Laurent Balmelli

Current

• Asia-Pacific Systems Engineering Lead, IBM World Wide Sales at IBM Sales and Distribution
• Senior Software Development Manager at IBM Software Group
• Guest Professor at Keio University (Tokyo), Graduate School in Systems Design and Management

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Past

• Manager in Research&Development, Subject Matter Expert at IBM Research Division
• Research Staff Member at IBM Research Division (US)
• Associate, Mathematical Sciences Center at Bell Labs Lucent Technologies

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Education

• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• Gymnase Numa-Droz

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Laurent Balmelli’s Summary

CURRENT ROLE (MANAGER AT IBM SOFTWARE GROUP)
- IBM Rational/Telelogics Strategy/Solution Design/Pre-Sales for IT systems supporting the manufacturing industry
- People Management, Assets Development, Process Outsourcing, Operation expenses
- Technical Sales: Subject Matter Expert in Requirements Management, Systems Engineering, Integrated Change Management.

AWARDS
- 2004 Robert Fulton ASME Best Technical Paper Award for the paper “Requirements modeling for system engineering using SysML, the Systems Modeling Language”, ASME DETC Conference, Salt Lake City – nomination.
- 2002 Best Technical Paper Award for the paper “Space-Optimized Texture Maps”, Eurographics, Saarbruecken, Germany.

- Lead author of The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) – Object Management Group, standard adopted in June 2006.
- Expert in Model-Driven System Design methodologies

LANGUAGES
- French, Italian (native languages), English (fluent), able to conduct business in Japanese and Spanish.
- Teaching a graduate class on Engineering Management at Keio University in Japanese.
- Japanese Standard Proficiency Test Level 2 (日本語能力試験2級),

PATENTS
Hold a portofolio of more than 20 patents and professional publications.

CONTACT
Please contact me at Laurent.Balmelli@gmail.com

Laurent Balmelli’s Specialties:

Business Development Strategy; Pre-Sales; Customer Engagement (Contract) Execution, Technical Leadership; People Management; Subject Matter Expert for Model-Driven Development/Engineering, Product Lifecycle Management, IT Infrastructure/Systems Solutions for Product Development, Systems Engineering and Requirements Managements, SOA Architectures, Telelogics and Rational Software Portfolio

Laurent Balmelli’s Experience

• Asia-Pacific Systems Engineering Lead, IBM World Wide Sales

  IBM Sales and Distribution

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2009 — Present (2 months)

  - Responsible to lead Asia-Pacific (mainly China, India, Australia) and Japan sales team on Systems Engineering solutions to support sales to the Industrial Sector (Aerospace, Auto, Electronics, Heavy Industries).
  - Support the adoption of model-driven approach to Systems Engineering, in particular process integration technologies

• Senior Software Development Manager

  IBM Software Group

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  - Software development team management: Customize and develop extensions for Rational and Telelogic tools to support specific customer needs.
  - People management of a distributed team (Japan and India), manage operation expenses.
  - Support technical sales as Subject Matter Expert in Requirements Management, Systems Engineering, Integrated Change Management.

• Guest Professor

  Keio University (Tokyo), Graduate School in Systems Design and Management

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  July 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  Guest professor for a 13-class course during the fall semester to professionals and graduate students in the domain of engineering management, model-driven systems engineering, novel techniques for project traceability (artifacts, resources, etc). Lecture taught in Japanese.

Additional Information

Laurent Balmelli’s Honors:

2004 Robert Fulton ASME Best Technical Paper Award for the paper “Requirements modeling for system engineering using SysML, the Systems Modeling Language”, ASME DETC Conference, Salt Lake City – nomination.

2002 Best Technical Paper Award for the paper “Space-Optimized Texture Maps”, Eurographics, Saarbruecken, Germany.

Lead author of The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) – Object Management Group, standard adopted in June 2006.