Federico Descalzo

Current

Head of Platforms Evolution at Italtel

Past

Head of Competence Centers at Italtel
Head of Product Management iSSW and CSCF at Italtel
Project Manager at Italtel

Network Architecture Senior Manager at Italtel S.p.A.
Product Manager Switching & Mobile at Italtel
Technical Sales Support at Italtel
System Engineer at Telecom Italia
Testing Engineer at Telecom Italia
Operation Engineer at Telecom Italia (prev. SIP)
Directory Services Operator at SIP

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Education

Università Carlo Cattaneo
Civico Istituto Tecnico Ind. G. Galilei - Genova

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Industry

Telecommunications

Federico Descalzo’s Summary

16+ years in the Telecommunications industry, half of which spent at the Service Provider's side and half at the Vendor's one.

When I started as Call Center operator for Directory Services, I realized that any job, if done with passion, can add great value to the business and to the worker him/herself. This is the spirit that drives me from my very early times and that I try to communicate to my collaborators.

I am passionate about lateral thinking, Emotional Intelligence, talent discovery and devolpment, knowledge sharing. Some Italian creativity complete the framework :-).

Federico Descalzo’s Specialties:

- Company's Processes and Organization development (PLM, Offering, Documentation)
- Direct and indirect resource coordination,planning and monitoring
•Risk assessment and management connected to RFI/RFP's
•“State-of-the-art” of VoIP/ToIP architectures, signalling, numbering, addressing and routing aspects in multimedia networks;
•Introducing new services in Telcos;
•Migration strategy from SCN to IP-based networks.
Technical/commercial negotiation with Suppliers and Customers

Federico Descalzo’s Experience

Head of Platforms Evolution

Italtel

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year )

Within the Professional Services Business Unit, I am responsible for engineering consultancy, oriented to Customers' platforms evolution.
Head of Competence Centers

Italtel

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

February 2008 — December 2008 (11 months)

Coordination of a geographically distributed team (80+ people), delivering technical presales, catalogue evolution, roadmap management and Offering activities for: NGN-IMS, NGS&IT, IP Networks, Access Equipment, IP TV, Unified Communication, Security, Professional Services.
Contributor to PLM and Offering process review/implementation.
Head of Product Management iSSW and CSCF

Italtel

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

February 2006 — January 2008 (2 years )

- Coordination of multiple parallel teams, working at High Level Product Requirements definition, analysis for feasibility and cost estimation for new features, customizations and products.
- Technical roadmap management and continuous support to the Customer Solutions Dep’t.
- Planning and monitoring of resource usage
- Risk assessment and management in case of answers to RFI/RFP from prospect or captive Customers
- Supervisor and member of the PMO for the product evolution project regarding the adoption of ATCA as the HW/SW platform for Italtel products.
Project Manager

Italtel

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

November 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 3 months)

Managing large projects, The PjM in Italtel is the technical and business reference interface with the Customer(s) and plays an active role in business development in terms of "build-up" , after a main contract has been granted. The PjM is directly involved also during the Engineering and Offering phase.
As Project Manager, I led the Bulldog (Cable & Wireless plc group) NGN deployment. Voice services were delivered in LLU over V5.2,H.248, MGCP and SIP.
Network Architecture Senior Manager

Italtel S.p.A.

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

July 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 4 months)

I assisted the Tender Offering department, in order to identify the most suitable network architecture and relevant telecom products to be employed in order to support large Telco's deployment cases.

Between Jan and Jun 2004, I was the main technical interface with France Telecom and Equant, during the RFP evaluation process (resulted in a multi-year frame contract award).
Product Manager Switching & Mobile

Italtel

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

September 2001 — June 2002 (10 months)

Product Manager of Italtel softswitching equipment. Solution Architect and Technical Leader within the Cisco-Italtel “ETNA” project. Key technical interface with Cisco Systems for the definition of joint solution roadmaps.
Support to the Customer Solution Proposal department for answering RFI/RFP/RFQ’s by Large Telcos.
Technical Sales Support

Italtel

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

September 2000 — August 2001 (1 year )

Technical Sales Support towards Telecom Italia Wireline Services:
•Engineering and Design of the Telecom Italia National Backbone;
•Key technical interface with TI for Multiservice Networks department
System Engineer

Telecom Italia

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

February 2000 — August 2000 (7 months)

Specification of Telecom Italia voice network evolution (National Backbone), leveraging on VoIP technologies, in order to migrate all national long distance traffic over IP.
Testing Engineer

Telecom Italia

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; TI; Telecommunications industry)

June 1995 — January 2000 (4 years 8 months)

Position based in Rome, at Telecom Italia's Headquarters. Certification of all SW releases of PSTN switches and IN features manufactured by Italtel. Coordination of multiple testing campaigns with resources coming from the territory.
Acceptance tests of Italtel’s CMDB, implementing HDB/HLR/AUC for DECT mobility services. Protocol conformance testing. Acceptance tests of DECT RFPs with interoperability with mobile equipment.
Operation Engineer

Telecom Italia (prev. SIP)

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; TI; Telecommunications industry)

December 1992 — May 1995 (2 years 6 months)

Operation and Maintenance of Analogue and Digital Local Exchanges (Italtel UT100). O&M of analogue, FDM, PDH and SDH transmission equipment.
Directory Services Operator

SIP

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

June 1992 — October 1992 (5 months)

Federico Descalzo’s Education

Università Carlo Cattaneo

Executive Management 2003 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

Executive Program
Civico Istituto Tecnico Ind. G. Galilei - Genova

56/60 , Telecommunications , 1986 — 1991