Seref Simsek

 

 

SEREF SIMSEK     Address: Rissnestigen 9, 172 37, Sundbyberg Mobile: +46 73 078 7924 Email address: seref.simsek@ericsson.com

 

 

 

 

Language skills

Turkish= Mother Tongue

English= Fluent in writing and speaking

Swedish= Intermediate

 

 

Educational qualifications

        1983-1988

        Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

• BSEE, Bachelor of Science, in Electronics Engineering
  

Completed the course work in analog and digital electronics, satellite communications, and computer programming experience in several languages.

 

        1988-1990

        University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.

• Certification of English Proficiency, Intensive Language Program of University of Nebraska at Omaha (ILUNO), Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.
  

 

• Completed the prerequisite courses for the MBA program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
  

 

        1990-1991

        Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, U.S.A.

• MBA, Masters of Business Administration
  

 

• Graduate Assistantship at the Finance Department at BSU
  

 

 

1991-1992

Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, U.S.A.

• MS, Masters of Science, at the Center for the Information and Communication Science at the Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, U.S.A.
  

 

Professional Qualifications

 

Strong educational and practical background in engineering, telecommunications technology, data networking, completed by a solid knowledge of various business disciplines.

 

• Experience in working with teams of people with different cultural, technical and business backgrounds. Apart from working in Business Units and Product Units in Stockholm, I have had the opportunities working in 3 different Ericsson Market Units; Turkey (2 Years), China (3 Years) and MU Eastern Europe & Central Asia.
  

 

• Mobile technologies knowledge and working experiences in the Radio and Core Network. Additionally, attended to some of courses in this area as: WCDMA Survey, WCDMA Air Interface, WCDMA RAN Protocols & Interfaces, WCDMA Network Functionality Courses, CANDI Training, GGSN SACC3.0 Training, etc.
  

 

• Strong technology knowledge in Mobile Internet with Hands-on experience on technical and business levels.
  

 

• Good background in Public Wireless LAN technologies from technical and business point of view. That includes Ericsson's Solution Portfolio in WLAN with its components, end2end solution view and integration means towards the legacy systems.
  

 

• Extensive knowledge and experience with data networking; LANs (Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring), WANs, Wireless LANs technologies.
  

 

• Good knowledge in switching technologies, primarily in the Fixed Network (PSTN/ISDN) as well as in the access networks, backed up with extensive courses in switching (AXE) and access systems.
  

 

 

 

Career history

Senior IMS Solution Support Manager at the BNET PA Core Network & IMS (PACI), 01/01/2007-Pending

 

• Working as an IMS Solution Support Manager.
  

    

BU Systems Solution Support Manager, Kista, Stockholm, 18/06/2006- 01/01/200

 

• Overall Technical Responsible towards the Market Units MU CE and MU TURIS, representing the solution view for the BUSY production and Solution portfolio.
  

 

• Fulfilling the "Core 3-solution manager" role at the BU Systems level towards the PA Sales Support and Network Design, Core Network solutions, Mobile Core, IMS and Wireline.
  

 

• Focusing on introduction of new products and solutions towards the MU CE and MU TURIS and together to their customers.
  

 

• Supporting the market requirements towards Product Areas.
  

  
   

3G Program Manager in MU EE & CA (Market Unit Eastern Europe & Central Asia), Kista, Stockholm, 15/09/2005 – 18/06/2006

 

• I have worked as the "3G Program Manager" for Market Unit Eastern Europe and Central Asia (MU EE&CA).
  

 

• I have run the 3G related pre-sales activities according to Ericsson's Proposal-To-Win concept.
  

 

• Additionally, I have worked as the CSR for some major 2G and 3G tenders such as in Telenor GCA Kievstar tender and Ukratelecom 3G Opportunity.
  

  
   

Senior Technical Manager in Mobile Systems department at the MU EE&CA, Stockholm, 16/09/2004-15/09/2005

 

• I have worked as a technical manager in Core 3 Teams to give technical support for the KAMs and NAMs activities towards their customers in the MU EE & CA.
  

 

• Responsibilities include all offer preparation, introducing Ericsson's Core Network, RAN (2G, 3G) and transmission portfolio to customers.
  

  
   

Senior Solution Manager at BU Systems (Service Layer) , Kista, Stockholm, 01/01/2004 – 16/08/2004

 

• I have worked as a senior solution manager with end-to-end focus. Solutions were based on the ESDP (Ericsson Service Delivery Platform), other Ericsson products and 3pp partner products.
  

 

• Responsibilities included: technical sales support, pricing, pre-sales and marketing activities towards MUs and customers around the world.
  

  
   

Senior Technical Manager at the Ericsson Mobile Internet Center, Shenzhen and Beijing-China, 03/2001-12/2003 (Long Term Assignment)

    

• I was leading a technical team of engineers at the Ericsson China Mobile Internet Center in Shenzhen.
  

 

• The tasks included to define, implement, test and verify different Mobile Internet End2End solutions for local Chinese market as well as starting up the Mobile Internet Lab in Shenzhen.
  

 

• Competence transfer was also important part of my tasks, such as spreading knowledge and competence to China Ericsson staff in Mobile Internet and Service Network.
  

 

• During the last 4 months in China, I was located in Beijing and dedicated to supporting China Telecom Service Network project as the technical solution responsible.
  

 

Senior Solutions Manager, Ericsson Radio Systems AB: 10/1999-04/2001 (Long Term Assignment), Kista, Stockholm

 

• I worked as the Senior Solution Manager to support Ericsson's Mobile Internet product portfolio sales towards the market. The responsibilities included; working on tenders, participating to customer meetings as an expert. My tasks also included product/solution presentations to internal and external audience globally.
  

 

• As of the start of the Service Network project in Ericsson, I had been working as an expert to introduce the Service Network globally and give support on the tender work.
  

 

• Product expertise in this area included MMS-C, WAP Gateway, and Parlay Gateway, Wireless Streaming Server and solutions, Wireless Portal and others.
  

  
   

Customer Solutions Manager, Ericsson Telecom AB: 1/10/1998-1999 (Long Term Assignment), Stockholm

 

• Worked as a Customer Solutions Manager for Turkish market in the Network Expansion Customer Group at Wireline-systems.
  

 

Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm (Short Term Contract): 1/10/1997-1/4/1998

 

• I have worked at the TN/ETX (Ericsson Fixed Network HQ in Stockholm, Sweden) on several projects towards the Turkish Market including TTNet National Internet Backbone Infrastructure and Services Project.
  

 

• I have also given support to the AXE switching projects for MAS (Market Application System) preparation and dimensioning.
  

 

Customer Solutions Manager, Ericsson Turkey, 1/1/1997-1/10/1999

 

• I have worked as the Customer Solutions Manager at the Sales & Marketing Department in Ericsson, Turkey.
  

 

• My responsibilities included bringing Ericsson know-how to the local company and promoting the new business opportunities with these products. I had daily contacts with the customer.
  

 

Datacom Engineer, TOFAS Automobile Company, Turkey, affiliated with FIAT Spa-Italy, 1994-1997

 

• Installation and support
  of the different operating systems, administration and support of a multi domain MS Win NT network serving 500 users in several domains, and WAN with TCP/IP, DECNet, etc.
  

 

Datacom Engineer, Hurriyet Gazetecilik A.S., Gunesli, Istanbul, Turkey, 1992-1993

 

• Worked as a data-com and telecomm engineer supporting and maintaining the LAN and WAN environment including installation of FDDI, Ethernet LANs, and SCSI networks.
  

 

 

 

References

 

    Available upon request