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Burlingame, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Walnut Creek, CA

I work with Verizon's Evolved Packet Core operations and monitoring applications. I manage our relationship with vendors and drive development priorities for cross-functional engineering, network performance and other internal teams.I help drive architecture design as well as being able to contribute User Stories for product enhancements which increase.

Walnut Creek, CA

- Lead DevOps transformation of 130+ applications by providing application support, training, creating best practices, and developing staged approaches of adoption- Created a migration plan for entire application portfolio to NextGen (SDN/NFV) on premise cloud environment which leverages open platforms. Provided requirements for fault, configuration.

Walnut Creek, CA

I was selected to lead a new Solutions Planning team within the enterprise Network Support Systems organization to lead and drive major initiatives:- I created an Enterprise-wide transformation program by developing three-year vision along with one year tactical plans across fundamentals which included DevOps, Cloud Technologies, Service Oriented Culture.

Walnut Creek, CA

I volunteered to participate in a rotational leadership training program. I joined Network Support Systems which is an organization dedicated to supporting Verizon Wireless employees. I was originally assigned two applications to manage and grew application portfolio to five applications.A few accomplishments I achieved while in this role include.

Walnut Creek, CA

I managed branded applications and actively contributed expertise throughout the product life cycle. I created project’s schedules, wrote product requirements, functional requirements, identified risks, presented trade-off recommendations and provided clear communication to project stakeholders and executives. I also managed the project budget, prepared.

Walnut Creek, CA

I was promoted from my initial position as Member of Technical Staff to provide guidance on networking and architecture for all Verizon entities. That included partnering with the Chief Technology Office to identify and develop new products and services with potential for leveraging. In that role, I managed vendor pricing and contract negotiations.One of.

Walnut Creek, CA

Technical product lead for handset application development. Responsible for development and launching of VCAST Music, VZ Navigator and Chaperone applications. Manage vendor relationships and provide interface to internal stakeholders throughout product lifecycle.I served as solutions architect and project/product manager to launch the first GPS navigation.

Redwood City, CA

I was promoted to this role from the initial position of Consulting Architect and consistently satisfied high client expectations by leading critical projects to a successful conclusion. While I held this position, I contributed expertise as a key member of the Customer Advocacy Professional Services group. I also partnered with internal technical teams.

San Mateo, CA

I was initially recruited to create, maintain and service a reliable network to support a voicemail/email/fax service and to achieve equally high reliability for servers. I was recommended for the position by my predecessor at Sun Microsystems. I served on the team that completed installation and configuration of essential infrastructure for this.

Cupertino, CA

I managed the java.sun.com (javasoft.com) domain [hardware, software, and network]. I also contributed to the first commercial deployment of Java Web Server (JWS). In addition, I wrote Perl scripts to automate tasks, performed monthly high-availability and disaster recovery tests, and created training materials and a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Masters Of Science, Information Systems, 4.0