Axel Ferrazzini

Current

• Director at the OMA Board at Open Mobile Alliance
• Standards Manager at Research In Motion
• OMA Device Management Vice-Chair at OMA (Open Mobile Alliance)

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Past

• Technological Choices & Standardisation Manager at France Telecom
• Standardization Manager / Project Manager at France Telecom
• R&D Standardization engineer at France Telecom

• Project Manager - Smartcard and Handset Department at Orange

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Education

• Ecole pour I'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées
• Lycée Bellevue, Fort de France, Martinique

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Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

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Axel Ferrazzini’s Summary

Telecom engineer with 7 years of international experience mostly in service innovation, technological strategy and IP management.

Director of the OMA Board since January 2008.
Vice Chairman of the OMA Device Management Working Group since June 2004.

Axel Ferrazzini’s Specialties:

Innovation, strategy definition, project management, multimedia technologies, industry relationship, intellectual property management.

Axel Ferrazzini’s Experience

• Director at the OMA Board

  Open Mobile Alliance

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Member of the Board of Directors of the Open Mobile Alliance

• Standards Manager

  Research In Motion

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RIMM; Wireless industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

• OMA Device Management Vice-Chair

  OMA (Open Mobile Alliance)

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

  Elected Vice-Chair of OMA Device Management in June 2004.
  Re-elected in May 2006.
  Re-elected in May 2008.

• Technological Choices & Standardisation Manager

  France Telecom

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

  December 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Recommended technological choices and make sure that it is consistent with our standardization activities. Participated to the strategic partnerships management.
  
  Continued to manage 30+ Orange Labs delegates representing France Telecom/Orange in standardization bodies (mainly OMA, GSMA, JCP, Liberty Alliance, OMTP).

• Standardization Manager / Project Manager

  France Telecom

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

  November 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  Managed 30+ France Telecom R&D delegates representing France Telecom/Orange in standardization bodies (mainly OMA, GSMA, JCP, Liberty Alliance, OMTP).
  
  Ensured the communication and coordination with technical and marketing teams within France Telecom/Orange Group in the areas of service enablers (messaging, presence, address book, broadcast, rich media, etc) and terminal-related aspects (device management, execution environments, security etc.)

• R&D Standardization engineer

  France Telecom

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

  July 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 5 months)

  Provided technical expertise and technical team co-ordination to Orange and France Telecom regarding:
  - Download;
  - Digital Rights Management;
  - Device Management;
  - Multimedia services.
  
  Participated to products evaluation, RFI, RFP and negotiated with manufacturers.

• Project Manager - Smartcard and Handset Department

  Orange

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

  January 2002 — July 2002 (7 months)

  6 months to analyze the technology, define the requirements and negotiate with handset and smart card manufacturers to deploy Java interoperable smartcard.
  
  Active collaboration with Orange marketing (product definition) department and R&D department (product testing).

Axel Ferrazzini’s Education

• Ecole pour I'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées

  MSc , Telecom, Network, Security , 1999 — 2002

• Lycée Bellevue, Fort de France, Martinique

  BSc , Mathematics, Physics , 1997 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  University-level preparatory classes in advanced mathematics and physics
  (Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles)

Additional Information

Axel Ferrazzini’s Websites:

• My Company
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Axel Ferrazzini’s Interests:

Surfing, travel, culture, scuba diving

Axel Ferrazzini’s Groups:

•    L'Executive Club
•    EPITA Alumni
•    Telecom Professionals
•    Friends of the European Union
•    Orange Connection
•    Telecom Jobs
•    Mobile Telecoms industry group
•    User Experience
•    Martinique Connection
•    RIM Alumni
•    France Telecom
•    OMA DM - Device Management

Axel Ferrazzini’s Honors:

2008 OMA Elected Officer Award - OMA Device Management Vice Chair.
2007 OMA Elected Officer Award - OMA Device Management Vice Chair.
2006 OMA Elected Officer Award - OMA Device Management Vice Chair.
2005 OMA Elected Officer Award - OMA Device Management Vice Chair.

2004 Orange Standardization Award - For work on DRM and Device Management.

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