Salvatore Traina

Current

CTO - Chief Technology Officer at Acotel Group S.p.A - Noverca

Past

Project Manager at Telecom Italia Lab
Project Leader at Pride S.p.A

Education

Università di Pisa

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Industry

Telecommunications

Salvatore Traina’s Summary

. Launching Italian MVNO (Noverca) offering innovative services including LBS, Low cost International calls, Banking&Payment.
. Launching of Noverca Voip Services brand in Italy. Managing VoIP architecture and services. Leading Research & Development group to build enabling platform for VOIP telecomunication and related services.
. Prototyping and engineering of solution for Mobile Banking and Payments
. Managing design and implementation of convergent services between mobile and fixed network.
. Prototyping and Engineering of Innovative services over IP networks.
. Managing suppliers for HW and SW products.
. Leading the branded international business on VAS services driving technical solutions
. Mobile Wireless Applications projects and Value added services for National and International Mobile Operators (Greece,Brazil,Spain,Peru). Taking care about Customer offers, Project Management, System Integration, problem solving.
. Consultant for Timbrasil (Brazil) about VAS services and platform. Support on Consumer/Business VAS offer.
Launch of Photo Message service: MMS to Pictures.
. Research on new Wireless Technology for Mobile Applications.
Wap, MMS, J2ME (multiplayer gaming), DRM, IMS, SIP M-services.
. OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) full Member
. Coordinating a medium group of developers on applications and solutions for Italian Mobile Operator (TIM): PPG (push protocol gateway), MMS-C (multimedia messagging system), DRM (Digital right management), Multiplayer Game platform.
. Teacher for “M-services” courses for Business Unit of Telecom Italia Mobile

Salvatore Traina’s Specialties:

GSM Network Architecture including MVNE/O platforms. Voice Telecomunication over IP. Value added services on Voip. Scouting for new telecommunication technology.
Good knwoledge of HW and SW equipement, system architecture for IP telecommunication.
Knowledge of Mobile Network architecture for Core and System VAS platform
Value Added Service delivery for Mobile Operator. Mobile Services and Platforms. System Architectures.

Salvatore Traina’s Experience

CTO - Chief Technology Officer

Acotel Group S.p.A - Noverca

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; ACO; Telecommunications industry)

April 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

Chief techonology Officer leading R&D and IT department.
Focused on Voip services, Value added Services and multimedia telecomunication services
Innovative technology on telecomunication services, mobile payment, and value added services on Voip communication.
Project Manager

Telecom Italia Lab

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

July 2001 — April 2005 (3 years 10 months)

. Mobile Wireless Applications projects and Value added services for National and International Mobile Operators (Greece,Brazil,Spain,Peru). Taking care about Customer offers, Project Management, System Integration, problem solving.
. Research on new Wireless Technology for Mobile Applications.
Wap, MMS, J2ME (multiplayer gaming), DRM, IMS, M-services.
. Coordinating developers (10) on develop applications and solutions for Italian Mobile Operator (TIM): PPG (push protocol gateway), MMS-C (multimedia messagging system), DRM (Digital right management), Multiplayer Game platform.
Project Leader

Pride S.p.A

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1999 — June 2001 (2 years 3 months)

- Developing of Java Applications in three-layer (Web Applet Java/Oracle Apps. Server/Oracle DB) for Intranet and Internet Applications.

- Developed application for Telecom Italia to manage test data of wireline telephonic equipments.

- Modelling of Database, Architecture and System integration.

Salvatore Traina’s Education

Università di Pisa

Master Degree , Computer Science , 1989 — 1998

. Working with Alenia S.p.A on Meteo Radar project. Won the Graphical User Interface task.
. Development of Accounting and Invoicing programs for some stores in Pisa.
. Database porting (DB2 to ISO) for "Cateriniana" Library at Pisa.

Activities and Societies:

Director of "S. Martino" Church Polyfonic Choir