Josef Widstrom

Senior Rollout Manager/advisor (Interim) for Subsea cable project (South and North America).
Advisor in planning and executing a Sub Sea cable project between South and North America and 2 Data Centres. The project is planned to start in 2022/2023 with a total investment of 6 Billion USD.

Business Development Manager and responsible for the build-up of the company's operations in a number of countries (Europe, South America and Asia) with Sweden Telecom and other vendor solutions.
Responsible for project management, market entry, marketing, strategy, negotiations with suppliers, customers, jobs and contact with funders.
Project Manager of the Set up of an complete E-commerce platform with focus of Optical products for Data centers Net owners and more. Responsible for the evaluation and Testing of 3rd parts factories, the portfolio and the process for getting the e-commerce site live.
Finding distribution network and customers for the shop.

Change and Transformation project Management at ¨Confidential¨ (Interim)
Leading the Change and Transformation project upgrading existing Network infrastructure and Applications in the Client’s environment. Refinery and industrial environment.
Responsible for leading, and executing the whole pre-study and creating the project plan of upgrading the client’s network Migrations, upgrades, and optimizing the core infrastructure.
Reporting to internal and external stakeholders, including roadmap and operational plan, budget, change management, requirements, prioritization, risk assessment, and mitigation planning. Leader of cross-functional teams for business- and product systems.
The client has ~7700 workers and 1200 retails under 3 brands and ~70 BSEK in yearly turnover

Leading the Change and Transformation project of migration, relocation, and upgrading of new and existing Services, Applications, HW, Design in the Clients Scandinavia environment. Network and infrastructure solutions, as well the Relocation and Migration of data centers and secure the communication and Payment solution.

strategy-, transformation- and change execution with ~7700 workers and 1300 shops under 3 brands and ~70 BSEK in yearly turnover including IT strategy-, roadmap and operational plan, budget, way of working, change management, requirements, prioritization, risk assessment and mitigation planning. Leader of cross functional teams for business- and product development.

In addition to direct value delivery, I lead the digital upskilling of staff and leadership, engaging them in understanding the art of the possible enabled by rapid technological progress, and becoming part of the solution development efforts.
-Nexus
-Palo Alto
-Vmvare
-DC Reloctaion/Migration
-Net App

Project Manager of the Set up of an complete E-commerce platform with focus of Optical products for Data centers Net owners and more. Responsible for the evaluation and Testing of 3rd parts factories, the portfolio and the process for getting the e-commerce site live.
Finding distribution network and customers for the shop.

Project leding the delivery and upgrade of the Network and FTTx project and upgrading the backbone network, Cisco ASR900

Uppgraderingar av stadsnät. Cisco och HP miljö.

Feasibility study for future network infrastructure plan in the country’s Telecom and Banking sector country.
Responsible for project management, documentation, study, analysis, state security.

In charge of pre-study and project manager for the delivery of 3G router for TV / Internet and Telephony.
Responsible for project management, feasibility study, presentation, technical solution design, cost estimates and budget.

Project manager for the establishment of production of telecom equipment (mobile) in Shenzhen, China.

Project manager of implementation of a TDM/SDH network for the commercial and military flight control system

Investigation and documentation of QoS services and integration.
Commercial Manager, forecasting, costing, budget, etc.
Service Manager; investigation and documentation relating to the delivery of QoS, Internet access, IP telephony, IP-TV, alarms etc.
Sales support, created the spread sheet data for sales, sales presentations, created association, technical and commercial support.
Creation of agreements between Ventelo and other operators regarding QoS services.

As Chief Executive Officer responsible for the build-up of the company's operations in a number of countries (Europe, South America and Asia) with Sweden Telecom and other vendor solutions.
Responsible for project management, market entry, marketing, strategy, negotiations with suppliers, customers, jobs and contact with funders.
The company was merged with Nokia Home (Zenterio AB) late 2009 and then Josef left the Sweden Telecom AB board and his role as CEO for the merged company. The company was later valuated to 1,3 billion SEK.

Project Rollout of the upgrade SHDSL routers in Telia's network to business customers.
Responsible project manager for the rollout of Telia upgrade SHDSL in Sweden.

Project manager of roll-out of the national transmission network with WDM, SDH, PDH and Ethernet. First 10Gbps connection via the Öresund bridge to Europe.