Photography
Laurian Lamba
System Architect
Hisings Backa
Summary
The shortest description about myself is that I know a little about much, and not the other way around
During the last few years, have gained a particularly valuable experience with operations, research and development, system management and DevOps ways of working
My focus so far was on defining processes, designing architecture flows, and creating the vision and backlog for Ericsson products within Connected Vehicles and Private 5G technology areas.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
System Manager
Ericsson Private
01.2022 - Current
- In my role as a member of the system management team for the Ericsson Private 5G project, I am responsible for owning the system description and architecture, conducting studies based on market opportunities identified by the product management team, providing system level guidance and clarification of requirements to development teams, driving system evolution studies and providing input to stakeholders, ensuring alignment of system level design decisions with other
- Ericsson architecture groups and initiatives, and developing and maintaining the architectural roadmap and supporting governance structures
- Since joining this team, I have been involved in driving the architectural study and communications for implementing support for Citizens Broadband Radio Service, leading the architectural design for 5G precise positioning and developing and documenting the data strategy and high-level system modularization
- During my tenure at Ericsson, I have been part of the re-organization where my unit was assigned to this new project Ericsson Private 5G, which offers private cellular solutions to enterprise or
- Communication Service Provider
Operability Architect Lead
Ericsson
10.2017 - 12.2022
- Connected Vehicles
- As an Operability Architect Lead within the Connected Vehicle Cloud (CVC) unit at Ericsson, I wasresponsible for a range of operational and technical aspects
- My key responsibilities includedserving as the single point of contact for the customer service management team, driving alignmentaround tools and technology for monitoring, logging, tracing, configurations, and servicemanagement tools, leading the governance of operability architecture for the CVC portfolio, andensuring collaboration and knowledge sharing between development teams
- I also closely worked with teams from sales to operations to evaluate and improve product deliveryand operations, provided CAPEX and OPEX estimates to commercial teams, and designed anddrove the implementation of various platforms and services, including a billing platform, loggingservice, monitoring service and service model
- Additionally, I was responsible for leading securityreviews of services in production
- During this role, I developed a keen interest in data management, data analysis, visualization, andmachine learning
- I was able to work with wide range of products and technologies such as AWS, MQ messagebrokers, Jboss platforms, MQTT solutions, F5 Load Balancers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Grafana
- Labs, Elasticsearch, AppDynamics, Python and also had the opportunity to participate in the salesprocess and customer commercial negotiations.
SAFe Product Owner
Ericsson Connected
08.2020 - 12.2021
- Vehicles
- As a Product Owner for the internal products of logging and monitoring within the Connected
- Vehicle Cloud unit at Ericsson, I was responsible for setting the vision and continuously managingthe health and prioritization of the team backlog, collaborating with internal and external2stakeholders to drive product direction and roadmap, and attending Agile ceremonies, demos andproduction proving activities
- During this role, I served as the link between the product team and development team, breakingdown requirements and interacting with internal stakeholders to ensure customer requirements andfeedback were transformed into technical requirements that were then funneled to R&D
- I alsoplanned meetings with external organizations and individuals to discuss project progress
- The role also included responsibilities as defined by SAFe for an Agile Product Owner, that wasalign all teams globally with the same ways of working.
Global Support Technical Lead
Ericsson Connected
08.2016 - 10.2017
- Vehicles
- As a Global Support Technical Lead at Ericsson, I led the 2nd line support team for Connected
- Vehicles, providing support, training, and mentorship to colleagues, while also actively working ondifficult technical cases
- In this role, I had the opportunity to interact directly with customersthrough presenting weekly operational reports, root cause analysis, and updates on improvementsfor our team
- I also joined an Ericsson Global group to support the implementation of the first DevOpsorganization for the Ericsson Connected Vehicles unit, which provided me with valuable experienceinteracting with different teams within Ericsson and sparked my interest in expanding my rolebeyond technical responsibilities to include areas such as process improvement, productmanagement, and architectural design.
Senior Service Engineer
Ericsson Connected Vehicles
09.2014 - 08.2016
- As a Service Engineer at Ericsson, I served as an infrastructure engineer for the cloud based B2Bcellular solution, Device Connected Platform
- As part of the global support center team, I provided2nd line support for infrastructure-related trouble tickets during office hours and on a 24/7 on-callbasis
- Beyond support activities, I drove operational improvements resulting in savings and improvedprofit margins, implemented automation tools to improve monitoring and response from theservice desk team, and focused on improvements rather than solving tickets
- I was then offered an opportunity to establish a 2nd line operations team for a new platform for
- Connected Vehicles, which exposed me to new technologies and knowledge of Linuxadministration, troubleshooting, and public cloud providers in a production system
- Working in a Global Support Center, I learned the importance of implementing and deliveringaccording to a process framework, specifically ITIL.
IT & Network Administrator
MB Telecom LTD SRL
08.2009 - 09.2014
- In my role at MB Telecom, I excelled in maintaining and updating company's IT infrastructure, andquickly took on additional responsibilities such as designing and implementing on-premises datacenters and architecting embedded IT and wireless communication features for company'sproducts
- As an IT Manager, I led the design and mentored team, and successfully demonstrated products tocustomers and provided on-site trainings
- With proficiency in a wide range of hardware and software including HPE servers, storagesolutions, Azure, VMware and embedded systems, I have managed to create a track record ofsuccess.
Education
Master's Degree - Automatics And Computer Science, Transilvania
Brasov
Romania 09.2004 - 07.2009
Skills
Requirements Gathering
Additional Information
- 4
Accomplishments
I have managed to successfully drive the operational delivery of Volvo Cars Connected Vehicle project, working close to the Chief Operating Officer and the system architects team on both sides for 6 years.
Supervised the team that developed the data collecting and data processing framework to fulfill billing requirements for Ericsson Connected Vehicle Cloud product.
Achieved the architectural design and integration of precise indoor positioning feature for 5G enabled devices, into private 5G networks, only using the cellular infrastructure.
I was part of Ericsson Applied Data Science Bootcamp during 2020, and for 6 months I have been part of a team that has built up knowledge in the Machine Learning area and applied that knowledge in telecom and connected cars space.
Interests
Videography
DYI electronics project
Leather work
Timeline
System Manager
Ericsson Private
01.2022 - Current
SAFe Product Owner
Ericsson Connected
08.2020 - 12.2021
Operability Architect Lead
Ericsson
10.2017 - 12.2022
Global Support Technical Lead
Ericsson Connected
08.2016 - 10.2017
Senior Service Engineer
Ericsson Connected Vehicles
09.2014 - 08.2016
IT & Network Administrator
MB Telecom LTD SRL
08.2009 - 09.2014
Master's Degree - Automatics And Computer Science, Transilvania
Brasov
09.2004 - 07.2009
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