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Bence Seress

Development Team Lead · Telecom & IT

Summary

With over 15 years of experience in telecom and IT, I have spearheaded the development of innovative solutions in 5G, IoT, Networking and Smart City domains. As a leader, I have coached and mentored teams, identified new business opportunities, and managed R&D budgets. My expertise includes technical product management, strategic presales, and system integration.

Key Achievements

Campus 5G

Built Vodafone Hungary’s B2B private 5G competence center and reached market leadership in one year.

Technical Product Management

Introduced the TPM function in Vodafone, increasing development efficiency.

Smart City

Co-founded T-Systems’ Smart City concept with technological solutions and services.

Top Talent

Awarded as Top Performer & Top Talent for 5 consecutive years.

Foster talents

Supported dozens of events and courses promoting technology for young students and faculty.

Experience

Development Team Lead — Vodafone / One

05/2019 – 2025 · Hungary

Led teams of chief architects, architects and engineers to deliver innovative solutions, enhancing project efficiency, in the field of 5G private networks, IoT and bespoke software developments.
Technical owner of business product portfolio (IoT, Smart City, 5G to Business, Industry 4.0, converged voice, etc.), responsible for new service and product developments and technical lifecycle of existing portfolio.
Identifying new business opportunities on C-Level customer meetings.
Maintaining VF Business Technology non-customer project portfolio, owner of B2B R&D budget.
Coaching and mentoring the team to ensure efficiency and engagement, represents the team and the projects inside and outside the organisation.
Represented B2B technology in several national and international forums, like HTE, MWC EU and Shanghai, and other vendor and industrial conferences.

Technical Product Manager / Technical Architect — Vodafone

10/2016 – 05/2019 · Hungary

Managed the end-to-end technical lifecycle of B2B products and services, ensuring continuous operability and service excellence (sell-build-run).
Identified and executed initiatives for product simplification, revitalization, or retirement. Led budget planning and managed the approval process for associated transformation projects.
Interfaced with enterprise customers to gather business requirements and translate them into High-Level Designs (HLD) for Unified Communications, IoT, and IT solutions.
As an architect delivered implementation of customer solutions on Vodafone’s Unified Communication platform. Prepared technical proposals and consolidated cost estimates to support pre-sales activities.

Presales Architect — NET’54 Kft

09/2015 – 10/2016 · Hungary

Presales technical consultation and technical design for virtual and physical PBX systems, voice services and networking scope, mostly Avaya, Oracle, NICE presales, APSS, APDS certification.
Increased project success rate by leading preparation, enhancing strategy, and optimizing lead generation.

Strategic Presales Manager — T-Systems / Telekom

01/2010 – 09/2015 · Hungary

Created technical architecture for strategic projects in presales phase in the area of Smart Cities, Intelligent Transport Systems and IoT.
Translated customer requirements into detailed technical specifications, ensuring alignment with key stakeholders.
Subcontractor negotiations, partner relations, preparing requirements specification.
Technical support during public procurement procedures.
System integration, preparing technical offer, subcontractor negotiation, project management.

Education

M.Sc. in Telecommunication — BME, 2004–2010

Computer Engineering — HiBu, 2009

Languages

English — Proficient German — Intermediate Hungarian — Native

Skills

5G IoT Networking Product Management Strategic Thinking Communication

Interests, portraits

Contact

Email: bence[AT]seressbence.hu

Location: Budapest, Hungary