Luca Cecconi Email & Phone Number

Rome

• Be the point of reference for the product related topics/requests of Italian market stakeholders (operators, retailers, distributors, regulator, government agencies and offices, enterprises, press)• Be a key element in the local business unit by cooperating with the local Sales and Marketing team contributing to GTM and co-ordinating product life cycle strategies and activities Ensure the competitiveness of the product portfolio by monitoring market trends and customer needs/activities and communicating the requirements back to the company• Prepare and execute local product sell-in activities• Co-ordinate the communication of the company technology roadmap and ensuring technical alignment of company products with latest technology trends and features supported by operators • Manage product configuration for commercialization and customization requests by customers • Plan and execute Product Technical Acceptance activities in accordance with company and customer planning and provide active contribution to the product launch and maintenance process• Develop and maintain close cross-functional relationships with customers departments (consumer and B2B portofolio, technical acceptance, marketing, logistics, procurement, strategy and innovation)

Rome Area, Italy

• Manage the of end-to-end delivery process of new Global Digital Services (Dynamic Device Configuration and 3rd Party Apps) facilitating the integration with the network of each OpCo• Manage suppliers and project team (both Global team and OpCos members)• Organization of project meetings, technical program reviews and Go / NoGo• Periodical report to stakeholders on activity, milestones, risks and issues of managed projects• Manage and facilitate communication within the department (Global Devices and Internet Partnerships) and with external teams (partners and OpCos)• Establish and maintain a set of best practices and processes maximizing synergies• Provide support to the head of the Programme, Delivery & Defect Management in the operational activities of the team

Rome Area, Italy

- Project Planning and Feasibility Study- Market Analysis- Portfolio Analysis

Rome Area, Italy

• Product management for Operators and Open Market• Analysis and understanding of customer plans to facilitate sell-in, in-life management of product portfolio and value proposition, ensuring HTC can timely respond to customers evolving needs• Coordinate local market needs in line with Head of Sales managing effective communication ofproduct strategy (smartphones and accessories roadmap) with customer tailored propositions.• Product planning by successful propositions through lifecycle and management of in-life product through re-pricing, product changes, new CMFs, sales promotions• Management of RFI processes and support to RFQ processes• Manage Go To Market plans in line with the EMEA sales and marketing strategies• Constant market and competition analysis to identify regional threats and opportunities• Utilize the segmentation model to understand target segments size, characteristics, needs, behaviors and effectively contributing back to Head of Sales and Marketing• Regional business development of Internet of Things and Virtual Reality• Work with Head of Sales and Marketing to develop a successful creative execution of our product propositions• Creating, editing, localising messages and materials for marketing campaigns, press releases, product launches, presentations, company websites, product trainings.• Product spokesperson, cooperation with PR manager for posting activity and social media customer care to manage brand reputation/sentiment, other PR activities• Trainer of trainers (field marketing team, sales force, operators trainers, Tier 1 retailers clerks)• Strong relationship with project stakeholders throughout the global organization

Rome Area, Italy

Commercialisation Product Manager at HTC Italy responsible of the commercialisation for Retail, TIM, WIND, MVNO and B2B, managing the product delivery (packaging, documentation, SW approval, shipments, defect management, SW updates, operators technical approval process) through cross functional relationships with Global R&D, CPM EMEA, supply chain, sales, marketing and management by periodically reporting project status to them and agreeing together the necessary actions to succeed. Until June 2011, Global Technical Account Manager for H3G.

Rome Area, Italy

Software Quality Assurance Engineer at HTC Italy providing on-site technical support to EMEA OpCos and customers for issue identification, investigation and fix. In addition, support to regional Product dept. for technical meetings, presentations, events.

Rome Area, Italy

Project Manager at Telecomitalia, responsible of the validation team of Telcordia Network Engineer, a geospatial planning & engineering system for design, documentation and management of the physical Access NGN and associated inventory. In addition, interface towards Accenture (SW developer) and Telcordia (vendor) for the project management.

Rome Area, Italy

Senior IOT Radio Engineer at LG Electronics Italy carrying out management and lab test activity for the validation of Qualcomm and EMP based UMTS handsets for H3G Italy and Vodafone. In addition I cooperated with EMP in the development of a tool for test and log post-processing automation in order to calculate KPIs for OpCos.

Rome Area, Italy

Responsible for the project and the team of Field Test in Italy. In addition, planning and execution of training to other european teams involved in the project.

Rome Area, Italy

Customer Test Architect for Motorola Electronics for the development and the validation of 3G products by italian and european operators, being technical interface towards internal stakeholders and the customer. In addition, team and test activity coordinator.

Rome Area, Italy

Responsible for re-establishing the data reliability of the company sites DB, re-engineering of application processes, specification definition and test of SW releases of applications for broadcasting and telecasting network management.

Rome Area, Italy

In the O&M dept. I was responsible for the Site Maintenance Contract for civil and plant engineering infrastructures of Central Italy UTRAN managing budget, warehouse, suppliers and SLA.

Rome Area, Italy

Oracle base course, dealing with:• SQL• PL/SQL• Report Developer Suite 10g• Fundamentals of Object Oriented Languages (Java)

Executive Mba

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Telecommunications Engineering, 103/110

Dissertation Titled "Project and Simulation of Error Control Protocols (ARQ) for a Broadband Wireless Network". The work is part.