Andrea Rosso

OSS design and engineering lead, vendor and delivery management of integration projects for hosted services deployed on geographically distributed architecture. In scope are the major Vodafone enterprise business products (Unified Comms, M2M, IMS, LTE) across a global data center infrastructure. Vendor management and OSS architecture authority for the Vodafone EU Core Network OSS tool stack.

OSS solution lifecycle management from RfP/RfQ process to design and operational transition. Products evaluation, vendor management, full budget responsibility (2 M€) for Fault- (FM) and Performance Management (PM) domains. Project management, delivery of OSS stack for European-wide Vodafone IP networks with major vendors (IBM, HP, Cisco, ALU, Ericsson, InfoVista) Delivery of vendor support transition, optimization of support contracts driving cost savings up to 0.5M€

Business planning and analysis of budget and KPI trends Taffic forecast models, cost tracking to deliver savings across the international business Operating company benchmarking implemented on a business intelligence tool Design and operation of a comprehensive database of financial and non-financial data covering Vodafone operations worldwide

Startup of the One Network Initiative in Newbury (UK) and Düsseldorf (Germany), to consolidate key technology planning tasks across Vodafone global operations. Contributing to the Integrated Network Planning process as business integration analyst.

Optimization of OSS configuration procedures: site integration, rehoming, RF plan implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting of GSM NW database (HP, Sun, Oracle technologies), incident and problem management, tool design and software development (unix shells, C, SQL). Configuration/monitoring procedures and tools, consistency/quality checks and reports for 2G/GPRS and 3G network, Nokia & Nortel technologies.

Technical support engineer for Nokia BSS & OSS within HQ team in Brussels. Main duties: support NW expansion and evolution by sharing best practice concepts and developing dedicated tools, implementation of SW upgrade and new features, supervise roll-out programs, coordinate information flow from/to vendors – engineering teams - regional O&M.

BSS/OSS technical support. Main duties: commissioning, testing and maintenance of BSS part of the network (BTS/BSC/TCSM & OSS), Nokia technology. Leading a team of 8 engineers dealing with BSC features and SW roll-out, BTS rehoming, NMS and configuration management solutions, BTS troubleshooting, technical notes, installation work instructions, O&M testing equipment (LabView tool development), GSM repeaters, PDH small capacity microwave links, spare parts management.

HQ technical support engineer on BTS installation, site configuration and requirements, power supply systems, capacity ad backup calculations, BTS overvoltage protection (lightning surge on telecom and RF links), grounding systems, ancillary systems (air conditioners, AC/DC panels), BTS external alarms.

Installation and maintenance of communication equipments, within a technical support group responsible for commissioning and maintenance of microwave equipments and power supply systems of the italian fixed network managed by TELECOM-IRITEL. Technology: high capacity analogue and digital radios (PDH/SDH: Siemens, Telettra, Alcatel) in frequency range 2-15 GHz.

Teacher of Electronics at I.T.I.S. Q.Sella, technical intermediate school

University degree in electronic-telecommunications engineering at "Politecnico di Torino" – Italy (1991) Thesis about application of remote sensing.