Jerome Berniere

Experience

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  Ecole supérieure et d'Application du Génie

  Dec 1994 - Dec 1995

  Lieutenant

  Joined the French Army Engineer Corp Officer Candidate School OCS (ESAG)Served as platoon commanding officer for the 7th Engineer RegimentDistinguished with the French National Defence Medal for remarkable services on active duty

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  Accenture

  Jan 1998 - Jul 1998

  Analyst - Intern

  Analyzing current and future Network technologies to help the firm and its clients to understand which the key technologies should be to be use in the future (Wireless data & Microsoft technologies)Designing Mercedes-Benz customer service call center infrastructure (position based in the Netherlands).

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  Newbridge Networks (Alcatel)

  Jul 1998 - Nov 1999

  Support Escalation Engineer

  Support Escalation engineer and new product introduction between the country partners, customers and the product group in UK/Canada. This includes multi-protocols data routers and telecom carrier class technologies (like IP/IPX/ATM/X25/FR/WAN).

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  Cisco Systems

  Nov 1999 - Feb 2002

  Voice Technology Group Lead

  Leading a team of voice specialist in Unified Communications including Cisco Call Manager, Unity, ICM/IPCC, LAN/WAN,...Interface for the product group development in strategic customer escalation, support for large accounts system engineers during request for proposal and pilots, assisting project manager in risk assessment for large customer deployments.

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  Logical Networks

  Feb 2002 - Feb 2003

  Telecommunications Architect

  Unified Communications Architect. Oversees requests for proposal for the country, customer deployments and strategic vendor relationship (mainly Cisco).

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  Nextiraone

  Mar 2003 - May 2006

  Telecommunications Architect

  Unified Communications Architect for Nextiraone France large account division. Oversees requests for proposal for the country, strategic customer deployments and strategic vendor relationship (mainly Cisco/Alcatel).

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  Microsoft

  May 2006 - now

  Managing Unified Communications Research and Development programs in the following area: Voice/Video and virtualization, PBX Interoperability, strategic customers/partners relationship, deployment, escalation, and new product introduction. Managing Worldwide relationship with Microsoft IT for the Lync Product Group up at Corporate VP/CIO level for Unified Communications technologies. Leading teams in Microsoft IT, Lync engineering and Online Business Division to define business goals, operations, infrastructure designs, and new products introduction to support Microsoft's business needs.People Manager Show less

  • Director of Partner Development - Microsoft Strategic Operators Partners

    Mar 2024 - now

  • Director, Enterprise Product & Sales Strategy

    Jun 2015 - Mar 2024

  • Global Account Technical Strategy Lead

    Sept 2012 - May 2015

  • Senior Product Manager Lead

    Apr 2011 - Aug 2012

  • Senior Program Manager Lead

    Aug 2008 - Mar 2011

  • Senior Technical Solution Professional

    May 2006 - Jul 2008