Giuseppe Folino Email & Phone Number

Responsible for Telecommunication Business Unit.In charge of decision on the strategy to be followed on technical and business sides. Development of business cases for new opportunities.Responsible for managing, building and maintaining strong working relationships with customers.Supervision of business contracts and other commercial arrangements.

 Personnel decisions, including hiring, position assignment, benefits, and compensation handling. Individual career plans management. Training needs analysis to design employee development, language training and health and safety programs definition. Development of HR planning strategies, evaluating immediate and long-term staff requirements in terms of numbers and skill levels. Interviews and candidates selection. Internal recruiting tools management and integration with external recruitment providers. Responsible for ensuring and improving the performance, productivity, efficiency and profitability of company departments through the provision of effective methods and strategies. Assurance of compliance with corporate policies and guidelines. Monitoring and control of the individual BU performance and indicators, estimating any need for special interventions.

 Inter-Operability Test Department. Technical coordination of Field Testing Team based in Rome and Milan. Attendance at Defect Calls, Global Meetings and Go-NoGo decisions. Testing of both equipment (Motorola, NEC, LG, Sony Ericsson, Lucent, Nokia) and network (Ericsson and Siemens/NEC) to verify proper operation and responses to specific faults. Use of Tektronix Protocol Analyzer to provide powerful monitoring of UMTS signaling network. Use of Rohde & Schwarz spectrum analyzer for examination of signals in the frequency, code and time domains. Simultaneous Multi-layer Protocol Measurements at Multiple Different Interfaces Creation, gathering and management of terminal’s defects using dedicated tools (Test Director, Star Team, etc), vendors presentation and tracing. Field tests to verify radio coverage and to perform an error analysis in the field checking the terminal's behavior in a real network. Use of NEC ASKA, Motorola RTA-PST, EMP Mslog, Qualcomm QXDM-QPST-QCAT monitoring tools for log analysis. One month experience in Hong Kong, to coordinate field testing activity at Hutchinson headquarter.

 Telefonica-IPSE 2000 RF Design Project.Responsible for Nominal Design of the following cities: Firenze, Genova,Ferrara, Forlì, Pescara, Civitavecchia, Palermo 2G & 3G Coverage Prediction analysis. Customer and Comune Deliveries:plots, site lists, Search Ring Documents Perform Link Budget analysis. Perform CW Tests to tune the Propagation Model Work closely with Marketing and Sales Department as well as ProjectManagement in providing technical support including coverage prediction andsite performance Prepare Documents and Presentations for the client, concerning products,technologies, procedures Site Surveys & Candidate Evaluation jointly with Site Acquisition team