Career Highlights:
Eric Lajoie is a Telco & AI Sales Specialist for SUSE in EMEA. In his current capacity, Eric is responsible for end to end solution selling, be it GenAI with Agentic Workflows, 5G, or MLOps. His key interests and achievements are in design and implementation of 5G deployments and NVIDIA AI Enterprise solutions with Red Hat and others. His favor OS is still Linux (Gentoo flovor) and uses it for his day to day working life.Joined SUSE in January 1st 2025 (Present)
- Sales Specialist for EMEA covering the SUSE AI offering
Joined Red Hat in December 1st 2016 (~8yrs)
- SA covering Nokia for embedded NEP solutions
- SA covering IBM Partnering for Telco accounts
- Global SA covering Telenor
- Projects thus far:
- NVAIE on HPE hardware with OpenShift AI
- 5G edge with multi-partners on OpenShift
Joined HPE in December 1st 2014 (~2yrs)
- Sales Engineer for Helion OpenStack Solutions.
- Projects thus far:
- Telefonica UNICA OpenStack and NFV Project including Nuage/DCN
Joined Cisco in September 2005 (~10yrs)
- Projects while at Cisco:
- vGi-LAN virtualization proof of concept in Germany
- EPC field support and enablement in Japan
- EPC solution design in France
- IPv6 M2M design & implementation in UK
- Team Lead for Cisco's first EPC Pilot Projects in Norway
- IPv6 Assessment lead in Nigeria implemented IPv6 technologies
- CSG2 with DPI and GGSN optimization and design in USA
- Femto Design & Implementation in USA.
- CSFB Integration with Mavenir IWF in Düsseldorf Germany
Industry Recognized Certifications:
- BS in Electrical Engineering
- Cisco CCNA
- Cisco CCNP
- Cisco CCDA
- Cisco CCDP
- Cisco CCIP
- VCA-DCV
- Wireless#
- Red Hat Certified Architect in Infrastructure
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift AI
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in MultiCluster Management
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers
- Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator
- Red Hat Certified Engineer
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- Red Hat Certification List
- Programming for Everybody (Python) by University of Michigan on Coursera