Jean-Luc Carpentier

Current

Program Manager at Ericsson

Past

Programme Manager at TietoEnator
Product Manager at Orange
Project Director at Steria

Project Director at Steria
Project Manager at Alcatel
R&D Engineer at Alcatel France

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Education

ESCP Europe
Alcatel University (Belgium)
Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Lycée Faidherbe, Lille

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Industry

Telecommunications

Jean-Luc Carpentier’s Summary

IT and Telecoms professional with an international experience gained by working for large organisations in the R&D and business services domains. Evolved from engineering to team leading positions to project management to consulting and business development. Worked in several European countries on a permanent or temporary basis for complex and successful consulting, tendering and project management assignments. Managed an offshore location in North Africa. Open-minded, positive thinker and always up-to-date with latest technology and business advances, motivated by intercultural work. Blog author and marathon runner.

Jean-Luc Carpentier’s Specialties:

Mobile Telecoms GPRS & 3G, Broadband, Fiber, SDH-PDH Transmission, NGN
OSS, TMF, eTOM, SID, N-tiers architectures, TV, video, Service Delivery Platforms, IMS
ITIL, Prince2
Tendering, Partnership forming, negociation
Consulting, defining products, business casing, specifying, testing, setup and motivate teams, manage projects financially, recruitment
Building tangible results from scratch in unchartered territories.

Jean-Luc Carpentier’s Experience

Program Manager

Ericsson

(Public Company; ERIC B; Telecommunications industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Program Manager - Mobistar Services. Mobistar, a Orange company, is Belgium's #2 mobile & fixed operator and has outsourced its network operations to Ericsson. The Program Manager's role is to launch, staff and coordinate all projects on behalf of Mobistar: network updates and rollouts, architectural changes, introduction of new services, all within an agreed budget and according to yearly, committed, delivery plans. In addition to delivering these projects to Mobistar, the Program Manager has a triple mission :
- raise the Project Management maturity within the outsourced teams (200 people) with a PMI-based approach
- ensure centralized reporting towards Mobistar
- drive the integration of former Mobistar teams towards a multi-operator service organisation
Programme Manager

TietoEnator

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Business Development : in charge of Telecom programmes for the Benelux region. Marketing TietoEnator groupwide offerings in the Telco and Broadcasting domains, establishing local partnerships, bid management.
Delivery : Manage TietoEnator activities with assisting the European Commission (DIGIT) is the setup and operation of their pan-European secure IP/MPLS network. Contribute as expert for Technical and Quality issues.
Product Manager

Orange

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

July 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Group Product Manager for Audio & Video Streaming Platform. Elaboration of product specifications, negociation of functional content with operating countries (11 including France and UK), negociations with solution vendors, elaboration of innovative services with marketing teams.
Project Director

Steria

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 2 months)

Project Director and Local Unit manager at Steria's office in RABAT, MOROCCO. For the fixed and mobile branches of Maroc Telecom, tendering, negotiation, sale, and supervision of Network Inventory, Mediation and Disaster Recovery projects.
Project Director

Steria

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1999 — May 2004 (4 years 6 months)

Project Director and Bid Manager in BELGIUM and FRANCE for European projects for Telcos across Europe (Belgium, France, UK, Germany, US, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Netherlands, Singapore, Morocco). OSS turnkey projects (Network Inventory, Fault Management, Performance Management, activation and provisioning, number portability, transport systems), consulting (OSS strategy).
Project Manager

Alcatel

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

June 1995 — November 1999 (4 years 6 months)

Project Manager, Mobile Communications R&D (BELGIUM). Project Manager for O&M modules of the GSM Base Station Controller, architect for BSS transmission management, Project Manager for GPRS BSC.
R&D Engineer

Alcatel France

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

August 1990 — May 1995 (4 years 10 months)

R&D telecoms projects, embedded real-time software, optical transmissions. Consulting to product development, coaching the introduction of object-oriented and formal specifications techniques. Specification, design and setup of common automated testing environment for transmission equipment development projects. Head of validation for SDH Equipment Management System (EMS), customer presentations.

Jean-Luc Carpentier’s Education

ESCP Europe

Master , Business Consulting , 2001 — 2002
Alcatel University (Belgium)

Postgraduate , Telecommunications , 1997 — 1999
Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Master Degree (Ingénieur) , Software Engineering , 1987 — 1990

Activities and Societies:

Club Théâtre
Lycée Faidherbe, Lille

1983 — 1985