Martin Sauter

Senior Network Engineer for Special Projects at a leading Global Mobile Network Operator

Cologne Bonn Region

About

Experienced and passionate telecommunications professional and researcher with in-depth experience in wireless network architecture planning, design, deployment & migration strategy with a technical, commercial and customer focus. Excellent organization skills with the ability to prioritize and proficient in relating business requirements to technology. Likes to work closely with commercial teams with a customer focus and has extensive pre-sales, post-sales and client development experience. Experienced in providing strategy and leadership to virtual teams and clients alike. Specialties: Author of three books on Wireless Networks: "From GSM to LTE-Advanced and 5G- An Introduction to Mobile Networks and Mobile Broadband"​, John Wiley and Sons, 2017, ISBN 978-1119346869 "Beyond 3G - Bringing Networks, Terminals and the Web Together"​, Third Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-34148-3 "Grundkurs Mobile Kommunikationssysteme", Vieweg Verlag, 7th Edition, 2015, ISBN 978-3658216467

Experience

  • Senior Network Engineer for Special Projects at Global Mobile Network Operator
    Oct 2009 - Present · 16 yrs 10 mos

  • Book Author & Researcher at WirelessMoves
    Oct 2004 - Present · 21 yrs 10 mos

  • Nortel (8 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Wireless Architect
      Nov 2004 - Sep 2009 · 4 yrs 11 mos

      First point of contact for customers and responsible for end-to-end technical project management from the requirements gathering phase to rollout. Principal network architect for pre-sales activities for potential new customers throughout Europe. Regular presenter in company wide internal business and tech update conference calls and learning sessions for co-workers about the latest developments from standards bodies, won projects and advances in the wireless industry.

    • Wireless Network Engineering
      Jan 2004 - Dec 2004 · 1 yr

      Successfully established a test and demonstration environment from scratch to demonstrate Nortel’s wireless GPRS access and packet core solutions for customers in Germany.

    • Terminal Interoperability Testing
      Jan 2003 - Dec 2003 · 1 yr

  • Sideline University Teaching at University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg/Weingarten, Germany
    Jan 2001 - Dec 2003 · 3 yrs

    Held 4h/week lectures on mobile networks for undergraduate students.

  • R&D engineer at Schuehle Mess- und Kontrollsysteme GmbH, today Pruftechnik GmbH
    Sep 1997 - Dec 2000 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Development of an embedded web server for machine and plant monitoring via the Internet.