28, Via Mattei                                                                                                             Tel: +393357542539

     20010 Cornaredo (MI) ,Italy                                                                               Email: marcogdp@alice.it

Marco Galli de’ Paratesi

                                                               Highlights:    

·               Ten years’ experience as Product and Marketing Manager.                      

·               Certified Scrum Product Owner.

·               Broad technical background in Telecommunication and IT industry technologies standards  and practices. Many years’ experience as Solution Architect. Expertise in emerging NFV/Telco over Cloud ecosystem.

·               Project Management : deep experience of planning and monitoring of large IT and telecommunications projects, resource coordination.

·               Experienced professional combining strategy, passion for innovation and expertise in emerging real-time communication technologies (WebRTC), cloud, mobile, social networking, with solid management background.

·               Excellent communication and presentation skills. Strong customer-focused attitude.

·               Ability to make effective decisions, monitor and control effectively. Flexible and adaptable to dynamic organizational needs.

·               Leader, capable of motivating team members, focused on results. Organized and structured.

·               Tolerant to stress, good at establishing relationship of trust with customers and partners. Open minded, naturally open to different cultures and thinks laterally.

·               Open to work in other areas apart from my primary technology skills.

Professional Experience

Wideside (Altran Group)                                    Milan, Italy

Senior Project Manager & Senior Consultant                                                                                     Aug 2015 - Present

Main Projects:

·          System Integration (Functional requirements, design, technical direction and project management) for a large PSTN Decommissioning and TDM-to-IP migration network project for an incumbent Telco operator. Progress monitoring to meet deadlines and cost targets. Subcontractors’ communication and co-ordination.

Italtel, SpA                    Milan, Italy

Senior Product Manager & Project Manager                                                                                 Jan 2009 – June 2015

Head of Product Management

Responsibilities:

·          Coordination of a geographically distributed team, providing :

·          Product-strategy development of Proprietary Product Portfolio. Competitive analysis and benchmarking. New products / solutions concept. Business Plan, determination of price targets for each Italtel's proprietary product.

Product requirements definition, development effort estimation and roadmap management. Full product life cycle management for each product line applying agile (Scrum) methodologies.

·          Project lifecycle leadership over all phases of Telco and enterprise-wide IT implementations.

End-to-End Project Management/governance of large projects for Tier 1 Telco/IT customers with LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) framework / Waterfall methodologies. Business implications assessing for each project phase and progress monitoring to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets.

·          Training to sales representatives, Pre-sales and Business Development for innovative Telecom/IT Solutions Proposals. Relationships developing and maintaining with prospective and existing customers, partners, vendors, press and analysts.

Main achievement :

·          Restructured/refocused Italtel's product catalog moving from traditional Telco Products to full IP “Cloud-Ready” (NFV) and IMS/VoLTE/VoWifi Network Products, leading to a 15% increase on Product Unit revenues. Conception and development of new WebRTC based  products.

·          Drived implementation, deployment and internal adoption of UC&C solutions based on proprietary products, 3rd pty vendors/partners' frameworks and COTS IT HW/SW.

Italtel, SpA           Milan, Italy

Network Architecture Senior Manager                                                                                               Feb 2006 - Dec 2008

Head of NGN Network Architecture Team

 Responsibilities:

·          Solution strategy definition and High Level requirements for Italtel NGN and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) solution catalogue evolution.

·          Engineering and Design of IT and network architecture solutions for Italian and Foreign Customers (Telecom Italia, Vodafone-Arcor, Tim Brasil, Belgacom, France Telecom Group etc.)

·          Tender Offering and Build-Up departments support (Telco Incumbents/ISP and IT companies)

Main achievement :

·          Italtel’s end-to-end IMS reference architecture design, engineering and proposal through pilots and proof-of-concept demonstrations.

Italtel, SpA Milan, Italy

Product  Manager                                                                                                                                  Jan 2002 - Jan 2006

Head of Product Management - Softswitch and Control Layer products

Responsibilities:

·          Coordination of a geographically distributed team, providing High Level Product Requirements, feasibility analysis' and cost estimation for new features, customizations and new products.

·          Product strategy definition, roadmap management, pre-sale of Softswitch based network architectures.

·          Tender Offering department support for bid answering (RFI/RFP/RFQ’s by Large Telcos).

Main achievement :

·          Pre-IMS VoIP reference architecture Design, Engineering and Project Management (Telecom Italia Alice Voice).

Italtel, SpA              Milan, Italy

Project Manager                                                                                                                                    Jan 1995 - Dec 2001

Main projects :

·          Deployment of the Softswitch based Multi-service National Backbone of Telecom Italia (BBN).

·          AUNA (Spain). Development/deployment of classV H.323 and SIP based network solution with Cisco Call Manager, various Integrated Access Devices, Cisco Gatekeepers and PSTN trunking via MGCP media gateways.

·          Hansanet (Germany). VoIP Virtual Transit Network with MGCP media gateways replacing 6 Nokia TDM switches and interconnecting multivendor V5.2 Access Networks

·          Freenet A.G. (Germany). VoIP Virtual Transit Network with 100 point of interconnection for dial-up access based on Italtel softswitch and Cisco AS5400 access gateways

·          Retevision (Spain) Responsible for the PoC of a VoIP solution based on Italtel softswitch to connect H.323 subscribers and interconnecting to PSTN.

Italtel, SpAMilan, Italy

Software engineer/senior software development team leader                                                        Sep 1986 - Dec 1994                                                                                                       

·          Responsible for software development/design and internal architecture evolution of Telecommunication Local Exchanges (Italtel UT20/100 products).

Technical Skills (Summary) :

·          Deep Knowledge of  NGN/IMS and Softswitch based Network Architectures, LTE Core Networks, VoLTE/VoWifi and RCS/Joyn Services, Emerging Real-Time Communic. technologies (WebRTC);

·          Cloud and Virtualization technologies, SDN,NFV, member of ETSI Network Functions Virtualization ISG.

·          Good knowledge of UC&C/IT frameworks and technologies; Basic knowledge of Cisco / Microsoft equipments; Voice and Video communication interoperability among different technologies.

·          Broadband networks (Fixed and Mobile), VoIP networks and services;

·          OTT/Telco-OTT services and business models; ETSI M2M standards;

·          TDM and IP Network Protocols; Migration strategy from TDM to IP-based networks and IP-IP interconnection;

·          Good knowledge of voice/data architect. and their billing and management aspects (BSS/OSS);