Lynette Wolfe Collins Email & Phone Number

United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Placed in newly created role, charged with defining and filling role responsibilities. Expand role to include people management, building team of 13 talented mid-level managers. Lead security and compliance to deliver structure, diligence, consistency, and support across technologies. ● Verified that government and NIST standards were followed to meet contract terms and supported ongoing compliance efforts for FirstNet platform, first high-speed nationwide wireless network for first responders. ● Designed program with several business cases to secure funding needed to resolve compliance gaps and deficiencies across platforms; conceptualized future strategies needed to maintain security posture.● Designed program with several business cases to secure funding needed to resolve compliance gaps and deficiencies across platforms; conceptualized future strategies needed to maintain security posture.● Ideated security transformation program to streamline and optimize security tools used across organization; developed single dashboard to review tickets and priorities, improving compliance and efficiencies while optimizing processes and lowering costs significantly. Assisted teams with implementing ServiceNow and Astra Workload Inspect (AWI).● Wrote best practices compliance playbook to improve audit performance and maintain security posture level.● Guided team in enhancing security posture with internal risk assessment methodology, comprehensive analysis, and recommendations; managed team in analyzing platforms to understand scanning needs, creating new framework to assess operations, and onboarding new items into programs to improve Tenable scanning ability to reduce threats. Worked with chief security office to apply to 1+ million devices across 30-40 platforms.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Selected as top-performing director to define operational efficiency and measures for successfully implementing software-defined network (SDN) across AT&T operations, transforming product and service delivery. Led talented team of 10-12 mid-level managers in showcasing value of implementing SDN, leading to project’s successful completion. Collaborated with systems engineering team to create process framework related to SDN implementation with clearly defined efficiencies and impact on operational workflows. Evaluated operations use cases for technology insertion fault, change, and performance management involving application programming interfaces, policy creation, automated configuration and provisioning in a virtual network environment. Developed framework to compare existing and new processes to identify differences and predict cost savings or avoidance.● Achieved goal of making AT&T 75% SDN-defined by 2020; successfully quantified value of SDN to enable implementation while increasing confidence of process and results across teams.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Promoted to director level, charged with leading 55 program and process managers with individual teams. Positioned team members as strategic partners to enable goal achievement. Delivered ongoing support for network planning, engineering, and program management to optimize all processes. Drove new process development and optimization or re-engineering of existing processes. Established governance structure to ensure smooth and consistent operations with accurate measurements. Oversaw team of Six Sigma Black Belts tasked with analyzing processes across organization to identify new ways of working or areas for efficiency improvement. Launched new products with clearly defined processes, on-time delivery, and market targets. ● Implemented metrics and dashboards to showcase program plans and means for executing plans.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Supervised team of 40 project managers across US while managing vendor relationships and contracts. Navigated recent merger with SBC, tasked with defining best practices and integrating teams with newly developed common processes. Implemented various deployments into core infrastructure network. Delivered coast-to-coast transport network implementation. Led cross-functional teams in coordinating and executing funding, engineering, testing, and installing of large projects. ● Reduced vendor costs significantly by negotiating contracts and creating project management office (PMO) to structure ongoing support and manage relationships; fostered cultural transformation efforts to enable successful deployments. ● Achieved millions in revenue and access savings by building network infrastructure to support access cost reduction and key network integration initiatives.

Leadership Development Program

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba