Alcatel-Lucent
- Director of Scientific Coordination, Applications Research Domain, Bell Labs
Paris
2009 - 2011
Drove excellence to enhance research impact of 7 departments worldwide on social networking, e-book, immersive communications, and smart spaces.
- Improved people development and scientific excellence.
- Facilitated sharing via website and regular “show & tell” events.
- Enhanced connections with business units and external partners.
- Strengthened innovation by exploring, facilitating and establishing business exploitation, industrial partnership, and academic collaborations.
Motorola Labs-Paris, Motorola S.A.S., France
- Manager, Edge Mobile Networking Lab
1997 - 2009
• Founded Motorola’s first comprehensive IP networking research lab, capable of technological research, software prototyping and testbed evaluation
• Coached staff and developed core expertise; led team in several organisational changes to re-align with corporate directives
• Enabled sustainable research pipeline via 3 PhD theses and 10 external collaborative projects, with effective internalisation of their results
• Managed and met annual department budget in USD and EUR, 10-15% of which sought and won from external funding
• Boosted organisational impact via technology commercialisation, as only department to win 3 business-sponsored accelerator projects, adding totally 2.14M USD for technology implementation, validation and transfer
• 100% on-time and high-quality deliverables to stakeholders, leading to customer satisfaction and appreciation
• Highly effective leadership, communication, motivational and inspirational skills leading to recognition as most effective manager by subordinates in annual MYSAYMOTO surveys
• Pioneered and led technologies and software development for IP-based fixed-mobile convergence of networking across public, enterprise and home networks (including Ethernet, WLAN, cellular 2/3/4G, WiMAX, and DVB)
- IP node and network mobility in mixed IPv4-IPv6 environment for multimode mobile devices and moving vehicular networks
- IP integrated architecture with AAA, mobility and QoS
- IP mobile multicast and multiparty transport overlay
- Cross-layer functional co-operation to optimise quality of user experience
- IP gateway for connection-oriented wireless access
- Multi-session multimedia player for mobile internet devices
• Built substantial intellectual-property portfolio (19 patents granted and 22 pending) and software assets
• Pioneered and led technologies and software development for semantic web and mobile intelligent agents
• Led diverse teams in fulfilment of corporate productivity, quality and bottom-line objectives, leading to better co-ordinated and streamlined IP networking research programs and roadmaps across all concerned Motorola Labs teams in Paris, Schaumburg, Marlborough, Tokyo and Sydney
• Influenced strategies and decisions in CTO reviews, leading to uninterrupted approval and support of programs and projects
• Adapted technologies to engage business organisations
- Public safety: advanced IP-based public-safety networking architecture supporting security, mobility, multicast, wireless TCP and VPN for mobile nodes and moving networks
- Mobile device: IP node and network mobility software for multimode devices in mixed IPv4-IPv6 environment
- Network: FMIPv6, PMIPv6 and network-assisted mobility management for IP mobility between WiMAX and WiFi
• Drove company strategies in standards (FIPA, IETF, ETSI MESA and IEEE 802.21)
• Promoted technologies and company profile in demo events: Motorola annual tech fairs, 3GSM (2006), FT/Orange Tech Fair (2006), FMCA (2008)
• Engaged customers with research presentations, leading to Motorola commercial and research collaborations with FT, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI
• Pioneered Systems Beyond-3G vision in EU 5th and 6th Framework Programmes for Research and Development, giving Motorola strong position to influence related activities and projects sponsored by EU
• Motivated research community with release of LIVSIX (2004) as first open-source IPv6/MIPv6/NEMOv6 stack (developed in Linux)
• Elected since 2005 to SABA (Science Advisory Board Associate), representing top 1.5% of Motorola technical community
• Distinguished Innovator (10 patents granted and 3 pending) since 2008
