Florent Stroppa

Current

Product Director, Data Unit at OnMobile

Past

Director of Product Management - Principal Solution Architect at Voxmobili
Product Development Manager & Sales Engineer at Voxmobili
J2EE Architect and Telecom Consultant at Voxmobili

J2EE Architect and Competitive Intelligence Manager at Voxmobili
Co-founder, Technical Product Manager at WStadium
Telecom Engineer at TranSwitch Corporation
Radio Engineer (Intern) at UCLA

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Education

Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications
Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)

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Florent Stroppa’s Summary

I have over 10 years of experience in new product development in the mobile and web industry. I had played multiple role in product management, business development, product development, engineering, and partnership management.

I have the chance to work for the largest mobile operators internationally including Vodafone UK, T-Mobile US, T-Mobile Germany, Orange and Telstra.

I have a true passion for innovation, disrupting technologies and new business models. I really get excited when disruptive products come into the market and change the way people live.

One of the product I designed, "Phonebook 2.0" was one of the winner of the Google Android Developer Challenge.

Conference speaches:
• eCommConf 2009 San Francisco
• Mobile Monday 2009 Paris
• Mobile 2.0 Paris

Florent Stroppa’s Specialties:

• Product innovation and management in highly technical, fast-pace organizations
• Mobile 2.0: Messaging, Mobile Social Networking
• Mobile platforms : Android, J2ME, iPhone, Symbian, Windows Mobile
• Cross-cultural team management with the ability to independently manage multiple projects
• Management of strategic alliances and partnership
• Business development
• Strong wireless, Internet and telecom technologies expertise on J2EE, IMS, SDP, SIP, SyncML, XDMS, XMPP
• ITIL certified

Florent Stroppa’s Experience

Product Director, Data Unit

OnMobile

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year )

As Product Director, I am responsible for:
• OnMobile data product line. This includes personal data management and social networking products
• Product requirements, specs and delivery
• Management of a team of product managers, solution architects and user interface designers
• Relationship with key customers such as T-Mobile, Orange
• Pre-sales support : answering RFP, RFQ, defending the responses, writing proposal

OnMobile is the leading VAS provider in Asia with activities in Europe, Middle-East, Asia and the Americas.
Director of Product Management - Principal Solution Architect

Voxmobili

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

November 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 2 months)

As Director of Product Management, I was responsible for:
• Voxmobili product line. This ranges from J2ME mobile applications to large scale Web applications used by tens of millions of end-users.
• User experience design across mobile and web user interfaces
• Product requirements, specs and delivery
• Management of a team of 5 product managers and 1 user interface designer
• Pre-sales support: answering RFP/RFQs, presentations of the responses, deal won for Telstra, T-Mobile International, ERA, Cox, Proximus
• Relationship with the press and the blogs
• Relationship with key customers such as T-Mobile, Orange, Telstra

Voxmobili is the leading provider of online personal data management and synchronization for the largest mobile operators such as Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile, at&t and Turkcell.
Product Development Manager & Sales Engineer

Voxmobili

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

April 2003 — November 2006 (3 years 8 months)

As Product Development Manager:
• Reponsible for a team of 6 J2EE engineers
• Lead software architect for three generations of NAB (Network AddressBook) and PIM solutions. The NAB is deployed on platform with up to 15 millions registered users.

As Sales Engineer:
• Identified and developed opportunities for the company's product portfolio
• Answered RFIs, RFPs and RFQs, deal won for T-Mobile US, Turkcell and Orange
• Gave technical and functionnal presentations to France Telecom, Orange, Cingular,Openwave, Comverse
• Pre-sales and consultant for Orange during 2 months for the Orange MDSP project in 2003.
J2EE Architect and Telecom Consultant

Voxmobili

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

March 2002 — April 2003 (1 year 2 months)

As J2EE architect, I designed a product called the WME (Wireless Messaging Enabler), which is basically a gateway towards SMSC and MMSC. This product has been deployed at more than 10 mobile operators including Orange, Vodafone UK, T-Mobile US, Turkcell and at&t.
As a consultant, I had several other roles:
• Pre-sales during AT&T Wireless Vendor Selection for a PIM solution to deploy on the mMode Portal. We won the deal.
• Consultant for AT&T Wireless, during 2 months in Seattle, WA, USA.
• Consultant for Orange, during 3 months, in Lund, Sweden
J2EE Architect and Competitive Intelligence Manager

Voxmobili

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

March 2001 — March 2002 (1 year 1 month)

I joined Voxmobili as the Competitive Intelligence Manager. At that time, it was not a full time job so I quickly realized that I would be much more useful for the company if I also designed software.
I started designing a middleware abstracting the differences in WML from Nokia, Ericsson and Openwave browsers.
Soon after, I became Lead Architect on a product called VoxChat. It was a Chat Server written in Python. We sold this product to France Telecom.
Co-founder, Technical Product Manager

WStadium

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 1 month)

WStadium was about creating games on mobile phones. It was a great experience. I had to manage technical partnerships with Nokia and Ericsson and led the development of truly innovative games.
We delivered around 10 games for France Telecom Mobile, Bouygues Telecom and TeliaSonera.
Telecom Engineer

TranSwitch Corporation

(Public Company; TXCC; Semiconductors industry)

March 1999 — October 1999 (8 months)

TranSwitch Corporation is a company based in Shelton, CT, developing semiconductor devices for SONET/SDH, ATM and broadband technologies. I was developing tests in C and Java for Sonet and ATM devices.
Radio Engineer (Intern)

UCLA

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

February 1998 — September 1998 (8 months)

I will always have a special place in my heart for this internship. I had the chance to work at the UCLA Micro Systems Laboratory under the direction of a truly inspiring person, the professor Dr Chih-Ming Ho.
Integrating MEMS technology with RF components was really exciting and the human experience was fantastic.

Florent Stroppa’s Education

Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications

MSC , Telecom & Network Architecture , 1999 — 2000

I loved Telecom Paris. The director of my "Mastere" program was Ahmed Serhrouchni. He was very supportive when we started WStadium with Richard Rispoli and 4 other people from HEC and Essec instead of doing an internship.
Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)

Engineering Degree , Electrical and Optical Engineering , 1994 — 1999

I went to the NFIO, now called IFIPS, because it allowed the students to have a long practical experience in companies with 5 internships. The third year, I had the chance to work at Tektronix. I was not passionated about oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers but for the first two weeks, I was working just by the boss. It was simply fascinating. He managed calls in English, German and French, switching from a topic to an other. From that moment, I realized I should have a international experience.