Franck J. THOME Friedheimweg 6
Ph.D., Dipl.Eng. 3007
Born 4/7/1962, Married, 3 Children
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IT Project Manager
Applications
Integration (EAI), Network Management,
Operation Support
System (
Skills Summary
An experienced and flexible trilingual
English/French/German manager with a robust
experience in the management of both R&D and IT projects, and a good
knowledge of recent
technologies used in Entreprise Application Integration (EAI), Operations
Support Systems
(OSS) and Network Management projects: TIBCO Active Entreprise 5.1, JAVA, XML,
Oracle,
TMN, OSI. Personal skills include a well organized mind, a capacity for
developing and
structuring teams, a strong personal commitment, a passion for technical
solutions well
designed, simple and efficient, a good verbal and written communication in
several languages.
Career Overview
After various roles held in software
development as software developer, software architect,
project manager for Euriware, AT&T, Alcatel, I took
early 2003 the responsibility of EAI
developments at Swisscom Mobile,
where I manage several integration projects. Before this
assignment, I was managing the software development department of Alcatel
Optics in
this mixed commercial and project management role and in a difficult economical
context, I
learnt to “achieve more with less”: I doubled the productivity of the team in
one year.
Main Achievements
In the last 6 years, and by reverse order of
time:
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In 2004, managed from specification to deployment the
integration of a new revenue
collection system based on SAP R/3 with Billing (BSCS) and CRM (SIEBEL)
systems.
The solution was delivered in 9 months on time (Swisscom Mobile)
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In 2003, managed the development of a new EAI
framework (Swisscom Mobile)
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In 2001/2002, managed from commercial negotiation to
deployment the development in
15 months of a TL1 interface for optical equipments (Alcatel
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In 2001, successfully implemented new, simpler and
better adapted quality procedures
and obtained ISO 9001/2000 certification in July 2002 (Alcatel
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In 2000, managed the development in 5 months (1st
release) of a VPN change requests
provisioning application using the TIBCO “Active
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In 2000, managed the development in 3 months of a usage
billing solution for an internet
service using using the PORTAL Infranet billing platform (AT&T)
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In 1999, delivered an Alcatel-wide architecture
guidelines document for network
management applications, result of an international taskforce I was chairing.
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In 1998, delivered the first release of the Alcatel
Element Management Platform,
designed by my team
Career and Achievements to Date
Project Manager, Entreprise Applications Integration Jan. 2003 to date
SWISSCOM MOBILE, Technical Operations,
Responsibilities:
§ Planning and Steering the EAI
projects. typically 3 projects in parallel (20 persons):
one release being rolled-out, one being developed and one being specified.
Technologies used: TIBCO
ActiveEntreprise v4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, TIBCO BusinessWorks Workflow, JAVA,
XML, XSD, XSLT, XPath.
Methodologies & Tools:
UML, Rational Rose, Microsoft Project
Main projects and achievements:
§
1/2003
– 9/2003: Definition of a new reference
architecture for EAI at Swisscom Mobile and
development of a framework to support this new architecture. Definition in
parallel of a new
development process for the EAI Team to improve the efficiency of the team.
§
7/2003
– 4/2004: Specification, development and deployment of a new event-based
synchronization
solution for Swisscom Directories.
§ 9/2003 – 7/2004: Specification,
development and deployment of the integration of SAP R/3 module
for revenue collection (Revenue Management / Contracts Accounting).
§
3/2004
– 3/2005: Specification and development of an Order Management system based on
TIBCO
BusinessWorks Workflow engine. Application to an automated provisioning workflow.
§
11/2004
– 5/2005: Specification and development of the integration solution for a new
rating application
Department Manager, Network Management Jan. 2001 to Dec.
2002
ALCATEL, Optics Division,
Responsibilities:
§ Budget and People management (17
persons)
§ Bids writing in reply to RFQ’s and
RFI’s
§ Coordination of new contracts
negotiation
§ Management of projects till their
acceptance by the customer.
Technologies used: UNIX,
Windows NT, C++, JAVA, PERL, TL1, CMIP.
Methodologies & Tools:
UML, Rational Rose, Microsoft Project
Main projects and achievements:
§ 4/2001 – 6/2001: Commercial
negotiation, sales and management of the development of a network data
export application for a large customer. The software (C++) was delivered on
time and within budget
§ 7/2001 – 11/2001: Rolled out a new
set of quality procedures, simpler and better suited. The
department was audited in October 2001 and the ISO9001/2000 certification was
granted in July 2002.
§ 7/2001 – 9/2002: Commercial
negotiation, sales and management of the development of a TL1/Q3
mediation for the Alcatel 1353SH. Despite two budget cuts in 12
months, the software (C++) was
delivered in line with the specification and with a final budget 30% below the
initial estimation.
§ 9/2002 – 12/2002: Similar work for
another customer. Functional extensions to the TL1 interface.
Technical Manager, Internet Services Oct. 1999 - Dec.
2000
AT&T,
Responsibilities:
·
Design
and develop software components for AT&T Internet Services.
·
Manage
software development projects for AT&T and Concert (AT&T/BT Joint-Venture).
Technologies: C++, CORBA, CORBA services (trader, notification, transaction), JAVA, Oracle 8i, XML, EAI.
Methodologies & Tools:
UML, Rational Rose, Microsoft Project
Main projects and achievements:
·
10/1999
– 1/2000: usage billing solution for AT&T using PORTAL’s infranet
(C++, CORBA)
·
2/2000
– 4/2000: catalog of AT&T services based on CORBA trading service
(C++, CORBA)
·
4/2000
– 11/2000: VPN configuration change requests provisioning solution based
on TIBCO’s
“Active
Adapters SDK / BEA Weblogic / XML).
Technical Manager, Chief Architect, Network Management Feb. 1993 – Oct.
1999
ALCATEL, Network Management Unit,
Responsibilities Feb. 1999 – Oct. 1999:
·
Architecture Director, responsible of software architecture, new technologies and R&D
studies
·
Chairman
of the “TMN OS Architecture working group” involving chief architects from
different
European Alcatel business units with the mission to define the reference
architecture for Alcatel
Network Management products. The resulting work was published in September
1999.
·
Member
of the Management
and Technical Boards of the unit (300 persons)
Responsibilities Jan. 1998 – Jan. 1999:
·
Technical Manager and Chief Architect, responsible of new technologies and in
charge of several
cross-organization working groups and studies, in particular:
o
Prototyping
of a fault monitoring application using JAVA and CORBA
technologies,
o
Design
of a scalable architecture solution for managing very large networks
o
Design
and development of a system administration software using Java Bean / CORBA
o
Design
of a High Availability solution for Alcatel network management applications
·
Team Leader, EMLCore
System Team (18 Persons) in charge of designing, integrating and stress
testing the new Alcatel Element Management Software Platform “EMLCore” and of
developing
the EML system administration software using Java and CORBA technologies.
·
Remote Developments Coordinator for developments done in
·
Member of the Technical Board of the unit (300 persons).
Responsibilities 1995-1997
·
1/1995
– 12/1997: Technical Architect and Team leader (12 p), in charge of
designing, integrating
and stress testing the 1353SH, Alcatel’s Element
Management system for optical equipments. This
software has been deployed in more than 300 customer sites around the world.
Responsibilities 1993-1994
·
2/1993
- 8/1993: Software Engineer detached in Berlin, GERMANY
during 6 months, Development
Engineer during 3 months then Software Architect in charge of defining a new
architecture for the
Managed Object Handling framework of the Alcatel TMN platform.
·
9/1994
– 2/1994: Technical Coordinator in the System Team responsible of
designing the new Alcatel
SDH network management software, responsible of the platform definition group
(6 persons).
·
3/1994
– 12/1994: Team Leader (10 persons), responsible of the architecture and
development in C++
of the network management software for Alcatel transmission equipments managed
with CMIP.
Technologies:
Distributed software on HP9000 UNIX
workstations, Oracle, C++, TCP/IP sockets, ILOG Views,
PERL/TK, JAVA, CORBA,
HP Openview TMN platform, CMIP and SNMP management protocols
Methodologies & Tools:
UML, Rational Rose, PMW (Project Management Workbench)
Project Leader, Computer Integrated Manufacturing Oct.
1990 – Jan. 1993
CELLIER SA,
- 10/1990
– 12/1992: Designed and developed with a team of 5 persons in C++/Informix
a scheduling
software for lubricants batches. Also defined a CIM strategy for the management of the Company.
Software Developer, Military Command Aid Systems Jan. 1989 – Oct. 1990
EURIWARE-GRAPHAEL.,
- 1/1989 – 9/1989, French Army:
command aiding system proof-of-concept based on a OO database.
- 10/1989
– 12/1989, France Telecom: graphical tool for the definition of models for
an OO database.
- 1/1990
– 10/1990, French Navy: various modules of a command aiding system using a
OO database.
Education and Training
Recent Training Courses:
Portal Infranet Essentials (Portal, 2005), TIBCO BusinessWorks and
BusinessWorks Workflow 5.1
(TIBCO, 2004), IPMA Project Management (SPOL, 2004), German (Benedict, 2003,
2004, 3 hrs/week),
TIBCO ActiveEntreprise 4.1 (TIBCO, 2003)
Previous Training Courses:
B2B (Commerce One, 2000), EJB (Valtech, 2000), XML (QA Training, 2000), ILOG
Rules (ILOG, 2000)
Software Reliability Engineering (AT&T, 2000), CORBA Architecture (Valtech,
1999)
Speaking and behaving in public (1997), Time management and Team management
(1996)
Doctorate of the Université de Savoie
(march 1989), Computer Science. Subject : Design and development of
an expert system for modeling, auditing and designing production management
organizations. Contribution
to a european ESPRIT project (20000 lines of object-oriented code)
Diplom of
Engineer of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
(june 1985).
Computer Science. Subject
: Design and development of a image processing software for satellite photos.