Steven Rochefort

Current

• Head of Innovation -- Networks R&D at Ericsson Canada Inc.

Past

• TISPAN Solution Architect at Ericsson
• Systems Design Manager at Ericsson
• Manager Technology & Innovation at Ericsson Systems Expertise

• Innovation Cell Manager at Ericsson Research Canada
• Engineering System Team Leader at Paramax Electronics
• System Engineer at Hughes Aircraft of Canada
• Software designer at Unisys Corp

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Education

• Concordia University
• Concordia University

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Industry

Telecommunications

Steven Rochefort’s Summary

My professional goal is to work in a senior management or advisory role within organizations that benefit from my innovation, project leadership and multi-national corporate experience. In particular I have an interest to foster innovation cultures within existing technology organizations, with the objective of creating "spun-in" innovations based on a company's own intellectual property.

While I have a diverse set deep technical knowledge related to telecommunications, my main focus over the past 10 years has been managing innovation and radical new product initiatives within large multi-national technology corporations, harnessing internal innovation ideas.

Steven Rochefort’s Specialties:

- innovation management, technology assessment and commercialization, system engineering, project management, real-time system design, technical sales support, product management, third-party supplier relationship management
- IMS, SIP, 3GPP, TISPAN, OSS/BSS, mobile networks (2G, 3G, 4G), broadband internet access technologies (Ethernet, DSL, PON)

Steven Rochefort’s Experience

• Head of Innovation -- Networks R&D

  Ericsson Canada Inc.

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

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Lead and manage a organization that investigates and prototypes telecommunication network innovations in cross-functional teams. Assess, develop and articulate business cases for intra-corporation innovation projects and activities within a large multinational company.

• TISPAN Solution Architect

  Ericsson

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

  January 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  •Architected broadband access network solutions for IMS and non-IMS services based on a TISPAN standard framework for tier-1 and tier-2 telecom service providers. Lead and/or participated in activities related to customer requirements capture, integrated third party product solution design/integration, and contract proposal development (RFP, RFI, RFQ).
  •Experience with multiple vendor products integration in the IMS access area including Ericsson, Operax, Juniper, Acme Packet and Cisco
  •Authored various solution papers for call and resource admission control (CAC, RAC) within residential and enterprise IMS deployments.
  •Key technologies/skills: system engineering, technical sales support, product management, relationship management, TISPAN, 3GPP, IMS, SIP, DSL (TR-58, TR-59, WT-101, WT-102), Ethernet (VLAN), RADIUS, DiffServ (RFC2475), PCIM (RFC 33644, 3460, 3060, VoIP, OSS/J, mobile content management.

• Systems Design Manager

  Ericsson

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

  July 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 6 months)

  •Lead a 10-person system design group responsible for Ericsson’s broadband access IP service deployment node for fixed access networks. Focus on ETSI TISPAN, DSL Forum, CAC, bandwidth management and service deployment for xDSL networks.
  •Project managed a $250,000 project that demonstrated mobile device management, digital identify, and digital rights management for mobile content distribution. Results showcased at Liberty Alliance meeting fall 2004.
  •Authored study to propose how a 3G IMS application experimentation unit could augment core network IMS sales. This led to secured annual funding of $3.25 million for such a unit at local R&D center.

• Manager Technology & Innovation

  Ericsson Systems Expertise

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

  January 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 6 months)

  •Technology and innovation adviser to managing director of a 900 person major European R&D center based in Dublin, Ireland
  •Developed innovation culture that led to the creation of 2 new product innovations and 10 new proposals
  •Developed new OSS platform strategy that could save customers $30 million in hardware costs and result in a more scalable and reliable system
  •Assisted the corporate business innovation groups to investigate the introduction of 802.16 (WiMax) into Ericsson’s product line.
  •Participated in Irish government study to define wireless business direction for Ireland
  •Key technologies/skills: Innovation management, system engineering, OSS/NMS, UMTS/GPRS, CORBA, OSS/J, SNMP, J2EE, 802.16, 802.20

• Innovation Cell Manager

  Ericsson Research Canada

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

  February 1994 — December 2002 (8 years 11 months)

  •Managed a $2 million annual, 10 person department that introduced 3 new products into Ericsson’s product portfolio
  •Project manager for $3.5 million, 35 person project that developed a scalable, highly available 3G SGSN
  •Technical architect and 10-person team leader for high capacity AAA server for mobile networks
  •Technical architect and 30-person project leader for ANSI-41/GSM signaling gateway
  •Technical architect and 10-person team leader for new ANSI-41 HLR on Unix-based cluster platform
  •Lead technical architect for mobile switching subsystem (ANSI-41 MSC), leading team of 8 technical experts responsible for new feature design and post-development support over 3 major releases
  •Key technologies/skills: innovation management, real-time system design, project management, vendor selection and management, UMTS, GPRS, CDMA2000, RADIUS/DIAMETER, ANSI-41, GSM, SS7, IP, Unix/Linux-clusters, LDAP, J2EE, real-time software design, 802.11, AXE, APZ, telephony, ISDN

• Engineering System Team Leader

  Paramax Electronics

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  June 1992 — February 1994 (1 year 9 months)

  •Lead a team of 12 engineers to define the software requirements and architecture of an ASW tactical subsystem for a naval avionic mission system.
  •Developed winning bid proposal for tactical subsystem with marketing and project management for $1.2 billion new helicopter replacement program
  •Key technologies/skills: MIL-STD-2167A, Ada, CASE, requirements analysis, architecture design.

• System Engineer

  Hughes Aircraft of Canada

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  June 1991 — June 1992 (1 year 1 month)

  •Defined system level architecture and requirements for Canadian air traffic control system (CAATS) communications subsystem
  •Key technologies/skills: air traffic control, X.500, OSI, LAN based communications protocols

• Software designer

  Unisys Corp

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  June 1986 — June 1991 (5 years 1 month)

  •Designed and developed major ASW components for Canadian frigate program
  •Designed and evaluated active and passive tracking algorithms for ASW applications
  •Key technologies/skills: real-time software design, ASW

Steven Rochefort’s Education

• Concordia University

  Certificate , Marketing Research , 1993 — 1996

• Concordia University

  B.Sc , Applied Mathematics and English Language , 1983 — 1986

Additional Information

Steven Rochefort’s Groups:

•    Concordia University Alumni Association
•    Ericsson Global

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