Senior Sales Manager - Managed Services Division at Alcatel-Lucent
Utrecht Area, Netherlands
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- Senior Sales Manager - Managed Services Division at Alcatel-Lucent
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- Capture Team Leader - Network Operations Business Develoment at Alcatel-Lucent
- Services Bids & Proposal Leader Europe at Lucent Technologies
- Services Sales Manager at Lucent Technologies
- Project Manager at Lucent Technologies
- R&D Engineer at Lucent Technologies
- Graduate Student at Philips Consumer Electronics
- Education
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- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
- Lorentz Lyceum Eindhoven
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Chris van der Plaats’s Summary
Capture Team Leader within the Network Operations Business Development team for the region Europe & North with focus on selling Outsourcing & Managed Services
Chris van der Plaats’s Specialties:
Extensive international experience in Services Sales, Bids & Proposals, Project Management, Organisational Management, and People Management, with strong technical background.
Chris van der Plaats’s Experience
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Senior Sales Manager - Managed Services Division
Alcatel-Lucent
(Public Company; ALU; Telecommunications industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Leading Alcatel-Lucent's team focused on selling Managed Services, Outsourcing, and Multi-Vendor Maintenance Services to Network Operators in Europe.
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Capture Team Leader - Network Operations Business Develoment
Alcatel-Lucent
(Public Company; ALU; Telecommunications industry)
July 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 7 months)
Leading Alcatel-Lucent's pursuit team focused on selling Managed Services, Outsourcing, and Multi-Vendor Maintenance Services to Network Operators in Europe & North region.
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Services Bids & Proposal Leader Europe
Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)
May 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 2 months)
Leading a team of about 35 services pre-sales professionals across 7 countries in Europe. Being prime point of contact for all Services related Bids & Proposals matters within Europe. Responsible for developing high quality & competitive Services proposals in the area of Network Deployment, Maintenance, Professional Services, and Managed Services mainly targeted at main European Telecommunication Service Providers.
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Services Sales Manager
Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)
January 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 4 months)
Responsible for Sales of Deployment, Maintenance, Network Management, and Professional Services to Global & New Operators in Europe
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Project Manager
Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)
December 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Responsible for delivery of post-deployment services (Maintenance, Network Mangement, and Professional Services) to Global & New Operators in Europe
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R&D Engineer
Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)
September 1989 — November 1998 (9 years 3 months)
- Participation in European Research programmes: RACE projects R1051 "Multigigabit Transmission in the IBCN Subscriber Loop" (1989-1992), R2062 "COMponents FOR fibre-To-the-home (COMFORT)" (1992-1995), R2109 "Lossless Integrated Active Splitters for Optical Networks (LIASON)" (1993-1996) and ACTS project AC028 "TOwards Broadband Access Systems for CATV Optical networks (TOBASCO)" (1995-1998).
- Techno-economic system studies on distributive (CATV) and interactive (B-ISDN) broadband local access networks.
- Design, simulation, realisation en evaluation of:
1) Opto-electronic sub-systems and modules (e.g. EDFAs and integrated HDWDM transceivers).
2) Broadband optical systems for the local access network (e.g. CATV distribution systems, ATM-PON systems, TOBASCO system).
- Chairman of the ACTS chain "Broadband Access and Evolution (BAE)" (1996-1998)
- Lead Project manager of the ACTS project AC028 TOBASCO (1998-1999) -
Graduate Student
Philips Consumer Electronics
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
September 1988 — August 1989 (1 year)
Radio transmission research within the scope of the European research program Eureka, project nr. 147 "Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)"
Chris van der Plaats’s Education
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Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
MSc , Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications) , 1983 — 1989
- Activities and Societies:
- ISIS
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Lorentz Lyceum Eindhoven
1973 — 1979
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