Alessandro Cotroni

I am part of LG Europe R&D Program Management team, leading 18 Project Managers located in France, Italy, Poland and Tunis, who are responsible for the approval to production of mobile devices for Europe and MEA Markets.

Technical Account towards Italian Operators: responsible for the definition of specs and customization requirements of mobile devices offered to Italian Operators. Since 2nd-half 2008, I was also requested to manage the presentation of LG Technology Roadmap to Global Operators in Europe and North America: Vodafone, Orange, TMO, Telefonica, O2, TIM, H3G, Bell, Telus.

Consultant within Communication and High Technology group (CHT), supporting Telecom Italia Wireline engineering department for all activities (program management, feasibility analysis, technical specification and testing) related to the roll-out of tlc services and service-platforms based on “Voice over IP” protocols and their evolution towards ETSI compliant IP Multimedia Subsystem (Tispan/3GPP IMS). In the last months I had the responsibility of the whole Accenture team assigned to the project (18).

Employeed in LG Europe R&D lab in Rome, in charge of development and testing mobile handsets. For each product, I was involved in following activities: - schedule detailed testing activity - carry out on-site analysis/diagnosis of signaling problems between network infrastructure and mobiles - investigate causes of protocols and/or software failures by use of emulators, simulators or log analysis - develop test tools - report project status to LG project managers

From September 2000 until March 2005, I have been employed in a consulting company (ICT-Consulting) mainly focused on information and communications technologies for fixed and mobile telecom operators and Internet Service Providers. I have been working within international technical and marketing teams for the design, development and testing of new telco services/products

Master in Information and Communication technologies (specialization in Image and Audio Processing and Digital Signal Processing techniques) in collaboration with ITC-IRST (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica di Trento).

Aerodynamics