Marco Venanzi

Current

• Technical Handset Engineer at INQ Mobile
• Technical Handset Engineer at H3G
• Consultant at Altran

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Past

• Embedded Software Developer at Atop Innovation S.p.A

Education

• Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
• Liceo Scientifico

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Connections

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Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• My Blog

Marco Venanzi’s Summary

I've worked for nearly 4 years in the Telecommunications industry and got a fairly mature knowledge of the UMTS world and 3G devices, mostly regarding application design and integration in handset software.

I'm currently part of INQ Mobile Enginnering, a handset manufacturer with the goal of redefining web and social experience in the low cost range of devices, with a special focus on Twitter and Facebook services. I have the chance to work and interact with different departments: Marketing and UX, Service providers, 3rd party developers, Project managment and Testing teams. My activity is mainly based on achieving 3rd party applications integration on INQ devices.

Marco Venanzi’s Specialties:

Information and coding theory, telecommunication networks (architectures, protocols), audio and video coding and transmission, electronic systems, digital signal processing, switching systems, OS, neural and sensor networks.

Marco Venanzi’s Experience

• Technical Handset Engineer

  INQ Mobile

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Consultant for INQ Mobile.
  I work as a member of INQ Engineering group, responsible for the technical integration of 3rd parties application, with focus on Twitter and Facebook services.
  My activities are:
  • Support to Marketing and UI team to asses on product design and understand the feasibility of application features
  • Integration of applications on INQ System firmware, based on Qualcomm BREW
  • Analysis of Social Services API and development guidelines to drive application architecture and design
  • Maintenance of INQ technical documents for Twitter and Facebook 3rd party apps (Collection of requirements and architecture details)
  • Daily conference meeting with software developers to troubleshoot issues on requirements implementation.
  • Support and guidance to application testing activity
  • Bug management and priority assignment to solve application defects and improve stability given the project schedules and timeframes
  • Creation of analysis and reports for INQ Management with regards to project status, application functional aspects and performance (system and network usage, data management)

• Technical Handset Engineer

  H3G

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

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  H3G is a 3G mobile operator (part of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. group). I work in the Global Handset Group as a Technical Handset Engineer. I've relationships with all other HWL operative countries (Sweden , UK, Australia, Hong Kong etc.). I take care of handsets technical design, expecially for application and multimedia (codec, mobileTV, streaming, java). My activities are: definition of handset technical specifications – Services feasibility and assessment- Interaction with marketing and handset vendors to discuss handsets compliances to operator requirements. I'm also involved in a Roadmap and Scouting activity on future and emerging technologies.

• Consultant

  Altran

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

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  My competencies: Good knowledge of C/C++ programming, Java , C# , ASP, SQL, HTML and XML.
  Excellent command of Microsoft Office™ tools (Word™, Excel™ and PowerPoint™, Visio™);
  
  Expert knowledge of audio video signal processing and compression, multimedia protocols and architectures (Video conference, VoIP, Streaming)
  Good knowledge of embedded system programming, in particular Qualcomm BREW platform.
  Excellent knowledge of signal compression standards and formats.
  Overall knowledge of UMTS 3GPP architecture and applications (Java, codec, SMS, MMS, eMail, MobileTV)
  
  DVB-H Global Architecture and Features.
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  Able in getting and maintaining communicative relationships, I've got good presentation and organization skills.
  I am looking forward to enforcing my capabilities and I am ready to focus all my attention to get a high improvement in my skills.

• Embedded Software Developer

  Atop Innovation S.p.A

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2005 — March 2006 (6 months)

  Application development on embedded systems (Symbian, BREW)

Marco Venanzi’s Education

• Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'

  Master , Telecommunications Engineering , 1999 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Collaboration with InfoCom Department

• Liceo Scientifico

  100/100 , 1994 — 1999

Additional Information

Marco Venanzi’s Websites:

• My Blog

Marco Venanzi’s Interests:

Food and restaurants exploring Playing volley, soccer Playing piano, singing in a chorus

Marco Venanzi’s Groups:

IEEE

Marco Venanzi’s Honors:

Publications International Workshop VLBV05 - Settembre 2005
S. Colonnese, C. Sansone, G. Scarano, M.Venanzi -
“Hybrid Scalable Coding For Packet Switched Video
Communications In Wireless Environments” –

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