| 1995 – 1996 |
Research Student, Institute for Open Communication Systems, GMD FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
- developed an ISDN call manager implementing an network layer state machine based on an existing link layer API
- integrated the call manager into a personal communication system based on OSI stack
- developed a location-based ISDN telephony service
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| 1997 – 2002 |
Research Assistant and Ph.D. Student, Department for Open Communication Systems (OKS), Technical University Berlin, Germany
- developed 3 M.Sc. courses (management of distributed systems, broadband networks and mobile communications)
- coordinated 2 main project courses (personal communication support and unified messaging)
- co-managed all interactions with students for lecturers and projects
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| 1997 – 2002 |
Co-head of Competence Center for Open Communication Systems (OKS), FhG FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
- co-developed the concept of I-Centric Communications, the main research focus of FOKUS for 4 years.
- managed projects for developing intelligent communication sytems, unified messaging, media gateways and service personalisation– co-managed the design and development of a Unified Messaging System
- designed the initial architecture for IST AlbatrOSS
- developed an E-Learning course for the TEN-A project
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| 2002 – 2003 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Telecommunications Software & System Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
- managed HEA basic research programme M-Zones
- coordinated student work on research projects and strengthened M.Sc. programme
- cooperated in defining the curriculum of an elective for B.Sc. programme
- actively cooperated in EU Framework project proposals and running projects
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| 2003 – 2004 |
Investigator, Telecommunications Software & System Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
- managed HEA basic research programme M-Zones
- participated in SFI grant to develop a PI cluster on autonomic management
- cooperated in development of Ph.D. programme
- actively cooperated in EU Framework project proposals and running projects
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| 2004 – 2009 |
Senior Investigator, Telecommunications Software & System Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
- scientific lead on architecture and modelling work in SFI PI Cluster on autonomic management (AMCNS)
- coordinated cooperation with industry (namely Motorola Labs, Chicago)
- participated in standardisation (namely in TM Forum architecture and modelling groups and in the ACF)
- designed scientific programme for HEA project FutureCom
- supervised Ph.D. students
- participated in a number of EU framework projects (namely Auto-I)
- advised scientific work on Celtic project on autonomic management (MADEIRA, in cooperation with Ericsson and Siemens)
- consulted for a number of TSSG commercialisation projects (namely ASYST, I-Serv, and Zimbie)
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| 2009 – 2011 |
Senior Research Fellow, Telecommunications Software & System Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
- Funded Investigator, Programme Manager and Leader of Work Package 2 (Architectures, Models and Algorithms) in SFI Strategic Research Cluster FAME
- developing architectural artefacts and processes for business-to-network translation and semantic interoperability (in cooperation with POSTECH, HP and Cisco)
- designed federation architecture (in cooperation with HP)
- established distributed testbed for federated policy-based management (in cooperation with Cisco)
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| 2011 - to date |
Master Engineer, Team Leader, Ericsson NM-Lab, Ericsson, Ireland
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