Pablo Alvarez Sanchez

Current

• Consultant at Altran Technologies
• Project Manager at Telefonica

Past

• Assistant at GVK (Gesellschaft für visuelle Kommunikation)

Education

• Project Management Institute
• Technische Universität Berlin
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

• Colegio Santa María del Pilar

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Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• Publications
• RCS Initiative

Pablo Alvarez Sanchez’s Summary

Telecommunications Engineer with experience working as Project Manager in a large operator. Fluent in Spanish, English, German and French.

Pablo Alvarez Sanchez’s Specialties:

Project management, definition and design of new services and products, messaging services, user experience

Pablo Alvarez Sanchez’s Experience

• Consultant

  Altran Technologies

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

  October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  Apart from working as a consultant for Telefónica, I participate in various internal activities, such as the Integration Plan for consultants joining the company, tutorship of new consultants, delivery of technical courses, etc.

• Project Manager

  Telefonica

  (Privately Held; TEF; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  I entered the Messaging Services Development Department in October 2005. During my first year in Telefónica, I lead the launch of the service Mensajería E-mail, a plugin aimed at the Enterprise segment which allows users to send SMS and MMS from MS Outlook and Outlook Express.
  
  After this, I took part in the launch of various services, mainly enabling mobile messaging services to PC users (e.g. Mensajería Web, Corporate IP, Espacio Personal), as well as in some innovation projects.
  
  In January 2008, I started representing Telefónica at the GSMA Rich Communication Suite (RCS) Initiative, an industry effort to accelerate the launch of converged, enriched communication services based on IMS. I have pushed for RCS to become a more end-user oriented service, proposing the creation of the User Experience Working Group, which I chaired. This group has later been evolved to the Service Description Group, which is responsible for the functional definition of RCS.

• Assistant

  GVK (Gesellschaft für visuelle Kommunikation)

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2003 — August 2003 (2 months)

  I spent some time working in Lüneburg (Germany, near Hamburg) during the summer of 2003. I worked in GVK as assistant in the Accounting, Marketing and Graphic Design Departments, preparing presentations and meetings with clients, apart from doing some translations. It was a great experience which gave me some time to practice my German and get to know this country.

Pablo Alvarez Sanchez’s Education

• Project Management Institute

  Project Management Professional (PMP) , Project Management , 2009 — 2009

• Technische Universität Berlin

  Engineer , Elektrotechnik , 2004 — 2005

  I spent my last year of education as an ERASMUS student in Berlin. During the first semester, I finalized the last year of my degree, taking some interesting courses in important institutes such as the FOKUS Freinhofer Institut or the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI).
  
  During the second semester, I worked at the TKN (Telecommunication Networks Group) preparing my Diploma Thesis, dealing with Dynamic OFDMA Systems. The results of my thesis were published in a paper which was accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2007, in Glasgow.

  Activities and Societies:

  TKN (Telecommunication Networks Group)

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  Engineer , Telecommunications , 2000 — 2005

  While in university, I continued learning German at the Goethe Institut. I obtained the certificate Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung (ZMP) in May 2004.
  
  I also started learning French at the Institut Français (Diplôme d’études en langue française, DELF B1, in June 2006).
  
  I also spent some free time working as a private teacher for Math, Physics and English, having around 4 high schools students at the same time.

• Colegio Santa María del Pilar

  1987 — 2000

  While in school, I took some time to learn English. I spent all summers from 1995 to 1999 in the US, with a family from Detroit (MI). I obtained the Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) from Cambridge in June, 2000.

  Activities and Societies:

  Defender at the school's football team, lead singer at a rock band

Additional Information

Pablo Alvarez Sanchez’s Websites:

• Publications
• RCS Initiative

Pablo Alvarez Sanchez’s Interests:

New technologies, Internet and web 2.0, mobile services. Reading, music, sports (soccer, skiing).

Pablo Alvarez Sanchez’s Groups:

•    Azules
•    Global Project Management
•    IP Multimedia Subsystem - IMS
•    Telecom Professionals
•    The Official IEEE Group
•    Project Management Link
•    TU Berlin Alumni
•    ETSIT Alumni
•    Spanish PMPs
•    WIMS 2.0
•    IMS TECHNOLOGY
•    Altran: Past, Present & Future
•    GSMA Mobile World Congress (The Official Networking Group)
•    Mobile Business Briefing
•    IEEE International Conference on Communications

Pablo Alvarez Sanchez’s Honors:

Finalist (top 5) in the contest Consultant of the Year in Altran Spain (2008).
Consolation prize (2nd) for Best Project of the Year in Altran Spain (2008).

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