Thomas Lacroix

Current

Technical support manager, Asia at Myriad Group AG

Past

Software engineering manager, Asia at Purple Labs
Platform architect leader at Purple Labs
Software project manager at Purple Labs

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Education

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
EFREI

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Industry

Wireless

Thomas Lacroix’s Summary

Oversea technical team set up and management, targeting customer support, professional service or software development, in
wireless and mobile phone industry.

Thomas Lacroix’s Specialties:

Mobile software solution,
Engineering management,
Technical partnership,
technical management positions,
Customer support,
Project scheduling and management,
Wireless and mobile phone.

Thomas Lacroix’s Experience

Technical support manager, Asia

Myriad Group AG

(Public Company; MRYN; Telecommunications industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)

Based in Beijing, set up and manage customer support and professional services mobile software engineering teams in Asia.
My mission is to offer turnkey solutions to our customers (OEM, ODM), by deploying onsite software engineering teams.
I am responsible of the full process, starting with definition of customer requirements, going through talent recruitment and office space rental, ending with handover to local management.
Software engineering manager, Asia

Purple Labs

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

January 2008 — December 2008 (1 year )

Located in Beijing, set up and manage software development, customer support and professional services engineering team.
Recruitment of a complete team, composed of skilled engineers
Platform architect leader

Purple Labs

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2003 — December 2007 (5 years )

Definition of the software roadmap, following market trends and customer requests.
Leading technical decision on the architecture of the overall platform for a new highly customizable software suite and first cost optimized single core virtualized UMTS-Linux platform.
Participation to sales roadshows in Asia to understand market trends and customer needs.
Partnerships setup.
Chairman of Purple Labs at the LIPS forum to normalise Linux software interfaces between mobile Linux ISV.
Software project manager

Purple Labs

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 4 months)

Coordination of developments done on the new Linux platform (from 4 to 30 developers), for of complete rewrite of the software framework
Daily follow up of the developments until the commercial release of the product, including issues reported by testers and customer
Organisation or regular project meetings to present status and expose the milestones, project plan and status to the team and the hierarchy

Thomas Lacroix’s Education

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

Master , Computer architecture and design , 2001 — 2002
EFREI

5+ , Network and telecom , September 1996 — September 2001