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Greater Chicago Area

Agile project management, scrum master, and staff management/development for defense and telecommunications projects.

Greater Chicago Area

* For Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent client. Delivered on-time releases with continuous quality improvement to Sprint and Verizon managing rebadged 500+ member, globally distributed CDMA R&D team. Cut expenses for the complex BTS program by migrating the work from Beijing, China to Bangalore, India with no loss of quality or missed delivery dates. Migrated 90% of US-based work to China and India. Slashed expenses by trimming staff 70% over a two year period.* For CenturyLink Client. Coordinated HCL communication and deliveries to CenturyLink in the BSS/OSS and Service Order Management areas.* For Sprint Client. Assisted sales in securing HCL bid to outsource Sprint Test lab to Bangalore with technical presentations and hosting Bangalore site visit.

Greater Chicago Area

* Owned Program Management, Project Management, bids and pricing, application deliveries, fix deliveries, 3rd party outsourcing, and customer relationship (partnering with sales).* Negotiated a 50%+ reduction in support cost from Genband, MGW supplier, saving in excess of $7M in the first year.* Prepared 300+ North American employees being rebadged to HCL for the transition with informational sessions on the contract and on HCL. * Negotiated the HCL US Benefits package on behalf of the rebadged employees, securing grandfathered benefits equal to ALU benefits for 7 years.

Greater Chicago Area

* Built and led Wireless Call Server (WCS) program, merging the Overdrive program with 2 others to reduce management overhead by 66% while maintaining existing commitments with 100% on-time performance.* Delivered 3 large WCS releases on schedule while transitioning from a Waterfall to an AGILE (Scrum/Kanban) delivery process.

Greater Chicago Area

* Built a global architecture team to control design integrity and improve quality, adding engineers and managers in China and India to a small core in the US.* Defined Architecture Process including responsibilities, principles of operation, and objectives for E2E design integrity.* Formed the “Rockets” Innovation Team within the competence center to create outside-the-box ideas for revenue growth.

Greater Chicago Area

* (TAIWAN) Working from Taiwan, led technical portion of RFP responses, winning two contracts for GSM networks worth $50M+. Built and led team of local and contract engineers for network design (backhaul network, RF engineering, site surveys/plans, and RF theoretical plan, testing, and optimization).* (SINGAPORE) Working from Singapore, provided pre-sales and post-sales technical support in the Asia/Pacific region. Gave presentations and answered questions in customer meetings in Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, and Korea.* (USA) Proposed and secured the creation of a single merged product (SD-HLR, later 8650 SDM) covering CDMA HLR, UMTS HLR, and IMS HSS by lobbying the Lucent CDMA, IN, and IMS organizations. * (USA) Led Lucent participation in GSM/UMTS MSC product rationalization discussions for the Alcatel-Lucent merger.* (USA) Merged Lucent and Alcatel US-based MSC systems and requirements engineering teams into a single, cohesive team.* (USA) Delivered international customer-specific “fast features” with 92% on-time record by recruiting and managing a strong team of engineers.* (USA) Managed the SE group creating and maintaining system requirements for the CDMA HLR, SD-HLR/HSS, CDMA WIN Triggers, and GSM/UMTS MSC.

Professional Certificate Program, It Leadership, Innovation, And Entrepreneurship, 4.0 / 4.0 Gpa

Focus on Project Management, Business Innovation, IT Security and ERP systems.

Ms, Computer Science, 4.0 Gpa

Bs, Computer Science / Economics, Magna Cum Laude