Anne CHABANET-TARANTOLA 522, chemin de la Colle et du Devinson 06560 Valbonne -France Mobile: +33 (0) 686 96 3575 - e-mail:
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OBJECTIVES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Senior Information Technology and Communication Industry Project/Program Manager
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Outstanding technical skills. Consistently implemented new techniques introducing innovations. Broad telecommunication background with strong project management and technical expertise. Always a top producer with the ability to establish strong, long-term customer relationships. Excellent knowledge of operating systems, computer languages and software development. Proven ability to maintain coordination, directions, motivation, interest and enthusiasm in team members even when required to work under great pressure. Excellent analytical capability to extract main key-points from a complex problem and to synthesize the most appropriate overall solution architecture.
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Patent Application: Prevention of IBM2220 X.25 access ports congestion. Patent Application: Performance and availability improvements thanks to pre-established SNA sessions with host application. Performance improvements by blocking network packets to reduce traffic at the session level.
EDUCATION: 1982: Maîtrise d’ informatique of Nice university, France (Master Degree in Computer Science)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Since 2004: Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis, France •
Senior Program Manager For the Travel Office Products and Solutions division (TOPS). The scope of activities covers the business processes required in Point of Sale platforms, Agency or Consumer Portals, Mid and Back Office Systems as well as local products developed for specific markets. Customers using these technologies are major international travel networks, travel agency chains, airline agencies, tour operators and on-line travel agencies providing business or leisure travel services to their customers. The development staff is based in five locations (Bad Homburg, Nice, Antwerp, Miami and Halmstad): o Participation in the definition of new products and solutions, o Implementation of development common processes, managing the installation and implementation of common budget tracking and portfolio planning’s management tools and defining related guidelines and recommendations.
2003: Silogic for Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis, France • •
Studies (strategy, tools, processes) conducted for System Planning Prepared and gave training in “using WinCvs with UML/Rose”
2001-2002: Opt[e]way, Sophia Antipolis, France •
Senior Partner and Business development Manager o Responsible for business development of Location Based Services (LBS) solutions with Telecommunications and Cars equipment manufacturers and major IT providers: technical (global solutions for GPRS, UMTS, WLAN), marketing (events, demos, press releases) and commercial (negotiations of OEM, VAR agreements) partnerships. o Member of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC): OpenLS LBS project coordination and participation to the working sessions (in the US and Europe). o Participation to IST and e-content CORDIS European projects.
2000: trader.com R&D, Sophia Antipolis, France •
Senior Program Manager o Responsible for wireless strategy: technical evaluations and negotiations of partnerships with manufacturers, service/solutions providers and Telco’s focusing on the development of Next Generation (GPRS, UMTS ...) Value Added Services. o WAP site content definition, design and development.
1999: Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations, Sophia Antipolis, France •
Senior Architect and Project Manager o Service providers and Telco’s Technical principal contact for pre-sales support and delivery of Pan European backbones (voice over IP/ATM, IN, data, managed modems), based on SoftSwitch, including Billing and Management systems
1982-1998: IBM, La Gaude, France •
1998: Architect o Design and implementation of the server for broadcasting web-like pages on TV+STB: XML DTD for pages definition. MPEG Encoding in Java. o Development of a Software distribution system for Screen-phones for ISP’s, in partnership with a major French telecom operator (Tivoli TME10, HTTP, OSS, Java servlets using JDBC within Websphere, ISRF standard).
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1993-1997: Team Leader / Software specialist o Responsible for the simulation test tool for the WAN IBM 2220 Broadband Switch: • Hardware and network simulation models supporting X.25 port, ISDN port/trunk, ATM routing, NBBS protocol (proprietary) in charge of bandwidth management • Coordination and organization of development team. o X.25 DCE access on the WAN IBM 2220 Switch: development of the link and packet layers (levels 2/3), adapter configuration, test, support, maintenance of the packet layer. o For X25Net which is a private X.25 network: Design and development of a PAD based on the HDLC/QLLC protocol.
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1992: Project coordinator Follow-up of development sub-contracted and performed on customer site, in Paris: o Coordination of the development team / Support and follow-up of the customer requirements o Negotiations of contract modifications, team resource management o Interface with involved products teams (IBM OSI, XI, NPSI, CSFI, VCP).
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1986-1991: Team Leader o Team coordination, design and development on Communications Controllers: inter-network node functionality using X.25/DTE with Short Hold Mode, specification of the FTPI functionality (patent and technical bulletin), batch version of the simulation regression tests o Presentation at the 4th IBM Productivity/Process Tools symposium.
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1982-1985: Software Engineer o Evaluation of development methods and quality of hardware and software sales products o Follow-up of corrective actions, Interface with manufacturing located in Italy.
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Systems: Windows 95/98/2K/NT/XP, Unix, VM, TSO, PS DOS/OS2, PSOS, Risk 6000/AIX. Languages: C, C++, Tcl/Tk, JAVA, HTML, UML, XML, WML (WAP), Pascal, Macro Assembler 3725/360, SQL, WMLS, VBScript Methodologies: Phase review process, ISO9001 certification. Tools: Lotus Notes/Word Pro, MS Office, Visual Age, MS Project.
PERSONAL AND INTERESTS: • • •
French Citizen Fluent in English. French as native language. Intermediate in Italian. Travels, Dance, Reading, Nature, member of a school association
