Thomas Landspurg

Current

Founder at 8Motions
CTO at Webwag

Past

CTO at Mobease
CTO at MobileScope (In-Fusio)
CTO at In-Fusio

R&D Engineer at Nortel Networks
R&D Engineer at Matra Cap System
R&D Engineer at Matra Communications

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Education

ENSEA

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Thomas Landspurg’s Summary

Creative mind that bridge the gap between technological innovation and pragmatic business approach...

Thomas Landspurg’s Specialties:

Expertise in Wireless and Telecommunication
Emerging technologies
Embeeded software
Java, J2ME
Games, 3D
Location Based application

Thomas Landspurg’s Experience

Founder

8Motions

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Founded 8Motions as a company focused on exploring possibilities of Geolocalisations on mobile, and more paticulary related to tourism.

The company has been a semi finalist of LBS Challenge 2007 of Navteq, a Winner of French Gouvernement founded OSEO contest for innovative enterprise, and is part of Orange Startup program.

http://www.8motions.com
CTO

Webwag

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
CTO

Mobease

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

February 2007 — March 2007 (2 months)

Move to CTO Webwag following the merge with Webwag
CTO

MobileScope (In-Fusio)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)

June 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 8 months)

Leading the technical strategy of MobileScope/In-Fusio:
* Patent strategy (3 patents issued)
* Prototyping innovation:
- In-Game video streaming (patented)
- Massive multiplayer games
- 3G video as support for games
* Representation of In-Fusio/Mobilescope in international standardisation bodies (Java Community Process, Open Mobile Alliance, ...)
* Part of the MIDP2.0 and 3.0 expert group, JSR184 (Mobile 3D group), JSR226 (Mobile SVG)
CTO

In-Fusio

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 1999 — July 2004 (5 years 7 months)

In-Fusio provides Wireless Game Services for operators, manufacturer and third parties.

- management of the R&D team, an international and multicultural team, up to 40 people mainly with an engineer background.

- Creation of a Mobile Game Engine, Java based: Exen (this were the first European handset to have Java built in, before MIDP2):
o Engine developed in C and Java
o Embedded in various handsets (Sagem, Alcatel, Motorola, Panasonic, LG, Mitshibishi,…)
o Embedded in more than 50 Millions handsets

- Creation of the server part (backend) of the service:
o J2EE platform to manage interactivity with the client:
- Provisioning, delivery
- SMS interaction
- Ranking, scoring
- Multiplayer games

- Deployment of the service:
o Deployed with TOP operators, with Carrier class constraints:
- Orange Fr, Uk, Vodafone Germany, TIM, Telefonica, SFR

- Organisation of the R&D: creation of the documentation, put in place development process,…
R&D Engineer

Nortel Networks

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )

• Development of user interface of the OMC, the supervision center of the GSM radio network.
• Initiated the move from an heavy user interface client to a thin Java/Web based interface
R&D Engineer

Matra Cap System

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

January 1993 — January 1996 (3 years 1 month)

Within QIS project (Quality Image System), system computing parameters to correct picture from SPOT image satellite, development of various modules and more especially the visualization tool of this images.
R&D Engineer

Matra Communications

(Telecommunications industry)

September 1989 — September 1991 (2 years 1 month)

Participation to Radiocom2000 project (pre-Gsm wireless network) on man machine interface part and monitoring software.