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Vice President, Corporate and Business Operations Support Systems - OSSConsolidated and Managed the internal and customer facing Business and Corporate systems (CIO Functions), including: Financials and HR (SAP) systems• Sales and Marketing systems • Care and Sales Portals • Enterprise Data Warehouse - EDW • Information Management/Reporting systems • Customer Care Systems • Ticketing (Remedy) Systems • Network Management • Monitoring and Metering Systems • NMS and various proprietary internal systems. • Consolidated multitude rogue IT organizations and a diverse portfolio of systems into a concise set of platforms with compete architectural blueprints and Plans of Record.• Created an internal IT Cloud for internal customer self-service request of IT infrastructure and Systems, with accounting and charge back capability.• Managed an IT team of 900 people (peak, employee and contractors) including a team of 150 people in India. • Established a methodical, ISO-9001 compliant, Plan-oriented (PoR) approach to design and development of various software projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies with detailed metrics and measurements delivering over 100 various solutions to business on an annual basis.

Board Member and Interim CEO of Frucall start-up, providing a comparison shopping solutions for smartphones (via voice, text, WAP) using product barcodes.

Sr VP, head of Network Design, Development & CertificationManaged the entire AT&T Network Architecture, Design, Development and Certification; Managed a team of 1600 people with $320M annual budget. This function was primarily a Chief Technology responsibility accountable for the entire AT&T Network with 3 Vice Presidents as direct reports. The span of responsibility was the entire TCP/IP, Frame Relay,ATM both as the AT&T Backbone customer facing network and for internal use.

Created and ran the Enterprise Architecture Organization for AT&T network (Voice, ATM, Frame, and IP), Operations Support Systems & Software (OSS), and internal AT&T ITS Architectures. Identified and incubating technologies deemed appropriate and beneficial to AT&T in accelerating AT&T Network, OSS, and ITS Architectural Plans of Record. Managed a team of 200 people, $32M annual budget.

Corporate Officer / Vice President responsible for applied and core research for technologies essential for AT&T's network infrastructure and services strategies. Managed a team of 600 people (400 Ph.D.s), with $128M annual budget.• Oversaw research in optical transmission and networking, network design and optimization, network security and management, speech and voice services (ASR, TTS), end-to-end process optimization, data mining and visualization, next-generation computing paradigm, and data analysis. • Research projects included database integrity and directory, multicast, load balancing, design and algorithms, information-based services, service management (billing, marketing), data marshaling and data quality, fraud management, distributed computing, E-Contact, and call center automation. Bridged the gap between Research and Development Organizations. Monetized Research.

Consolidated and unified the network management organizations and stabilized the performance, quality, reliability, and scalability of Excite@Home's Internet services, using new technologies, processes and operational disciplines which improved the network reliability from 66% to 99.999%.

Responsibilities spanned across AT&T network (Voice, ATM, Frame, and IP), Operations Support Systems & Software (OSS), and internal AT&T ITS Architectures. Consolidated various Architectural organizations and created the Plan-of-Record blueprints.

Technical Manager and later Division Manager of various technical teams of up to 100 people ($14 million annual budget, 5 districts) engaged in variety of internal telecommunication software development.

Co-founder and President of a start-up involved in consulting, training and telecom software development that grow from 3 people to over 25 in a year. Responsibilities included technical management and hands-on development. The resulting telecom products were used by Telecom carriers (RCA, ITT and others) as well as OEMed to modem manufacturers. The training included classes of up to twenty students in various Micro Computer H/W and application S/W techniques.

Ph.D.

Engineer In Electrical Engineering - Eee

Master Of Science (M.S.)