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Ashburn, Virginia, United States

• Provided program oversite within Comcast Access Technologies on a pair of development programs critical to both the rural broadband initiatives and the cable industry path to 10G and symmetrical multigigabit services.
• Initiated and documented requirements gathering sessions including service orchestration, operations management, and field deployment of a first-generation virtual broadband network gateway (vBNG) supporting both EOL.
• Initiated and documented requirements gathering sessions including service orchestration, operations management, and field deployment of a first-generation virtual broadband network gateway (vBNG) supporting both EOL.
• Created Visio diagram representing the components and interface points required to develop end to end service orchestration
• Developed timelines, project structure, and executive reporting that supported Comcast’s 10G development of Full Duplex DOCSIS nodes, RPDs, VCMTS and amplifiers
• Coordinated lab deployment and 10G demonstration presented at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2022. These demonstrations were presented to MSO leadership from all over the globe and exhibited symmetrical multi-gigabit speeds over.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Led a program deploying a next generation optical and IP enterprise architecture across a national footprint of data centers
• Created a project workflow utilized to deploy optical and IP edge hardware to 300+ data center locations for a next generation enterprise platform at a Fortune 500 MSO
• Trained and mentored a team of project managers instructing them on managing each site deployment. This included engineering optical and IP design, inside plant and critical infrastructure… Show more Led a program.
• Trained and mentored a team of project managers instructing them on managing each site deployment. This included engineering optical and IP design, inside plant and critical infrastructure design/implementation.
• Produced market and program level visualizations weekly. Communicated the progress toward timelines, issues, and risks to all stakeholders and boundary partners
• Presented timelines and KPIs directly to executive sponsors bi-weekly, summarizing pertinent executive level risks and issues and highlighting progress toward plan

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Overhauled a struggling greenfield CCAP deployment program and process flow supporting growth of commercial broadband video services. Increased revenue by streamlining the deployment process reducing the time to deploy.
• Deployed over 800 converged cable access platform (CCAP) video solutions at nationally distributed data centers
• Activated over 1,100 customer orders over a 16-month period, including alleviating an… Show more Overhauled a struggling greenfield CCAP deployment program and process flow supporting growth of commercial broadband.
• Activated over 1,100 customer orders over a 16-month period, including alleviating an inherited service backlog of 360 sold services
• Coordinated deployment of network hardware for both planned and sales initiated CCAP hardware supporting enterprise SMB and Hospitality growth
• Managed and trained a pair of project managers guiding them on scheduling layer 3 testing and go live as well as dealing with funding and supply chain workflows

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Controlled a customer circuit migration and network decommissioning project migrating active customer services across the US for a Fortune 500 MSO
• Planned and managed the migration of over 100,000 customer circuits across the United States including data center installations, service discovery, and change management process
• Developed reporting and presented service migration progress at working and executive level reviews

Herndon, VA

• Led a national proactive service and equipment replacement program for the residential internet product organization lifting consumer speeds up to 300Gb
• Communicated business requirements throughout the company developing technical OSS requirements, planning for customer impacts/handling, and identifying potential roadblocks
• Spearheaded executive and working level business requirement roadshows with IT, billing, OSS, engineering, marketing, customer care, and supply chain to develop a… Show more Led a national proactive service and.
• Spearheaded executive and working level business requirement roadshows with IT, billing, OSS, engineering, marketing, customer care, and supply chain to develop a unified program vision and open feedback loop across.
• Facilitated issue management for six project managers across engineering, marketing, supply chain, customer care, billing IT, OSS, and operations/network deployment.
• Utilized MS Access and OSS application data to segment tens of millions of customers into marketing and solution buckets used in targeted marketing, support portal and billing applications, and ensure proper customer.

Herndon, VA

• Executed an OPEX savings program netting TWC over $650MM in annualized OPEX savings
• Organized a cross-functional program team affecting the transition of TWC from a voice reseller to a certified CLEC, migrating over five million customers in 27 TWC markets
• Deployed regional CLEC networks including RBOC collocation, TDM and ethernet circuit emulation transport, NANPA planning, and TN routing through streamline management and interaction with engineers, technicians.
• Deployed regional CLEC networks including RBOC collocation, TDM and ethernet circuit emulation transport, NANPA planning, and TN routing through streamline management and interaction with engineers, technicians.
• Executed program roadshows to regional C level leadership and other executive program stakeholders ensuring each organization’s confirmation of the scope were clear
• Developed a proactive issue identification and resolution loop establishing my team as the source of program leadership across all boundary partners

Herndon, VA

• Established a service migration program for a multi-year project onboarding over 5.6M TWC subscriber voice and PRI services to TWC’s proprietary CLEC network and away from a vendor platform
• Coordinated with billing, service provisioning, and industry vendors to develop an internally managed and repeatable data migration process successfully used for over 250 maintenance windows over 4 years
• Utilized migration KPIs and system failure logs to implement iterative program changes… Show more Established a service migration program for a multi-year project onboarding over 5.6M TWC subscriber voice and PRI.
• Utilized migration KPIs and system failure logs to implement iterative program changes improving the service migration rate to greater than 99.5%. These iterative updates maximized savings opportunities, avoided.
• Organized the nightly migration of 35K subscribers between network operations, OSS provisioning, billing systems, and telecom industry entities Intrado, E911 PSAPs, and NPAC
• Developed a process of repeatable sFTP data intakes, data extractions, and MS Access SQL scripts to analyze tens of millions of customer records producing a daily optimized migration target which minimized migration.

Dulles, VA

• Coordinated development and installation of changes to the AOL customer service interactive voice response (IVR) system to improve self-service throughput driving up customer satisfaction and lowering call center costs.
• Created IVR call flow analysis resulting in data driven product improvement suggestions which were added to the product roadmap to be deployed in their agile releases.
• Led a matrixed team of five resources through agile and waterfall development lifecycle managing… Show more Coordinated development and installation of changes to the AOL customer service interactive voice response.
• Led a matrixed team of five resources through agile and waterfall development lifecycle managing costs below an annual projected spend of $2M.
• Maintained product requirements backlog through collaboration with product owner and development teams ensuring proper sizing and easy insertion of backlog items into development iterations. Show less

Reston, VA

• Directed a team of operations analysts responsible for improving connectivity performance for over 11 million members comprising the entire AOL access subscription member base.
• Created data correlation techniques from disparate sources like LEC, Radius, IP tunnel endpoints and various AOL native data analytics used by analysts to resolve incidents and manage vendor service level agreements.
• Achieved lowest ever level of connectivity failures within AOL access… Show more Directed a team of operations analysts responsible for improving connectivity performance for over 11 million members comprising the.
• Achieved lowest ever level of connectivity failures within AOL access networks.
• Presented weekly to executives regarding the operational performance of AOLs internet access service. Show less

Reston, VA

• Analyzed the AOL backend, client, and vendor data to gauge the performance of AOL’s dial access network.
• Provided the SME technical relationship to several dial access providers (Level3, UUNet, and ICG).
• Evaluated and presented to executives the backend performance and QOS metrics of the AIM internet soft phone (AIM Phone Line).
• Negotiated re-compensation algorithm which identified over 48K in recoverable compensation associated with SLA breaches.
• Trained NOC personnel and… Show more Analyzed the AOL backend, client, and vendor data to gauge the performance of AOL’s dial access network.
• Trained NOC personnel and analysts on specific vendor and ILEC topologies and routing policies implemented between the two. Show less

Herndon, VA

• Directly managed implementation of access and backbone network capacity using sales forecasts, network expansion strategy, and historic performance evaluations.
• Evaluated LEC collocation and trunking opportunity based on LEC tariff rates for Expanded Extended Loop (EEL) and basic Unbundled Network Element (UNE).

Reston, VA

• Designed and provisioned MCI IXC access networks in Bell Atlantic and NYNEX territories.
• Provisioned and tracked ASRs, DLRs, and FOCs for access trunks as well as DS3 and OCN capacity supporting the standard MCI/Worldcom LD network
• Forecasted and provisioned MCI CIC networks for 10-10-220 and 10-10-321 service campaigns.