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Women to Watch

A Master
of Negotiation

tion receivers used in Ericsson's product
line. "I liked that job very much," she
recalls. "It was a great team, and the type
of work was very cutting edge." Cozzo
also had the opportunity to publish several technical papers and produce patents, which she says made Ericsson a
particularly good work environment to
Cozzo working to set new standards
be in right after school, because it helped
her develop her expertise and credentials.
Cozzo also had the opportunity to
work on 3GPP standardization activition among the delegates because evTechnology is all about innovation:
ties while at Ericsson, supporting the
eryone wants their company's proposals
every technical advancement seems to
work being done for the standardizato be inserted into the standard. As
be newer, faster, or smarter than a prevition of HSPA Release 6 in RAN1
a delegate, you have to be wellous version. But even innovation comes
and RAN4. In 2009, she exprepared technically but you
with rules.
panded her responsibilities
also should be reasonable so
That is the focus of the 3rd Generafor standardization work
that the group can come to
tion Partnership Project (3GPP), whose
when she moved to San
a consensus and the stanscope is to produce technical specificaDiego, California, and into
dardization work can progtions and reports for cellular/mobile sysher current role with Huaress toward the completion
tems. Because technology is constantly
wei Technologies as a stanof a new release of the 3GPP
evolving through generations of cellular
dardization expert and lead
specifications."
systems (such as 3G to 4G), it is 3GPP's
Carmela Cozzo
delegate to the RAN1 HSPA
Cozzo never set out to
definitions of technical requirements
working group. Cozzo's team is tasked
be a master negotiator, though she has
that allow the deployment of new feawith defending Huawei's proposals while
spent years honing communication
tures and make each element in the sysnegotiating what will be included in
skills-wireless communications, that
tem compatible with the others while
the 3GPP specifications. Part of what
is. While studying for her Laura degree
keeping commercial cellular and mobile
makes this area so stimulating is that
(Italy's equivalent of a bachelor's and
systems operating smoothly.
"the work we do in standardization is
master's degree) in electrical engineerTo be a member of a standardization
very influential," explains Cozzo. "When
ing at Rome's Universita' La Sapienza,
group, "you have to be a strong negotiasomeone uses a mobile phone, the techCozzo developed a specific interest
tor," says Carmela Cozzo, laughing
nology that's in the device and network
in telecommunications. To
a little. As the lead delegate
has to be part of a specified system. We
study further, she moved
from Huawei Technolo"Create
inform the cellular technology that will
to the United States and
gies to the RAN 1 HSPA
your own
be a part of each new release."
pursued a Ph.D. in
specification group,
path, concentrate
To do so, the specification group
electrical engineerCozzo has experion your job, and
delegates meet six times a year, during
ing with a specialenced firsthand the
produce good results;
which they discuss the proposals from
ization in wireless
challenges of staneach company and make agreements
telecommunications
dardization meetthat is how you'll
that will eventually be captured in the
from
North
Carolina
ings. "During the
advance in your
3GPP specifications. Because delegates
State University.
meetings is when all of
career."
come from across the globe, meetings
A f ter gradu at ing,
the decisions are made,
are held in a variety of international
Cozzo took a job with Ericso there is a lot of negotialocations; in the last two years, Cozzo
sson as a research engineer,
has traveled to China, Korea, Japan,
where she was responsible for research
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as well as several places in Europe and
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