Antonio Russo

IPTV Sales Manager, Europe & Russia

Stockholm Area, Sweden

Current
Past
Education
  • Politecnico Milano - MIP
  • Politecnico Milano - Cefriel
  • Politecnico Milano - Cefriel
  • Accord
  • Philips - Internal
  • VCON
  • I2S
  • Noesis
  • Accademia Aeronautica
  • A. Pacinotti
Connections
426 connections
Industry
Telecommunications

Antonio Russo’s Summary

Ericsson: End-to-End IPTV integration architecture and proposal; creation of multimedia portal offer; DVB-H marketing proposition; multipoint mobile videoconferencing VAS
Hutchison 3G: Production management of Mobile TV channels; implementation of streaming platform for mobile multimedia;
Fastweb: Design and implementation of IPTV Services
Philips: Product management of MPEG video streaming survelliance application (autostrade-italian motorways)
Philips: H-323 multipoint videoconference for italian courts

Antonio Russo’s Specialties:

Reporting to Marketing & Common Services, my rule is to create proposals and follow the project up to delivery to Customer. I deploy white papers, tech docs, answers to RFI/RFP/RFP, product demos, presentations and project plans to the Customers. My Customers are Telco Operators and Broadcasters.


Antonio Russo’s Experience

  • IPTV Business Developer, Europe

    Ericsson

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2008Present (1 year 7 months)

    I am responsible for IPTV sales.

  • IPTV Business Developer South East Europe

    Ericsson

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2007Present (2 years 7 months)

    Reporting to Ericsson Multimedia Business Unit for south Europe, I have in charge IPTV business development and IPTV solutions design and deployment for Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Srbija, Albania an FYROM.

  • IPTV push program manager

    Ericsson Telecomunicazioni

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    May 2006Present (3 years 3 months)

    Manage the Ericsson's IPTV push program towards Customer Units

  • Senior Solution Architect (IPTV and MobileTV)

    Ericsson Telecomunicazioni

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    April 2005May 2006 (1 year 2 months)

    Create propositions to answering to RFI/RFP/RFQ;
    define technical solutions, project guidelines and integration architectures;
    delivering the project committed to time plan and budget.

  • International Project Manager - Mobile TV

    H3G - Hutchison 3G (three)

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    November 2001April 2005 (3 years 6 months)

    International Project Manager for Content Production and Value Added Services (Soccer, Playboy, News, Music)

    International Project Manager for media delivery platform, across Hutchison-3G Countries (UK, Hong Kong, Italy, Austria, Australia, Sweden).
    Scope: to create and delivery rich media and live television on 3rd generation UMTS videophones.

  • Chief Architect - IPTV

    Fastweb

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2000December 2001 (2 years)

    Chief Architect and Solution Designer for Multimedia and Interactive Television over broadband FFTH/ADSL.

    Scope: to design and deliver an interactive IPTV network, for the biggest triple play italian company.

  • Project Manager - Digital Video Processing

    Philips Automation - Project Automation

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 1997January 2000 (2 years 4 months)

    Project Manager for multipoint conferencing over ISDN (H.320) and broadband IP (H.323).
    Project Manager for MPEG video transmission system for traffic survelliance and restricted city zone access.

  • Pre-sales Engineer - Image processing

    3G electronics (Matrox Italy)

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

    October 1991October 1997 (6 years 1 month)

    Provide support to project definition and execution about satellite image processing and realtime object tracking.
    In 1993 I started working with post-production and graphics for broadcast television and MPEG realtime video encoding and transmission.


Antonio Russo’s Education

  • Politecnico Milano - MIP

    Specialization , Progetti di innovazione e project management , September 1998October 1999

  • Politecnico Milano - Cefriel

    Specialization , Sistemi di telecomunicazioni e networking IP , July 1997December 1998

  • Politecnico Milano - Cefriel

    Specialization , Java - Progettazione di sistemi informativi distribuiti, con tecniche object oriented , September 1997June 1998

  • Accord

    Certification , Multipoint conferencing designer , September 1997February 1998

  • Philips - Internal

    Specialization , Project management , September 1996September 1997

  • VCON

    Certification , Videoconferening system designer , March 1996October 1996

  • I2S

    Certification , Industrial image processing, Optics, CCD and linear cameras , August 1992December 1992

  • Noesis

    Specialization , Paris Computer vision and mathematical morphology , April 1992October 1992

  • Accademia Aeronautica

    Aerospatial Engineering 19861989

  • A. Pacinotti

    High School , Computer science , September 1981June 1986


Additional Information

Antonio Russo’s Interests:

Wine, Cooking, sailing, golf, to fly (motor), tennis

Antonio Russo’s Groups:

IEEE

  •    Technology 4 Development (ex Occam-Lab)
  •    iptv

Antonio Russo’s Honors:

2000, G.V.D.C. sent by La CG


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