Christopher Pickard Email & Phone Number

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Vice President of Nokia’s North American Digital Industries team focusing on Energy, Public Safety, Transportation, Education, Manufacturing and Logistics.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Vice President of Nokia’s North American strategic business development efforts focusing on large scale enterprise and infrastructure verticals including sub-sea, data center, tower and fiber owner/operators.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Mr. Pickard leads Nokia’s North American strategic business development efforts focusing on large scale infrastructure verticals including sub-sea, data center, tower and fiber owner/operators. Building on Nokia’s long-standing dominance in carrier products, Christopher employs key technologies from Nokia’s diverse product portfolio to address.

Provide Business and technical assessments, recommendations and special project support for network operators and equipment vendors servicing the fixed and wireless telecom markets. Special focus on Tier-3, Tier-4 and rural area infrastructure builds for: Public/Private Partnerships (3P), BTOP and E-Rate projects, Mobile Backhaul, LTE deployments, HetNet.

Little Rock, Arkansas, US

Responsible for technology decisions, supplier partnerships, network architecture and engineering, back-office infrastructure, IT, product definition, sales engineering and network operations from company's pre-funding stage through the successful roll-out of PEG Bandwidth's multi-state regional mobile backhaul network.Significant projects included.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Responsible for Carrier partnerships, Collocation partnerships, network equipment standards, engineering and architecture standards, network planning processes, network engineering processes and network operations.
• Network architecture, equipment, provisioning and operational standards development
• Contract negotiation and vendor management: Carrier service, Equipment Vendor, Collo Space providers
• Dark Fiber business analysis initiative (successful transition from lit service to dark fiber IRU models)
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for access and transport platforms over various architecture proposals
• Company-wide Single Point of Failure (SPoF) analysis and auditing initiative

• Responsible for Tier-1 and Tier-2 Carrier accounts in the Southwest Region.
• Pre/Post sales product support and training (Williams Communications, WorldCom and Sprint accounts)
• On-site lab support for product evaluation and testing
• Optical network planning and design
• Gap analysis and feature enhancement assessment
• Customer Marketing and strategy plan development

• Responsible for supporting engineering, planning and operational teams through detailed technical guidance on equipment and system function and interaction across metro and long-haul access, transport and switching.
• Vendor Technical Management – DWDM amplification, transport and metro platforms
• Request for Proposal (RFP) and Request for Information (RFI) creation and management
• Strategy development for access and long haul network interconnections
• Network positioning of legacy platforms for transition from a circuit switched to packet switched infrastructure
• Standards development and training

• Various Engineering positions across multiple groups. Projects included: New Technology Implementation, Network Study & Analysis, Standards Engineering and Network Modification Management.Responsibilities Included:
• New technology feasibility studies and financial comparisons
• Network strategies
• New Technology Introduction (training, tools and documentation)
• Vendor technical management
• Product testing and failure