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Budapest, Hu

Budapest, Hungary

Responsible for a research project in the indoor navigation area.

Budapest, Hungary

I lead the complete development and quality assurance activity of the GSM-R end to end solution. Besides meeting business and quality goals I am responsible for continuous development of the capabilities of the organization. Each improvement idea is analyzed from business aspects. Return of investment is among the measures I use for screening and prioritizing.

Budapest

This organization is responsible for the whole software release lifecycle of our solution. I help them to meet business expectations

Budapest

Ramping up 2G radio end to end system verification competence and activities for GSM-R.Lead the building of the radio laboratory and the planning of the whole GSM-R laboratory move to new locationLaboratory OPEX and CAPEX planning for the whole GSM-R development and verification organization

Budapest

Responsible for the profitability, competitiveness and renewal of the GSM-R core solution of Nokia over its life cycle. It includes analyzing and evaluating customer requirements, plan software releases, creating sales enabling materials , train and coach sales representative about our Release 4 based GSM-R solution.Overall ownership of R4 based core solution for GSM-R- Solution creation, roadmap negotiation and planning- Sales enabling and support- Customer requirement analysis and evaluationRepresent different stakeholders- Customer teams towards development teams: understand the need- Product line towards customer and solution teams: communicate what is feasible- Critically evaluate and harmonize requirements to define a profitable solution

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Setting up a cross function software development R&D unit of 100+ from scratch to develop the operation and maintenance solution of Nokia Siemens networks (NetAct). There were teams in Finland and China.- Defined the scope and structure of the new unit.- People management: hiring, developing and coaching people.- Planned resourcing and project execution for long term: 2+ years ahead.- Responsible and held accountable for R&D project execution in the unit.- Managed subcontractors.- Organized and hosted customer visits to the R&D.- Was the primary contact to headquarters: regular reporting, escalation handling, risk management.- Implemented global initiatives (e.g. standard operation procedures, agile methodology, root cause analysis).- Reviewed and audited the daily operation.- Lead support functions such as SCM, Laboratory and Competence Development.- Collected needs from all the R&D units in Chengdu for support functions. Prioritized and followed the implementation of those.- Contributed to the creation of global initiatives.- Leading the local change agent team.- Value stream leadership (a project management like role with full end to end responsibility).

- Leading support functions such as SCM, Laboratory and Competence Development- R&D unit manager at Nokia Hungary Kft - leading different units- Leading a unit of 70 engineers and leaders developing 3G and Nokia VoIP solution: agile development methods were well suited to the ever changing requirements and demanding development environment of the VoIP world.- Leading a unit of 80 engineers developing call control, IN-SSP, and user plane routing in MSC server

Built and led engineering teams to develop SMS and call control functionality in MSC

Developed SMS application in Nokia MSC.

Developed the railway control system taken into use in Italy

M.Sc; Faculty Of Science, Physics

Diplom thesis on Mössbauer effect

M.Sc, Postgraduate Education On Economics; Electronic Engineering Department

Diplom thesis on controlling processes and methods at Nokia 3 semesters