Bruno ROSSI

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

USA

email: bobisarchitecting@gmail.com

phone: +1 707-338-2266

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Senior Systems/Solutions Architect

Big Data/IOT/LTE/Mobile Systems

Summary

Specialized in the definition, sale, design and delivery of high performance and highly available

and scalable telecom solutions, such as Big Data analytics, IOT/M2M, policy management, realtime

charging, OSS/BSS, service & network management and custom systems.

Visionary and domain expert with cross-functional leadership.

Objective: Create, define, market, sell and lead the implementation of innovative telecom

solutions in an international environment.

Technical

Expertise

21 years of systems & software architecture, technical project & product management and technical

product marketing experience in telecommunication and service management in international and

distributed environments. Strong background in software and telecommunication technologies.

  · Centralized and distributed analytics systems (Hadoop, Spark), SQL & NoSQL, cloud deployment, AWS

  · DPI, Policy and QoS management/PCC, DIAMETER Routing Agent (DRA) and PCRF, DIAMETER,

RADIUS, AAA. Online and off-line charging and rating; Identity management

  · EMS, NMS, service management platforms and technologies; management protocols (SNMP, TL1, CMIP,

JMX, ASN.1); OSS/BSS. High performance service, protocol and billing mediation systems

  · IOT & M2M and protocol suites. Twilio. Real-time Location-based Services (LBS)

  · Software/systems architecture & design;OO, C++, Java/J2EE, SOA, MQ, BPM/Workflow, Android, Python, R

  · Transactional and Highly Available software and network design, Design for performance

  · Model and Event Driven Architecture, UML, Meta modeling and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

  · Raspberry PI & Arduino electronics and embedded software development

Experience

2012-Present

USA

Guavus – Senior Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect - Verizon Wireless Solutions – Hadoop, DPI, Subscriber and Network Analytics

  · Responsible for technical solutions lifecycle, from definition to delivery. Assist/oversee engineering teams for

detailed requirement and design and deployment teams for from configuration to acceptance.

  · Supported sales & business development teams by providing telecom domain, products, systems architecture

and requirement analysis expertise. Assess Verizon Wireless needs and articulate business and technical

solutions based on Guavus product set.

  · Lead RFI/RFP responses and support customer engagement lifecycle.

  · Developed high-level solutions architecture –software, hardware and network, including performance and

capacity views for multiple projects/clients (DPI, monitoring and analytics for wireless network/subscriber,

SMS/MMS, traffic fraud detection, equipment failure analysis, M2M/IOT and SDN/NFV).

  · Created detailed technical and executive level project documentation, including cost estimates, work and

resource plans.

Major achievements

  · Managed and maintained the highest revenue company account ($10M+/year).

  · Successfully lead the deployment of multiple solutions releases on 500+ servers and over 50 sites.

  · Lead the definition, design, implementation and deployment of a custom system management solution.

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  · 3GPP LTE/EPC/IMS. SIP, Media Resource Brokers, POTS, IN/SS7, VoIP, VoLTE, Messaging, 3GPP

DIAMETER interfaces (Gx and variants, Rx, Sy, Sh/Sp, S9), LI/CALEA (Lawful Interception). HLR/HSS;

Service delivery platforms (SDP) and messaging gateways; Service Gateway

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2012-Present

San Francisco

Stealth

Advisor for IOT/LBS Instrastructure As A Service (IaaS)

Architect/Advisor for real-time cloud-based SaaS/IaaS startup

  · Develop requirements, architecture, development and deployment of:

  · Multi-technology LBS IaaS with mobile push of user-aware contextual content

  · Mobile Android library and applications; Amazon AWS infrastructure; user, merchant & infrastructure

server-side analytics (MixPanel), WS Merchant interface. NFC/QR/barcode and Bluetooth/WiFi smart

tags & beacons

  · Perform market research, competition analysis, business plan, go-to market and fund raising preparation.

2011-2012 AT&T Mobility

LTE Systems Architect

San Francisco & Seattle – Contract

Systems Architect for Enhanced-DRA (3GPP DIAMETER Routing Agent) – LTE Signaling

  · Lead the technical assessment of 3GPP DRA vendors’ solutions and selection of vendor for the nation-wide

EPC signaling network (100M subscribers, 5M TPS).

  · Performed EPC DIAMETER signaling network modeling (capacity and call flows).

  · Analyzed and defined requirements and architecture options for in-session subscriber profile changes and

impact on supporting systems (PCRF, PGW/PCEF and OCS).

Major achievements

  · Drove the vendor selection from RFP to selection to completion.

  · Enhanced signaling network models for capacity planning.

  · Produced architecture use cases and systems options for in-session updates of subscriber profiles.

2004-2011 TIBCO/Kabira

Systems Architect/Product Manager

Palo Alto, California, France, UK and Japan

Global Architect – North America & Japan - Cross-Functional Role

  · Supported sales & business development teams by providing telecom domain, products, systems architecture

and requirement analysis expertise. Assessed prospects needs and articulate business solution based on Kabira

product set. Lead RFI/RFP responses and support customer engagement lifecycle.

  · Developed high-level solutions architecture – software, hardware and network, performance and scalability

  · Created detailed technical and executive level project documentation, including cost estimates, work and

resource plans. Presented solutions, proposal, contracts, etc. to all levels of client and Kabira managements.

Fostered and maintained customer relationships wrt. Kabira technology and products.

  · Maintained broad field awareness & industry trends advising on product strategy & features and provided

vision input for Kabira’s Telco products and solutions.

Product Manager – Telecom Solutions

  · Developed vision for product strategy and new products. Analyzed market and industry trends, customer

needs, competition and standard bodies.

  · Integration of Honeywell/Vista alarm security systems; real-time security alarms processing, relay and

analysis; Twilio international SMS gateways with MDN confidentiality.

  · Analyzed technical features and multiple rounds of pricing proposals; produced vendors technical and pricing

comparison and summary briefings for level 2 & 3 management.

  · Developed and supported product roadmaps, PRDs and product development for Online and Offline

Charging, Policy Management, Service and Messaging Platform and Subscriber Profile Broker products

and solutions. Oversaw products and features development from customer request to delivery. Evaluated

partners/OEM technologies. Participated to engineering architecture & requirements reviews to ensure PRD

compliance. Generated product marketing content, data sheets, briefings and white papers.

  · Supported sales, business development, CTO and marketing by providing Telco expertise and assisted

RFI/RFP responses. Managed telecom shows, conferences and standard body activities (TMF, GSMA, 3GPP,

OMG).

Software & Systems Architect – Worldwide Telecom and Payment Solutions

  · Analyzed customer technical needs, perform requirement gathering and analysis. Developed solutions

architecture in collaboration with customer and Kabira engineering. Developed project plans and staffing

profiles. Managed software development teams, from hiring to daily project management.

  · Defined, architected and lead the development, testing and delivery of custom high performance and

transactional HA solutions.

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  · Delivered Telco domain and product training, both internally and to customers.

Major achievements

  · Managed AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Hitachi technical relationships.

  · Defined, developed and successfully delivered of: a service platform/Parlay gateway to a leading network

equipment provider (technical lead of up to 20 persons over 1 year), a POC for Visa Verified By Visa

technology, a secure and transactional payment mechanism (lead developer team and provided software and

security expertise to Visa for a secure transaction edge device).

  · Managed sale of: Kabira Charging and Kabira Provisioning and Service Activation products to Hitachi, Japan,

$5M+ global Kabira products and technology OEM contract with Hitachi, a custom real-time provisioning for

AT&T (activation and self-care system supporting 80M wireless subscribers).

  · Co-produced PRD and roadmap for the Business Development group to establish key technology/product

agreements, such as Sun, CISCO, IBM, Highdeal (rating engine, now SAP), and W4/Lyria (GUI/BPM).

2001-2004

Gluon Networks

Petaluma, California and Bangalore, India

Responsible for the definition, architecture and implementation of the multi-tiers, secure and role-based web-based

and model-driven java EMS/NMS products for the Class 5 softswitch product line (EMS/NMS enables the

management of all Class 5, voice and data services features; complex object : 150 classes and more than 200

screens). Technically managed the EMS & OAMP teams (up to 7 engineers in Petaluma and 7 in Bangalore).

Company representative in standardization bodies (TMF/NMF). Assisted Marketing and Presales.

1999-2001 ObjectStream

Pleasanton, California

Software Architect

Responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of the ObjectStream runtime and data/workflow

modeling and multi-protocol/models mapping products ( UML/MOF and specific protocols, such as SNMP,

GDMO/ASN.1, TL1/MML/ASCII, LDAP, CIM). Technical management of a team of 7 engineers.

Company representative in standardization bodies (OMG, TMF/NMF). Managed relationships with third-party

companies. Principal technical coordinator for Documentation and Training.

1996-1999 NETMANSYS

Meylan, France and Dallas, Texas

Software Architect

Responsible for the CORBA/SNMP/CMIP/TL1 mediation products (codeless development of mediation

applications based on UML extensions and AI). Company representative in standardization bodies (OMG,

TMF/NMF, AFNOR). Managed relationships with research labs, universities and european research programs.

1994-1995 ASCOM

Sophia Antipolis, France

Telecom Research Engineer

Responsible for the architecture and implementation of ATM QoS monitoring and a VPN service manager for the

ATM platform of the ICM European research project. Published research papers. Lead Nice’s University CS classes.

Education

&

Publications

  · MS in Telecom and Software Engineering - 1994 - ESIGETEL (France)

Five-year engineering degree (MS) in telecommunications and CS. Major in Distributed Systems. Top 5 graduate.

  · Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Software Architecture, Product Lines and CMMI

credentials

  · GR303 training, EDI, Petaluma, CA

  · Fluent English, French; Academic German, Beginner Japanese

  · Publications:

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Bruno Rossi

Book Review “ASN.1’s Best Secrets” http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/journals/dsonline/Rossi03

ATM VPC and Routing management: http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~dgriffin/papers/book

ATM-based VPN Management:http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~dgriffin/papers/book/pdf/vpn.pdf

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Software/System Architect

  · Co-Developed system architectures, roadmaps, PRDs, ERDs and GTM for: Transactional Java VM product

(TIBCO ActiveSpaces Transactions), charging (including mediation, rating and real-time charging) and Profile

and Identity Broker products (collecting real-time and static subscriber profile information database).

  · Supported several dozens of RFI/RFP responses and POCs for charging, policy, provisioning and activation,

subscriber repository, service platforms and custom systems, resulting in numerous international wins.