Detailed Career

e Name : Willem Naudts a May 10th 1977 t

i Belgian V

Education : 1995-1997: Faculty of Engineering, Architecture

m 1997-2001: Department of Industrial Science and Technology, electronics u engineer, option Information and l Communication Techniques u c Languages : Dutch: mother tongue i English (speaking, writing, reading) r French (speaking, writing, reading) r u Professional Experience : Alcatel Bell, Antwerp

C August 2001 – April 2003 Network Integration Team, NIT Solutions Support Team, IP-TAC

Thomson Telecom May 2003 Technical Pre-Sales World Wide Support Technical Pre-Sales Manager May 2007 Concept Pre-Sales Manager

of 4 Detailed Career :

Thomson Telecom 05/2003 – Change focus to new concepts to explore new customers and new opportunities. Specifying and negotiating advanced services with ISPs and third parties. Concept Pre-Sales Manager The Technical Pre-Sales team is responsible of supporting the world wide local Technical Pre-Sales Manager technical sales people. The main focus is to increase the sales and solve blocking technical issues on a short term. The team is part of the business development and is one of the driving and steering elements to R&D.

Specialty Technical Specialist for the full CPE-range of Thomson “SpeedTouch” products. - Access technologies; ATM, Eth, IP, Fiber, DLS, PPP, … - VoIP; SIP, MGCP, H323 - Routing protocols; BGP, RIP, VRRP, … - Remote Management; TR69, TACACS, RADIUS, SNMP, … - Business features; 3G, EFM, OAM, VPN, IPSEC, … - Network design; Full 3Play scenario’s and network implementations Systems Integration

VoIP interoperability work-out from first introduction platforms to world wide customer interop and optimization, since Dec 2003. Tasks toward customers

Support local sales and technical team on increasing sales. New product introductions and product demonstrations. Train and guide local technical people, customers and resellers. Fairs and tradeshows set-up and demonstrate. Building up customer and maintaining 3party vendor’s relationship. Tasks towards Thomson

Follow up on SW implementations based on customer feedback. Customer scenario validation and acceptance. Roadmap discussions and priority mapping. Relation ship with other Thomson activities as STB, Cirpack, SmartVision, Telephony group, …, and try to implement solutions. Working-out and experimenting with concepts to provide customer focused inputs. Trainings

Document writing techniques (March 2004) Presentation techniques (June 2005) Management – Pontis (October 2006 - April 2007 & on the job) Advanced Linux application training (July 2007)

of 4 Alcatel Bell, Antwerp 08/2001 – 04/2003 Courses, mostly at Alcatel University Antwerp World of Internet 13-14/08/01 Network Integration Team, NIT TCP/IP 16-17/08/01 6 months & overlapping QoS 20/08/01 IPTAC VoIP 21/08/01 Solutions Support Team, IP-TAC IPsec 22/08/01 ADSL-ATM 10/09/01 A7300 ASAM 11/09/01 A7411 BAS 13-14/09/01 Speed Touch-VoDSL 19/09/01 A7310 LVG 20-21/09/01 A5523 AWS 3-5/10/01 Internet Security Specialist, Telindus 7-8/11/01 Xantium 28/01 - 01/02/02 Riverstone financial course 11-12/03/02 Riverstone field course 16-17/03/02 IMagicTV; VoD, Mcast, firmware 26-28/09/02

NIT experience  Newbridge; config and mainstreetXpress  Cisco series; NAT, PPPoA, ...  Omniswitch and OSRouter config  Fore Switch config + data shaping  OmniPCX; VoIP app. and IPsec  PPPoA & NAT tests with RIP and OSPF  RIP tests defined  BEM - BAS Element Management  CPEs test defined and tested: Netopia/RAD/CISCO/TMM  Security testing + Linux tools: DoS, Smurf, …  Setup Linux server; samba, web, mail, security, …  QoS for VoIP in DSL/ATM/IP network  MPLS rfc2547bis + demo  Mcast tests in core network  Upgrade and complete config + MPLS on 7670RSP-Juniper  Multicast firmware, iMagicTV  VPN L2-L3 + Martini & Kompella draft tests  IEEE 802.1x setup: Linux – RSTN – Microsoft

IP-TAC

On Call duty and assignments for IP-TAC Level-2 support EMAI (Europe, Middle-East, Africa and India) since December 2001

IP-TAC portfolio: Access:  Alcatel BAS (7404, 7410, 7411)  Redback (SMS) Core:  Juniper (M-routers)  Riverstone (routers)  Xantium (Alcatel 7770OBX) Projects:

of 4  July '02: Complete network IP-topology (access & core) + configuration + tests + fine tuning.  Aug.-Sept. '02: Gigabit network project, implementation and pre- configuration 28 Juniper routers  Sept ’02: Complete network setup (Riverstone – Redback) + following up + fine tuning  Dec ’02 – Feb ’03: Tests on 7670RSP – Juniper  Feb. ’03: implementations RBAK SMS10000

Courses taught:  July ’02: Basic configuration and BGP course on Riverstone (Switserland)  Aug. ’02: Theoretical and practical course on Juniper; Basics and MPLS for VoIP network. (Saudi Arabia)  Feb. ’03: Practical field course on Juniper (Belgium)

Personal Interests:

Computer Languages  School: Pascal, C/C++, VHDL, Visual C++, LabView, SQL  Thesis: Visual Basic and VBA, VB for Applications, SQL  Home: HTML, XML, (La)TeX, Java, Unix-OS, Microsoft, Perl, …

Student Jobs  electrician: PVD-lighting, Kapellen; 1992-1995  production labourer: CMC, Chicago Metallic Continental, Wijnegem; aug-sept 1996  salesman: AS Adventure, Schoten; 1997-2000  support: Brouwerij De Koninck, Debieten, Antwerp; aug-sept 1999

Sports  climbing, alpinism, traveling, mtb, sailing, windsurf, snowboard, running, swimming, salsa dancing

Interests  technology, space, communication systems, geography, nature

Personal Motivation I like to work in a young dynamic environment and developing, installing and using the newest technologies. As a network engineer I like to learn each day. I built a strong theoretical and practical networking knowledge. I like to use the combination of technical sales, product management and marketing as my strength in a world wide customer environment. International interaction and traveling are a nice experience.