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Project Manager for MSI UK in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the Authority of Telecommunication for the implementation of the Saudi Arabia Spectrum Assignment, Licensing, Management and nationwide Monitoring system.

International Consultancies in Telecommuncations Networks, Systems, Solutions, Organizational Structures, Operational Implementation and Project Management.Consultancies on Renewable Energy Systems RES with system Solutions.Consultancies for Companies' merging and reorganizations via International Business' Partners.

ARIA SpA Italian WiMAX tlc Operator. Todi (PG) ItalyCOO of the biggest Italian WiMAX licence 47ml Euro public tenderChief Operating Officer (COO) with the responsibility of the start up of the new WiMAXItalian nationwide network (radio access multipoint at 3.5 GHz) with broadband, internet(currently up to 7 Mbps up to 10 km distance) and voice services. Innovative broadband radioaccess system in the last mile,avoiding the physical interconnection with the home fix line.Customers are served in Digital Divide areas as well as in already served LLU broadbandareas, giving at present to the Customers the nomadicity service opportunity.Responsible from half 2009 as CCO (Chief Customer Officer) of the provisioning of the endto end services for this new peculiar network and of the supply chain of products delivered toCustomers (CPE and Home Gateways for Customers connected up to 13 Km distance fromthe BSs).Also responsible of the Customer Care, located partially in Italy and partially in Romania.WiMAX service deployment started in all the 20 Italian Regions reaching about 18K Customers in the first 6 Regions at April 2010, since end January 2009, the starting date of the services.

Special Projects Director Roma-ItalyThe main project was the ‘Tower project’ aimed to re-colocate existing tlc equipment ofdifferent Italian Mobile/Fix wireless access tlc Operators on selected access networks towersoptimizing the number of sites, reducing opex costs and setting up the basis for subsequentNetworks sharing project/s on 2G- 3G - 4G- LTE- WiMAX services.

CTO for Fix telefony and Broad band services and Internet ISP Operator Athens - Greecefor FIX network and local loop unbundling broadband services + ISP + LMDS/Fixed Wireless Access network at 26 GHz (a sort of WiMAX point-to-point ) from the start up in 2002. TELLAS is an European case study,becoming the 1st Alternative Carrier of the Greek incumbent OTE operator in 6 months (first half 2003) in a difficult period of European fix telecommunication markets.

BID Manager for 3rd and 4 th (Wind / Picienne BT) Mobile Operators GSM/DCS Italian Mobile Telephone Licences managing a group of 140 direct resources + 35 indirect in Milan supporting Picienne company(B.T. British Telecom + Telenor Norway+ Fininvest of Berlusconi’s family+ Italgas + BenettonTreviso Italy) bidding to acquire 3rdItalian Mobile Licence, against Wind mobile company.Two years budget of 40 Mln Euro for Bid, deployment and coordination of the startup networkin partnership Ericsson-Picienne (12 working BTSs-BSC-MSC in Milano downtown).BID Manager also for BLU,Italian Operator of the 4thGSM/DCS Italian licence in 1999.Product manager for Tlc systems Fix, Mobile, VSat.

ALCATEL SpA Milano Vimercate -ItalyProduct Manager of R&D projectsMobile GSM,DCS, UMTS, mobile CDMA, Fix BB , TFTS (phones in Aircrafts), VSAT systems, Digital and HDTV systems.

TELETTRA SpA Vimercate Milano –ItalyProduct Manager of R&D projects for digital HDTV with International patents, proposing the idea-solution of the ‘sparpagliatore coding technique patent’ with Viterbi’s algorithm application for more robust digital TV-HDTV transmission.R&D projects mainly in Digital TV-HDTV, digital MW, Mobile Systems, GaAsFET microchips.BTS 2G, 3G, UMTS, pre LTE Mobile System BTS Product Manager and ETSI member

BTS+BSC sub-system (+Mobile test and core network)within an international J.V. composedby Telettra-I, Matra -F,Orbitel -UK, Ericsson –S. BTS being developed in Telettra, BSC inMatra. I spent 2 years in France for this Project coordinating the Italian group in Matra(S.Quentinen Yvelines) Paris France up to the integration test and installation in Genevatelecommunication international exhibition in 1992.; TELETTRA SpA Vimercate Milano -ItalyRadio links &Mobile telephones R&D Product Managerfor designing and implementation of digital MWs.Design & Implementation of Telettra’s mobile telephone system RMA 450 MHz for TelecomItalia (SIP) with ‘SMAU prize’ at Milano SMAU exhibition on 1987. With first Z80 integratedSMD microchip Fujitsu ever used.ETSI member ETSI member for GSM-DCS 2G 3G and UMTS mobile system standard design, implementation and testing. Some parts of production even in Spain in Telettra Torrecon (Madrid).