Frederic is the world-wide Lead Product and Solution Architect for HPE Communications Technology Group, Network Digital Services domain that includes HP Multimedia Services Environment solution, HP OpenCall Media Platform, HP OpenCall Converged Communication Platform and HPE Telecom Application server.He has 20+ years of industrial experience in the Communications, Multimedia, and Computing Industries, with more than 10 years on virtualized Cloud architectures and deployments. He has started within HP to work on Telecom products as HP-UX kernel software developer. Frederic is daily working and co-authored several patents with product teams in HPE R&D Europe, India & US centers on real-time Voice, Video, Messaging and business-critical applications & architectures, such as online & offline charging, critical emergency communications, etc. He has represented HP in several standard bodies and demonstrated innovations in different industry events.Frederic is also the key technical pre-sales resource for sales and account principles, working with main world-wide Communication Service Providers (such as Telefonica, Vodafone, Orange, DTAG, American Moviles, NTT, T-mobile, ATT), and partners, consulting with them on their Application Layer architecture transformation.He is focusing on how these Communications/Business-critical applications are transforming over cloud computing platforms or Platform/Container as a service, deployed in private or public clouds. Especially how to design, deploy VNFs & CNFs over virtual machines or Kubernetes/containers, meeting carrier-grade requirements such as High Availability, deterministic response time, bounded latency, etc, leveraging DevOps methodology and tools.Recently, he has been deeply involved with tier-1 CSPs on the evolution of their Communication/Business-critical applications over 5G networks.