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3GPP release 8 IMS Implementation, Deployment & Testing

Speakers’ Biographies

24 - 25 November 2010 Agora Einstein Sophia Antipolis

Antonio Ascolese, TILAB Antonio Ascolese actually works for TILAB, the Innovation Centre of Telecom Italia. From 2002 to 2010 he deals with Core Network (GPRS, UMTS ed IMS) and Policy issues (PCC). Since August 2007 he attends to the 3GPP CT WG3, which is in charge of defining the interworking aspects between 3GPP PLMNS towards internal or external networks and of developing the Policy and Charging Control requirements and end-to-end QoS mechanisms. In 2007 and 2008 he drove and sponsored (as rapporteur) the definition of 3GPP TS 29.165, known as II-NNI specification.

Andrea Bellocchi, Wind Telecommunication S.p.A. Andrea Bellocchi, Network Planning Specialist (Core & IMS), Wind Telecommunication S.p.A. Graduated from University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1996. Joined the Strategic Planning Department of Telecom Italia Mobile in 1997, where he follows issues regarding technological evolution on Mobile Core Network. He was involved in UMTS standardization, joined the 3GPP SA2 group. In 2000, he joined WIND Telecommunication, where formulated Core Network chapters on bid book and related technical and costs model for the UMTS license winning bid offer proposed to the Italian Government. Since 2001, he is in charge of Network planning and architecture for Mobile CS & IMS Core Network, including dimensioning and costs models for business plan, definition of medium term technical plan, network modernization projects and standard evolution, and collaborate on technical staff training on WIND Core Network technologies. From 2008, he is the IMS/RCS trial project leader, that brings to successfully UNI/NNI activities.

Matjaz Bericic - CTO, Mobitel Slovenia Matjaz Bericic is Mobitel’s CTO. Matjaz studied telecommunications at the Ljubljana University and since 1998 he is active in field of mobile communication technologies. In this period he has fulfilled various engineering and management roles at mobile operators, mainly involved in projects and activities related to core networks, intelligent multimedia networks, service development, operations and performance management. Matjaz joined Mobitel in 2007 as Head of Core Network sector, managing various projects of MSS, IN modernization, converged services and evolution to IMS, including also various projects on international Group level. Matjaz holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in electrical Engineering.

Martin Brand, A1 Telekom Austria Martin Brand finished his communications engineering and information technology studies at the University of Zagreb in 1988. Since then, he has worked for A1-Telekom Austria. He is currently working in the department of Service Network Voice Common Service. His expertise covers ISDN, ISUP, INAP, H.323, SIP and IMS protocols. Martin Brand is the author and editor of more than 18 ETSI and IUT-T published standards and about 30 ETSI Work Items in the area of protocol inter-working, QoS, conformance and interoperability testing. Currently he is WG6 (testing) chairman in ETSI TISPAN, co-chairman of ETSI TC INT and co-chairman of ITU-T SG11 WG4.

Rebecca Copeland, Huawei, Head of Strategic Solutions, EU Core Network Rebecca Copeland (BSc Arch and LLB Hons) is the author of several white papers and a technical book about IMS (“Converging NGN Wireline and Mobile Networks with IMS”). In Huawei since 2006, she provides strategic Core Network expertise, supporting major European carriers. Previously she has delivered a strategic study of Enterprise IMS solutions to BT 21C project at BT Group CTO. For the previous twelve years in Marconi (now Ericsson), she managed a range of communications products, including IN Applications, Billing and Unified Messaging, but most importantly she drove the vision and architecture for SIP and IMS products from their inception. Rebecca’s understanding of convergence is enhanced by her earlier IT career as a software developer in the UK.

Philippe Coudé, SFR Philippe Coudé, been born in 1964, is has a Master of Electronic & Informatics (Paris VI). He began his career to Cegelec / CGA (General Company of Automatism) in industrial computing in transport networks Urbain. Then he joined AETA where he participated as Engineer Telecom to a project of universal coupler for Thomson CSF. Afterward, he joined the an SSII where he contributed to the development of X25 and Transport Classe IV for EDF, Thomson-SDC, Merlin-Gerin. In 1996, he joins SFR as X25 expert; after a passage in the Engineering, he joined in 2000 the SFR R&D and Innovation Direction. He participates as Studies Manager in collaborative R&D projects, worked in Vodafone UK R&D working group. He piloted and participated in numerous studies with the Strategic Marketing and the Operational Direction. He developed scientific partnerships with Telecom ParisTech, published articles and applied for patents. He has a good expertise on network and services architectures, mobility IP and QoS.

Adrian Dodd, GSM Association Adrian Dodd is Managed Service Director at The GSM Association, the global trade association representing 750 operators in 219 countries and territories.

Since joining, he as focused on projects promoting the convergence and interoperability of the industry on next generation services, notably IPX, Carrier ENUM.

Adrian has previously held positions as Head of Core Network Engineering and Head of Product Marketing, in different Orange operating companies. Whilst at Orange, he was instrumental in launching at National Core Network, an ISP and 2&3G Data services. Adrian has also worked for Vodafone and Motorola and was involved in the original standardisation of GSM.

Adrian has a Masters Degree in Electronic engineering from the University of Bradford.

David Huo, ZTE David Huo ([email protected]) received Dipl-Ing, Dipl-Math, and Dr-Ing from University of Kassel, Germany, in 1986, 1990 and 1992, respectively. He was with Mannesman AG (now Vodafone D2) from 1992 to 1997 and with Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent) from 1997 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been with ZTE , working in standard development and advanced research. His research interests include applied mathematics, network architecture, and access technologies.

Marc Jadoul, Alcatel-Lucent Marc Jadoul is Marketing & Communications Director for Alcatel-Lucent’s Media, IT & Telecom Services. Marc has 20 years experience in the ICT sector. Since he joined Alcatel in 1992, he has held management positions in research & innovation, product, solution and portfolio management, marketing, communications, strategy, market and business development, and solutions consulting for fixed and mobile service providers worldwide. Marc Jadoul holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Brussels (VUB). Based in Antwerpen, Belgium, he is a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy, author or co-author of over 90+ papers, magazine articles and conference presentations, and a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events.

Brendan Kearns, EIRCOM Brendan works in the Chief technology office eircom where he is lead engineer For the IMS tender and project manager for the rich communications trial.”

Andres Kull, Elvio LLC Dr. Andres Kull is a founder and CEO of Elvior LLC. Elvior is a software test tools vendor. Andres holds PhD in Informatics and Systems Engineering from Tallinn University of Technology. His 25 years professional career spans the areas from control systems for chemical industry to model based engineering of software systems. Andres have held researcher positions in Tallinn University of Technology and Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT). His current fields of interest are automated test design and TTCN-3 testing.

Kenya Kusunose, NTT DOCOMO, INC . Kenya Kusunose has been working as a researcher at NTT DOCOMO R&D since 1996. He is specialized in the research on all IP networks, especially in voice services. Currently, Kenya is active in developing all IP voice networks with IMS as replacement of legacy circuit switching network.

Giulio Maggiore, Telecom Italia Giulio Maggiore has over 15 years of experience in the telecom domain holding functions in network engineering, and network testing. He received BS Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991, and Master In Information Technology and Communication in 1992 by Politecnico of Turin. He joined CSELT, Telecom Italia R&D Group in 1993. In 2000 he joined TIM as UMTS, GPRS, IN Core Network Testing. In 2005 he joined Telecom Italia as Mobile Core Network Testing project manager. In 2006 he joined Telecom Italia Group Service Layer Engineering. Present position in Telecom Italia is Mobile IMS implementation in Mobile Control Layer Engineering Group since 2008. He is currently ETSI TC INT (IMS Network Testing) Chairman and TC MTS (Methods for Testing and Specification) vice Chairman. From January 2010 he is leading GSMA EMC Group, Network Efficiency Task Force. He is author of several papers, member of ICTSS (IFIP International Conference on Testing Software and Systems), TTCN3 User Conference Program Committee.

Jean-Yves Monfort, JYM.C.I.S, representing France Telecom/Orange ETSI STQ Chairman for the third term, and former Chair of ITU-T SG 12 (Until Oct 2008). Currently retired from France Telecom, JYM is working as consultant in standardization and was involved as expert in two ETSI STFs related to QoS issues. Before leaving France Telecom/Orange he was Senior Standardization Manager, and previously Deputy Director of Standards Steering in France Telecom, and Senior Expert. During 5 years, he was Deputy Head of a Laboratory (Human Interactions/ Evaluation and acceptability of Services Quality), in charge of studies on subjective and objective assessment of media (speech, video, audio,…) and of Usability testing of new equipments and services. He was before Manager of Research and Development Units specialized in voice transmission quality,

Julius Müller, Technische Universität Berlin Julius Müller studied computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin and wrote his diploma thesis about NGN/IMS and Peer to Peer (P2P) system integration. He worked as student researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS in the competence center Next Generation Network Infrastructures (NGNI) in the field of optimized service provision in Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and particularly the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in some European projects. In 2009 he joined the chair "Architektur der Vermittlungsknoten (AV)" at the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty within the Technische Universität Berlin as PhD researcher. His scientific work and PhD focuses on the evolution of NGNs towards the Future Internet (FI). Particularly he is investigating Evolved Packet Core (EPC) optimization and Cross-Layer Composition within NGNs and the FI.

Stephan Schulz, Conformiq Inc, Stephan Schulz is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Conformiq Inc. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering on model-based co-design from University of Arizona at Tucson in 2001. Prior to his position at Conformiq he has worked as a resident testing expert at ETSI’s Centre for Testing and Interoperability as well as a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Research Center. Throughout his career he has been researching, educating, and consulting on manual and model-based test design as well as test system development. He has (co-)authored numerous publications and standards on testing including the first ETSI Standard on Model-Based Testing, co-chaired four TTCN-3 User Conferences, and technically coordinated a number of interoperability events for various technologies. In 2010, he was elected as the chair of ETSI’s Technical Committee Methods for Testing and Specification.

Ravishankar Shiroor, Wipro Ravishankar Shiroor is the Principal Consultant in the area of Service Delivery, Next Generation Networks and IP Multimedia Subsystem, with the SDP, VAS and NGN Practice at Wipro Technologies. In this role he has been providing Solution Architecture design and consulting services to Wipro’s Telco and Media customers in the area of Service and Network Layer evolution, migration and deployment. Ravishankar Shiroor has more than 15 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry. He has wide range of experience in telecommunication industry varying from working with equipment vendors, telecom service providers and software services vendors. He has worked with Telcos and TEMs in various geographies such as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia. His experience on the network side ranges from Enterprise communication products to PSTN network elements and NGN protocols. On the Service Layer, he has in-depth knowledge of SDP, SDF and various VAS nodes and services, and their interaction with OSS, BSS and other IT systems. He has spoken at a number of industry conferences, including IEEE International Conference on IMS, Informa IMS2.0 event and National Seminar on Advanced Communication Technologies. He has also published many industry thought leadership papers and articles on the evolving telecom network and service layers. He is also the author of several IETF drafts.

Shiroor holds Bachelor of Engineering degree from University of Mysore and Masters degree in Telecommunication from IIT-Madras.

Ari Takanen, Codenomicon Ari Takanen, founder and CTO of Codenomicon, has been active in the field of software security research since 1998 focusing on information security issues in next-generation networks and security critical environments. In his work at Codenomicon and OUSPG (Oulu University Secure Programming Group), he aims to ensure that new technologies gain wide public acceptance by providing means of measuring and solidifying the quality of networked software. Ari Takanen is one of the people behind the PROTOS research project, which studied information security and reliability errors in e.g. WAP, SNMP, LDAP, VoIP implementations. Ari is the author of several papers on security, and is a frequent speaker at security and testing conferences, leading universities and international corporations. He is also the author of two books on VoIP security and security testing.

Theofanis Vassiliou-Gioles, Testing Technologies Theofanis Vassiliou-Gioles is co-founder and CEO of Testing Technologies since the company foundation in 2000, aiming to provide best-of-class tool support around, for and with TTCN-3. He began his professional career at the Fraunhofer Research Institute FOKUS. In more than six years, he became a senior expert in testing and was subsequently assigned as Deputy Chief of Competence Centre for Testing, Interoperability and Performance. In this period he worked in projects for several test device vendors and was involved in the standardization of conformance test suites for the ATM technology. During this period he gained experience with the implementation of TTCN based test systems. Mr. Vassiliou-Gioles is involved in several standardization groups at ETSI, e.g. the TTCN-3 working group. He has published several papers on the application of TTCN-3 at various international conferences. Mr. Vassiliou-Gioles holds a Master in Electrical Engineering from Technical University Berlin.

Mr. Manuel Vexler, Huawei Technologies Manuel Vexler is the Chief Marketing Officer for IMS and NGN at Huawei Technologies. Having been recognized as one of the Top 100 Voices of IP Communications, Vexler has established himself as a leading international expert on converged networks, NGN and IMS. As the current Vice President and Chair of the Technical Working Group at the IMS/NGN Forum, an international mobile and fixed broadband services forum, he manages all technical and business development activities for the forum. Prior to joining Huawei, Vexler was Chief Technologist Officer at CopperCom, a softswitch company, and managing partner of Integra100, a business and technology consultancy for post-merger integration. Vexler has held various management and executive positions at Cisco Systems, AMD, Newbridge (now Alcatel-Lucent) and Nortel. As co-founder of, and advisor to, high-tech start-ups and consultancies, Vexler has experience in a wide range of technologies and markets, managed non- profits, cofounded and managed three start-up companies, and has presented at more than 100 conferences worldwide. Vexler earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from the University of Iasi, a network ngineering and management certificate from the University of Toronto, and an executive marketing certificate from Queen's University.

Jianrong Wang AT & T - Jianrong is working for Core and Government/Regulatory Standards Group in AT&T Services Inc., and based in Redmond Washington, US. She has worked for AT&T for 14+ years as a principle/lead Member of Technical Architect in various projects, such as, VoIP, mobility core network and multi-media messaging. She is currently covering 3GPP SA2 and NGMN TWG SC activities, also supporting LTE/EPC related projects.

Milan Zoric, European Telecommunications Standards Institute Milan Zoric joined European Telecommunications Standards Institute in 1998. As Seniour Techical Expert in the Centre for Testing & Interoperability his task is to provide expert support to differrent ETSI Technical Committees in the area of protocol standards development and/or techical leadership and management of test specifications development.

From 2003 to 2009 he has been the leader of a project developing and validating WiMAX/HiperMAN test specifications. The project was at the heart of the joint work agreed between ETSI Committee BRAN (Broadband Radio Access Networks) and WiMAX Forum. Since beginning of 2008 he has also lead the project develping conformance test specifications for the Interoperability of Network Protocols in HiperMAN/WiMAX terminal devices.

Milan Zoric received a Dipl.-Ing diploma in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Telecommunications and Information Technology from University of Zagreb, Croatia in 1972 and 1982 respectively. Working in telecomm industry and Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Zagreb, Croatia, he contributed to numerous research and development projects. His area of expertise was protocol engineering and the use of SDL language for protocol specification and modeling. He participated in the ITU-T work on validation of SDL formal semantics and acted as editor of the updated ITU-T standard Z.105 providing ANS.1 mapping to SDL types. He published numerous papers related to SDL and led a team developing an SDL tool. From 1995 to 1998 he has participated in a number of ETSI projects related to the use of SDL in standardisation and worked as consultant for other international companies