Plarent Tirana

Plarent Tirana has extensive work experience in the technology and telecommunications industry. They are currently working as the VP, Global Field Engineering at RapidSOS since September 2022. Prior to this role, they held the position of VP Systems Engineering at Enea Openwave from March 2021 to September 2022. They also served as the Senior Director of Presales at Enea Openwave from January 2020 to March 2021.

Before joining Enea Openwave, Plarent Tirana worked at Openwave Mobility Inc. as the Director of Presales from January 2017 to December 2019. Prior to that, they held the role of Solutions Director, Pre-Sales, Americas at Openwave Mobility from August 2011 to December 2016.

Plarent Tirana's earlier experience includes working at Openwave Systems as a Solutions Architect, where they were responsible for gathering customer requirements, designing and implementing technology proofs of concept, and designing network and storage architecture. They held this position from June 2002 to August 2011.

Prior to Openwave Systems, they worked at Software.com as a Senior Consultant from December 1998 to January 2002. Their responsibilities included revamping the Sprint CDMA platform, designing and developing critical components, and providing platform support.

Plarent Tirana began their career at Sun Microsystems as a Senior Systems Engineer from February 1996 to December 1998. They were involved in installing/configuring systems, implementing high availability solutions, and working with vendors to implement network monitoring tools.

Their early experience includes working as a Software Developer at Software Research & Development, where they developed SNMP modules and billing modules for Telecom Italia, as well as OAM modules for Siemens custom applications. They held this position from September 1994 to February 1996.

Plarent Tirana's education history begins in 1987 when they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranës. Following this, from 1993 to 1994, Plarent pursued a Master of Science degree in Networking at the Sapienza Università di Roma. Continuing their education, Plarent completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications at the same institution from 1995 to 2000. Lastly, Plarent achieved a Ph.D. in Telecommunication Networks and Computer Networks from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, completing this degree from 2003 to 2010.