Bertrand BuclinNetwork CTO, Head of Infrastructure Technology at AT&TSpeaker
Profile
AT&T Network CTO, Head of Intl Infrastructure Technology
Bertrand has been with AT&T for 30 years, and held a variety of positions, in AT&T Labs Research; as head of international engineering in the outsourcing arm of AT&T; as head of pricing and contracting and pre-sales solutioning; as assistant vice-president for access strategy and planning, worldwide; and most recently as head of infrastructure technology for AT&T’s international network. He is managing the development and deployment of AT&T’s international capabilities, spanning the access acquisition, system development and network presence, and is aligning it with the capabilities required to support the products that AT&T is selling to its customers internationally.
He has been one of the driving forces within AT&T around the development of the concepts that led to the network automation framework and has managed its implementation within AT&T’s international environment. Bertrand has been very active in the Mplify Alliance (formerly MEF), in particular in the Lifecycle Service Orchestration between operators and the adoption of APIs, as well as co-editing the Ethernet over Broadband Access MEF standard (MEF140). Bertrand’s focus is on what sits behind the API, and the automation benefits in brings to AT&T’s operation in the end-to-end business processes, from quoting through provisioning, change implementation, trouble management and invoice validation, and the automation of network changes.