Innovating new digital solutions, cultivating exceptional customer relationships, and guiding high-performing teams to increase revenue and business growth is where I thrive. Throughout my career, I’ve adeptly navigated a spectrum of leadership roles, handling both legacy and modern technology systems. I am dedicated to effecting positive change within organizations, consistently striving to elevate company’s financial performance and bottom-line. My ultimate goal is to leave a lasting, transformative mark on every endeavor I take. Career Highlights Include: ✓ Led an agile team of 200 architects and product managers to develop and deploy AI-powered solutions for network-supporting systems. ✓ Managed an annual budget of $480M, effectively allocating resources to diverse projects dedicated to the construction, maintenance, and deployment of a high-performance network. ✓ Saved $14.5M per year in manual field visit costs by implementing Machine Learning and Computer Vision to capture and analyze images to determine best 4G/5G antennae placement. ✓ Achieved 90% reduction in production defect backlog by deploying artificial intelligence (AI) engine to identify, predict, and reduce production defects. I would love to connect with you and show you how I can make an impact on your organization.
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Head Of Value ConsultingIqgeoTampa, Fl, Us -
Vice President Of Product ManagementSsp Innovations, Llc Jan 2024 - PresentCentennial, Colorado, UsLeveraged Pragmatic Marketing to create products that are in demand in the market. Establish the product direction for all products in the Telecommunication portfolio. Responsible for a team of technical pre-sales engineers for all 3-GIS SAAS applications. Created product positioning and Go To Market for SSP Vision, our AI application that leverages Computer Vision and Augmented Reality to improve productivity for field technicians. Responsible to help our customers transform their business. -
Ai ExpertGlg Sep 2023 - PresentNew York, Ny, Us -
Executive Director - Ai Development, Architecture, Strategy And Project ManagementVerizon Nov 2022 - Sep 2023Basking Ridge, Nj, UsDrafted and implemented a 5-year vision and strategic plan, overseeing daily architectural roadmap. Facilitated automations to solve user issues. Built a positive and inclusive employee culture, driving staff satisfaction and retention. Developed and implemented innovative solutions. Oversaw project delivery to ensure results were provided on time and within budget. ✓ Led an agile team of 200 architects and product managers to develop and deploy AI-powered solutions for network-supporting systems. ✓ Managed an annual budget of $480M, effectively allocating resources to diverse projects dedicated to the construction, maintenance, and deployment of a high-performance network. ✓ Enhanced operational efficiencies by implementing digital automations to streamline manual and time-consuming processes into a single, simple click. ✓ Directed comprehensive product management from network planning and construction to service provisioning and user support, ensuring alignment with 5-year goals and envisioned architecture.✓ Transformed Customer Experience by making modifications to network performance/network capacity architecture to drive a significantly improved network experience. -
Director Strategy, Architecture, And Ai DevelopmentVerizon Jan 2021 - Nov 2022Basking Ridge, Nj, UsDrove the identification and adoption of new innovative technology that provided solutions for next generation systems across Wireless and Wireline Networks. Established technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for Network Systems. Established development tool standards through gamification. Handled make-buy decisions for network systems, evaluating new technology and products. Implemented AIOps to prevent product outages and reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR). ✓ Managed a team of 40 people, overseeing the architecture for 30 Agile teams and a $480M budget, driving the solution technical roadmap to align development team to North Star Architecture. ✓ Saved $14.5M per year in manual field visit costs by implementing Machine Learning and Computer Vision to capture and analyze images to determine best 4G/5G antennae placement. ✓ Enhanced operational efficiency by leveraging AI for optimal issue resolution, utilized primarily in the analysis of third-party products, allowing the company to make informed and strategic financial decisions. ✓ Drove digital transformations, transitioning legacy into cloud-based systems (AWS & GCP) and defining architecture in the change to a services-oriented and API first approach.
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Director Engineering Ai/Ml DevelopmentVerizon Sep 2017 - Jan 2021Basking Ridge, Nj, UsLed the development and architecture of the Engineering systems to deliver geospatial system, built with AI, to create a highly scalable system. Delivered on a $1.7B investment in Fiber Engineering and met 5G commitments. Collaborated with vendor to implement SAFe Agile as standard for 3GIS application. ✓ Reduced fiber planning time from 6 weeks to 15 minutes by leveraging machine learning to create a custom-built fiber planning system to automate routing on Google Maps. ✓ Achieved 90% reduction in production defect backlog by deploying artificial intelligence (AI) engine to identify, predict, and reduce production defects. ✓ Developed and led a SAFe Agile team of 250 employees and contractors, creating an environment and culture that allowed everyone to have success and deliver on changing program objectives. ✓ Increased productivity and efficiency by converting 92 vendor systems across 70 markets from separate external systems into a single internal system (just under 140M records) in 8 months, completing a make-buy analysis for fiber engineering and picking an OTS product 3GIS and ESRI over the existing custom-built system.
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Director Project Management OfficeVerizon Apr 2016 - Sep 2017Basking Ridge, Nj, UsEstablished the Merger and Acquisition IT Program Management Office (PMO) during the acquisition of XO Communications. Converted dispatch, engineering, and supply chain systems into Verizon. Analyzed XO products to determine usability and profitability. ✓ Managed an $88M budget to converge XO systems and employees into Verizon, overseeing the IT integration and conversion of 2700 employees into Verizon’s HR systems. ✓ Maximized profitability and revenue growth by spearheading the selection of XO’s top 14 product and decommissioning 38 underperforming products. ✓ Successfully reached synergy targets of $1.5B by executing seamless system and network consolidations, all achieved without employee layoffs.
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Director Systems DevelopmentVerizon Jul 2000 - Apr 2016Basking Ridge, Nj, UsDesigned the IT infrastructure and system development process to enable software development during the launch of Verizon Data Services India. Oversaw the Application System Implementation Testing for the Network and Technology applications. Developed, tested, and supported Network Surveillance Suite of Products, Workforce Management and Dispatch Systems, and systems that managed the video content workflow for FiOS TV and Ad Insertion. ✓ Managed a team of 100+ employees with variable budgets around $15M, managing software development, testing and production support. ✓ Reduced automation test script maintenance by 70% by developing a new method of automation test creation called micro-testing and transforming the test team from manual to automation test engineers. ✓ Developed and tested Narrowband Provisioning System, TN Administration, and Address Management Systems (NTAS) and migrated 65M+ customer accounts, 129M telephone numbers, and 46M addresses with less than .01% fallout.
George Hughes, Jr Education Details
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University Of TampaMba -
University Of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignComputer Science And Math
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