St phane H. Maes

E-mail: abpm52@r.postjobfree.com Phone: +1-203-***-****

Web : http://www.stephanemaes.com/smaes/ Resume: http://www.essem.com/smaes/resume/sm.pdf

Experienced Executive proven successful at driving inbound, outbound architecture and strategy as well as managing

international / world wide distributed teams. Main recent role included: 1/3rd devoted to product architecture (i.e. Chief

Architect role), 1/3rd to outbound architecture (e.g. architecture and technical strategy for customer engagements, field

activities and industry activities (partners, standards) and 1/3rd technical strategy input (e.g. product roadmap, business

plan, investment, M&A, technical part of marketing messages).

Current CTO and Chief Architect, Cloud Products, HP Software, HP

functions:

Experience: HP [Cupertino, CA, USA]

Q1 2012 - Present:

CTO and Chief Architect, Cloud Products, HP Software

HPSW Cloud Products and Cloud Automation Products

Key product included CSA, CDA, CM, IaaSC, HP OpenStack

HPSW part of Pan-HP Cloud

HP Converged Cloud

Key additional products to be brough to cloud: HP MaaS, HP SaaS, Security /

Management, Hybrid IT, Applications Transformation, ALM, ALI, BSM

HP Cloud Offerings for Service Providers

HP/ALU cloud system offerings and integration

CMS (e.g. AP4SaaS) and Cloud

& CTO and Chief Architect, Software Automation, HP Software

Key product included products like SA (was LoudCloud/Opsware), DMA, MOE,

Ericsson [Stockholm, Sweden, Plano TX and San Jose CA, USA]

Q2 2011 Q1 2012:

Architecture and Technical Strategy (Inbound/Outbound) for BMUM World Wide

and its R&D, Regional Engagements Practices (EPs), Customer Units (CUs)

Activities and Industry Activities

Key product included: MSDP, ECE, MiO, MSP, eStore, MLP, ADC, TV,

mHealth, M2M, RBT, RCS(-e), ICCE/UVP.

Member of BMUM/CBA LT (Leadership Team), CBA WW Engagement Practice

Solution development and startetgy (Lead), Ericsson Cloud Program,

Key Achievements at Ericsson: (censored and non exhaustive):

Re-architect and consolidate portfolio around a coherent and consistent offering

of a modular platform (Service Enablement) that is also next genration and

futureproof for M2M, Cloud, Enterprise and internet

Vision and strategy updates reflected for example in BMUM re-org (TV and

CBA consolidation, reduced (Investment) focus on service enablement vs.

OSS/BSS and and media)

Supported numerous key accounts and wins (especially in regions like North

America, South East Asia/Oceania, Middle East and India)

Drove cross Ericsson activities and teams:

API Exposure and Service Enablement framework (established by Ericsson

Strategy Board cross BMUM, BNET, BUGS, Ericsson Research, Group

Functions and regions): establish a commonly agreed upon

blueprint/framework, stragegy and architecture / project guidelines.

Applied to all Ericsson projects related to Applications or to service

layer enablement, especially SOA, Cloud Services, M2M Enablement,

SDP/ API/Network exposure in particular: Next Evolution of Network

Architecture strategic corporate decisions; M2M service enablement

and SDP/VAS product roadmap and product architecture

Ericsson Java application server strategy to address challenges with roadmap

of AS in use and plethora of other AS usages (established by Ericsson group

functions with direct impact on BMUM and BNET deliverables, roadmap

anddevelopment/ investment strategy)

Integration framework cross Ericsson offerings (Group unction initiative) (~

AIA like)

Cloud service and cloud infrastructure programs

M&A and partnership proposals

Huawei Technologies and Futurewei, [Shenzhen, PRC and Santa Clara, CA,

USA]

Q4 2009 Q2 2011:

Chief Architect and CTO, SDP and Consumer Services, Applications and Software,

(Huawei Software Company) [Reporting to China HQ / SW Company]

(Huawei SW Company: ~USD 3.5 B / Consumer SW: ~ USD 1.3B (2009 revenues))

& VP of Software Architecture, Technology Strategy And Planning, Futurewei US

R&D [Promoted Oct 2010 based on my impact on Huawei strategy for Software]

(Huawei SW Company: ~USD 3.5 B / Consumer SW: ~ USD 1.3B (2009 revenues))

Responsibilities:

Product/Offering/Solutions architecture:

SDP, Multinational SDP, new generation SDP (IT MW ready for Cloud) and

services

Digital Home and IPTV

RCS and NGIN

SDP Application store / market place and Digital Shopping Mall

Responsible of key customers and Huawei SW strategic projects and

directions:

Examples of strategic projects: Cloud Computing and SDP

Strategy and execution for Huawei SW with respect to IT/Enterprise/Internet

Member of Huawei Technologies SMC (Software Management Committee

Huawei Wide, not just Huawei SW Company), Huawei SW ARB

Face of Technology for Huawei Consumer SW for industry and

customers:

C-Level and Technical decision makers

Industry events

Standards (Strategy, coordination, representation)

Details of Role at Huawei

Inbound Architecture:

Guidance of all Huawei SW Consumer R&D projects

Review of all Huawei SW Consumer R&D projects

Mentoring of European SW R&D Center and projects (Architecture

Center for Huawei SW Consumer BU)

Outbound architecture:

Standard and Industry events

Field support and Evangelization of industry, Customers (C-Level and

Technical decision making) and Partners

Technical Strategy:

Strategy for SW at Huawei

Huawei Consumer SW technical srategy aspects

US R&D Support:

Advisor to Innovation Project selection and execution

CTO role for Software Technology planning and Projects at Futurewei

US R&D.

Key Achievements at Huawei: (censored and non exhaustive)

Huawei SDP passing Oracle and Ericsson to become #1 mostly thanks to the

initiatives that I drove:

Multinational SDP: IT/SOA design instead of original design for

Chinese Operators; Beach heads outside China with support/success

story within LATAM (Telefonica LATAM, America Moviles);

Interest and adoption by all multinational operators (Adopted:

Telefonica Global, Vodafone GIG/LIG)

Hosted SDP services, Digital Shopping Mall and App store built on

Huawei Multinational SDP (Huawei hosted node as Global node cross

operator; one switch of a button subscription to service, applications

and content store for Operators and their customers)

Huawei RCS (Broader than GSM concept, including Unified

Messaging, Communications, Collaboration and Social Networking)

and NGIN on SDP as SDP communications package:

SDP as a platform also for Network projects and services (legacy

and NGN)

SDP as platform for IPTV and Digital Home

Adding Messaging Services and Infrastructure as a marketing and

selling ploy to increase market share and open legacy messaging

customers to SDP opportunities.

Huawei becoming #1 in IPTV market shares thanks to the IPTV migration to

SDP that I drove and the engagements (especially Middle East) around IPTV

and SDP that I supported

IPTV as SDP application; Digital Home as VAS and Application

store on SDP for IPTV

Strategy pushes resulting into Huawei Wide Reorganization and new

strategy in 2011 and its implications for Huawei SW and R&D with

reorganization across new BU: Carrier, Enterprises and Consumers (redefined

as Internet SPs) and focus on enterprise and Cloud.

Process and strategy recommendations Huawei wide on SW:

Organization and Process updates for product management, design and

architecture review, Open Source

New market focus (e.g. entry into Enterprise/IT market) resulting into

Huawei Wide Reorganization in 2011 mentioned above.

Specific recommendations (e.g. Mobile OS, MW, Cloud, Internet of

things)

Transformation of Huawei SW Company

Creation of ARB (Architecture Review Board) for R&D across SW

Company and co-chair

Update of SW Consumer and Platform processes with rules of

engagement to facilitate design guidance and mandatory reviews for

R&D, field engagements and industry activities

Refocus to include Enterprise and Internet as example and prelude of

Huawei wide re-organization and new strategy focus mentioned

above.

Some key R&D activities:

SDP evolution:

New architecture for new release

To support App store, IPTV, RCS, NGIN and prepare

for cloud evolutions

To fix challenges like cross SEE integration

performances, especially for multinational SDP

Evolution of MDSP (integration to OSS/BSS)

Flexible, modular and SOA to facilitate end to end SOA

business processes (a la eTOM, AIA, SDF/SES) and support

of Multinational SDP requirements (e.g. no exchange of

regulated customer data cross borders)

New functionalities of SDM (subscriber data

management) and BI

Strategy, Roadmap and blueprint for a next generation SDP

suitable for Internet SPs and Cloud

Advertisement platform and warehouse

Social network aggregation

Architecture and roadmap to evolve IPTV (and Digital Home) as SDP

applications

Architecture and roadmap to evolve:

Huawei RCS as a set of SDP applications

NGIN as SDP communications (a common SDP

architecture, treated as a SDP package). Includes update of

NGIN architecture and features and multiple SEE / SCE

integration (SNE), SOA/ EDA based

Rationalization of IMS TAS and SW SDP (including SDP

Communications) resulting into move of offerings and teams from

Huawei Core Network IMS to Huawei SW consumer/SDP

Ownership and drive of DSM (Digital Shopping Mall) as hosted

multinational SDP: Design and strategy proposal + strategy with

respect to SDP (media); Strategy with respect to WAC and

application store disintermediation; Pushed as ideal initial cloud

initiative for SDP and hosted SDPOwnership of Cloud activities

including securing agreements cross Huawei wide organization and

customer opportunities.

Reconciled cloud activities across Core Network, CRD, SW

Company and US R&D with a target architecture, strategy

and offering roadmap: uCloud as well as SDP and Cloud

Innovation investment recommendations cross SW, CRD and

European / US R&D: Next generation middleware; Cloud EDA;

Business Cloud; Internet of Things (IoT) / M2M architecture and

Strategy/Business plan for Huawei offerings in this area; Enterprise

offering proposal (Currently under review across Huawei for adoption

and investment)

Outbound:

Strategy and plan for SW Consumer standard ownership

Coordination and guidance of standard team

Representation at OMA, TMF, ONEAPI (GSMA) and WAC

Best SDP (MWC) and Best BSS awards (TMF)

in 2010

Strategy for Enterprise / IT offering (based for

reorganization discussed above)

Strategy for IoT (Internet of Things) / M2M (Currently under

review across Huawei for adoption and execution)

Key customer evangelization and wins for Multinational SDP; SDP

Telco 2.0 and DSM; SDM; Enterprise; SDP WebGate; IPTV; RCS;

SNS aggregation; NGIN/SDP Communications; Transformation;

Cloud (World Wide)

Many partner evangelization, partnerships setups and due

diligences

Oracle, Redwood Shores, CA, USA

Q4 2005 Q4 2009:

Chief Architect and CTO, Oracle Communications (Since Feb 2008)

Responsible for

Inbound architecture (across CGBU products OSS, BSS, SDP and AIA),

Technical strategy for CGBU wide + Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFMW) and

advisor on Cloud Computing strategy for OFMW (at the end)

Outbound architecture (Industry Evangelization, Customer / Field support and

Partners) CGBU wide + OFMW

Communications standards across Oracle

At same time on assignment in JAPAC (Japan / Asia / Pacific) to steer JAPAC

CGBU Field Activities (Sales, Pre-sales, Marketing) from Dec 2008 June 2009,

dotted line report to JAPAC GM

Train and Re-organize JAPAC CGBU field

Collect customer / market feedback on products

On the job training

Chief Architect and CTO, Mobile, Voice, and Communications, Oracle, since March

2007

Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFMW) / Server technologies and now CGBU

(Communications Global Business Unit)

Sr. Director of Architecture, Mobile, Voice, and Communications Platforms,

Oracle, Between October 2005 and March 2007

Responsible for architecture and technical strategy for Communications

Platforms aimed at Communications Service Providers (Telcos and others) and

enterprises, including:

SDP in Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFMW) product architecture design,

support and review.

End to end Telco strategy and architecture, including OSS/BSS/SDP

integration (SDP/OFMW, EM, Siebel, EBS, Metasolv, BRM(Portal

Software), NetSure, ERP, ), based on Oracle AIA for Communications

++ design. This also includes in-depth involvement, with evangelization,

architecture and strategy support for Oracle CGBU (Communications Global

Business Unit) and Apps (Siebel/MDM).

Technical support of business development, evangelization and technical

review of potential partnership, acquisition, joint activities and customer

engagement (RFXs, POCs) for SDP and end to end integrations.

Outbound evangelization of Oracle vision (SDP, SOA, end to end integration,

AIA/SDF, Pragmatic IMS, Convergence, Service Layer for Telcos, ) with

numerous papers, talks and seminars (including some with record setting

attendance or recipients of best session awards).

Some key achievements

Father of Service Delivery Platform (SDP) architecture, strategy and

execution targeted to Telcos and Service providers as well as enterprise /

internet. Vision drove SOA design like OMA OSE and TMF SDF and pushed

Parlay to join OMA etc.

Brought Oracle from a few mobile / WAP and messaging deals to the

#1 in 2009 in SDP MW market shares.

Gain industry support for OSE vision of an IT SOA based blueprint to

service provider service layer environment (and relationship to network

layers, IMS etc for example).

Business plan, vision and strategy that created Oracle SDP activities around

OSE as new middleware activities and resulted into several acquisitions

(and refusals).

Key design, strategy and argument based on end to end OSS/BSS/SDP

integration that resulted into AIA for Comms then Oracle AIA across

Industries, influenced TMF SDF and resulted into the biggest SDP deal

ever closed in the industry.

Base for Oracle AIA.

Support of sales / field and closed many key deals for SDP and CGBU

(even before the SDP activities were in place or when most did not believe

in them). Meet many customers, partners, analysts and competitors...

On the way to getting SDP/Communications strategy in place:

Reshaped Oracle Enterprise Wireless, Telephony, RTC platform (Real

Time Collaborations), tools and applications like OCS (Oracle

Collaboration Suite) around Standard technologies (SIP, RTP, HTTP,

VoiceXML, ). This included:

Setting a new strategy and consolidating all telephony/voice activities at

Oracle

Driving an open standard Mobile Email strategy, business case, industry

evangelization and standardization that resulted into Lemonade/P-IMAP

(Today a set of IETF RFC widely adopted and considered as next

generation IMAP/SMTP), support of OMA Mobile Email Enabler

(MEM), now close to completion, widely supported and considered as

the next generation standards for email.

Cleaned up as Architect the Oracle Wireless AS, OCS Mobile and Oracle

Lite stories and fitted them in the bigger pictures of Oracle (Telco and

Communications) Strategies by consolidated them within OFMW, OCS

(see above) and Oracle DB

Responsible for coordinating, representing Oracle and driving Communications

standards across Oracle (including OMA, IETF, 3GPP/2, Parlay, OSGi, TMF (SDF),

JCP (e.g. JSR 116/289/309), IEEE NGSON, SIP Forum and relevant activities at

W3C, OASIS, Liberty, WS-I, etc.), as well as industry initiatives (Mobile Email

Interest Group, IT/Operator Forum), Chair OASIS TMS, OMA Board of Director (till

2006, again for 2 years starting Dec 2008) .

Active member of Oracle ARB (Architecture Review Board), ASG Core

(Architecture Steering Group) + chair of Communications, SDP and Standards

working groups, ASSC (application Standards Steering Committee), Corporate

Standard Leadership.

Some areas of focus:

Service Delivery Platform (SDP)

Applying business rule via Policy-based orchestration and Service Gateway

SIP / J2EE / Parlay / IMS (JSR 289, JSR 309, )

Carrier grade middleware and HA for converged applications

End to end OSS / BSS integration with SDP

Mobile email standardization: Lemonade/P-IMAP support of OMA Mobile

Email Enabler (MEM)

Voice / Telephony /Multimodal middleware

RTC middleware

Telco / service provider middleware and application

Enterprise mobilization

Standardization

Policy enforcement workflow, orchestration and service gateway/ rule engine and

business rules factorization (PEEM, BPEL, Rule engines) and SCA (Service

Component Architecture)

Q2 2004 Q4 2005:

Director of Architecture, OCS Division, Oracle

Responsible for:

Technical strategy and architecture for all service aspects of OCS 11g product re-

design

Same standard coordination and representation as above

Corresponding industry evangelization

Member of Oracle ARB (Architecture Review Board)

Some areas of focus:

Mobile access to OCS

SIP / RTC and ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), including common OCS client

Presence services for OCS

Moving P-IMAP to Lemonade and dealing with OMA DS

Proofs of concepts of P-IMAP with several Telcos and ISPs

OCS for Telcos and Service providers

Presentation to ST Division and CEO of case for Telco initiative and initiations

of corresponding activities (e.g. new Mobile, Voice, and Communications

Platforms division, M&As, ).

Q4 2004 Q2 2005:

Director of Architecture, Mobile and RTCC OCS Division, Oracle Corporation

Responsible for:

Technical strategy and architecture for all RTCC (Real Time Communications

and Collaborations) aspects of OCS (Oracle Collaboration Suite) 10gR1/R2

Same standard coordination and representation as above

Corresponding industry evangelization

Member of Oracle ARB (Architecture Review Board)

Some areas of focus:

Evangelization, standardization and implementations (Oracle, server vendors and

device manufacturers) of P-IMAP

Moving OCS RTC to SIP:

Web conference

Voice chat

Presence

Voice and Telephony

Voice mail and Conference

Mobile Communication server

Device Information repository and proposal to W3C

Adopted by W3C Mobile Web Initiative

OMA DS

OMA DM/CP, provisioning and Application life cycle management

Calendaring

Notification modeling and EDA

OCS on demand (for service providers, hosted services)

Preparation of business and strategy case to ST Division and CEO for Telco

initiative

Q4 2002 Q4 2004:

Director of Architecture, Wireless and Voice AS Wireless Division, Oracle

Corporation

Responsible for:

Technical strategy and architecture for:

AS Wireless (AS 904i, AS 10g)

Oracle Lite

Mobile, telephony and voice access to OCS

EDA (SOA, EBS), notifications and RFID Program Office

Same standard coordination and representation as above

Corresponding industry evangelization

Member of Oracle ARB (Architecture Review Board) Representative for AS

Wireless Division

Some areas of focus:

Strategy for mobile email: open standard-based

Design, Evangelization, standardization and implementations (Oracle, server

vendors and device manufacturers) of P-IMAP

Voice and Telephony strategy for Oracle

XHTML/XForms and Multi-channel Server, Tools and portal

Including voice and multi-modal access

XForms smart client (Offline and intermittent connectivity)

ADF Mobile development tool (Oracle JSF and IDE)

Mobilization of Oracle applications (EBS)

Multi-channel intelligent messaging / notification server

Design and standardization of OSE, PEEM

IMS / Parlay positioning

Initial concepts of a service delivery platform and content delivery platform:

Proposal, strategy and design

Win of a major tier one operator (with numerous affiliates) beating major

competitors and repeat with several other tier 2 operators.

Support of Oracle Consulting and SIs/Partners engaged in projects

IBM Human Language Technologies, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,

Yorktown Heights, NY

Q1 2002 Q3 2002:

Research Lead for Wireless Computing Standards and Technologies

Lead of the IBM Pervasive Computing Strategic Framework Architecture Project

Research Staff Member Manager, Mobile Speech Solutions and Conversational

Multimodal Advanced Technologies, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Human

Language Technologies Department.

Lead Research wireless computing task force (Research, Pervasive Computing

Division, IGS, Communications Sectors, Technology Group): architecture,

standards (OMA, 3GPP, 3GPP2, ETSI, IETF, ) and Research activities.

Drive the research strategy for wireless standards and technologies and its

implications for wireless e-business.

o On assignment to PvC division, this work directly contributes to the

Pervasive computing strategic framework in terms of standards,

architectures (e.g. design and strategy proposal for SPDE (Service Provider

Delivery Environment) (First IT/SOA based SDP), Websphere Voice and

Telephony Server architecture and strategy to replace DT-6/AIX-6000) and

technologies.

Lead the coordination of the different mobile architecture across PvC, IGS, CS and

standards:

E.g design of SPDE (Service Provider Delivery Environment).

Lead for IBM end-to-end multimodal strategy

Chair of the IBM Multimodal Standard Board (IMSB)

Awarded title of Master Inventor at IBM

IBM representative at (Voice, Multimodal and Conversational): W3C (MMI WG,

DI WG), 3GPP, WAP Forum / OMA, ETSI (Aurora/STQ), IETF (AVT, CATS),

ITU (SG-16)

Manage voice, multi-channel, multimodal and multi-device standard activities (i.e.

in addition to above: Voice, XML events, XForms)

Manage worldwide team to perform research, deliver prototypes and product

components to PvC division and Research EBO (Emerging Business opportunity):

Interaction manager (Suspend and Resume, Multimodal browser, DSR speech

recognition framework, Speech Engine Remote Control Protocols (SERCP))

XForms processor and IBM internal XForms open source project

Conversational multimodal browser

MMS (MultiMedia Services) based on INS (Intelligent Notification Server)

DSR Speech recognition framework and SERCP support by client and server-

side speech middleware offerings

X+V

Customer evangelization and contacts.

In 2002, I brought in several customers for multimodal EBO and joint projects

(including 5 Telcos/MNOs).

Active participant to:

IBM XForms Task force

IBM-wide, Research and Corporate/IP multimodal and voice task forces

Multimodal Research EBO engagements

Next Web / WSXL task force and monitor OASIS WSIA, WSRP TCs

Pervasive Computing strategy Deep Dive

DRM:

Coordinate strategy and architecture efforts to interoperate Mobile DRM

(3GPP, WAP, ODRL) with multimedia internet DRM (MPEG-21, ISMA,

OASIS RTC).

1997 - 2002:

Strategist and architect for IBM Multi-channel, Multimodal and Conversational activities:

Multimodal e-business for Mobile Internet:

Owned standardization activities and representation (same list as above: W3C, ETSI,

WAP, 3GPP and ITU)

Owned Research activities coordination and liaison to product groups (Manager)

CTO and strategist for IBM Multimodal EBO and Multimodal joint development

activity between Research and Software Group (PvC, AIM, Voice Systems).

Proposed the principles and managed the specification to introduce VoiceXML as a

module for XHTML in answer to SALT. This led to the XHTML + Voice W3C

note (X+V).

Promoted XForms, XML events and XForms-based device-independent authoring as

strategic programming model for IBM

Co-inventor and designer of iML/CML (interaction ML / Conversational ML):

precursor of XForms and DI single authoring

Initiated IBM-wide interest and support for multimodal computing

Obtained funding for Multimodal EBO

Initiated and obtained funding for IBM-wide multimodal computing initiative

Co-architect of the IBM Next generation conversational / telephony architecture,

basis for next generation of telephony and voice component of portal offering (Based

on speech engines and audio sub-systems as web services, DSR speech recognition

framework and SIP/SDP/RTP stack).

Co-inventor and co-designer of SpeechML (IBM contribution to VoiceXML Forum)

and speech browser.

Developer of DOM-based MVC multimodal architecture and execution model.

Member of IBM Multimodal Executive Committee.

Research strategist for Conversational, Multimodal and Next Web, in particular Next

Web integrations, architecture and programming model:

Developed underlying architecture and formalism for WSXL (transposition and

extensions of DOM-based MVC architecture and execution model for multimodal

and multidevice browsing.

People & team / project management:

Long term and short term research support and algorithm/architecture improvements of

form-based dialog managers and statistical NLU/NLG for telephony offerings;

universal telephony conversational architecture.

Conversational Computing: conversational middleware and architectures, e-Voice,

speech browser, VoiceXML, re-usable dialog components, objects and foundation

classes, transcoding, conversational platforms and clients, servers, hybrids.

Multimodal conversational systems: UIs, browsers / user agents, shells, APIs, protocols

and tools; XForms, multiple authoring, single authoring, declarative and imperative

programming models - tools and runtime support.

Distributed Conversational systems: APIs, protocols and algorithms, conversational

networking, DSR, RecoVC, VoiceTIMES, speech engines as web services.

Team of more than 25 direct reports, world wide and many more dotted line

In addition, until December 2000:

Speaker recognition and biometrics: core algorithm research, product development and

APIs across platforms (SVAPI, BioAPI, ).

Created the activity, built the team and obtained funding for adventurous Research

project (4 years)

Developed the core technology (winner of 2002 DARPA evaluation).

Several shipped product (desktop, telephony, embedded (cars and PDAs))

Embedded speech systems: reference architectures, acoustic models, noise robustness,

multimodal and conversational user interfaces, browsers. Research and product

development.

Shipped acoustic models for car environment and PDAs.

Speech-enabled Palm Pilot (PSA- Personal Speech Assistant): Hardware, Software,

Industrial Design, Business issues and Marketing / customer contacts.

Multimodal and conversational portals.

1995-1998:

Transcription of radio and TV data (including HUB-4, Switchboard and audio-visual

automated transcription systems and products).

LVCSR - speech recognition (including Switchboard Telephony environment).

Research in speaker recognition and speech biometrics (Desktop, Embedded,

Telephony including IVR environments).

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

1994 1995:

Member of Technical Staff

Research on robust speech recognition and acoustic modeling and some auditory

modeling.

Additional

Activities:

2011 - Advisor

Present Several start-ups

Skype (informal)

Several Telcos, IT and ICT organizations (e.g. Informa)

2008 2011 Kaqquru (Stealth mode)

Co-Founder and CTO

Advisor

Qik.com now Skype

o Instrumental in Operator s win by Qik.com by driving key aspects of the

strategy, message and technology approaches

o Key technology and strategy impact

o Initial strategy recommendations or Skype (mobile)

Several Telco and Cloud SP advisory activities (Architecture / Strategy)

Several Consultancy firms

Patent technology expert

2000 2008 Advisor

Several start-ups (including Qik.com precursors)

1993 2001 GEI (Global Environment Institute) (non-profit international educational

organization)

Co-Founder, Board Member and Curriculum Manager

UCL

Invited lecturer on signal processing and Conversational / Multimodal technologies

ISU

Invited lecturer (Space Engineering / Satellite Studies)

Member of BoD and advisory board of standard and industry bodies (e.g. OMA, WWC)

Additional

achievements:

Winning laureate of WTN (World Technical Network) for Software 2004.

Laureate for WTN 2009 for work on IT for Telcos in Software (individual and corporate

categories)

Invited speaker to several conferences and workshops.

Author of numerous scientific papers, books and scientific presentations (peer reviewed

journals, conferences), industry talks, presentations and keynotes as well as internal white

papers, technical and strategy proposals and design specifications

Including some seminar/webinar with record setting attendance (e.g. > 2500

o

for SDP TMGF Webinar) or recipients of several best session / papers / talks

awards

Reviewer / scientific committee for several activities.

Editor or co-editor of several standard specifications and numerous standard submissions

or contributions.

Expert on Text independent speaker recognition, speech biometrics and

ASR/conversational technologies

More than 200 published pending and granted patents, with 140+ granted and 60+

additional pending but not yet published patents:

One noted in MIT Technology Review as top 5 patents

o

Several patent licensed and providing significant licensing streams to IBM

o

Several IBM corporate, divisional and supplementary awards

o

Master Inventor (IBM)

o

Research division award for speaker recognition activity / group and patent

o

portfolio granted in 2008 for contributions that were made

In October 2008, IBM accepted (despite me having left since 2002) the

work done on Conversational Biometrics as a 2008 IBM science

accomplishment; a very prestigious award at IBM.

Some key design, industry initiatives and inventions:

Architecture, technologies and features for Next generation Middleware (IT/SOA

o

container evolution for the Cloud and NG-Data Centers)

Architecture and implementation for Cloud EDA (Event-driven Architecture) for

o

the Internet, cloud and NG-DC

Blueprint for a manageable next generation Internet of Thing (Machine to

o

Machine and the rest of us).

AIA (for Communications) that is SOA/EDA based and inspiring the

o

OSS/BSS/SDP integration and additional concepts beyond AIA (service level

charging, subscription management delegation to OSS/BSS, Unified User profile,

metadata for dependency characterization, resource management enablers, ).

Drive as a result the design of TMF SDF / SES

OSE as service layer blueprint for service provider and based of SOA based SDPs

o

and the notion of enablers and specific enablers (PEEM, Profile, Presence,

Call/media control, media server control, voice access, charging, )

Service provider delivery platforms (IBM SPDE, Oracle SDP, (OMA/ITU) OSE,

o

ParlayinOSE, IMSinOMA, Parlay / OMA REST, TMF SDF/SES, Huawei

(Multinational) SDP, DSM / Hosted SDP and multinational SDP / SDP for

Cloud)

SIP/HTTP/J2EE integration (JSR 289 and beyond along with views on a better

o

design ) and Telephony/voice platforms

Carrier-grade J2EE and use of distributed cache a la Coherence for HA across

o

multiple protocols

Service-level SCIM,, context and routing as well as Service level telephony AS

o

abstracted from network and with SOA based call / session control

Policy enforcement workflow, orchestration and service gateway/ rule engine and

o

business rules factorization (PEEM, BPEL, Rule engines) and SCA (Service

Component Architecture)

P-IMAP / Lemonade for open standard mobile email and resulting IETF

o

Lemonade (Approved IETF RFCs getting widely adopted)

Multimodal and conversational technologies: Multimodal and multi-device

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authoring, middleware and execution model, Interaction markup language and

multi-channel technologies, XForms and Device Independent Authoring

SpeechML (IBM submission to VoiceXML) / Conversational ML and

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conversational browser: father of VoiceXML and of resource management

protocols

Text independent speaker recognition, speech biometrics

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ASR / NLU / TTS techniques

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Invited Professor Universit Catholique de Louvain; Belgium - Graduate level course:

Ubiquitous Conversational Systems (Department of Electrical Engineering and

Department of Physics).

Executive Vice-President - Academics, COO and Member of the Board of Directors

Institute for Global Environmental Issues (1993-2000)

Fundamental impacts on companies product, strategies and organizations. A few

examples include:

New Activities:

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IBM Biometrics, IBM Embedded Speech, WebSphere Voice Server and

Telephony Server, Multi-channel, multimodal /conversational

computing, SPDE

Oracle Push Email, OCS RTMS, Oracle SDP activities, Oracle AIA,

IdM/UUP for Telcos, RT / CG Container and SOA

Huawei Enterprise / Internet / Cloud Focus, Next generation MW, IT-

inspired SDP (as common platform for all services beyond media and 3rd

parties like core/communications, messaging, RCS, IPTV etc), SDP and

Cloud with Multinational SDP, Application Store, DSM

Huawei SDP as multinational, distributed and as Cloud/hosted platform

+ DSM as Application store for Service Providers/Operators

Organizations:

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IBM: DT6000 => Websphere Voice Server (VoiceXML) + Speech

Groups => Software Group: AIM then PvC

Oracle:

All Oracle Telephony / RT / Email => OCS; All Telco MW

(e.g. Wireless AS, RT / Telephony in OCS) => OFMW SDP;

SPD + BEA => CGBU

Oracle CGBU reorganization of its PM/Dev activities

Huawei: Instrumental in initiating the reorganizations (on-going in 2011)

of Huawei SW and US R&D and now Huawei Wide along the lines of

Carrier, Enterprise and Consumer (i.e. Internet SPs).

M&As proposals (e.g. HotSIP, Net4Call, Convergin), due diligence (e.g. Portal

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Software, BEA) and driver of partnership/alliances (e.g. Oracle/HP on SDP,

Oracle/Ericsson on SIP/SDP, P-IMAP push email consortium (~ 25 companies),

Multimodal consortium (~ 10 companies), Oracle/NSN (MW), Oracle/Accenture

(SDP) and HP/ALU (Cloud)).

Education: 2008: Landmark Forum, Landmark Education.

2000 -2001: IBM, MBA Program (Tailored for IBM Research / Technical

Executives). Offered with NYU.

1990 1994: Universit Catholique de Louvain; Belgium (UCL) and CAIP, Rutgers

University, Piscataway, NJ (Visiting Scientist) while Research Associate for prestigious

Belgium National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS)

PhD in Science - Physics & Electrical Engineering (With Highest Marks):

Advisors: Professors. J-P Antoine and P. Delogne (UCL) I. Daubechies and R.

Mammone (Rutgers).

Thesis: "The wavelet transform in signal processing, with application to the extraction of

the speech modulation model features"

Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, (FNRS) - 1990-

1994

Visiting Researcher, Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity (CAIP), Rutgers

University, NJ, USA. 1992-1994 (worked with Prof. R. Mammone, J. Flanagan and I.

Daubechies).

DEA (Dipl me d' tudes approfondies) in T l communications (UCL) 1991 (Attended)

DEA (Dipl me d' tudes approfondies) in Physics (UCL) 1991

ISU Space Studies Degree International Space University (ISU) 1991 (Focus on

Satellite Engineering and group Thesis on International Manned Mission to Mars)

Prior 1985 1990: Universit Catholique de Louvain; Belgium (UCL)

education:

Dipl me d'Ing nieur Civil Electricien (i.e. MS. and BS. in EE) (1985-1990) (With

Highest Marks) (Thesis on Quantum Well Structure and its modeling for Electronics)

MS And BS in Physics (1986-1990) (With Highest Marks) (Thesis on Physics of

Quantum Well Structure)

Some Unique ability to rapidly design the right way, from the onset and be proven correct

Relevant on key principle and close on detailed proposals. At the same time, unique ability to

Skills: almost immediately detect wrong designs, from the onset and often be proven

correct.

Expertise in many domains, with strong academic background / degrees, industry

visibility and credentials, publications, achievements and patents).

Very broad deep technical skills resulting into unique analysis, design and plans of

attack and sometimes very impressive / disconcerting for unfamiliar parties exposed

to it.

Believe in designing with a strategy and a plan to execute on a vision and with a clear

purpose and understand that success takes time and commitment: plan must be

flexible but remain consistent to win.

Can convince, negotiate and compromise with many interested parties, including

opponents to align with strategy or plan. Very good in any argumentation or

presentation with consultants, customers or event competitors/skeptics: can sell

anything that makes sense, if believe in it. Grand Communicator with Customer,

Partners, Competitors and in Industry fora and events (as well as internally to staff

and management).

Experience at Management / Employee or Team growth (Had ~ 35+ directs at peak at

IBM) with many dotted lines. At Oracle and Huawei, I try to work with smaller team

and whole groups/projects/products dotted lines. I have or had several former or

existing VP Engineering, Chief Architects and CTO (including from publicly traded

companies) reporting to me.

Experience in M&A proposals, due diligence merger/absorption (Oracle Model) and

partnerships.

Flexible approaches to drive strategy and architecture and are adapted to the

characteristics of the company: at IBM, which understands well technology transfer, I

had a team to drive innovation, prototyping or product modules then transfer to

product teams / BUs and then working with the BUs on the next steps; at Oracle,

where innovations comes from development (PMs are also in development), the

approach was to work with and embed my team within the product development and

management to guide and coordinate the efforts and projects; At Huawei, where

processes are both overwhelming and random and location/language/culture and

practices rendering the previous approaches inefficient, my approach was to setup and

drive review and guidance meetings (the first and final are gating). (Ericsson is work

in progress).

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