Liam Fallon Email & Phone Number

Athlone, Ireland

ONAP Policy Framework:I am working as Ericsson's lead in the ONAP Policy Framework, acting as an architect and lead developer with a team of developers from Ericsson who are working with teams from other project partners on the ONAP Policy Framework. Our major achievement has been in evolving the architecture of the ONAP Policy Framework so that it is model driven, modular, scalable and pluggable.see https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-policy-parent/en/latest/architecture/architecture.htmlDay to day, we are working on delivering enhancements to the Policy Framework. Development is in Java, Javascript and other languages. The development process uses the usual agile methodology and toolchains (Eclipse/Maven/Jenkins/Confluence/Jira etc).Search for "Liam Fallon" at the link below to see my contribution history to ONAPhttps://lfanalytics.io/projects/lfn%2Fonap/dashboardI am an active member of the Control Loop subcommittee. I see this as a natural continuation of the research work I did in the Ericsson NM lab. I am leading the implementation of the TOSCA Defined Control Loop PoC being executed in the ONAP Guilin release, see:https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/TOSCA+Defined+Control+Loop+PoC+in+ONAP+Rel+GI also take part in ONAP community initiatives such as contributing to improving the ONAP Release process and managing the Java checkstyle profile for ONAP.

Athlone, Ireland

Applied research and proof of concepts exploring how technologies can be applied in current and future management systems• Carry out detailed technical assessments of identified technologies• Builds demonstrators that apply those technologies, primarily using Java infrastructure• Transfers those demonstrations to product development groups• Provide consultancy to groups outside the Network Management lab on network management, computer science, and software engineering

Athlone, Ireland

Prototype and demonstrate technologies from research in order to expedite the adaptation of those technologies in products.• Architect and design the prototyping platforms• Implement, test, deploy, and support prototypes running in live networks• Use an ultra-agile way of working that is utterly uncompromising on software quality

Athlone, Ireland

Applied Research in Telecommunication Management• Quality of Experience of modern "Over the Top" services in mobile broadband networks • Distributed management of mobile networks using In-band autonomic and Self Organizing techniques in the Maderia project • Distributed management in fixed access networks (The BanitsII project)• Research, prototype development and demonstrations• Project co-ordination for the Maderia project

Athlone, Ireland

Technically responsible for the specification, design, and implementation of configuration management in a Mobile Network Management System.• Review and guidance of technical solutions used in the management system, particularly those influenced by or influencing configuration management• Daily interaction with Product Line, and units developing network elements• Interaction with customers to ensue that their expectations on the Configuration Management functions were met and exceededA particular innovation was in specifying a set of small applications that were developed rapidly to provide some rapid enhancements to the management system.

Athlone, Ireland

Led the development of the job scheduler, execution environment and controller in a Mobile Network Management system.This system allows operators to schedule and run tasks towards any network element in a managed network from a central system. An operator can combine tasks together into jobs using a “flowchart”, which allows the tasks to run in series or in parallel. This means that the operator can combine instances of atomic tasks into a job. That job can be saved and can be run over and over, or scheduled to run periodically.The design uses a 3-tier architecture, scalable Java technology and supports plugins for mediation.

Athlone, Ireland

Technically responsible for the specification, design, and implementation of changes to a Network Management System due to the separation of the user and control plane in telecommunicaton networks.• Study of how services could be managed when the bearer plane and control plane were separated• Interaction with product line, network element, and customer units on the features for VoATM management

Athlone, Ireland

The innovation cell examined how to apply new technologies to network management challenges. - Ericsson's first protocol analyser for ISDN D-Channel signalling, implemented using a c++ server and a client implemented in an early version of Java- A SNMP agent for Ericsson's AXE system- C7 Signalling carried over IP

Athlone, Ireland

Project Manager of a European wide project that consolidated many releases of Ericsson's ISDN system into a single release.• Established of the project organisation including development project managers, the system test manager, and the manager of the market project.• Carried out project planning of the project from a time, resource, and cost point of view.• Held monthly steering group meetings with the project steering group to report on progress and problems.• Drove the project past each milestone.The project was concluded on time and on budget and with the content that the customers required.

Athlone, Ireland

Technical co-ordination of a project that combined many releases of Ericsson's PSTN system into a single release.• Investigated of each feature to be delivered in the project to ensure they were technically sound• Performed a system integrity check to ensure that features being introduced did not impact each other.• Supported the project with technical input for milestone decisions.• Addressed and resolved technical issues as they arose.

Athlone, Ireland

Develop systems and tools to support software development.• Provided local support for Ericsson’s design environment running on IBM System/370 generation mainframe computers.• Developed utilities and tools on the IBM environment in Fortran and REXX and on Solaris on Sun workstations in c and c++.• Provided help for software developers and testers in using the Ericsson design environment.• Specified and implemented improvements to the Ericsson software design process.

Athlone, Ireland

Development of embedded software on Ericsson's AXE system using the PLEX (Pascal-like)programming language and in assembly language. The particular software was handling subscriber traffic, specifically scheduling of line tests, handling the results of line tests.

Athlone, Ireland

Instructor at the Ericsson Software Training unit. Development and presentation of courses• On software development to Ericsson engineers• On telecommunication technologies to Ericsson and customer engineers

Tokyo, Japan

Development of financial software in COBOL on IBM 370 systems and control systems in c and assembly language for Motorola 6800 and 6800 and Intel 8080 chips

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Semantic-Based Autonomic Telecommunication Service Analysis and Optimization

Msc, Software Engineering, First Class Honours

Network Management, Configuration Management, NETCONF

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Mechanical Engineering, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Mechanicall Engineering Society