Gil Ramirez Email & Phone Number

Bothell, Wa

In this role I am tasked with the early investigation and analysis of new technologies, market developments and proof of concepts to determine and recommend strategic positioning, technical enablement feasibility and overall architectural compatibility. These initiatives consist of a broad range of topics such as core network and radio access technologies, service enablement, evaluation of LPWA, LTE-M and NB-IoT to the development of FirstNet functionality for IoT devices. Currently investigating 5G impacts to charging systems and how the business unit may monetize features such as network slicing. Recent accomplishments include a number of adopted solution designs for large automotive OEMs and the migration of over 23 million subscribers from the legacy ATT enterprise self-enablement platform to the enhanced ATT Control Center platform. These proposals and their subsequent development have resulted in multi-million-dollar gains and increased sales and profits.

Assigned to direct and deliver on the AT&T IT TotalConnect platform architectural strategy in support of the AT&T Machine to Machine (M2M) business initiative, a key evolving space for the Emerging Devices (EDO) and ATT Business Solutions (ABS) organizations. Primary goals include defining vendor agreements as well as overseeing the IT architectural strategy and facilitating technical solutioning between Jasper Wireless and a key automotive partner. The new organization includes 6 direct reports and contractors from multiple IT vendors.• Partnered with Sourcing to negotiate a multi-million dollar combined statement of work (SOW) for multiple applications supporting this program. • Defining and evangelizing the strategic direction and architecture for the TotalConnect program.

Bothell, Washington, United States

Led the Emerging Devices Architecture team, a dedicated team of senior architects supporting the ATT Business Solutions (ABS) and Emerging Devices Organization (EDO) in defining application, system and strategic roadmaps in direct support of our business initiatives. Key goals included laying the design groundwork to quickly meet growing market need for the emerging devices, M2M and LTE (4G) rollouts without service interruption. Organization included 8 senior direct reports and contracting teams. Successfully planned and managed the Balance Manager Application growth from installation to 9 million subscribers. Created and implemented several application designs which maintained 100% service availability and managed unprecedented yearly subscriber growth. Defined and deployed the new M2M API architecture for the EOD application which supports millions of daily transactions without fallout.

Directed multiple development and delivery teams and oversaw all daily activities relating to the planning, development and support of eleven major AT&T applications, including two enterprise grade mission critical systems. Created and presented IT initiative proposals and provided technical guidance to Sr. Management, stakeholders and partners resulting in high impact solutions presented to customers. Collaborated with our business partners to strategically respond to requests for proposals (RFP) and requests for information (RFI) documents in support of internal sales and marketing offers. Selected to work with our division VP to develop innovative ‘black box’ solutions that united emerging IT and wireless technologies. Organization included 15 direct reports and contractors from multiple IT vendors.• Drove from concept to delivery several Industry-leading computing solutions that directly supported over $130M in yearly sales revenue.• Led from concept to deployment a unique API accessible tax solution that today supports the Mobility billers Session Based pricing and Jasper Wireless. This application saves AT&T millions of dollars per each new client on-boarded. • Coordinated application roadmaps and plans, IT development resources to successfully deliver 300+ projects with varying complexity, all within estimated cost and time projections and zero budget overruns.

Tasked to direct two development teams. Provided cost, time and resource estimates requirements for all GUI, API, provisioning system, billing and customer support development on AT&T’s Enterprise on Demand application. Created yearly program financial detail, budgets requirements, TCO baselines and provided forecasts for staffing proposals to senior management based on business and cost data. Defined requirements for $2M+ statements of work (SOW) with various vendors for our AT&T IT sourcing group. Provided presentations detailing system performance, achieved milestones and roadmap proposals to VP level officers and external customer principals. Architected and delivered several new applications in direct support of the ATT Business Solution (ABS) and Emerging Devices Organization (EDO) which gave the competitive advantage that secured Amazon as an AT&T customer.• With the guidance of the Internal Revenue Service I designed the business logic, architected and delivered the Employer Tax Id Validation Tool used by Mobility IT to verify customer supplied data during a purchase. This was instrumental in reducing fraud while also reducing verification costs. TIVS was deployed as an API accessible reusable application.

Bothell, Washington, United States

Bs, Computer Science

School Of Business