JULIO ALONSO-LOPEZ

juliotz10@gmail.com

1283 Poker Flat Place, San Jose

408-425-6858

PROFILE

Hands-on leader with extensive experience in Product Development, Agile Process, Product Definition,

Customer Engagement. A proven track record delivering cutting edge products in the wireless, wire line and

enterprise space to Tier-1 customers. Successful experience in handling organizations with R&D budgets over

300 MUSD, over 1000 engineers worldwide, and yearly revenues above 1 Billion US$.

A strategic global leader, results-driven and innovative, with proven ability to manage product development

from concept to finished product.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ERICSSON INC, SAN JOSE, CA

2000-Present

Vice President of Product Development (DEVELOPMENT HEAD PDU IP ROUTERS), 2010-Present

Head of the unit responsible for the development of Ericsson IP Routers for Edge, Metro and Aggregation space. Full life

cycle ownership of the following products: Smart Services Router (SSR), Smart Edge (SE), smart Packet Router, Ericsson

Router 6000 and Ericsson Virtual Routers. Also used as platforms for the strategic Fix and Mobile applications run

including among others BRAS, CDN, MBH and Evolved Packet Gateway for LTE/WCDMA/WIFI.

Global workforce of 1000+ engineers across USA, Canada, Germany, Hungary, China, Italy, Finland and India. Manage

technology strategy, project planning and execution, operations management as well as financial control for HW, custom

ASIC, SW, backend test and customer support team.

  · Delivered first commercially deployed fully virtualized framework for Ericsson and third party Applications.

  · Introduced SSR product, delivered multiple releases on time with high quality and deployed it in 100+ operators

worldwide.

  · Delivered Virtualized Routing functions (NFV) and integrated into different cloud infrastructure.

  · Drove vision for Ericsson 4 Generation IP in collaboration with Tier 1 operators including strategy for SDN and

split architecture.

  · Delivered the Ericsson first SDN Flow Switch and deployed it in Tier-1 operators.

  · Built development team from scratch in six months to launch Next Generation Routing Platform development and

established vendor agreements for outsourcing HW.

  · Modernized the development infrastructure and reduced build and commit times for developers by 80% leading to

greater efficiency and feature velocity.

  · Established joint ventures with vendors to deliver cutting edge, enabling 400 G solutions on SSR

  · Introduced new agile ways of working leading to increased feature velocity and quality and single track

development model.

  · Brought low cost and high cost ratio to 50/50 by establishing and transferring products successfully to low cost

centers.

Vice President of Engineering (DEVELOPMENT HEAD PDU BROADBAND ACCESS), 2010

Organization was formed after the acquisitions of Entresphere, Marconi and Ericsson own access development.

The organization was roughly 800+ engineers distributed across USA, Italy, Denmark and China. Drove

strategic planning, for E2E HW & SW development and customer support. Products included Point 2 Point Fiber

Nodes, GPON ONTs and OLTs, IPDSLAMs, EMS and site solutions and cabinets.

  · Consolidated the acquisitions into a single development unit and reduced overhead by 20%.

  · Delivered GPON product to Tier 1 customers in US.

  · Streamlined the portfolio in collaboration with the Product Line and reduced R&D expenses by 40%.

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Vice President Software Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007-2009

(Product Develop Unit Common Component)

Directed Product Development with full authority for the strategic planning, development, operations management, project

management and customer support. Organization with over 1000 engineers worldwide, a peak budget over 250 MUSD and

sales over 3 Billion US$ a year. SW Common Components in the areas of Switching, Routing, OS, MW, O&M, Signaling,

used across the entire Ericsson portfolio: RBS, GSM, WCDMA, LTE, IMS, RB, Multi-Media.

  · Defined and implemented the SW common component architecture that is still today in use across Ericsson

portfolio.

  · Improved Quality leading to a 32% reduction of customer problems.

  · Reduced TTM by 50 %.

  · Improved project predictability of deliverables up to 90+%.

  · Reduced cost by increasing the low cost development from 28% to 42%.

  · Increased efficiency by introduction of cutting edge development techniques as one-track and streamline

development.

Senior Program Manager (Product Development Unit CPP), Stockholm, Sweden, 2006-2007

Led CPP6 project with over 1 Million project hours geared towards providing an all IP solution towards 3GRAN. Drove

teams across development centers in USA, Sweden, Croatia, India and Russia. CPP Platform was used by Radio Base

Status, Radio Network Controller and Media Gateway.

  · Achieved record content delivery of 250,000 technical hours over 12 months.

  · Delivery precision 100%

Director (Head of 3G RAN Support), Dublin, Ireland, 2005-2006

Oversaw the customer support organization consisting in the RAN 3rd line support as well as the customer support

managers. Acted as Ericsson representative towards senior customer executives (C-Level) during critical business

emergencies.

  · Developed a comprehensive improvement plan between R&D and selected Market Units geared towards a faster

and less troublesome rollout of RAN SW.

  · Implemented regionalized customer support management structure improving escalation resolution for Ericsson

customers.

Manager R&D (C-RAN and Software Rollout Support), Montreal, Canada, 2003-2005

Overall responsible for the Performance and Robustness testing at CDMA RAN I&V. Determined the strategy for load &

robustness testing and responsible for customer delivery. Oversaw rollout activities for CDMA products globally.

CDMA RAN System Engineer, San Diego CA, 2000-2003

Project managed commercial deliveries for CDMA– China Unicom.

EDUCATION

The Wharton School of Business

MBA, 2015

The University of Texas at Austin

Electrical Engineering (Exchange Program), 2000

KTH, Stockholm

Electrical Engineering (Exchange Program), 1999

Universidad Politecnica, Madrid

MSc Electrical Engineering, 2000

Stanford Executive Education

Ericsson Executive Program, 2014