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Alcatel Lucent
- Senior Director, International Service Standards & Industry Relations
Paris
2009 - 2015
* Reporting to the IP Platform CTO and corporate Industry Relations VP
* Alcatel-Lucent primary contact for GSMA and responsible for executive briefings for CEO roundtables on GSMA strategies & progress in direct support to corporate executives (corp. CTO, EVP Strategy, CTO Wireless, VP Public Affairs)
* In charge of the Alcatel-Lucent strategy for Services & Application Standards in support of the related product lines
* Acting in close cooperation with Network Operators' executive management
* Leading a team of internationally recognized senior experts, including several Bell-Lab Fellows, contributing to international Standard bodies and industry initiatives such as IETF, W3C, 3GPP, ATIS, OneM2M, Broadband Forum, ETSI, OASIS, Global Platform, GSMA and more, covering topics such as IP messaging and VoLTE, Proxy Encryption, WebRTC, future of IoT/M2M, Security, Identity Management, NFV, Cloud, SIM
Some Key Achievements
* In 2014, following on the interest expressed by the ALU CEO in a closer cooperation with GSMA, successfully aligned GSMA and ALU executive expectations for the GSMA Vision 2020 plan resulting in ALU being invited to join several key projects (confidentiality is preventing to provide more details)
* In 2013, solved a critical and tricky VoLTE interworking issue for AT&T and Verizon by putting in place a multidisciplinary emergency task force with experts from all over the company as well as working with NSN and Ericsson
* In 2012, put in place a strategy to position ALU as a key player in RTCWeb and protect the Telecom Industry investment in IMS (IETF, 3GPP, W3C, GSMA) and introduce WebRTC in GSMA RCS (IP Messaging). ;
* In 2011, after 2 years of efforts and in line with the ALU ``Application Enablement'' strategy, successfully positioned ALU as a top player in the Network API standard arena (GSMA OneAPI, OMA, WAC) resulting in positive analysts briefs, speaking opportunities and customer contacts.
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Alcatel-Lucent
- Senior Director, Services Standards
Paris
2008 - maintenant
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Alcatel Lucent
- Director, Applications & Services Standards
Paris
2004 - 2009
* Heading the company activities related to Applications & Services Standards.
* Defending Alcatel-Lucent position at different Board of Directors and steering groups such as the OMA BoD, the GSMA RCS SG or GSMA VoLTE SG.
* Serving as Vice-Chair of the OMA board External Liaison committee, establishing legal contracts for collaboration between Standards Organizations. As such, initiated the discussions with the Chinese Communications Standards Association.
* Heading ALU lobbying effort to bring Chinese operators to the International Standards arena to lower their dependency on local manufacturers.
* Consolidated and led the ex-Alcatel and ex-Lucent standard teams (30+ people) in one strong 20+ people Alcatel-Lucent team, including several Bell-Lab Fellows, praised for its technical skills, fairness and dedication to the standard community.
* Recognized "high-potential" by Alcatel-Lucent top management
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Alcatel Lucent
- Software Strategy Director
Paris
2002 - 2004
* In charge of the Service & Application Standards strategy for the Alcatel group as well as the software strategy for the mobile phones platform and products.
* Spearheaded the Alcatel effort to build the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and then as OMA board member, achieved consolidation of the SyncML Forum, Wireless Village, Mobile Wireless Internet Forum and several other initiatives.
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Alcatel Mobile Phones
- Director Software Innovation Lab
1999 - 2002
* Founded and managed the Software Lab', developing futuristic ideas to generate concepts, mock-ups and associated business cases. Pioneered Connected Watches, Always-on Messaging devices and connected objects.
* In charge of the Alcatel Mobile platform software strategy
* Founded the Enhanced Messaging initiative with Ericsson, Siemens and Motorola
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Alcatel Mobile Phones
- Senior Product Manager avant-garde mobile phones
1993 - 1999
(and Alcatel/Sharp JV) Senior Product Manager, 6 years, devices such as the first ever phone with mobile web access, dual body Satellite/GSM phone or Personal Mobile Communicator with mobile email. As such, orchestrated and oversaw product development, split between France, US, Japan and China with multidisciplinary teams and external providers.
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Alcatel Mobile Phones
- Software Architect
1990 - 1993
Specified and developed real-time OS, protocols and apps for Mobile Phones
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Bull CEDIAG
- Chef de Produit Junior
1989 - 1989
Marketing study on the future of Hypertext, basis of today's web
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ASAP Com
- Product Manager
1989 - 1990
Designed and implemented the marketing mix for SPIRIT, an AI-based textual recognition system
