Gerald Karam Phd Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Technical planning and automation solutions for business support services and related platforms.

Expert in Telecommunications, Cloud, Networks, Mobility and Software Engineering. Open to engagements ranging from brief to full-time.

Murray Hill, Nj

Research on Mobile and Network systems, including solution architecture and software design.• Developed solution architecture and software design and APIs for UNEXT initiative, an innovative research project, combined research and methods of autonomic systems and AI that led to a novel fully self-managing intelligent platform for network and applications services, a far reaching evolution of Kubernetes inspired philosophy.• Represented Bell Labs Networking and Security System initiatives and company products to Nokia's largest customers and the U.S. Federal Government for trial and contract.• Provided strategic planning for 6G (both terrestrial and satellite wireless), coordinated and conducted extensive technology research encompassing networking, security, and automation domains, collaborated with radio and data transport, and prepared research papers and analysis given to company internal and external activities/publications.• Represented Nokia on the NSF RINGS Government/Industry/Academia collaborative research effort on the Resilient, Intelligent, Next Generation Systems program. Served on panels, assumed partner program leadership role, conducted reviews, and ensured seamless Nokia involvement that led to deeper Nokia involvement and profile, and helped to place Nokia as #1 in 6G research in 4Q2023.

Mountain View, California, United States

Developed and authored a comprehensive online course focusing on 5G and next-generation wireless systems. Course now in production.• Effectively covered essential 5G topics, including deployments and implementation strategies.• Demonstrated expertise in exploring emerging technologies such as 6G, NTN, NPN, and their practical applications.Utilized dynamic teaching methods to engage learners and facilitate understanding of complex concepts.

Louisville, Colorado, United States

Provided expert guidance on solution architecture (API, Web interfaces, Backend processes) and implementation for converged Cable and 5G wireless in a Hybrid Cloud environment.• Led a Converged wireless R&D initiative for implementation of virtualized network services, utilized multiple vendor cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), scripting, Kubernetes deployments, open source technology, and Java/Go that resulted in an internal demonstration for Cable Labs members.• Emphasized use of Edge Compute, Network Function Virtualization, and Virtual Infrastructure across public cloud, metro area, access network, and customer premises, leading to a Cable Labs position.

Middletown, New Jersey

Led and supervised a diverse team of over 350 employees and contractors across multiple locations, ensuring the successful delivery and support of intricate software systems for AT&T's network and mobility services. • Oversaw large scale data collection, governance and management framework for mobile and wireline performance engineering. Generated comprehensive metrics reports and conducted strategic long-term software planning to drive improvement and facilitate decision-making.• Developed a roadmap for AT&T's internal service management platform by providing expert guidance and key decisions on system and software architecture, containerization, evolution to Kubernetes that guaranteed adherence to security regulations and best practices that were critical in adoption of platform for all virtualized network function deployments. • Oversaw software engineering processes for GIT source code management, including both AT&T and open source contributions, Jenkins for CI/CD including code reviews and code quality/security practices, Robot automated testing for unit, integration and end-to-end tests, cloud service deployment to live customers using the Linux foundation ONAP platform.• Pioneered crucial domains such as service orchestration, performance analytics (both traditional and AI/ML), by introducing new methods, project goals, and organization, resulting in new AI/ML tools for operations.• Defined a new Enterprise Architecture for generalized testing frameworks of end user network services.• Directed the talent development and function of 15 Agile software engineering teams, resulted in timely completion of ~300 projects annually. Projects were driven by AT&T Business and Consumer product management. • Managed all aspects of staffing, including conducting negotiations with contractor services that led to double digit cost savings, including legacy service contracts.

New Jersey

Established a Cloud Computing Research thrust and hired and managed a team of 15 exceptional PhD professionals and software development experts.• Created a 3 year research initiative for optimized data center bandwidth management, application placement, and application homing across a wide-ranging network of diverse private cloud sites. Defined the Solution architecture, and integration with Enterprise Architecture. • Implementation practice was integrated with the Cloud development team, including GIT repositories, automated testing, Jenkins processes for CI/CD integration of the deliverables to the main product trunk. • Application included provisioning web and API interfaces for Operations, and the functional control software. The program was a collaboration across research, the Cloud organization, the Cloud Operations team, and the Program management office.

Florham Park, Nj

Demonstrated expertise in telecommunications technology at a company level, and contributed to company planning and initiatives.• Defined solution architecture and business architecture, and implementation of the AT&T internal conferencing service from 2006-2018, including patented enhancements to reduced operations and capital costs. This service included web interfaces for end users, for Operations, Customer Care, and all of the back end services and VoIP conferencing hardware. Implementation processes included SCCS, automated testing for subsystems and end-to-end behavior, code reviews, and deployment scripts to compute platforms, including rollback scripting and SQL DBS management. • Incubated around 10 service and device prototypes including consumer user experiences by contributing solution architecture, software development skills, contractor management, technical guidance, and consumer or enterprise conducted trials.

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