Gwenael Le Bodic

Gwenael Le Bodic

Product Management and Book Authoring - Mobile Messaging

Montreal, Canada Area

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Past
  • Researcher at University of Strathclyde - Mobile VCE

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Education
  • University of Strathclyde
  • Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes
  • Institut Universitaire des Technologies - Vannes
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Gwenael Le Bodic’s Summary

Gwenaël Le Bodic held various technology and product management roles in the mobile communications industry. Working for leading operators, vendors and standardization bodies, he authored many reference books and articles in the domain of mobile communications and mobile messaging.

Gwenaël Le Bodic is currently directing the management of several carrier-grade solutions at Airwide Solutions. This includes the management of a product portfolio including MMS centre, SMS gateway and MMS gateway. Position also consists of defining the evolutionary path of these products to meet the requirement of future messaging services. His current field of activity is mobile messaging (Mobile Instant Messaging, Mobile Email, Social Networking, MMS, SMS, Interconnect between services/communities and IMS technologies).

Previously, Gwenaël held the position of product manager at OZ Communications. This included mobile instant messaging and integrated messaging solutions.

Previously, he was Senior Architect for the Vodafone Group where he was responsible for defining the strategic roadmap for the evolution of mobile messaging technologies. He was also involved in the deployment of MMS systems for large multi-operator environments and in the realization of messaging interconnection between mobile networks.

For several years, he carried out research and development studies for the telecommunication vendor Alcatel (Mobile Phone Division) in Paris, France. This included many contributions to various standardization development organizations (3GPP, OMA, etc.). He had the responsibility for the technical design of the embedded messaging solution for the first two Alcatel MMS-capable phones.

Gwenael Le Bodic’s Specialties:

- Product management
- Consulting
- Mobile and Internet services
- Book authoring and Lecturing

Gwenael Le Bodic’s Experience

  • Senior Product Manager

    Airwide Solutions

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    September 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

    Product management: definition of service propositions, business cases, price books, requirement definition, R&D coordination, management of partner relationships, support to sales and operations teams. Responsible for several telco-grade messaging products including MMS centre, MMS bulk/push engine, SMS/MMS gateways and LDAP repositories.

    Definition of strategy towards future messaging services and technologies including converged messaging, presence services, mobile advertizing and mobile broadband.

    Airwide's lead for standardization activities at OMA, 3GPP/ETSI and GSMA. Focus on Converged-IP Messaging (CPM), Converged Address Book (CAB), Mobile Advertising (MobAd) and Rich Communications Suite (RCS).

  • Product Manager

    Oz Communications (now Nokia)

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    April 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 6 months)

    Definition and management of mobile messaging products for mobile operators and device manufacturers. Work with cross-functional teams (sales, marketing, server/client architects and developers, user interface designers, documentation, legal, etc.) to achieve product objectives.

  • Senior Solution Architect

    Vodafone Group

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2003 — May 2006 (2 years 8 months)

    - Definition of MMS technology strategy and roadmap
    - Design of messaging solutions (business case evaluation, use case modeling, requirements engineering, architecture design)
    - Vendor management activities
    - Standardization (OMA, 3GPP, GSM Association)
    - MMS interworking (between operators) and service interworking (SMS, Email)
    - Design of solutions for multi-operator environments
    - Technical lead for the set-up of field trials for messaging proofs of concept.

  • Business and Technology analyst

    Alcatel Mobile Phones (now Alcatel-Lucent)

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2000 — October 2003 (3 years 1 month)

    - Expert in Mobile Messaging technology and services
    - Standardization (ETSI, OMA, 3GPP)
    - Selection of 3rd party software solution (MMS, IMPS, etc.)
    - Design of messaging solution for Alcatel's first two MMS phones

  • Researcher

    University of Strathclyde - Mobile VCE

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    September 1998 — October 2000 (2 years 2 months)

    - Research studies for the mobile industry (Nokia, Vodafone, O2, etc.)
    - British research programme - Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (MVCE)
    http://www.mobilevce.com/

Gwenael Le Bodic’s Education

  • University of Strathclyde

    PhD, Telecommunications, 1997 — 2000

  • Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes

    Ing., Computer Science, 1994 — 1997

  • Institut Universitaire des Technologies - Vannes

Additional Information

Gwenael Le Bodic’s Websites:

Gwenael Le Bodic’s Interests:

Book authoring: 1) Mobile Messaging, 2nd Edition - February 2005, Publisher: Wiley & Sons 2) Multimedia Messaging Service - October 2003, Publisher: Wiley & Sons 3) Mobile Messaging, 2nd Edition (also available in Russian) - November 2002, Publisher: Wiley & Sons

Gwenael Le Bodic’s Groups:

Courses and speaker at industry events:
- Panel on Mobile Advertising (23 - 24 September 2008, Toronto) - The Messaging Industry Association (TMIA)
- Mobile Messaging (17 - 18 June 2008) / University of Oxford
- Mobile Messaging (11 January 2007) / IEEE CCNC Las Vegas
- Mobile Messaging (20 - 21 June 2006) / University of Oxford

  •    INSA
  •    University of Strathclyde Alumni
  •    Vodafone Friend
  •    Mobile Product Management
  •    momomo (mobile monday montreal)
  •    Alcatel Lucent Association Group
  •    WIMS 2.0
  •    Airwide Solutions

Gwenael Le Bodic’s Honors:

Member of the Alcatel Technical Academy (2003)

Selection of awarded patents:
. 1) Mobile communications network (hierarchical network infrastructure)
. 2) Method of activating a camera from a remote terminal
. 3) Terminal comprenant des moyens pour activer l'interface homme-machine d'un terminal distant
. 4) Method and system for transmitting/receiving multimedia content via a radiocommunication network
. 5) Multimedia Messaging Service comprising a service indicating recipient's absence
. 6) Multimedia Messaging Service comprising a reply field indication request date
. 7) Dynamic selection of radio communication network operator or service provider
. 8) Mobile communications networks (resouce management via digital marketplace)
. 9) Enhanced Message Service comprising identifier and reuse information elements
. 10) System of interoperability between MMS message and SMS/EMS messafe and associated exchange method

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