commercial structured voice and data cabling (CAT 5, CAT 5E, CAT 6, coaxial and fiber optics)
Installation of BDA’s, RU’s, RHU’s, antennas, large coax and all components for wireless infrastructure
Built out voice and data closets (Racks, cabinets, ladder, EMT, etc)
Outside plant, including pipe-laying, pot-holing, trenching and utility vaults
Project management responsibilities and high-profile customer interfacing
Trained and supervised teams of 10-30 technicians with a high of over 100
3. TEKSystems (Various Contracts) New York, NY &
San Diego, CA
Senior Installer – Lead / Transmissions Technician / C O Installer February 1998 -
May 2003
Contracted to PBC Technologies, Pacific ComTel, NetStorm, AT&T and Siemens for cabling projects
NMCI (Naval Marine Corp Intranet) installation for General Dynamics at US Military installations
Lead and completed over a dozen high-profile voice, data and life safety installations
Contracted to perform at&t mobile network drive- testing for O2 Wireless
Contracted to Sprint Telecom to install central office power, cabling, ironwork and equipment
Heat shrink, wire-wrap, solder, cable stitching, cable mining, testing and troubleshooting
Contracted to RCN Communications for dial tone provisioning from Central Office to IDLC cabinets
OSP/ISP technical support for customers and technicians in a Lucent 5ESS switch environment
Contracted to Qualcomm Inc. to manage telecommunications network installations
Multi-faceted V/D cabling and maintenance projects in a Definity ECS G3 Series 7 PBX environment
Supervision of teams of up to 24 technicians with quality control responsibilities.
Contracted to Butler Telecom for installation of Central Office power, cabling and equipment for at&t
Tech-Style Communications
New York, NY
Freelance Communications Technician October
1994 – December 1999
Installation and maintenance of small business systems as an independent contractor
Coordinating service allocation from appropriate sources as customer liaison
Residential/Commercial installation and maintenance for voice, data & CATV cabling
Provided freelance services to Cameo Communications as a system & cabling installer
New York Telephone Company/NYNEX
Long Island, NY
Field Services Technician
June 1990 – October 1994
OSP & ISP installation and maintenance of POTS and WATS service for RBOC customers
Pole climbing using ladders or gaffs, bucket trucks and manhole experience.
Training summer hires and long-term temporary employees
Numerous Extra-Step effort awards and commendations from customers and management
Selected to lead NYNEX’s E-911 program and a community beautification project for North Nassau
Additional Notes Strong knowledge of Structured Cabling Systems from an installation and design perspective
Excellent communication, documentation, and organizational skills
Team player, productive, pays attention to detail, handles pressure well
Recipient of 2 Certificates of Appreciation from the White House Communications Agency at the U.N.
Communicate intermediately in Brazilian Portuguese and conversationally in Latin American Spanish
Received numerous accolades from Pfizer and at&t management while working at Volt Telecom
Selected to manage or lead several of Ficom’s largest military and wireless projects
Received several commendations during my contract assignments
Hilti, AMP & Hubbell Premises Wiring certified