Francis Beaulieu

Current

• SSO & Wireless Product Manager at Canoe

Past

• Director Operation & Technology at LIPSO
• Project/Product Manager at WSI
• Business Analyste at Microcell

• Consultant at CYTA in Cyprus (with edgecom)
• Consultant: Value added Services at TELESYSTEM INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS (Oskar)
• Consultant: Process Development at Videotron
• IVR Analyst at Microcell
• Manager New Services at TELESYSTEM INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS
• Project Manager at Teleglobe

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Education

• Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieure

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Industry

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Francis Beaulieu’s Summary

Francis Beaulieu has been working in Telecommunication for over 15 years, 10 specifically in the wireless industry. He launched 2 wireless network, one in Brazil and another one in Czech Republic. He also worked on the mobile data strategy of another wireless operator in Europe. He built a roaming bureau agency and roll out numerous roaming agreement in the Caribbean’s area in 2002. Back in Canada since then, he was involved in mobile innovation, from the first text message vote on Star Académie, mobile payment on dating site or the first mobile boarding pass with Air Canada. Since February 2008 he is in charge of the mobile strategy for Canoe and Quebecor Media Interactive and has since then launch 13 mobiles sites and a mobile user generated content project.

Francis Beaulieu’s Specialties:

Vendors Contract review, RFP redaction, Prepaid, VMS, SMS, MMS and WAP specialist. Wireless System integrator, Billing, Project Management.

Francis Beaulieu’s Experience

• SSO & Wireless Product Manager

  Canoe

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Launched mobile sites:
  m.canoe.ca
  m.torontosun.com (with the SUNshine girls)
  m.24heures.ca
  m.winnipegsun.com
  m.starcademie.ca
  m.jdeq.ca
  m.calgarysun.com
  m.ottawasun.com
  m.edmontonsun.com
  m.argent.canoe.ca
  m.canoe411.ca
  m.lfpress.com
  
  Mobile UGC:
  Send your picture to montopo@ tva.ca

• Director Operation & Technology

  LIPSO

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

  September 2002 — October 2007 (5 years 2 months)

  Implemented the first Interactive TV concept with SMS in Canada
  
  Engineered & Implemented the first Mobile payment solution across all wireless carriers in Canada
  
  I was in charge of projects implementation, wireless carrier management, customer support.
  
  I was also involved in sales support (presales and after), solution design and long term planning.
  
  (until Feb. ’05) Founding member and sitting on the scientific committee of IIT-Research R&D Consortium involved on the introduction of new wireless applications & services (2.5G and 3G).
  
  Mobile Content activities:
  * Created a Content publisher (WAP Portal)
  * Launched a Branded phone with Rogers Wireless
  * Created one of the first “Off Deck” storefront in Canada (with integrated billing with the wireless carriers)
  
  Mobile Bar Code:
  * Implemented a mobile boarding pass with Air Canada using a unique technology allowing the delivery of a dynamic and adapted bar code based on the phone and its application.

• Project/Product Manager

  WSI

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

  February 2002 — August 2002 (7 months)

• Business Analyste

  Microcell

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

  January 2001 — April 2001 (4 months)

• Consultant

  CYTA in Cyprus (with edgecom)

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Wireless industry)

  June 2000 — November 2000 (6 months)

  September 2000 / November 2000
  * Prepaid re-launch
  
  June 2000 / July 2000
  * Mobile Internet Strategy for a Mobile Operator
  Aspects covered in the strategy were:
  * Wireless Portal, Business model selection, Branding & Positioning, Partnership framework, Service roadmap, Pricing Strategy, Market Communication, Distribution and Customer Management.
  * The areas that I was responsible were customer management, the service roadmap and the pricing strategy.
  * I also initiated the implementation of 3 new services (SMS over WEB, Email notification and m-banking via WAP).

• Consultant: Value added Services

  TELESYSTEM INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS (Oskar)

  (Wireless industry)

  October 1999 — May 2000 (8 months)

  I was a key player in a new GSM startup in Czech Republic. Fastest GSM startup that ever happens with a complete added value services portfolio. It was also the first implementation of prepaid roaming with Ericsson Prepaid platform.

• Consultant: Process Development

  Videotron

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

  July 1999 — September 1999 (3 months)

  Voice over IP processes development link to DATA exchange with other local operator.

• IVR Analyst

  Microcell

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

  May 1999 — July 1999 (3 months)

  RFP process for the selection of a new Interactive Voice Response System

• Manager New Services

  TELESYSTEM INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS

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

  October 1998 — April 1999 (7 months)

  Startup of a new cellular company in Brazil (Claro).
  
  Principal Assignment:
  * Voicemail system & prepaid platform implementation

• Project Manager

  Teleglobe

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TLGB; Telecommunications industry)

  1993 — 1998 (5 years )

Francis Beaulieu’s Education

• Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieure

  BAC , Electric/Engineering , 1989 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  December 1993 Degree in engineering
  Specialization: Telecommunications
  "Ecole de Technologie Supérieure"
  Montreal