Kenneth Jenks, Ms, Mba, Doctoral Certificate In Bus Admin Email & Phone Number

California - West Region U.S.

Multi-disciplinary role drawing on technical expertise and business acumen in support of national strategic clients' Managed Services, Network and Cloud Security, SD-WAN, Network Edge, SASE, and IoT aligned with business goals, policies, architectures, frameworks, and models to support a competitive edge.2017-2022 Led and collaborated best in class enterprise services delivery for Central and Northern California markets in collaboration with construction, outside plant, inside plant, network engineering, provisioning, service fulfillment, field operations, program management. Sierra Nevada | San Joaquin Valley | San Luis Obispo County - NW Region. Spectrum Enterprise.

United States

Led successful enterprise network engineering realignment, process re-engineering, enterprise product standardization initiatives, program management, capital budgeting / allocation in support of M&A. Successfully spearheaded flawless MSA / SLA alignment of wireless carrier fiber to the tower path diversity, reliability, and network redundancy resulting in new contracts LTV 50+ million.

United States

Start Up and Early Stage development support to serial entrepreneur, founder and president Lucy Selby - start up to early stage.

Frisco, Tx

Executive leader, architect, team builder, and collaborator in early stage transformation to award winning CLEC. ANPI UCaaS Product of the Year Award 2014. Strong ROI in collaboration with SVP Sales, CMO, CFO. Included product architecture, economic modeling and go-to-market strategy. Acquired by Onvoy post greenfield transformation.

Global

Early stage product and operations-engineering leader. Transformation from reseller to award winning CLEC. Most ever awards by the Telecom Association of 3000 members 2009. Mesh MPLS and SIP Trunking Product of the Year Awards. Key leadership role in the transformation from reseller to award winning CLEC. Established high performing teams: 24x7x365 NOC, Implementation, Account Management, Toll Free SMS Administration, Number Portability LNP, CPE, Hosted Services, Hosted VoIP, SIP Trunking, Test and Turn Up - activation - fulfillment. Sales Engineering / Solutions Architects supporting Direct and Channel Sales. Developed high performing organization of 75+ diverse subject matter experts across several departments from early stage transformation to $150+ mil. (Recruited out July 2012 by ANPI CEO Dave Lewis for VP product and technology transformation role).

Southern And Central California

1995/6 and 2000 thru 2005 until T-mobile acquisition of CA NV spectrum and facilities in parallel with Cingular acquisition of ATT wireless. Led mobile switch operations and engineering, field operations, cell site buildout, expansions, facilities grooming, operations and maintenance, RF drive testing, optimization through AT&T merger and T-Mobile acquisition of Cingular's 1900Mhz spectrum and BTS-BSC-MSC network and facilities. Launch team lead from startup commercial launch 1996. Led radio access network (RAN) radio expansion in support of Cingular-T-Mobile roaming. $1 Billion radio expansion program executed error free. BSC radio resources and base station transceivers. Staffed, supported, trained, and led switch operations engineering teams, achieving a first ever 5 star drive test rating Central California. Ericsson RBS BSC MSC, Nortel DMS Mobile, Nokia platform certifications. Homeland Security and CALEA Test and Implementation.

Global

From Startup - greenfield operation with $7.5 million startup capital (1st round). Recruited, staffed, trained and led team of 30+ operations and engineering personnel. Growth to $300 Million run rate in three years. International voice carrier. North America, Central and South America, Asia, Southeast Asia. 24x7x365. Supported business development. Areas of responsibilities included billing systems, Ericsson International Gateway TDM switches -installation, switch commissioning, switch database translations, routing, O&M. ANSI R1 SS7 and CCITT R2 C7 GATEWAY. International Private Line IPLs satcom and Fiber. transport .. Promina and ECI transport nodes with 4:1 and 8:1 (64k DSO) trunks compression. Anadigicom R2 C7 protocol conversion. Included facilities, power plant. hvac. Awarded Managed Services contract by AT&T for international termination and re-origination, AT&T's first ever outsourced managed services contract. Provided wholesale service to Tier I MCI, Sprint, Verizon and numerous Tier II / III carriers. NGT acquired by Comcast Ventures.

SGT - E5 Leader of Marines. Primary MOS 2811/41 Field Tactical Communications-Electronics Systems maintenance to component level - fourth echelon. Secure Telephony Systems, Ground Radio, Secure Communications (Crypto Radio Telephony Interoperability) systems and component level maintenance. Campaign Service Medal Veteran. Member Veterans of Foreign Wars | Twenty-nine Palms CA | Okinawa Japan | Korean Peninsula DMZ deployment with 3rd RECON Okinawa | Uncheon, South Korea CAFEX, Pohang, South Korea | Team Spirit, South Korea | Granada Urgent Fury | Camp Pendleton CA.

Executive Mba

Doctoral Executive Certificate Of Business Administration

Professional doctoral research core coursework - conferred September 2023. DrBA in Information Systems cognate and Applied Research.

Master Of Science In Cyber Security Operations And Leadership (Matriculated 2024)

Activities and Societies: National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE) Designation by the National Security and Homeland.

Master Of Science In Engineering Management And Systems Engineering. Tseng College Of Engineering

Specialized Business Leadership Training

Activities and Societies: SMU Edwin L. Cox Business Leadership Center

Bachelor Of Science Telecommunications Engineering And Applied Computing

Certificate, Telecommunications Network Management

Certificate, Voice Communications

Certificate, Data Communications

Associate Of Science - As, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Communications-Electronics School, Twentynine Palms, Ca

Telephone/Switching and Ground Radio Systems (Tactical/Crypto); Systems Integration, Systems Maintenance, Printed Circuit Board.

Education record

Cisco Routing 4 weeks Lecture/Lab, Fujitsu SONET; Nortel 3500 SONET; Titan 5500; DSC DACS 1/0 Digital Cross-connect; Ericsson 810 Advanced.

Foreign Language Studies, Korean - Spoken And Written

Korean Hangul

Certificate, Studio - Recording Arts And Audio Engineering Studio City, Ca