Stephane Maes

Vice President and Chief Architect, Multimedia BU, Consumer & Business Applications, Ericsson AB

http://www.essem.com/smaes/resume/sm.html Long version: http://www.essem.com/smaes/resume/sm_long.html Presence: http://twitter.com/shmaes - Architecture: Mobile, Wireless, Pervasive Computing, Multi-modal, Voice and Telephony, Real Time Collaboration and Communications - Standards - Technology / Technical strategy - Development - Research - SDP for Telcos, Service Providers and enterprises/ ISVs. - End to end OSS/BSS/SDP integartion, AIA and TMF SDF - NGN, IMS, Internet' legacy Telecommuncataions networks + Pragmatic IMS Some key past activities, work, contributions: - Quantum Well Structure modeling - Wavelets - Robust acoustic speech processing - Speaker recognition / speech biometrics (SRAPI, SVAPI) - Biometric - Robust large scale speech recognition - SpeechML / VoiceXML - Distributed telephony / dialog architecture - Embedded speech recognition and TTS - Speech engine remote control protocols - Multi-channel, multimodal and multi-devices authoring and deployment: CML (Conversational Markup language), IML (Interaction ML), Multimodal / multi-device browser and fundamental execution model, XForms, JSP ad JSF ++ for mobile + standardization and industry evangelization. - Conversational Virtual Machine - Policy based layering of SOA based on separation of concerns (Especially policies): OMA OSE, PEEM; WS GW; Parlay; Terminal and SOA based service delivery platform - Industry evangelization around an open standard mobile e-mail (especially pus e-mail), including Mobile e-mail interest group, P-IMAP, , Lemonade Profile - Ubiquitous collaboration - Ubiquitous presence - Integration of VoIP, Voice and Telephony as call and media control and interfaces / access channel in business process and collaboration ... - Industry evangelization on: - Parlay / OSE convergence - IMS integration in OSE - IMS interworking with internet / corporate intranet - J2EE realization of OSE - TMF SDF / end to end OSS/BSS/SDP integration - SOA for Telcos (e.g. chair OASIS TMS) - Pragmatic IMS Specialties: Architecture, Standardization, Technical strategy, Evangelization, Vision and execution plans. Technical expertise: Speech technologies, Voice, VoIP, Telephony, Multi-channel, Multimodal, Multidevice, Mobile / Wireless, Pervasive computing, Real Time Collaboration and Communication, SOA, Web Services, Service Delivery Platforms, IT, CS, EE, ... Standard Expertise: W3C, OMA, 3GPP, 3GPP2, Parlay, IETF, ETSI, ITU, OSGi, JCP, OASIS, IEEE, ... Numerous patents and technical papers / presentations