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Beijing City, China

Beijing City, China

Working in the Product Development Unit for the Broadband Access group (PDU BBA) as Senior Project Manager leading virtual teams on the design, development, test and release activities for multiple GPON products in the Telco and Home use space.• Project Managed the introduction of three GPON products:o a GPON 16 ETH port Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU) with Power over Ethernet (PoE) capabilities to allow Telco operators to off load data traffic from their main wireless infrastructure using WiFi Access Points. (US$800K budget)o a small form factor (6 slot) OLT. A complicated deliverable due to the diverse multi country design teams. (US$1.75M budget)o Software strategy, content & release management of new CIG product portfolio• Very fast ramp up on “Ways of Working” and process/tool knowledge needs• Working seamlessly with development & test team across three countries (USA, China, Croatia)• Full accountability and transparency for project deliverables with regular reporting to BBA executive team on project status’ and metrics (Time, Scope, Cost, Quality, Support Needs)• Consistent monitoring of 3rd party suppliers deliverables ensuring quality and efficiency• Escalation management on 3rd party affected product issues & timely solution fixes• Use of both traditional Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies• Ensure best hardware production cost model by using multiple sourcing strategyThe decision to downsize and eventually sell the Ericsson Broadband Access (BBA) product line brought with it numerous transfer projects. I became the CBC BBA Operations Project Manager responsible for planning and driving transfers that saw work move from EUS to CBC, from CBC to EUS, and then from CBC to Calix.

Beijing City, China

As a contractor, working as a Program Manager under the strategic direction of the CEO and CFO to drive individual project teams on the planning and delivery of efficiency objectives.• Starting with five project teams and concluding with 11 teams up and running.• Validate external consultancy firms theoretical ‘efficiency’ review via practical steps in efficiency improvements (reduced costs, improved performance, etc)• Focus functions were IT and Finance securing current and future efficiencies my means of outsourcing, resource reduction or growth avoidance and savings in annual spend as a result of efficiencies via process or technology improvements and implementation.• Drive RFP, analysis, business case and vendor selection for outsourcing of Helpdesk, Deskside support services (to Stefanini) and Application Development (to Hexaware).• Worked with finance analyst to validate opportunities and project long-term savings estimates to backup and validate business case for future spending on strategic plan initiatives.• Develop simple tools and processes for collection and reporting of efficiency opportunities

Beijing City, China

Manager as Asia prime for Supply Chain Hardware quality issues found in the field.• Work with design teams to isolate root cause and fix solution• Work with customer project and account teams to define appropriate and most cost effective manner in which to resolve issue in deployed installed base.• Global owner of contractual “quality language” embedded within our supplier contracts.• Lead negotiator with suppliers who wish to change or amend the language.• Work with global resources and suppliers to secure agreements that satisfy the needs of both parties.

Beijing City, China

Senior Manager of an 18 member team of project managers and applications specialists.• Major focus on the support of corporate business applications such as SAP and Oracle, MS-CRM, Amdocs Clarify CRM suite and many “custom” applications.• Work business cases on application feature requests.• Deliver training and ensure readiness on new features and releases.• Deployment and Readiness for the SAP FI module to Finance and Order Mgmt teams in Asia• Support of SAP OF and HR modules• Preparation for deployment of SAP WM and SAP APO• Deployment and Readiness for MS Dynamics CRM across Sales teams in Asia• Support of Oracle in the region as used by finance teams in Asia• Support of proprietary eBusiness applications (eConfig, eQuote, eOrder, eCatalog, etc, etc)• Support of Clarify CRM as a front end Customer issues reporting/tracking tool• Support for many other proprietary solutions used across Asia

Beijing City, China

Senior Manager of a 28 member team on R&D IT Lab operation and relocation.• Grew lab size while ensuring 24/7 stability of lab equipment and complex secure network enabling effective/efficient productivity of R&D staff.• Relocation of all lab equipment to new facility over a ten week period requiring extensive design and infrastructure reviews. Zero impact to R&D staff productivity during lab relocation.• Coordinated Project Management with R&D teams ensuring timely and cost effective growth.• Design, prepare, install & maintain R&D IT Lab of 1,500 SqM + work area’s of 400SqMo USD$6M budgeto Redundant & Firewalled Core Switching Network w/1000+ TCP/IP portso Cable Management & Routing for Power, Ground, Copper & Fibre systemso Over 200 Servers (Solaris, Windows) and 1000 pieces of complex telecommunications and IT equipmento AntiVirus & Patch Mgmt via Microsoft WSUS Servero Video surveillance, physical security access and RF Safety systems & policieso 200KVA MGE UPS System; Emerson HVAC/CRAC; Eltek Battery Power Solutiono Lab Asset management & Test Instrument Calibration ownershipAdditional responsibilities included managing the business operations aspects for VP Greater China R&D.• Focused on supporting the VP’s ‘Operating Rhythm’ requirements• Ensuring all direct reports of VP were in sync on reporting requirements, methods, prepared for regular status reviews of programs and projects, roll up and presentations• Multiple views on headcount, budget, hiring needs, training needs, etc, etc• Included the TL9000/CMMI quality team and associated metrics and audits by external certification agencies.

Beijing City, China

Manager of a 12 member team providing product support on several VoIP products.• Required 24/7 availability for Emergency Recovery on live deployments in the Greater China region and on many occasions globally using a “follow the sun” methodology.• Ramped new resources with development plans quickly, and with quality, enabling teams key functional objectives to be secured.• Global MCS5200 VoIP product solutions engineering documentation ownership• Develop local web services (WSOA) development enabling local customer engagements and enriching sales opportunities.

Beijing City, China

The Service Readiness Leader works across multiple service delivery (Engineering, Installation, Integration, Software Delivery, Post Inservice Support, etc) teams to look forward and plan for the appropriate service delivery capabilities of the delivery teams in order to ensure timely and appropriate readiness to perform their service delivery tasks at the time that the product hits the market.

Melbourne, Australia

12/99 – 01/01 Global Process Prime, Engineering, Asia (Melbourne, Australia)05/97 – 11/99 Manager, Customer Engineering, Telstra Account (Melbourne, Australia)09/95 – 04/97 Senior Customer Engineer (Melbourne, Australia)

Multiple International Assignments

05/95 – 08/95 Technical Transfer, Engineering (Shunde, China)01/94 – 04/95 District Manager (Beijing, China)03/93 – 12/93 Control Center Manager (Beijing, China)09/92 – 02/93 Installation Prime (Beijing, China)04/89 – 08/92 Installation Manager (International - China, Bermuda, Newfoundland)12/88 – 03/89 Commissioner (International - China, Australia, England, Morocco)02/87 – 11/88 Assistant Commissioner (International - British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico)

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Hired directly out of DeVry Institute for my first REAL WORLD job.First working as a Repair technician on the Nortel DMS Product line for its in-frame DC-to-DC Power converters; then moving over as a Repair technician on the Nortel DMS digital control packs; then moved on to Systems Testing (Heat Soak, Traffic Testing, Active/Standby, etc, etc) of the Nortel DMS-100 Central Office Switching systems.