Frédéric BARD

IT Project Manager and solutions Architect at BNP PARIBAS do deploy Unified Communication Solutions (collaboration tools, mobile fleet, videoconference, geolocalisation, free desking, free sitting).

Consultancy for Grenoble city public hospital (CHU38) emergency department (SAMU) to start a tender of offers in order to deploy ANTARES 2G radio system use for theirs vehicles. Follow-up of project with Firefighter (SDIS) and Police Headquarters. Alert system interfacing with geo-localization and status of vehicles, share of medical and first-aid information’s over 3G network.

IT Project Manager at Société Générale on worldwide Video Conferencing (VC) and collaborative Services deployment. Capacity Planning for SG MAN and analyses of VC statistics: ROI calculations, Travel costs and Green House Gas reductions. Study of VoIP to VC infastructure binding.

“Due Diligence” Audit for the Banque Financière de Rothschild to let an investor enter the capital of an French national operator. Studies of Backbone, Metropolitan and Residential network deployment technologies, Network Monitoring tools, SLA, CAPEX and OPEX.

IT Project Manager at Société Générale International retail banking with 30+ affiliates (North and sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia). Audit of new affiliates network (network architecture and QoS, team organization), Project management to bring up performances and security to connect to SG international affiliates network. Management of MS Exchange servers deployment connected to SG unified mail central hub.

Audit of « Roland Garros2007 » services (Mobile, Internet, IPTV, VOD and interactive News portal) for ORANGE Content Division in Poland and Spain. Management of services deployment with FT partners for content, EBU for satellite live broadcast, lead of technical tasks of services based on Web, MPEG4, MPEG2, DVB, WAP and 3G standards.

Study of cognitive network (MESH, sensors network) and software defined radio (SDR) for next generation civil (3G, 4G) and military radio for years 2010-2015 under contract with IBM for French DGA.

Demand manager for QoE/QoS of ALICE IPTV service at Telecom Italia. Collaboration with WITBE and IPLABEL, definition of internal QoE scores, setup of DB, analysis of the backlog and reports (charts, alert levels, SIG). Optimization of ST2xx based STB. The achievement of this mission was to bring ALICE IPTV service from 6th rank to the first one in the benchmark of 01.NET magazine on French IPTV providers.

Measure of internet multimedia application performance based on user perceived quality (QoE) and QoS. Build up of the Business and Marketing plan, product definition, lead of the prototype development team, involved in MIDAS MEDEA+ European project. Contact with investors (ANVAR, Capital Risk, and Business Angels) and customers.

Project management in the field of Home-networking and “Last Mile” Internet Access based on Power Line Communications (PLC). Product definition with Marketing team, build of Business plan, lead of project development of video surveillance system over PLC, teamwork with THOMSON R&D teams. Specification, provisioning and testing of “triple play” services over IP. VoIP deployment through VPN on customer’s site in collaboration with NETCENTREX VoIP IPcentrex (H323 and MGCP), CISCO gateway and 8x8

Development and test procedure of algorithms (audio codecs G726, G729, G723, and T38) for Voice over IP networks on DSP platform (ST120, MIPS). Use of PAMS, PSQM tools for voice quality evaluation and codecs optimization, deployment with 8x8 (now Centile, Packed8) IPBX (SIP, H323, MGCP) in Nortel and Cisco switch/router environment.

Team leader of the ST12x DSP cores Simulation team (5 engineers) providing the Instruction Set, Compiled Instruction Set and Cycle based Simulators (based on C/C++ technology, XML database), and the tests for automatic regression of the models (also reused for the VHDL, RTL testing). Coordination with third party companies (GreenHills, Lucent), Architecture, Design, Test, Application and DSP tools (emulator, compiler, codesign and cosimulation) Work done in accordance with ISO 9000 and CMM Quality control.

Worldwide responsibility of the team developing H320 Video-conferencing and, adaptation of H263+ on the multicore C8x processor. Coordinator between the Tools and the Design teams of a base band RISC processor for wireless telecommunication DECT, PHS standards, and Wireless car pay-tool badge. Responsible of software tools and hardware. Application engineer for Radio Data System, sound equalization, Dolby Prologic and sound surround effects (3Dphonics from JVC) and IDTV, EDTV video processing.

Photoshop like Image processing software.

SME strategic management

Signal Processing