Nicola Leotta
Project manager - Biometric Services Subsystem, SAFRAN Morpho
Carrer focus :
Lead exciting business development projects with a strong international and technical context
Executive Profile :
--> 18 years experience in Electronics, Information Systems and Mobile Telecom engineering, with 5 major Multi-national Corporations : SAFRAN Morpho, Sony-Ericsson, NEC, Alcatel, Thales.
* Multi-lingual (French, English, Japanese, Italian, and German)
* 4 years working in Japan (SHARP, then THALES-Japan). Frequent business travels abroad.
--> 11 years GSM / UMTS mobile phone development experience (expert in power saving).
--> Project leader, system engineering task leader, requirements manager and R&D department manager
Specialties :
- Project Leader : multi-country, multi-companies, & multi-cultural environment. Sub-contractors management.
- Marketing : Activities promotion, requirements analysis
- Purchase-Marketing : multi-supplier development, sourcing and OED/OEM
- Mobile Telecom & Electronics System Architecture (System Design, Electronics Design, Technology survey)
57 contactsOutsourced full development of a whole biometrics-central Information system – starting from a hardly defined and specified prototype, and despite resource issues in Morpho. Now this product is a Key Asset of Morpho.
>30% price-down achieved on ultra low cost phone, through engineering and sourcing common actions.
2000 - 2007Project Leader :
- in charge of 5 subsequent Platforms of EDGE-HSDPA dual mode mobilephone : system design, development, system-integration and tests.
Other activities :
- managed NEC contribution proposals for 2 'FP7' European Union research projects (on Emergent home network and emergency ad-hoc network)
- Hardware task leader for the development of a DVB-H cell phone demonstrator
- System architecture task leader on 2 platforms of 2G-3G dual mode mobilephone.
- Power saving system design for first prototype of UMTS/GSM dual mode handset.
1998 - 2000- Managed a system study on UMTS Baseband : multi-skilled task team of 6 engineers.
- In charge of battery management and power management on GSM terminals : Specifications et multi-suppliers subcontracting of PMU ASIC. Battery charge management specification.
1994 - 1998Provide Thales group with access to advanced dual Technologies in Japan :
- Dual Technologies = consumer technologies that can also be applied to professional and military applications.
- Technology and industrial survey, develop demonstrators and source components and sub-systems in Japan, especially in key materials, displays (PDP, LCD, CRT) and micropackaging technologies for Radar and Radiocomm applications (BGA/CSP, bare-chip, 'build-up' PWB, high-frequency interconnect, Millimetric wave low cost packaging technologies...)
1994 - 1994SCTF (Orsay-91-France) : Tech Surveys & Reverse Engineering on Micro-packaging (PCB + LSI casings+ bare chip).
THOMSON-LCD / TRIXELL (Moirans-38-France) : Electric Simulations of Flat panel interconnection (LCD or K7X)