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Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Guided centralized reliability and performance engineering, as well as advanced technology initiatives, for products and platforms.• Delivered 170+ performance and reliability engineering analyses in the form of white papers, presentations, and videos to applications and platform R&D via Agile processes, driving apps towards BIC performance and reliability.• Built team, test environments, and processes, providing Cloud Certification for applications within variety of VIMs, such as Openstack and VMware, and HW platforms, using state-of-art tooling.• Designed and developed Common Dimensioning Platform, with user friendly interface and plug n’ play infrastructure, creating unified and simplified dimensioning tool for products.• Led virtual NSW Advanced Technology Group producing key technical strategies, including MicroServices, AI/ML, and 5G.• Organized multiple corporate-wide hackathons related to Microservices and AI / ML, increasing engagement of R&D staff with key technologies

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Directed architecture and systems engineering for HLR / HSS and Messaging related products, as well as overall R&D leadership for ALU’s cloud based SDM product, the vUDR.• Managed 2 teams in 2 global locations that designed, developed, and deployed Alcatel-Lucent NextGen SDM, vUDR, a cloud-ready and 3GPP standards based DBaaS platform, delivering project on aggressive schedules with high quality via Agile processes to AT&T customer.• Led Alcatel-Lucent’s 8650 SDM product architecture, managed teams in China, France, and USA, driving significant design improvements in LAN / WAN resiliency, overload controls, and overall product reliability, for HLR, HSS, EIR, and AUC applications in LTE, IMS, and GSM networks.• Served as primary technical liaison, coordinated technical discussions and demos with key customers including Verizon Wireless and AT&T, creating strong trusted relationships.• Oversaw planning and requirements for messaging product suite, including Short Message Service Center (SMSC) product, providing strong and evolving continuity of product line.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Headed IMS solution architecture, collaborating with 20+ global IMS network element teams.• Supervised 3 global teams that drove IMS solution architecture, requirements and roadmaps, defining strategies for multiple key initiatives, including IMS Solution Simplification, OpEx improvements, Virtualization and Cloud, Security Strategy, Video Strategy, LTE / Mobility Convergence, IMS Interface Simplification, Applications Enablement, and QoS Enhancements.• Drove process improvements for convergence of requirements and engineering design documentation, virtualized test environments, fast feature processes, and created Inter-Op test programs, bringing more streamlined, efficient, and disciplined end-to-end solution process.• Coordinated technical discussions with major IMS customers, including AT&T and VzW, resulting in better alignment and consistency, as well as streamlining customer negotiations.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Steered Alcatel-Lucent’s MME / LTE project and drove project design and requirements, authored development processes and policies, supervised deliveries from internal platforms and third party vendors, and developed key system capabilities related to connection and UE management, database, protocol stacks, GUI, provisioning, and general OAM features, resulting in on-time, high quality delivery of initial releases of MME product to major US customers.

• Managed system software R&D for Lucent Softswitch, IMS Session Manager, and UMTS 3GMSC products, developing and delivering major system software related to automated life cycle management (software upgrade, data evolve, field install) and fault management (IP communications, initialization, redundancy), dramatically improving resiliency of products.• Championed reliability for Lucent’s GX550 and CBX500 product design, architected, designed, and developed enhancements that optimized resiliency, including 1+1 SONET APS, Fault Management, Audits, Non-Service Impacting Upgrade, Overload Controls, and several others, significantly improving reliability to 6-9's availability (field measured). Liaised technical discussions with key customers such as AT&T and Verizon, building strong customer bonds.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mathematics And Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics