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London, Gb

London, Gb

Technology global lead for Vodafone's consumer home product portfolio. Heading the full technology end-2-end: strategy, vendor management, development and end-2-end product life-cycle for award-winning products such as our SecureNet , Home Devices including CPEs / Consumer IoT & SuperWiFi, as well as OneNumber (multiSIM) and RCS messaging across Vodafone's footprint in Europe, Africa and Asia.Overseeing a product-oriented agile organisation of 150+ people across Europe, Egypt and India. Responsible for Vodafone network-based products incubator. Member of the senior technology leadership team for Tech2025 transformation.

London, Gb

Reporting to Vodafone Group's CTO - Executive assignment to transform the Consumer Products and Services technology organisation (1000+ people) bringing it close to the Network and IT horizontals while maintaining product deliveries and operational commitments.Achievements: Transformation completed within schedule and without impact on deliveries or operational commitments.

London, Gb

Heading the department responsible to define the Group strategy and to execute a across the global footprint on the following Vodafone key consumer product areas:• Comms evolution (voice, video, messaging and value-add services) and multi-device.• Telco messaging monetisation (RCS AP2) and messaging-as-a-digital-channel.• Malware, phishing and virus protection combined with parental control.• 5G service incubation and existing services evolution.End-to-end technology accountability (strategy, definition, execution and life cycle), leading a product oriented agile organisation of 100+ people across UK, Germany, Spain & India.Achievements: - Transformation of SecureNet from mobile only to converged while maintaining profitability and customer NPS. - Launch the OneNumber (mutli-device) service across 7 countries covering weareables, tablets, PCs and - Scaling RCS service to backend by moving into a software-based architecture developed in-house digital assistants enabling a reach of over 600m customers (on-net and over interconnect).

London, Gb

Leading the team responsible to define the technical roadmap and execute the design, development and engineering for the IP evolution of messaging (Message+) and voice (Call+) services based on a IMS-based GSMA standards (RCS and VoLTE). Achievements:• Commercial launch of the Message+ and Call+ services across 16 Vodafone Markets in 4 continents with 10M+ subscribers and interconnected with 3 Tier 1 mobile operators.• Pioneered a centralised fully virtualised backend, enabling Vodafone to deliver the RCS-based services 50% faster, a cost-reduction of 70% and proven commercial scalability.• Build my Vodafone and GSMA teams from scratch achieving a recognition in terms of employee engagement, diversity and performance.

1 Angel Lane, London, Gb

Representing Vodafone at the top Technology groups in the GSMA - Technology Group and Industry Specification Approval Group.

1 Angel Lane, London, Gb

Elected chairman for the IP Communication Steering Group in charge of defining messaging, voice and video services industry roadmap as input to the GSMA Technology workgroups (i.e. Network, Terminals, Interoperability, etc.) reporting to the GSMA Industry Specification Approval Group.Supporting Vodafone's participation in the GSMA Industry Specification Approval Group and Technology Group and leading Vodafone's internal GSMA technology community.

1 Angel Lane, London, Gb

Member of the GSMA Network 2020 IP Communications Leadership team responsible to define and execute the industry IP service evolution strategy for messaging, voice and value add services focusing on technology and interoperability for IP Comms. Achievements:• Google’s adoption of the RCS as the de-facto messaging technology for Android.• Set the basis of the RCS monetisation ecosystem (Messaging-as-a-Platform).

1 Angel Lane, London, Gb

Leading the group defining technical specification development and interoperability accreditation frameworks.Achievements:• Definition and realisation of the RCS ecosystem foundations enabling interoperable commercial deployments worldwide.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Project management responsibility for the delivery of customised software for smartphone chipset platforms towards handset OEMs combining both agile and traditional methodologies. Focusing on Greater China-region customers, my duties ranged from included pre-sales to customer delivery.Achievements: Commercial launch of 4 different families of smartphones with HTC, Alcatel TCT and Arima achieving the top customer satisfaction index among all customer teams.

Tokyo, Jp

Multidisciplinary role involving both being the delegate in the LiMo (Linux Mobile handset OS) industry consortium and leading the design and development of thin-client unified comms solution.Achievements: Beta roll out of the thin-client handset solution for Telefonica enterprise customers and publication of the LiMo/Tizen mobile OS 1.0 API following cross-industry agreement.

System and software development of the 2G/3G femtocell controller leading a team of 4 focusing on the server OSS integration and maiden roll-out at key customer sites.Achievements: Successful launch of the 2G+ solution with T-Mobile US and several tier 2 and 3 MNOs across Europe, Asia and South America.

Madrid, Es

Customer requirement lead, system design and software development focusing on the Vodafone Spain CRM, IT provisioning and product and services catalogue systems update. Achievements: Reduction of Vodafone Spain’s CRM request processing time by 30% average.

Ca

Working on the EU funded IST Moby Dick [IST-2000-25394] project, I researched on the optimisation of intra-technology handovers and IP mobility within an international consortium.Achievements: Probing world-wide first end-2-end intra-technology (WCDMA-WiFi) fast-handover.

Master Of Science (Msc), Telecommunications Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Telecommunications Enigneering