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Maria Orfeo, Head of Software Development Telecom Core

Maria Orfeo.

Is it difficult? Is it challenging? That’s where you’ll find me! I’m always looking for new challenges, I never back down, I’m always eager to learn. Those are the things that drive both my working and personal life.

I’m Head of SD PC & COS Telecom Core in MELA CSS SD organization, leading a team of 23 fantastic people. Our main mission is to support and deliver presales, network design and integration services on Packet Core network. I’m both new and experienced in this role. I’m definitively new because I’ve been appointed recently, but I’m also experienced because I covered same role already in the past.  

My journey

Let’s start from the beginning. I have a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering and a master’s degree in Telecommunications. As a new graduate in 1998 I got different offers from different companies. At that time I was not truly aware of what a company was offering me compared to another. I just felt Ericsson was the right choice for me. And I was definitively right.

I started as Integration Engineer, and after few years I moved to a Line Manager position, which I covered for 7 years. I then decided to move to a Head of Learning Services position, selling learning to our customers, and that was the connection towards the People organization: from selling learning to customers, to planning learning and development for our employees as a Learning and Development Consultant. After almost amazing 10 years in the role, I felt the need to get new challenges, so I moved again and got my current position.

I’m now 26 years in the company, and still feel the energy, the willingness, and the curiosity to learn and to contribute at my best. I always felt I had thousands of possibilities to learn and to develop, even in other countries, if I wanted to. And that has been actually the case: my career history in such different roles and organizations is the clear proof of what this company can provide.