Gregory Pope Email & Phone Number

Oswego, Il, Us

United States

Responsible for building and managing of wireless team consisting of Program Management, Business Development, and Wireless Test Engineers. Responsible for the Wireless Proposals and P/L, Services Readiness, Program Management, and the delivery of Wireless Solutions to 5G customers with a focus on oRAN solutions.Team supports the RU product team in the delivery of 5G oRAN RUs and development of related services. This consists of business development; road mapping; technical support of IOT & IODT execution; addressing of Jira ticketing; formal documentation; and ensuring execution of contractual deliverables.Focus on customer experience, continuous improvement, speed and automation.

United States

Responsible for the development and deployment of 5G open RAN RUs for the DISH customer. Involves management and coordination of hardware & software releases, along with related IOT and IoDT execution with multiple partners. Establishment of jira ticketing projects and related debugging and reporting. Responsible for onboarding a team of wireless testers to support commercial deployment.

Richardson, Tx

Nationwide unit lead of design & build for top two telecommunication service providers. Accountable for the implementation and successful delivery of new products and services; including customer account management, business development, program management, financial (P&L) management, and vendor management.

Richardson, Tx

Managing new product and/or services deployment for 2 major programs. FlexiHaul/CPRI – new product & services for the VzW customer CAF – services for the Frontier customerResponsibilities include capturing customer requirements, coordination with internal cross-functional teams, developing responsibility matrix, process improvement, documentation and templates, employee and partner development and training, cost saving initiatives, risk analysis, and executive reporting.

Regional program manager, supporting Mobile Backhaul: FW9500 Core & CDS Ring deployments for the VzW customer (rings, partial rings, SONET and ROADM).

Deployment of a new DWDM system for the Rogers Canadian Telecom customer between New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland; along with the migration of existing services to the island on a resilient architecture consisting of 40 sites (23 + 17 co-lo) and over 3350 Km of fiber spans (including submarine cable).

Customer facing project manager, supporting the Century Link customer in the Virginia market. This project consisted of transport (ADTRAN 1600 LMX/OC12) between 200+ CO, OSP & Cell Sites for att & VzW end customers.

Naperville, Il

Customer facing project manager, supporting the VzW LTE FOA deployment in the Ohio Market. This project consists of deployment of ePC core network elements and 700 eNB cell site elements.

Lisle, Il

Customer facing project manager, with a focus in software/feature and hardware development release projects. Responsible for Intelligent Network (PrePay & PostPay) deployment projects for a leading wireless carrier in the US. Responsibilities include system deployments, order realization, resource management, project execution, status reporting, revenue tracking and customer satisfaction. Managed the activities and functional-organization requirements and responsibilities required to achieve; specified objectives, project milestones, cost tracking, project budget, terms and conditions of the contract and customer satisfaction goals.• VZW PM Solutions Team – Audit/Record Retention• Member of PMP CERT Team• Usage Control + HP & SUN Product/Network Element FOAs (ex. MAS T2000 and SRP)

Operations Manager - Provided leadership and resources necessary to support a team consisting of up to 30 installers engaged in the performance of hardware/software installation and integration of network telecommunications equipment. Recognized talent and guided technicians in their skill development, while providing feedback and assessment. Partnered with the customer and proactively addressed problems, improved processes and achieved results. Teamed with customer to implement the Illinois-Cell-Deployment-Center, a process by which cell sites are completely built, tested/integrated in a central location before being deployed into the field. This resulted in business growth year after year. It also delivered solutions to the customer’s needs and increased value to our organization.

Installation Technician - Installed, integrated and troubleshot new telecommunications equipment in the Chicago land area as a lead. Provided technical support for the customer directly; by interfacing with Development Engineering, Manufacturing, Customer Technical Advocate, Project Management and Sales. Resolved technical issues, in the field, when system deployments or vendor change-out were in jeopardy. Fully integrated new technologies into the customer’s Network.

Mba, Finance

Ba, Education

Activities and Societies: FootballColin Powell Community Service Award-Northern Illinois University, April 1997