Matthieu Clouqueur, Ph.D., Dipl. Ing.

(Current as of 2011)

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Results-oriented, skilled telecommunications sales engineer with 10+ years international experience in the field of optical networking. Qualifications include:

• Expert in telecommunications network architectures
• Expert in optical network design and optimization
• Technologies: OTN (G. 709), DWDM, SDH, Carrier Ethernet, IP/MPLS
• Experienced with product development processes
• 7+ years at leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer
• Trilingual English/French/German

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Solution Manager - Optical Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks, Munich, Germany
Network Systems Sales
Since 2009

Sales Engagement with International Customers

• Presents NSN’s DWDM and SDH products and identifies customers’ specific needs and solutions.
• Performs live demonstrations of advanced optical network planning tools.
• Organizes and leads technical customer workshops and product testing.
• Instrumental in getting NSN ranked as the technical leader in DWDM technology by an important European telecom operator, less than one year after first introducing them to NSN’s DWDM products.

Global Optical Networking Expert (DWDM/SDH)

• Has taken technical leadership in several DWDM/OTN tenders from major telecom operators, consistantly achieving selection on the shortlist.
• Supports customer teams worldwide in answering advanced optical networking questions.

Internal Sales Employee Training

• Created multiple company-wide technology training sessions on advanced topics related to optical networking, recieving top marks in the participants’ evaluations.
• Conducted classroom training on optical networking technology, portfolio and roadmap for new Sales employees from around the globe.

Research Scientist

Nokia Siemens Networks, Munich, Germany
IP Transport Business Unit – R&D Management, Innovation
2007-2009

System Engineering

• Lead the development of new product features and supporting technical concepts for state-of-the-art DWDM network planning software, used by high-profile clients to plan their long-haul and ultra-long-haul DWDM networks.

Research

• Coordinate a common project with university partner to investigate innovative network survivability options.
• Conducted a research project commissioned by a key DWDM customer on the evaluation of the cost-efficiency of several optical network architectures and modulation formats for multi-million dollar continental networks.

Innovation

• Lead project investigating a new cost-effective optical network protection scheme.
• Member of a team responsible for fostering innovation within the business unit, and in collaboration with other business units, to remain at the forefront of the transport networking industry.

Research Scientist

SIEMENS AG, Munich, Germany
Corporate Technology – Information and Communications
2004–2007

System Engineering

• Developed complex algorithms for routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) and grooming for state of the art DWDM network planning software.
• Developed innovative solutions for failure-tolerant optical networking, and optical connections tolerant to power transients.
• Participated in product quality testing for DWDM network planning software.

Research

• Conducted research project on the evaluation of a decision-making technology, commercialized by an external company, for possible integration into a SIEMENS product.

Research Engineer

TRLabs, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Network Systems Group (supervised by Dr. Wayne D. Grover)
1999–2004

Research (Senior Group Member)

• Conducted and directed applied research on the topic of capacity planning and reliability analysis of telecommunications transport networks. Aspects of the research included the development of: Linear Programming formulations, failure analysis tools, and various other tools for network planning and analysis.
• Presented research activities to sponsor companies.
• Supported Professor Grover in the daily supervision of the Networks Systems research group composed of graduate students, visiting researchers, and student interns.

Collaboration with Sponsors

• Initiated new collaborations with sponsor companies to explore the potential of future networking technologies. Research collaborations include a comparative study of ring and mesh survivability, and studies of mesh network restorability, both with Nortel Networks.

Software Development

• Conceptualized and lead the development of network analysis software TRLabs MeshAnalyzer capable of performing mesh network restorability and availability analysis. Also participated in the development of mesh network planning tool TRLabs MeshBuilder.

Technical Writer and Technician (Internship)

France Telecom, Paris, France
Department of Optical Access for Corporate Customers
Summer 1996

• Created the documentation for the installation and testing of optical fibre line terminating equipment (LTE) for France Telecom SDH network. Worked with France Telecom’s technicians on the installation of LTEs, testing of equipment and fibre.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge

• Transport Networking Technologies: OTN/G.709, SONET/SDH, IP/MPLS, Carrier-grade Ethernet
• Network Protection & Restoration
• Operations Research / Optimization / Industrial Engineering, Linear Programming, Heuristics

Skills

• Leadership and team leading skills
• Exceptional writing skills
• Exceptional presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Telecommunication Network Planning (long-haul, metro, access)
• Software development

Computer Skills

• C/ C++ Programming
• AMPL
• CPLEX
• UNIX
• HP TestDirector
• Adobe FrameMaker
• Website administration, HTML, CSS
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Languages

• English (fluent)
• French (native speaker)
• German (fluent)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

(supervised by Dr. Wayne D. Grover)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Graduated: December 2003

Thesis title: Availability of Service in Mesh-Restorable Transport Networks

Description: Development of theoretical and practical approaches for the determination of the availability of service paths in mesh-based survivable networks. Special emphasis on adaptive mesh restoration schemes, shared mesh protection and p-cycle protection.

Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Electrical and Computer Engineering

ENSEA (National School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering), Cergy-Pontoise, France
Graduated: September 1998

Specialization in Telecommunication Systems: digital communications, optical networking, information theory. Main tracks of the ENSEA training include: analog, digital and power electronics, mathematics and physics, programming and microprocessors.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Project Management Training

SIEMENS Learning Campus, Munich, Germany
Attended: September 2006

Five-day training course teaching the fundamentals of project management. Main topics covered by the training include: stakeholder analysis, project manager agreement, work breakdown structures, risk analysis, project controlling and reporting, team building, and conflict management.

Competent Communication

Toastmasters International
Attended: Since 2006

Completed the Competent Communication program that teaches the foundations of effective public speaking, including: organizing a speach, convincing an audience, using gestures and eye contact, and overall delivery.

HIGHLIGHTED RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS

• 2004 George Walker Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta
• 2002 Best Student Paper Award - SPIE Optical Networking and Communications Conference (OptiComm 2002)
• 2000 Nortel Networks Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Mesh Networking Solutions

PUBLICATIONS

1. A. Grue, W.D. Grover, B.Forst, D. Onguetou, D.Baloukov, J.Doucette, M. Clouqueur, D. Schupke, “Comparative study of fully pre-cross-connected protection architectures for transparent optical networks,” Proc. DRCN 2007, La Rochelle, France, 7-10 October 2007.
2. M. Clouqueur, W.D. Grover, “Availability analysis and enhanced availability design in p-cycle-based networks,” Photonic Network Communications, Springer Science, 10:1, July 2005, pp. 55-71.
3. M. Clouqueur, W. D. Grover, “Span-restorable mesh networks with multiple quality of protection (QoP) service classes,” Photonic Networks Communications, Springer Science, 10:1, July 2005, pp. 55-71.
4. M. Clouqueur, W. D. Grover, “Mesh-restorable networks with enhanced dual-failure restorability properties,” Photonic Networks Communications, Springer Science, 9:1, Jan. 2005, pp. 7-18.
5. D. A. Schupke, W. D. Grover, M. Clouqueur, Strategies for enhanced dual failure restorability with static or reconfi gurable p-cycle networks,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2004, Paris, France, June 2004.
6. J. Doucette, M. Clouqueur, W. D. Grover, “On the service availability and respective capacity requirements of shared backup path-protected mesh networks,” SPIE Optical Networks Magazine, Special Issue on Engineering the Next Generation Optical Internet, vol. 4, no. 6, November 2003.
7. M. Clouqueur, W. D. Grover, “Quantitative comparison of end-to-end availability of service paths in ring and mesh-restorable networks,” in Proceedings of the 19th National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, NFOEC 2003, Orlando, FL, USA, September 2003.
8. W. D. Grover, M. Clouqueur, “Span-restorable mesh networks with multiple quality of protection (QoP) service-classes,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, ICOCN 2002, Singapore, November 2002, pp. 321-323.
9. M. Clouqueur, W. D. Grover, “Mesh-restorable networks with complete dual failure restorability and with selectively enhanced dual-failure restorability properties,” in Proceedings of SPIE OptiComm 2002, Boston, MA, USA, July 2002, pp. 1-12. (recipient of Best Student Paper Award)
10. M. Clouqueur, W. D. Grover, “Availability analysis of span-restorable mesh networks,” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 20, no. 4, May 2002, pp. 810-821.
11. W. D. Grover, J. Doucette, M. Clouqueur, D. Leung, D. Stamatelakis, “New options and insights for survivable transport networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 40, no. 1, January 2002.
12. M. Clouqueur, W. D. Grover, D. Leung, O. Shai, “Mining the Rings: Strategies for Ring-to-Mesh Evolution,” Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, DRCN 2001, Budapest, Hungary, October 2001, pp.113-120.
13. W. D. Grover, M. Clouqueur, T. Bach, “Quantifying and managing the influence of maintenance actions on the survivability of mesh-restorable networks,” in Proceedings of 17th National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, NFOEC 2001, Baltimore, USA, July 2001, vol. 3, pp. 1514-1525.
14. M. Clouqueur and W. D. Grover, “Computational and design studies on the unavailability of mesh- restorable networks,” in Proceedings of Second International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, DRCN 2000, Munich, Germany, April 2000, pp. 181-186.

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

1. W. D. Grover, J. Doucette, D. Leung, A. Kodian, A. Sack, M. Clouqueur, G. Shen, W. Sukcharoenkana, “Design of survivable networks based on p-cycles,” in the Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications, P.M. Pardalos, M. G. C. Resende (editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers, in press, Winter 2005.
2. Wayne D. Grover, Mesh-based Survivable Networks: Options and Strategies for Optical, MPLS, SONET and ATM Networking, Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2003.

PATENTS

1. W.D. Grover, M. A. Clouqueur, K.K. Leung, Evolution of a telecommunications network from ring to mesh structure, U.S.Patent 7,260,059, Issued August 21, 2007.