Chris Simandl

see http://www.temteam.com

Telecommunications Consulting Consulting Services for multiple Clients including:

CIO Cielux Telecom RDC. Ground-up development of Country-wide Wimax Services portfolio for Startup Telco in the Congo. Management activities ranging from RAN decisions, to full OSS/BSS build, to Revenue Stream planning, to team building, to Internal IT/Office Automation.

RFP Due Diligence Manager EMEA, AT&T. Management of Bid & Proposal process (review, audit, validate) business proposals as well as provide Pre-Transition Planning for completed RFP's.

. Product definition & alignment of the business direction to transform competitors into partners. Drive the market strategies & innovations to current Mobile IM solutions, through partnerships & alliances with Operators, Communities & SI's.
+ Neustar partnership Neustar generating 30k€/month
+ Through Neustar alliance, Established preferred customer status with Vodafone.
+ Partnered Market approach to APAC with Sybase.
+ Yahoo APAC finalist for Yahoo/Miyowa partnering RFI.

Build & drive Technology & P&L for a team of Wireless & Telco Consultants.
Conception/creation/installation/management of a Services Delivery Platform (SDP) for Telcos to evolve into an Oracle Product.
+ 4.5m€ Consulting fees to Telenor over 3 years.
+ SDP currently exists as an Oracle Product.
+ Introduction of Mobile Applications & SaaS to Oracle in Redwood Shores.
+ Professional services team creation/Technical direction/motivation & financial management for 3 EMEA Delivery centers (France, Poland & Jordan).

Consulting/responsible for design, mediation, interfacing & management of the convergence of IT activities & automotive telematics. Catalyse service models to enable p-business, m-business & e-business within a vehicular framework. Construction of in-car, Software versioning paradigms.
+ Successful Business Planning/ Start-up/Financial planning & negotiations with VW to assure the success of a small team (3) of Professional Services Architects with a two year contract with VW HQ.

Oversee technology strategies, new business planning, as well as overall strategic direction & Product Development. Consultant activities for the Mergers & Acquisition team for Strategic Alliances. Technical presentation for IPO Roadshows to investors.
+ a Paris & NASDAQ launch that oversubscribed 15 times (273mUSD raised).
+ M&A Analysis for the CEO (ie: Barcelona.net for 18m€) during a major growth period.

to convince/sell to the SWIFT board & Major World Banks, the layering of an IP network on top of an X.25 network. Upon concept approval, Architecture & deployment (including Global telco partnering RFP for coverage).
+ Concept successfully presented to the both the SWIFT board as well as the boards of the major member banks.
+ Successful architecting of the IP SwiftNET, paradigm & services requiring paramount security & non-repudiation standards.
+ Successful RFP with Tier1 Telcos (AT&T, Equant, BT) to provide global end-point coverage.

. . Research & Development & Design in advanced Inter/Intra/ExtraNet Architectures, Telephone/Internet Technologies & Speech Recognition Technologies (TTS & STT), as well as Security Consulting throughout EMEA.
+ Full ISP creation/deployment of SuperOnline in Turkey for YapiKredi Bank.
+ Successful conception/deployment of Wireless & Satellite Distance Learning solution (video) in the Mediterranean.
+ Multiple ethical hacking incursions on a consulting basis.

Implementation/Roll-out of all Networks & Business Applications; Telephone & Telecommunications; Video & Multimedia for the World Headquarters & seven satellite Business Units.
+ Belgium & UK, whole office installations (Cabling, PABX, Network, Workstations, etc.).
+ Successful implementation of financial reporting communications infrastructure.
+ Group implementation of HR, Forex trading, auditing & accounting systems (& their interactions with the reporting systems).

Project management/installation of a Work In Progress (WIP) System internal to Price Waterhouse EMEA. Accounting, reporting & organisational restructuring of internal accounting systems to integrate with new system.
+ Successful WIP deployment in Denmark, Belgium & Turkey for Price Waterhouse.

Development of interoffice WAN & X.25 IT Communications.
Programming for Financial Systems Interfacing.
+ Implementation of a Wide Area PC Network (WAN) covering Paris, Brussels, London and Barcelona using X.25 communications to bridge VAXs, IBM S36s, & AS400s.
+ Successful interfacing to other banks systems such as Sicovam (Exchange Commission) for securities clearing.

original PC Systems Design, Assembler/BIOS programming, Series 1 interfacing. management of 3270 environments and LANs as well.
+ Wrote Power-On-Self-Test (POST) and BIOS that involves testing a processor, modem, and memory as well as rewriting interrupts for disk access using 8088 Assembler.
+ Designed/implemented/built a software/hardware configuration for a multiple PC, rack-type system used as a communications gateway between non-IBM compatible PC's and the IBM Series/1, X.25 Protocol environment.
+ Won President's Award in 1988 for being one of Company's high achievers.