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Dallas, Texas, US

• Promotion to lead DevOps, Test Automation, QA, SRE, DBA and Cloud Infrastructure teams with a total of 28 engineers and 3 managers.
• Equipped teams to support a regular sprint and release cadence delivering reliable customer features on time.
• Led migration of all services from a legacy hosted infrastructure to AWS Cloud with zero downtime, high availability and built-in redundancy
• Managed departmental budget, kept expenses in line and supervised cost reduction efforts in AWS spending
• Developed additional processes and implemented tools to enhance our SRE services through application onboarding, metrics, release process and communication. This has improved service availability to 99.99%.
• Led Engineering Department contributions to our annual SOC2 audit and Security Assessments

Dallas, Texas, US

• Promotion to lead DevOps, Test Automation, QA and SRE teams
• Engineered conversion of manual production deployments to fully automated CI/CD. This included migration from outdated version control to GitHub and AWS CodeDeploy.
• Drove a reduction of escaping product defects by almost 50% in two years through QA testing best practices, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Hired and developed both Test Automation and DevOps teams to expand coverage and impact for Automation to improve developer productivity and increase system reliability
• Significantly expanded Test Automation coverage
• Created a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team and services to handle proactive monitoring, alerting, triage and escalation.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Responsible for DevOps and Test Automation teams
• Designed and delivered a Test Automation framework that runs 30K+ tests per day and has reduced load on the testing team and has contributed to significant improvements in product quality.
• Initiated a program of load/stress testing to validate service performance
• Expanded the use of CI/CD throughout the application teams

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Designed and engineered complex microwave networks to support critical government and public safety functions
• Provided technical input for RFP submissions
• Coordinated equipment orders and BOMs and ensured correct versions of hardware and software were used in factory assembly and test with up to date PCNs
• Created rack drawings for equipment installation and waveguide configuration
• Supported field crews to ensure designs were properly installed, configured and tested to customer specifications

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Configuration and test of early Nokia 5G BTS/UE hardware and software supporting key-customer field trials. Collection of performance data, debugging Perl scripts and problem tracking both in Nokia labs as well as at Verizon site for field testing.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Alcatel, merged with Lucent (Alcatel-Lucent), purchased by Nokia
• Developed and implemented automated testing suite using Perl, Tcl, and shell scripts to control RF and optical attenuators, Agilent and Ixia test sets to capture, analyze and record testing results for unattended.
• Key member of global R&D team driving collaboration and best practices to develop next generation microwave radio and optical networking products.
• On-time delivery of networking and software products through at least 20 major and minor development cycles.
• Worked through transition from traditional ‘waterfall’ development processes to an Agile-driven framework spanning three locations in different countries and time-zones.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Alcatel, merged with Lucent (Alcatel-Lucent), purchased by Nokia
• Successful management of three major Network Operations Service deployments.
• Wrote operational procedures, MOPs and supervised integration of network monitoring systems for optical, packet and switching products
• Supported RFP submission and worked with customers to identify and solve operational challenges

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Alcatel, merged with Lucent (Alcatel-Lucent), purchased by Nokia
• Configured and maintained Alcatel next generation communications equipment for customer demonstrations
• Designed and conducted in-depth technical tours for Alcatel’s switching, call processing and transmission equipment for customers and partners
• Provided technical guidance (network configuration, layout, power, mechanical) for design of the demonstration center

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

DSC Communications, purchased by Alcatel merged with Lucent (Alcatel-Lucent), purchased by NokiaOverhaul of UNIX/C++ version control, compile, build and distribution of real-time network management software supporting DSC’s SS7 STP platform.Results: Improved reliability and customer satisfaction in critical signaling communications networks.

Dallas, TX, US

Developed and delivered highly-rated graduate level courses in Network Management and Operations at SMU's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).Delivered content to in-class as well as distance-learning students.

• Modeled natural gas pipeline networks using UML/Rational Rose and developed Object-Oriented telemetering applications in Visual Basic, C++ and SQL
• Mentored development team in source control, design and programming practices

• Designed and developed ISO quality and OSHA safety support software using Visual Basic, C++ and other tools
• Created Microsoft SQL database solutions to deliver high-performance access to training materials and compliance records

• Designed and developed financial database applications to maintain accurate asset valuations and to comply with critical FDIC reporting
• Deployed client and server applications to collect and compile data on a multi-state WAN
• Developed innovative programs that became the basis for Bryte's commercial products

• Developed database applications to manage commercial real estate transactions

Ms, Telecommunications

Ba, Political Science