Jérôme Rius

Leading design, development and maintenance of high-end gateway products for EMEA / LATAM markets.
Reporting to Department Director. Working daily with Product Managers / Sales Managers / R&D team Leaders / Sales Managers. Managing local support teams.
- Customer award (product roadmap presentation, technical advisor, planning definition)
- Product design (hardware/housing decision maker with Product Manager)
- Software (3rd party integration lead, software customization definition)
- Industrial (material anticipation, factory production preparation)
- Project (customer single point of contact, homologation & legal certifications follow-up)
- After-sales (software maintenance & product after-sales follow-up)

Technologies: GPON/XGS-PON/Docsis/xDSL/FTTH/Wi-Fi 6E/Linux/RDK-B/EasyMesh/TR-369
Key facts: Wi-Fi 6 product developped and launched 5 months after kick-off

Managing testing campaigns and customer relationship of a Digital TV project in Brazil.

- Designing tests to perform to successfully ensure acceptance of delivered Set Top Boxes
- Providing an accurate feedback to the R&D, PM and customer ensuring that the project is delivered on time
- Gathering all the necessary information and material to assist the team analyzing issues
- Performing specific Nagra CAS tests at operator’s laboratory
- Keeping a close contact with the customer to guaranty that the project meets its requirements
- Supporting the customer throughout all the acceptance and deployment period providing a solid local technical support

Managing a Set-Top-Box project with an IPTV operator in Mexico, making Sagemcom a pioneer 4K STB provider in Latin America.
Managing a 2-person development team.

- Clarifying and transcribing client requirements (software & hardware specifications, head-end integration)
- Defining project milestones and following up global progress of development teams in France, Tunisia and Mexico
- Providing customer with technical expertise
- Managing local software development (tasks assignation, reporting)
- Following-up product homologations (legal certifications, customer QA)
- Performing local recruitment (developer, designer)

Managing testing campaigns of 2 Digital TV Set-Top-Boxes with a Brazilian TV operator.
Managing a 2 to 4-person testing team.

- Supporting the customer throughout all the acceptance and deployment period providing a solid local technical support
- Providing a communication close to customer to guaranty that the project meets its requirements
- Gathering all the necessary information and material to assist the team analyzing issues
- Managing a 2 to 4-person testing team (assigning tests, summarizing results, reporting activities to headquarters in France)
- Designing tests to successfully ensure acceptance of delivered Set Top Boxes
- Providing an accurate feedback to the R&D, PM and customer ensuring that the project is delivered on time

Mission successfully achieved as reached a sufficient product quality level enabling mass-production and customer sale.

Managing Digital TV Set-Top-Box projects of several TV operators in South America.
Managing a 3-person testing team.

- Managing local customer relationship with Digital TV clients in South America (Peru, Chile, Argentina)
- Providing clients with technical expertise about Set Top Boxes and Digital TV networks
- Coordinating new feature development among 4 different providers (Spanish, French, and Peruvian teams)
- Performing analysis and diagnosis of issues reported throughout Media Networks certification process
- Building simulated networks in test lab to reproduce specific scenarios (Nagra CAS based)
- Defining enhancements and new features to implement with my commercial partner and the R&D team (analyzing customer features specifications, responding to feasibility, presenting new products)
- Managing a 3-person testing team in Lima (assigning tests, summarizing results, reporting activities to headquarters in France)

New innovative features successfully deployed on the field.

Managing Digital TV projects in South America in the context of Set Top Box providing to telecommunication operators.
Managing a 2-person team.

- Establishing project status with our clients (defining delivery contents and deadlines for STB software and hardware, relating current progress)
- Defining enhancements and new features to implement with my commercial partner (analyzing customer features specifications, responding to feasibility, presenting new products)
- Providing clients with technical expertise about decoders and Digital TV networks (analyzing issues encountered by clients, responding to specific technical interrogations)
- Following closely homologation processes of the STB products at Media Networks (analysis of results, reporting to R&D engineers)
- Managing a 2-person testing team in Lima (assigning tests, summarizing results, reporting activities to headquarters in France)

Responsible for testing Set Top Boxes aimed to the Brazilian and South American market.
Actively participated on the creation of the Sagemcom subsidiary in Curitiba among 4 colleagues.

- Establishing working rule set and provide local employees with technical training (guidelines, testing methods)
- Set up Sagemcom new laboratory of Curitiba (equipment choice, infrastructure installation)
- Performing specific tests in the homologation center in Peru (Nagra Conditional Access System features)
- Providing technical support throughout all Brazil and Peru (operator and end-customer on-site investigation)
- Reporting testing activities to headquarters in France

Successfully set up Sagemcom’s biggest R&D center in Latin America.

Responsible for testing Set Top Boxes aimed to the Brazilian and South American market.
Managing a 2-person team.

- Managing testing team in Curitiba and reporting activities to headquarters in France
- Establishing working rule set and provide local employees with technical training (writing guidelines, teaching testing methods)
- Implementing and maintaining local testing cell (purchasing equipment, setting up laboratory)
- Performing tests requiring specific conditions in the homologation center in Peru (Nagra Conditional Access System features)
- Providing clients with technical support (on site investigation)