CAREER HISTORY
Senior Project Manager: Deutsche Telekom, Bonn, Germany, Apr. 2015 - present
Senior Project Manager (Broadband Cooperation), Jan. 2022 - present
- Member of Department "Broadband Cooperation".
- Process Manager, process optimization and standardization.
- FTTH Broadband projects, technical and cost aspects.
Senior Project Manager (Network Economics Territory Planning), Nov. 2020 - Dec. 2021
- Member of Department "Integrated Network Economics Territory Planing".
- Planning of FTTH, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and Mobile (5G, 4G) networks.
- Data Scientist: KNIME, SQL, ArcGIS, QGIS, PegaPlan, etc.
Senior Project Manager (Cost Engineering), Apr. 2015 - Oct. 2020
- Member of Deutsche Telekom's Cost Engineering Deparment for Germany and Europe.
- Cost optimization of telecommunications networks and services.
- Telecommunications system & techniques: 5G, NFV, SDN, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, M2M, SRAN, mobile backhaul, fixed and mobile networks, etc.
- Agile, Target Costing, Lean Management.
Senior Finance and Regulatory Manager: Huawei Technologies, Düsseldorf, Germany, May 2011 - Mar. 2015
- Member of Huawei's regional office for Western Europe.
- Financial, regulatory, strategic and business analysis of telecom carriers in Western Europe (France, Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, etc.).
- Definition of the company's position on regulatory issues of Fixed Access Networks.
- Cost modelling and business case studies of telecommunications operators.
Senior Consultant, WIK-Consult, Bonn, Germany, Feb. 2008-2011
Member of the Cost Modelling and Internet Economics Department.
Tasks
- Regulatory measures to promote broadband services through Next Generation Access (NGA) network deployment.
- Cross-country analysis of national telecommunications/ICT's sector structure and regulatory and legal framework in Europe.
- Technical and economic comparison of the advantages of the following network architectures and technologies: FTTH, FTTB, FTTC, PON/GPON, P2P, cable networks.
- Business cases and cost modelling of FTTx networks, cable networks, Ethernet concentration networks, and IP-based core networks.
- Quality of Service and VoIP in cost modelling.
- Technical, economic, and regulatory issues of network interconnection (NGN, Tier-1 networks, circuit-switched networks).
- Regulatory strategy; impact assessment of regulatory options.
- Regulatory aspects of open access and network neutrality.
- Design of efficient networks for cost modelling purposes; design of Ethernet aggregation and IP-based core networks.
Clients
- BNetzA, ANACOM, OSIPTEL, and ACCC (NRAs in Germany, Portugal, Peru and Australia, respectively); European Parliament; ECTA; Fastweb (Italy); Secretariat of Transport and Communications (Mexico).
Assistant Professor and Lecturer: Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 2001 - Jan. 2008
- Assistant Professor (Apr. 2005-Jan. 2008) and Lecturer (Sep. 2001-Mar. 2005) in the School of Telecommunications Engineering in the Department of Information and Communications Technologies.
- Teacher of courses on wireless and fixed Networks, Internet Protocols.
- Advisor to graduate students.
- Research about telecommunications policy and video streaming/TCP over 3G/4G wireless networks.
- Secretary of the School of Telecommunications Engineering: established student exchange agreements with foreign universities.
Visiting Professor: Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), Mexico DF, Mexico, Aug. 2005-Dec. 2007
Aug. to Dec. 2007, 2006 and 2005
- Leader of research projects concerning telecommunications regulation in Mexico and Latin America: broadband penetration, feasibility studies of WiMAX and 4G wireless networks.
- Advisor to master’s and undergraduate students.
- Teacher of courses on wireless and VoIP Networks. Implemented a VoIP Lab.
Visiting Researcher (post-doc): Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden, Apr.-Aug. 2002
- Distributed Systems and Communications Research group. Director: Anna Brunström.
- Research about TCP performance over GPRS. For the TCP measurements a GPRS testbed provided by Telia Mobile AB was used.
Research Assistant: Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 1999-2001
- Research Assistant of the project: "Analysis of Mobile Packet Radio Networks", funded by the Spanish government. Study of the impact of wireless medium access control protocols on the TCP protocol, 1999-2001.
- Research Assistant of the European project RAINBOW (Radio Access Independent Broadband On Wireless). Analysis of the location of the IP Protocol in the 3G wireless system UMTS, Jan. - Jun. 1999.
- Advisor to Master students in thesis related to the performance of Internet protocols in wireless systems, 1999-2001.
Network Designer: Italtel, Barcelona, Spain, Mar. 2000-Jan. 2001
- Network Design Department: Design of Telephony over IP projects for Retevision (second largest telephone operator in Spain).
- Study of the integration of Italtel voice switches with Cisco data networks. Analysis of the integration of the voice signalling system SS7 with Telephony over IP protocols (H323, SIP, MGCP). Design of WAN networks for cable operators and ISPs in Spain.
Engineer: Telefónica, Lima, Peru, Sep. 1995-Aug. 1997
- Mobile System's Department: Installation of the cellular mobile system CDMA (Movistar). Maintenance of the cellular mobile system AMPS (Moviline) (3 months).
- Purchasing Department: Review of technical and commercial aspects for the purchase of computer equipment for the telecommunications systems (21 months).