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Texas, United States

Our team drives Calix’s Broadband Capital Program which serves to secure government grants and raise private capital for broadband service providers (BSPs). We also work with and support State/Territory Broadband Offices and Federal Agencies to implement this once-in-generation opportuntiy for broadband deployment, with estimates of over $200 billion in.

The State of North Dakota’s purpose is to Empower People, Improve Lives, and Inspire Success. North Dakota’s Information Technology organization asks itself “How might we deliver world class technology and service? As Program Director for the state’s Broadband Program, my responsibilities are to provide day-to-day support and management of the state's.

Texas, United States

Founded and ran a 501.c3 organization to fund global missionary efforts to bring the word of Jesus Christ to those in need. Missional outreaches included local food distribution and ESL teaching to spanish community, regional disaster recovery assistance after hurricane Ida on the Louisiana Coast, construction projects and community outreach in Honduras.

Richardson, Texas

• Led the Project Management team for Verizon's Intelligent Edge Network (iEN) national rollout.
• Responsible for the issue identification, data collection, root cause analysis, and solution development to drive efficiency and scalability into the UT Market deployment process.
• Responsible for working with cross-functional teams to identify and drive the market/business priorities and develop implementation plans to meet the business' deliverables.
• Analyzed and identified an organizational restructuring plan and drove new roles and responsibility assignments.
• In 2018 I drove a struggling 17 NEAT and 4 NAT 1st quarter delivery to a successful 176 NEAT and 47 NAT EOY 5 market delivery success.
• In 2019 we continued efficiencies and were on track to almost double our 2018 performance.

Texas, United States

Founded and ran a 501.c3 organization to fund global missionary efforts to bring the word of Jesus Christ to those in need. Missional outreaches included local church renovations and ESL teaching, regional disaster recovery assistance after hurricane Harvey on the Texas Coast, construction projects and community outreach in Honduras, and working various.

Richardson, Texas

As part of the Centralized Network Capacity Planning team, I was responsible for identifying metro backhaul congestion from our FiOS network OLTs to BRAS routers and working with regional engineering to address this congestion via circuit and router augments. I also took it upon myself to use my Lean Six Sigma and 4DX skills to address several data.

Richardson, TX

• Worked across 5 Directors and 10-15 Managers.
• Led the rollout of the Process Improvement Program (Franklin Covey 4 Disciplines of Execution) in the West Region Engineering, Operations, and Support Center. (1500+ employees covering 35 states).
• Able to drive a 33% reduction in BUILD interval in 4 months from 60 days to 33 days.
• Able to obtain an additional 25% reduction in the TOTAL interval, including install/turn-up, from 37 days to 28 days.
• Able to increase the percentage of Time to Repair (TTR) ticket resolution by 20%, moving it from 60% of the tickets being resolved in under 4 hours to 72% tickets being resolved in under 4 hours.

Richardson, TX

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Project 1: Addressed high return rate for VZ's FiOS CPE: identified previously unknown issues with the hardware design, designed a methodology in which these devices could provide VZ with an early warning flag, and.
• Project 2: Drove data collection and analysis needed for Verizon to convert an entire Central Office from copper to Fiber and coordinate with various IT developers and system support staff to collect and analyze the.
• Project 3: International data center pre-sales process. Identified and solved for inefficiencies in the systems and process flows. Identified the areas of improvement (system consolidation) and developed the migration.

As part of the Home Network Architecture and Technology group, my responsibilities include defining DSL requirements for Verizon's home gateways and FiOS MDU BHR. I also have been part of a team to analyze Verizon's non-FiOS areas and determine what technologies improvements can be deployed to bring triple play services to those customers.

As part of the Access and Transport Network Architecture group, my resposnibilities included DSL network design, DSL technology development, defining DSL requirements for FiOS MDU deployment, working in various standards bodies including ATIS NIPP NAI, Broadband Forum, and ITU SG15/Q4. I also was involved in deploying Verizon's Spectrum Management platform.

• Led the NIPP committee in the development of US standards and technical reports covering Network Interfaces, Power Systems, Electrical Protection, and Physical Protection.
• Provided official coordination with other International Standards Institutions. E.g., ITU, Broadband Forum, Home Grid Forum, IEEE.

As part of the Strategic Analysis group, my responsibilities include analyzing and supporting MCI’s Business and Engineering efforts in the access arena. I am responsible for providing recommendations, guidance, and focus on both short-term and long-term architectures, strategies, technologies, and business opportunities for MCI. My responsibility includes.

My group was responsible for supporting the unbundling efforts on a global scale including US, UK, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico.This included meeting with the various country regulatory bodies (FCC, DOJ, OFTEL, ART, OPTA, etc) to discuss and resolve issues associated with opening up the incumbents’ network to.

Defined and supported the domestic and international regulatory, carrier management, and standards development in the area of access and unbundling MCIWSupported MCIW’s effort for vendor’s product development to meet MCIW access network requirements and developing the specifications for the next generation access platformProvided the engineering support to.

I investigated and analyzed aspects of national and international networks for classified government projects.

I worked as TSI’s technical expert on all optical components in the network (WDM/NB-WDM, Optical Amplifiers, Fiber Cable, etc.) and cable routing and management equipment.

I was part of a 16-month field/in-house training program working in all aspects of MCI’s high-speed long distance transmission network working in outside plant (fiber cable installation), fiber splicing, lightwave equipment installation, system test, and engineering. I also worked in antenna and waveguide installation for digital radios. After training, I.