Manuel Guazzetti

Responsible for the anticipation of the Livebox evolutions within the Orange Technocentre :
- Competition benchmarks,
- Technology evolutions survey,
- Customer usages analysis,
- Next generation residential gateways protyping.

New concepts prototyping achievements:
- advanced mediacenter and widgets for Set-Top-Box,
- mediaremote control app for smartphone.

In charge of the strategy, roadmap and product marketing of the livebox ecosystem offer for the France Telecom group.
Main results :
- Liveradio V1 launched in January 07 in France and accessible though a WiFi IP radio with batteries inside or through a Vista Gadget (nearly 300k downloads by end 07),
- Liveradio V2 launched in Febbruary 08 : definition and design of the new web site, negociation of a new business model based on revenue share with the Service Platform Provider,
- Livephoto service and first connected WiFi Digital Photo frame launched in december 07 in France,
- Home Library prototype exposed during the Autumn Collection in November 07 in Paris,

I joined Orange France in 2000 as GPRS strategic project manager.I quickly moved to a management position (45 people) where I was responsible for a growing scope of products as the following ones :
- SIM card services,
- GPRS/UMTS networks and OTA/LBS enablers,
- Messaging services as SMS/MMS, USSD, Voice mail,
- Multimedia services platforms for audio/video streaming , Color Ring Back Tone, Push to Talk,
- Kiosk services (SMS+).

Maintenance Contract Manager for the SFR BSS (Base Station Sub-system or radio network) and the SRR BSS (La Réunion island).