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Huawei
Technologies
October 2009 - Present:
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CTO and
Chief Architect, SDP and Consumer Services,
Applications and Software, (Huawei Software Company)
Oracle, Redwood Shores, CA
October 2005 - October 2009:
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Chief Architect and CTO, Oracle Communications (Since Feb 2008)
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Responsible for
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Inbound architecture (across CGBU products – OSS, BSS, SDP and
AIA),
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Technical strategy for CGBU wide + Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFMW)
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Outbound architecture (Industry Evangelization, Customer / Field
support and Partners) CGBU wide + OFMW
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Communications standards across Oracle
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At same time on assignment in JAPAC (Japan / Asia / Pacific) to
steer JAPAC CGBU Field Activities (Sales, Pre-sales, Marketing)
from Dec 2008 – June 2009, dotted line report to JAPAC GM
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Train and Re-organize JAPAC CGBU field
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Collect customer / market feedback on products
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On the job training
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Chief Architect and CTO, Mobile, Voice, and Communications,
Oracle,
since March 2007
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Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFMW) / Server technologies and
now CGBU (Communications Global Business Unit)
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Sr. Director of Architecture, Mobile, Voice, and Communications
Platforms, Oracle,
Between
October 2005 and March 2007
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Responsible for architecture and technical strategy for
Communications Platforms aimed at Communications Service
Providers (Telcos and others) and enterprises, including:
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SDP in Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFMW) product architecture design,
support and review.
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End to end Telco strategy and architecture, including
OSS/BSS/SDP integration (SDP/OFMW, EM, Siebel, EBS, Metasolv,
BRM(Portal Software), NetSure, ERP, …), based on Oracle “AIA
for Communications” ++ design. This also includes in-depth
involvement, with evangelization, architecture and strategy
support for Oracle CGBU (Communications Global Business Unit)
and Apps (Siebel/MDM).
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Technical support of business development, evangelization
and technical review of potential partnership, acquisition,
joint activities and customer engagement (RFXs, POCs) for SDP
and end to end integrations.
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Outbound evangelization of Oracle vision (SDP, SOA, end to
end integration, AIA/SDF, Pragmatic IMS, Convergence, Service
Layer for Telcos, …) with numerous papers, talks and seminars
(including some with record setting attendance or recipients of
best session awards).
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key achievements
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“Father” of Service Delivery Platform (SDP) architecture,
strategy and execution targeted to Telcos and Service providers
as well as enterprise / internet. Vision drove SOA design like
OMA OSE and TMF SDF and pushed Parlay to join OMA etc.
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Gain industry support for OSE vision of an IT SOA based
blueprint to service provider service layer environment (and
relationship to network layers, IMS etc for example).
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Business plan, vision and strategy that created Oracle SDP
activities around OSE as new middleware activities and resulted
into several acquisitions (and refusals).
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Key strategy and argument based on end to end OSS/BSS/SDP
integration that resulted into “AIA for Comms” then Oracle AIA
across Industries, influenced TMF SDF and resulted into the
biggest SDP deal ever closed in the industry.
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Support of sales / field and closed many key deals for SDP
and CGBU (even before the SDP activities were in place or when
most did not believe in them). Meet many customers, partners,
analysts and competitors...
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On the way to getting SDP/Communications strategy in place:
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Reshaped Oracle Enterprise Wireless, Telephony, RTC platform
(Real Time Collaborations), tools and applications like OCS
(Oracle Collaboration Suite) around Standard technologies (SIP,
RTP, HTTP, VoiceXML, …). This included:
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a new strategy and consolidating all telephony/voice activities
at Oracle
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Driving an open standard Mobile Email strategy, business
case, industry evangelization and standardization that resulted
into Lemonade/P-IMAP, support of OMA Mobile Email Enabler (MEM),
now close to completion, widely supported and considered as the
next generation standards for email.
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Cleaned up as Architect the Oracle Wireless AS, OCS Mobile
and Oracle Lite stories and consolidated them in OFMW, OCS (see
above) and Oracle DB
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Responsible for coordinating, representing Oracle and driving
Communications standards across Oracle (including OMA, IETF,
3GPP/2, Parlay, OSGi, TMF (SDF), JCP (e.g. JSR 116/289/309),
IEEE NGSON, SIP Forum and relevant activities at W3C, OASIS,
Liberty, WS-I, etc.), as well as industry initiatives (Mobile
Email Interest Group, IT/Operator Forum), Chair OASIS TMS, OMA
Board of Director (till 2006, again for 2 years starting Dec
2008) . …
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Active member of Oracle ARB (Architecture Review Board), ASG
Core (Architecture Steering Group) + chair of Communiactions,
SDP and Standards working groups, ASSC (application Standards
Steering Committee), Corporate Standard Leadership.
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Some areas of focus:
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Service Delivery Platform (SDP)
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Applying business rule via Policy-based orchestration and
Service Gateway
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SIP / J2EE / Parlay / IMS (JSR 289, JSR 309, …)
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Carrier grade middleware and HA for converged applications
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End to end OSS / BSS integration with SDP
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Mobile email standardization: Lemonade/P-IMAP support of OMA
Mobile Email Enabler (MEM)
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Voice / Telephony /Multimodal middleware
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RTC middleware
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Telco / service provider middleware and application
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Enterprise mobilization
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Standardization
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Policy enforcement workflow, orchestration and service gateway/
rule engine and business rules factorization (PEEM, BPEL, Rule
engines) and SCA (Service Component Architecture)
May 2005 – October 2005:
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Director of Architecture, OCS Division, Oracle
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Responsible for:
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Technical strategy and architecture for all service aspects of
OCS 11g product re-design
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Same standard coordination and representation as above
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Corresponding industry evangelization
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Member of Oracle ARB (Architecture Review Board)
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Some areas of focus:
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Mobile access to OCS
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SIP / RTC and ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), including common OCS
client
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Presence services for OCS
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Moving P-IMAP to Lemonade and dealing with OMA DS
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Proofs of concepts of P-IMAP with several Telcos and ISPs
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OCS for Telcos and Service providers
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Presentation to ST Division and CEO of case for Telco initiative
and initiations of corresponding activities (e.g. new Mobile,
Voice, and Communications Platforms division, M&As, …).
October 2004 – May 2005:
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Director of Architecture, Mobile and RTCC – OCS Division,
Oracle Corporation
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Responsible for:
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Technical strategy and architecture for all RTCC (Real Time
Communications and Collaborations) aspects of OCS (Oracle
Collaboration Suite) 10gR1/R2
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Same standard coordination and representation as above
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Corresponding industry evangelization
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Member of Oracle ARB (Architecture Review Board)
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Some areas of focus:
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Evangelization, standardization and implementations (Oracle,
server vendors and device manufacturers) of P-IMAP
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Moving OCS RTC to SIP:
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Web conference
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Voice chat
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Presence
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Voice and Telephony
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Voice mail and Conference
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Mobile Communication server
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Device Information repository and proposal to W3C
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Adopted by W3C Mobile Web Initiative
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OMA DS
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OMA DM/CP, provisioning and Application life cycle management
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Calendaring
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Notification modeling and EDA
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OCS on demand (for service providers, hosted services)
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Preparation of business and strategy case to ST Division and CEO
for Telco initiative
September 2002 – October 2004:
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Director of Architecture, Wireless and Voice – AS Wireless
Division, Oracle Corporation
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Responsible for:
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Technical strategy and architecture for:
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AS Wireless (AS 904i, AS 10g)
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Oracle Lite
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Mobile, telephony and voice access to OCS
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EDA (SOA, EBS), notifications and RFID Program Office
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Same standard coordination and representation as above
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Corresponding industry evangelization
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Member of Oracle ARB (Architecture Review Board) –
Representative for AS Wireless Division
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Some areas of focus:
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Strategy for mobile email: open standard-based
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Design, Evangelization, standardization and implementations
(Oracle, server vendors and device manufacturers) of P-IMAP
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Voice and Telephony strategy for Oracle
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XHTML/XForms and Multi-channel Server, Tools and portal
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Including voice and multi-modal access
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XForms smart client (Offline and intermittent connectivity)
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ADF Mobile development tool (Oracle JSF and IDE)
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Mobilization of Oracle applications (EBS)
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Multi-channel intelligent messaging / notification server
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Design and standardization of OSE, PEEM
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IMS / Parlay positioning
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Initial concepts of a service delivery platform and content
delivery platform:
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Proposal, strategy and design
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Win of a major tier one operator (with numerous affiliates)
beating major competitors and repeat with several other tier 2
operators.
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Support of Oracle Consulting and SIs/Partners engaged in
projects
IBM Human Language Technologies,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
Yorktown Heights, NY
January 2002 –
September 2002:
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Research Lead for Wireless Computing Standards and Technologies
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Lead of the IBM Pervasive Computing Strategic Framework
Architecture Project Research Staff Member Manager,
Mobile Speech Solutions and Conversational Multimodal Advanced
Technologies, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Human Language
Technologies Department.
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Lead Research wireless computing task force (Research, Pervasive
Computing Division, IGS, Communications Sectors, Technology
Group): architecture, standards (OMA, 3GPP, 3GPP2,
ETSI, IETF,…) and Research activities.
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Drive the
research strategy for wireless standards and technologies and
its implications for wireless e-business.
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On assignment
to PvC division, this work directly contributes to the Pervasive
computing strategic framework in terms of standards,
architectures and technologies and to the design of SPDE
(Service Provider Delivery Environment).
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Lead the
coordination of the different mobile architecture across PvC,
IGS, CS and standards:
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E.g design of
SPDE (Service Provider Delivery Environment).
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Lead for IBM end-to-end multimodal strategy
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Chair of the IBM Multimodal Standard Board (IMSB)
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Awarded title of “Master Inventor” at IBM
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IBM representative at (Voice, Multimodal and Conversational): W3C
(MMI WG, DI WG), 3GPP,
WAP Forum / OMA, ETSI (Aurora/STQ), IETF (AVT, CATS), ITU (SG-16)
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Manage voice, multi-channel, multimodal and multi-device
standard activities (i.e. in addition to above: Voice, XML
events, XForms)
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Manage worldwide team to perform research, deliver prototypes
and product components to PvC division and Research EBO
(Emerging Business opportunity):
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Interaction manager (Suspend and Resume, Multimodal browser,
DSR speech recognition framework, Speech Engine Remote
Control Protocols (SERCP))
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XForms processor and IBM internal XForms open source project
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Conversational multimodal browser
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MMS (MultiMedia Services) based on INS (Intelligent
Notification Server)
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DSR Speech recognition framework and SERCP support by client
and server-side speech middleware offerings
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X+V
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Customer evangelization and contacts.
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In 2002, I brought in several customers
for multimodal EBO and joint projects (including 5 Telcos/MNOs).
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Active participant to:
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IBM XForms Task force
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IBM-wide, Research and Corporate/IP multimodal and voice
task forces
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Multimodal Research EBO engagements
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Next Web / WSXL task force and monitor OASIS WSIA, WSRP TCs
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Pervasive Computing strategy Deep Dive
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DRM:
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Coordinate strategy and architecture efforts to interoperate
Mobile DRM (3GPP, WAP, ODRL) with multimedia
internet DRM (MPEG-21,
ISMA, OASIS RTC).
1997
- 2002:
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Strategist
and architect for IBM Multi-channel, Multimodal and
Conversational activities: Multimodal e-business for Mobile
Internet:
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Owned
standardization activities and representation (same list as
above: W3C, ETSI, WAP, 3GPP and ITU)
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Owned
Research activities coordination and liaison to product groups
(Manager)
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“CTO” and
strategist for IBM Multimodal EBO and Multimodal joint
development activity between Research and Software Group (PvC,
AIM, Voice Systems).
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Proposed the
principles and managed the specification to introduce VoiceXML
as a module for XHTML in answer to SALT. This led to the XHTML +
Voice W3C
note (X+V).
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Promoted
XForms, XML events and XForms-based device-independent authoring
as strategic programming model for IBM
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Co-inventor
and designer of iML/CML (interaction ML / Conversational ML):
precursor of XForms and DI single authoring
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Initiated
IBM-wide interest and support for multimodal computing
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Obtained
funding for Multimodal EBO
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Initiated and
obtained funding for IBM-wide multimodal computing initiative
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Co-architect
of the IBM Next generation conversational / telephony
architecture, basis for next generation of telephony and voice
component of portal offering (Based on speech engines and audio
sub-systems as web services, DSR speech recognition framework
and SIP/SDP/RTP stack).
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Co-inventor
and co-designer of SpeechML (IBM contribution to VoiceXML Forum)
and speech browser.
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Developer of
DOM-based MVC multimodal architecture and execution model.
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Member of IBM
Multimodal Executive Committee.
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Research
strategist for Conversational, Multimodal and Next Web, in
particular Next Web integrations, architecture and programming
model:
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Developed
underlying architecture and formalism for WSXL (transposition
and extensions of DOM-based MVC architecture and execution model
for multimodal and multidevice browsing.
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People & team
/ project management:
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term and short term research support and algorithm/architecture
improvements of form-based dialog managers and statistical
NLU/NLG for telephony offerings; universal telephony
conversational architecture.
§Conversational
Computing: conversational middleware and architectures, e-Voice,
speech browser, VoiceXML, re-usable dialog components, objects
and foundation classes, transcoding, conversational platforms
and clients, servers, hybrids.
§Multimodal
conversational systems: UIs, browsers / user agents, shells,
APIs, protocols and tools; XForms, multiple authoring, single
authoring, declarative and imperative programming models - tools
and runtime support.
§Distributed
Conversational systems: APIs, protocols and algorithms,
conversational networking, DSR, RecoVC, VoiceTIMES, speech
engines as web services.
§Team
of more than 25 direct reports, world wide and many more dotted
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In addition, until December 2000:
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Speaker
recognition and biometrics: core algorithm research, product
development and APIs across platforms (SVAPI, BioAPI, …).
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Created the
activity, built the team and obtained funding for adventurous
Research project (4 years)
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Developed the
core technology (winner of 2002 DARPA evaluation).
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Several
shipped product (desktop, telephony, embedded (cars and PDAs))
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Embedded
speech systems: reference architectures, acoustic models, noise
robustness, multimodal and conversational user interfaces,
browsers. Research and product development.
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Shipped
acoustic models for car environment and PDAs.
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Speech-enabled Palm Pilot (PSA- Personal Speech Assistant):
Hardware, Software, Industrial Design, Business issues and
Marketing / customer contacts.
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Multimodal
and conversational portals.
1995-1998:
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Transcription
of radio and TV data (including HUB-4, Switchboard and audio-visual
automated transcription systems and products).
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LVCSR -
speech recognition (including Switchboard – Telephony
environment).
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Research in
speaker recognition and speech biometrics (Desktop, Embedded,
Telephony including IVR environments). |