Dipl.-Ing. Torsten Schmidt

Responsible for product development for 'freenet TV connect' streaming platform (Transcoding, DASH, DRM, CDN) and TV application (HbbTV, JavaScript) --> https://www.freenet.tv/connect +++ Solution design, vendor selection and deployment +++ Agile software development of TV applications +++ Coordinating a team of senior and junior internal engineers and external software developers +++ Speaker at HbbTV symposium and winning 'Best Technology Innovation in an HbbTV Product or Service' 2017

Requirements engineering and project management on vendor side (Huawei) for complete relaunch of T-Entertain (Telekom) - a large product development project +++ Single-point-of-contact between Huawei and Telekom for Video on Demand platform: communication of requirements and development status, coordination of deployment, integration and acceptance +++

Solution design, vendor selection, project management streaming platform TV and Video on Demand for smart devices (smart phones, tablets, smart TV, settop boxes) +++ Larger telco and streaming engineering projects with up to 5m€ capex, 5-10 subproject managers, 30 developers and testers: Launch Vodafone IPTV, IPTV via VDSL 'bit stream' and fast retransmission

Product life cycle management for consumer home network equipment +++ Establish consumer hardware portfolio (e.g. 'pre-ipad') incl. IT requirements engineering for business process and logistic support +++ Presentation to board of directors +++ Responsible for product presentations at Cebit and IFA +++ Vendor management +++ Rapid protoyping

Business Analyse, Demand Management und Requirements Engineering im Product Life Cycle Management der Arcor Internet Access Produkte (DSL, VDSL, IbC) ===> Highlight: Registrierungs- und Orderprozess für Arcors erstes Internet-Massenmarktprodukt 'Internet by Call mit Anmeldung' +++ Analyse, Anpassung und Optimierung der IT-Unterstützung für die Geschäftsprozesse (Auftragsabwicklung, Customer Care und Billing, BSS/OSS)

Inhouse Consultant für alle Arten von Netze: Sprache, Daten, Glasfaser ==> Highlights: Wesentliche Beiträge zum Business Plan des Unternehmens: Umsetzung des Forecasts aus dem Strategischen Marketing in komplette Netzstrukturen inkl. Kostenbestimmung (capex, opex)

Softwareentwickler C/C++ für Netzplanungstools für Telco Ausrüster wie Siemens, Alcatel u.a. auch für das D1 Mobilfunknetz +++ Teilnahme am Aufbau einer neuen Business Unit zur strategischen Netzplanung

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