Miguel Ángel D. - Telecom Project Manager, Solutions Architect, Presale & Sale engineer, Telco Consultant

Boadilla del Monte, Spain

Experience

Dec 2004 - Present

21 years 1 month

Definition, design and implementation of solutions for telecom operators, system integrators and consultancy firms, meeting cost, quality and timeline targets
Team management and harmonization of commercial, economic and organizational aspects of projects
Relationship management with end customers to set expectations, handle objectives and ensure customer satisfaction
Technical assistance and product consultancy including requirements analysis and preparation of RFI/RFQ/RFP
Technical support to marketing and sales teams
Specification, design and deployment of customer-specific architectures and integrations with operator core networks
Presentation of products and ad hoc solutions, and delivery of trainings, demos and PoCs
Onsite product configuration, deployment and integration with operator networks, including validation and customer acceptance activities

Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

1 year

Specification, design and development of value added services and IN solutions for telecom operators and system integrators
Elaboration of the business plan for the M2M solutions business line, awarded most innovative project prize at REMPRENDE’04

Apr 2001 - Dec 2003

2 years 9 months

Responded to RFIs from European customers and designed and developed proofs of concept
Provided technical support to marketing and sales departments
Architected solutions for European telecom projects
Produced technical reports on state of the art in IN technologies and value added services
Participated in international projects for prepaid platforms, number portability systems, virtual call centers, massive messaging applications and VPNs

Feb 2000 - Mar 2001

1 year 2 months

Designed and developed distributed, high availability software for multiple subsystems of the Teligent IN platform

Mar 1996 - Jan 2000

3 years 11 months

20+ year experience in Next Generation Networks and VAS for Telecom Operators, acting as Project Manager, Solution Architect or Presales Engineer.

10+ year experience in IoT/M2M Solutions, carrying out activities of Product Strategy, Product Development and Team Management.

Founder of a consultancy SME focused in two areas:

Telecom consultancy and engineering: Next Gen Networks; Telecom Security (SeGW, ePDG, IPsec, PKI); Virtualization (NFV); carrier grade SW.
IoT, M2M, WSN: managed the company technical development, with own R&D since 2008 and solutions for energy efficiency, precision agriculture, industry, utilities, etc.

Project Management and technical consultancy around the following technologies: NGN, NGIN, IMS, 4G-LTE-5G, VoIP, Signaling Protocols (SS7, SIP, CAP/INAP, MAP, Diameter), Virtualization (NFV), Security (IPsec, SeGW, ePDG, PKI), Mission critical SW.
IoT, M2M, WSN, sensor integration, network integration for IoT, management of IoT solutions delivery involving both HW and SW development projects.

In the Telecom area:

Next Generation Networks, Intelligent Network Systems and VAS for Telecom Operators: NGN, IN, NGIN, Service Delivery Platforms, SIP Servlet Containers, extensive knowledge and experience in JAIN SLEE (Amdocs jNetX and Mobicents platforms).
Network architectures: fixed; 2G/3G/4G/5G mobile networks; VoIP, IMS; Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
Signaling protocols: SS7, IN (CAP, INAP, INAP CS1+, MAP), VAS and messaging (SMPP, MM7 and proprietaries), NGN IP based protocols (SIP, Diameter). IP based technologies for telecom (HTTP, Web Services, SOAP, REST).
Security architectures applied to Telecom networks (IPsec, SeGWs, PKI).
Design and development of mission critical, distributed solutions (low latency, 99,999% availability).

In the IoT/M2M area:

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), mesh networking, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing.
Experience in WSN protocols like Zigbee, IEEE 802.15.4, and other proprietary ones.
Technologies related to ultra-low power management, energy harvesting.
Experience in low level sensor integration, embedded systems (embedded Linux, SBCs) and projects involving HW development (HW design, PCB development, device encapsulation, device deployment).

Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, Web technologies (HTML, XML, Javascript).

Unix based Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, shell scripting (bash).

Relational databases (MySQL, Oracle TimesTen, HSQLDB), clustered configurations for high performance and high availability.