Principal Engineer Systems - Engineering
CurrentAs Maintenance Engineer, I am responsible for ensuring that information technology-based machinery, systems, infrastructure, and equipment run optimally and with minimal downtime. Also, I maintain technical compliance with SLA’s by conducting quarterly reviews of vendor performance.* Save $15M on maintenance costs by negotiating vendor contracts and ending support for obsolete hardware scheduled for decommissioning.* Plan and design lab environment for projects inclusive of MTV (Mobile Terminate Voice), picture messaging, eHLR software upgrades, MSA (Message Service Application) software upgrades, and SMSGW (Short Message Service Gateway). * Provide subject matter expertise, leadership, and training on core data applications for the Maintenance Engineering Organization.* Reduce outages for services impacting millions of customers through exceptional administration of platforms assigned. Enable successful processing of 725 million + messages on a daily basis. * Oversee the decommission of the 3G-PTT (Push to Talk) platform. Validate all required activities were completed accurately and timely.