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Fairfield, New Jersey

Leading a team of Business Transformation Architects on strategic projects across all functional areas.

Greater New York City Area

Causam Enterprises is a holding company on a mission to empower all grid participants to make money. How? Our subsidiary companies Causam eXchange and Causam IP are creating the network, tools and software which simplifies power grid interactions, saving time, energy and money.

Greater New York City Area

Soon, every power grid element will support two-way internet-based communication. We design the products and solutions that let consumers, generating utilities, communications carriers, retail electric providers, distributed generators and commercial customers harness the power of this next-generation energy framework.

Basking Ridge, Nj

Drove $350M+/yr in improvements to margin and cash flow. Launched Lean Six Sigma program for Wireless and Wireline Network functions at Verizon. Trained and developed Black Belts and Master Black Belts through process efficiency work cross functionally with other business units. Led Director and Manager teams with RF, Engineering, Operations experience to apply Lean Six Sigma tools on all areas of Wireless & Wireline operations including Service Order Fulfillment, Dispatch, Installation, Planning & Engineering, Transport, Support Operations, Troubleshooting Tools/Development, Supply Chain & Inventory Management. Developed measurement systems where required to provide insight into performance and cost of operations.

Basking Ridge, Nj

Tasked by senior management to evaluate several service programs across all Verizon business units• Drove $90M in savings and grew $50M+ in Cloud revenues by consolidating, restructuring and re-negotiating 3rd party services for a consumer content management product• Worked with suppliers, Engineering and Operations to improve platform scalability which addressing geographic redundancy for resiliency. Improvements supported Cloud product growth from 30M to 50M end customers• Worked with Operations and 3rd party solution providers to identify and resolve operational management issues including improved reporting metrics and service commitments• Built on experience solving issues end-to-end by engaging all stakeholders around a common understanding of customer problems and using data to expose areas for operational, and financial improvements

Basking Ridge, Nj

This role supported Sales with technical expertise on wireless network capabilities and evolution for strategic accounts. This role also served to lead trials and drive customer feedback into Product Development and Operations • Successfully developed and launched an 800k+ endpoint M2M/IoT solution resulting in a 200% return on investment. Led the business development for this smart metering solution with in-home networking to curtail demand. Led investment review with SaaS partner, Verizon Ventures, Qualcomm and GE • Leveraged customer feedback to improve and standardize root cause analysis and reporting for Verizon• Advised on 4G/LTE product demonstrations for the Verizon LTE Innovation Center as well as Lucent’s Innovation Center. Supported Lucent in their global customer meetings to share 4G/LTE experience and progress at Verizon

Bedminster, Warren & Basking Ridge Nj

This role liaised with Marketing to define and document product requirements for solutions deployed in the network• Drove $600M+/yr in revenue through requirements definition, vendor evaluation, testing and commercial deployments of RingBack Tones, Voice Dialing, PTT and VZNav• Led the effort with third parties to standardize and consolidate legacy Voice Mail, 411 and Voice Dialing services• Created the New Product Development Process to standardize requirements definition, engineering and operational requirements, business case inputs and testing for all products and services across

Tampa, Fl

This role had P&L responsibility for a suite of hosted products serving hundreds of global wireless carriers• Drove $100M+ in new revenue while saving carriers billions in losses with the successful commercial rollout of hosted/SaaS preventative and detective fraud control solutions• Built strong cross functional product teams and spent months in the field with customers to uncover product opportunities and service improvements• Learned the value of being in the field with customers and walking their processes to identify opportunities

Greater Atlanta Area

Worked on post GTE/Contel Wireless merger activities. Specifically on best practices across systems with internal controls focus (Billing, PoS, Network Admin, Finance). Moved to and ran new team focused on fraud issues rampant in mid 90's to develop detective and preventative controls. Worked across major carriers and solution providers to develop solutions. Also worked with various Law Enforcement Agencies (DEA, Attorney's General, US Secret Service, local market police) to develop strategies and laws (counterfeiting) to aid with enforcement. Worked with GTE TSI to develop specific fraud solutions and moved to Tampa to launch these across for the wireless industry.

Peabody, Ma

This was a three year development program to groom personnel for roles in the business. Performed financial and operational reviews of various GTE business units including Manufacturing, Government Systems, Satellite, Wireline and Corporate.

Boston, Ma

Public Accounting work for large commercial clients in Telecommunication, Applied Sciences, Health Care areas.