Solution Architect in Business Segment Multimedia at Ericsson
Rome Area, Italy
Solution Architect in Business Segment Multimedia at Ericsson
Rome Area, Italy
Mature technical background gradually consolidated with Product Management and Product Marketing
Experienced in making presentations to customers and contributing at international forums and events, within and outside Europe
Able to keep external relations, oriented to business and customer, focused on results, open to welcome new challenges and opportunities
Product Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Business Opportunity development, GSM and UMTS, Multimedia Applications, Wireless and Wireline Telecommunications
(Public Company; ERIC B; Telecommunications industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Solution Architect in Business Segment Multimedia for Market Unit "South-East Europe", which include Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Albania, Malta, Serbia, Montenegro, FYROM, Romania and Moldova.
Customers are major Telecom Operators.
Tasks include:
- Strategic Portfolio planning
- Identification of proper solutions to fulfil customer needs, with focus on end-to-end approach
- Solution lifecycle management, including synchronization with - Business Unit roadmaps
- Support to Customer Solutions and Sales activities (Technical support to tenders)
- Steering of Customer Projects
- Interfacing Business Unit and Product Development Units (in case that Product Customizations are required)
- Sales push, Customer presentations, Marketing activities
(Public Company; ERIC B; Telecommunications industry)
September 1997 — December 2008 (11 years 4 months)
This role includes the following tasks: definition of Product Roadmaps, Portfolio and Life Cycle management, Product Packaging, Business Cases, Business models, Business Opportunity development, Pricing, Tender support, Main Requirement Specifications, Budget control and Steering towards R&D projects, preparation of marketing material, customer presentations.
The area of responsibility has covered Residential Services (PSTN and ISDN), Multimedia applications (e.g. Videocommunications, IPTV, Video on Demand, Near Video on Demand, etc) to be delivered over 3GPP compliant networks, Speech Processing features, carrier-grade Telecommunication Platforms.
The involved products, mainly in the Core Network (Wireline, GSM, UMTS), are intended for the global Ericsson markets world-wide.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)
March 1993 — September 1997 (4 years 7 months)
Systems Management for ISDN services and Technical co-ordination of projects. Applications developed include traditional ISDN supplementary services, support for VPN (Virtual Private Network) and Cordless Mobility (CTM). The functionality fulfils customer-specific requirements and international standards (e.g. ETSI, ITU-T, ANSI).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)
October 1991 — March 1993 (1 year 6 months)
Function and system design for the development of new ISDN services. Most of the activity has been carried out in Stockholm, ERICSSON Telecom AB, working in team.
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Research industry)
February 1990 — October 1991 (1 year 9 months)
Design and development of CAD software for evaluation of robots’ performances. Such CADs have been implemented in Unix environment (HP workstations) and C language.
Transfer of know-how on new technologies to small- and middle-size firms in Southern Italy.
110 Magna cum Laude/110 , Electronic Engineering , 1982 — 1989
Product Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Business Opportunity development, GSM and UMTS, Multimedia Applications, Wireless and Wireline Telecommunications, GPS satellite navigation, PDAs, PNAs.