Alexandre BELZ

Experience

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  Guinault SA

  Jun 2002 - Oct 2005

  Electronics Project Leader & Developper

  Design and industrialization of CPU based digital controllers for ground power units in Airports.- HW Development (Drawing, PCB routing, FPGA programming)- SW Development (DSP, µController, C programming)

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  Thomson Video Networks

  Oct 2005 - Oct 2016

  HeadEnd system architect : Technical & Commercial proposals.Technoday presentations (product features, IP redundancy)Audio, GPS Clock, and DVB-SUB expert.Key won projects : * Bosnia (DVB-T, Contribution)* France : France Télévisions RFO (Dom-Tom), TDF/GR1, TF1 R6, R7, M6/R8 (DVB-T)* France : France Télévisions "Pluzz" live (OTT).* France : TF1, France 24, Eurosport (Primary Distribution)* Latvia : HannuPro/Lattelecom (IPTV/OTT)* Spain : TV3 (DVB-T)* UK : Arqiva (DVB-T ; DVB-S2 ; Primary distribution) ,the BBC (Primary distribution, HD DVB-T), Sky F1* Belgium : RTBF (DVB-T) Show less

  • PreSales Engineer (Competence Center)

    May 2010 - Oct 2016

  • Head-End Business Support

    Oct 2008 - May 2010

  • Audio HW and SW Development Engineer

    Oct 2005 - Oct 2008
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  Harmonic

  Oct 2016 - Aug 2024

  Management of a PreSales support team (3p), Solution Architect, Business Developper, and corporate internal facilitator .* Personal expertise on latest EMEA DTT/DTH innovations, such as DVB-SIS, DVB-TA, SRT, and OTT/Streaming (CMAF LowLatency).* My team manages Demonstration devices, a catalog of 3rd Party Products to complete our system offers (IP switches, GPS clocks, EPG servers, RF Sat modulators ...), and maintenance of tools for other PreSales (eg templates of replies to RFP/RFI).* Design of a new CRM tool to manage our demo assets, integrated in our corporate SalesForce environment. The new tool brings a tremendous increase of productivity, resilience, and reliability. I endorsed successively different roles : animator of co-building sessions, Project Owner, Trainer, and finally Product Manager (feature improvement based on Agile sprints of our IT CRM team). Show less Management of a PreSales team (5p).- successful quater-to-quarter sales results.- successful transition from Thomson to Harmonic products (my team + our customers).- successful introduction of new Cloud products (VOS Software Cluster / Origin) with POs.- successful introduction of our SaaS offering (VOS360) with major POs/contracts won by my team. Contact me for details.Successful design & promotion of new internal tools to...- Monitor PreSales activity (SFDC)- Share internal information (Confluence, Jira)- Gain time (Visio templates)Design an animation of training/handson sessions for internal products (AWX Ansible deployments, and CloudLink = upLink video to our SaaS)Validation, promotion & support of the new quoting tool (Apttus). Show less

  • PreSales Team Manager - Solutions & Development

    Jan 2021 - Aug 2024

  • Presales Team Manager - Southern Europe

    Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
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  Les Voix de Beauregard

  Sept 2021 - now

  President of a Choir association (performing in SATB). Bass Singer. Secretary of a Choir association (performing in SATB). Bass Singer.

  • President

    Nov 2022 - now

  • Secretary

    Sept 2021 - Nov 2022