Julien Drouet

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Chicago, IL, 60640 acd52j@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Strategy: Over 6 years of experience

Defined and executed global products strategy and roadmaps in the mobile wireless (4G/3G/2G) and gaming

industries (land based and networked).

Brought new products and solutions to markets worldwide and opened new markets.

Established go-to-market strategy for international markets with our sales team (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe,

Americas), with our product distributors, and with our content distributors .

Led the international revenue integration activities for product management during the acquisition of WMS by

Scientific Games for $1.5B (combined company of $2B revenue) . Identified new projects for the combined

company to significantly increase our i nternational revenue and profit.

Engineering: Over 8 years of experience

Organized and managed strategic projects .

Designed and developed solutions for new technologies such as 3G/ 4G wireless networks.

Supervised projects with over 30 engineers distributed around the world (Asia, Europe, and USA).

Leadership: Over 10 years of experience

Managed teams in large and medium size companies.

Showed capacity to adapt to new situations or environment s by coming to study and then work in the US and

by successfully transitioning from the telecom industry to the gaming industry.

Language:

Bilingual in French and English.

Work Experience

10.11–Present Scientific Games (acquired WMS Industries), http://www.wms.com, Product Management, USA

Senior Director of Product Management

Own business lines for international (outside of the North America) casino products generating $150m of

annually.

o Define global business and product strategy with Sales for our casino business (3 year forecast,

pricing strategy, RFP/RFI, content strategy, etc) .

o Support strategies with business cases and through WMS-gate process.

o Own product roadmaps for all international regions.

o Head a specific business segment targeted to expand from $10m to $60m of revenue in the next 5

years. Led the team that presented the project to CEO/Chairman for approval and achieved approval

of a $15m investment in the next 5 years .

o Direct region specific content and product in order to capture new business segments.

o Capture and document market requirements.

o Champion new price models to increase global business .

o Form and maintain content distribution agreement with third party companies internationally .

Lead for the international revenue integration activities for product management for the acquisition of WMS

by Scientific Games.

Director of International Product Management

Own product and business lines for international casino products generating $150m of revenue annually

o Revamped international product management team and product strategy with Sales (3 year forecast,

pricing strategy, RFP/RFI positioning, content strategy, etc) .

o Created international product portfolio with the sales and development teams to serve customers

across the world.

o Met customers across the globe to define market needs and requirements .

Rating

Consistently exceed expectation in 2012 and 2013 (promotion July 2013).

Consistently met expectations in 2011.

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05.11–10.11 Nokia Siemens Networks, www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com, Product Management, USA

Line Manager

Tasked to create the vision, strategy, and execution for the heterogeneous network (HetNet) composing of

multi-technologies (2G/3G/4G + WiFi) and from small cells to large cells.

Contributed to the creation and the delivery of a product platform supporting multiple RAN.

SingleRAN Product Management interface for North American customers.

08.08–05.11 Motorola Solutions, www.motorolasolutions.com, Product Management, USA

4G Group Product Manager

Led a team of three product managers for the 4G Radio Access Networks (RAN) software (SW).

Own the WiMAX, FD-LTE, and TD-LTE RAN SW roadmap (4G investment of $250m+ in 2010).

Proposed technology transition from WiMAX to LTE. Presented solutions to customers across the globe to

best utilize their spectrum in the transition.

Marketed 4G RAN SW products to customers (revenue of $500m+ in 2010).

Major interface for RAN product management for many key US and International accounts.

Identified market requirements and proposed solutions to customers’ challenges and business needs.

Contributed to go-to-market strategy definition (agreed with senior leadership team).

Contributed and led responses to contracts, RFIs, and RFPs (40+ active WiMAX networks)

Smart Grid Solution Architect

Determined total available market (TAM) for the M2M/smart grid vertical for WiMAX/LTE.

Own PdM solution architecture and documentation (from solution overview to detailed architecture).

Supported the SP Ausnet bid win (680K customers in Australia) and for other smart grid opportunities.

Rating

OS (Outstanding performance – Top 10%) in 2009, 2010, 2011.

09.00–08.08 Motorola Inc, www.motorola.com, Research and Development, USA

GSM and WiMAX Technical Manager

Planned and managed the code and system integration (Agile development) of the firmware program (DSP

& FPGA) for Motorola’s 2nd generation W iMAX modem (team of 30+ engineers) .

Managed the development multiple features for GSM/GPRS/EGPRS feature (team of 3 engineers) .

Own technical requirements, design, development, testing, and support of this feature .

GSM Product Quality Champion & Field Support Engineer

Analyzed product returns to identify the return root causes and to reduce their number (multi-million dollars

savings by reducing returns by ~40%). Obtained the 2004 WBTS VP Quality Award at Motorola .

Investigated and fixed software radio access issues during GSM and WiMAX new product introduction .

Own TL9000/ISO9000 Project Planning compliance (training, tracking, and planning) .

GSM and WiMAX Development Engineer

Implemented real time algorithms for Motorola’s first WiMAX 802.16e modem (CC/C++ and Matlab code).

Developed the GSM/GPRS/EDGE equalizer in assembly code running on Freescale DSP.

Rating

OS (Outstanding performance – Top 10%) in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008.

ES (Exceed expectation – Top 20%) in 2000, 2001, 2007.

MX/VP (Constantly Met Expectations/Val ued Performer) in 2003 and 2006.

06.00–09.00 Illinois Institute of Technology, http://www.iit.edu/engineering/ece/, Research, USA

Assistant Researcher

06.99–08.99 European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, http://www.eads.com, R&D, France

Intern Engineer in R&D

Education

2006 MBA, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, International Business and Finance, GPA=3.95/4.0

2000 MS Electrical Engineering, IIT, USA, Communication Theory and Signal Processing, GPA=3.654/4.0

2000 Degree of Engineering, ENSEA, France, Real Time Analysis of Signals

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