Neil Colman Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, ON, CA

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Manage projects, schedules, resources, mitigate risks and drive deliverables to closure
• Prepare and deliver weekly and monthly project status reports, highlighting risks and working action plans
• Customer interaction and collaboration, requirements and task definition, scope and project planning
• Plan, coordinate, and manage test, maintenance, test and product development activities across different discipline teams and different product lines

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Manage a team of systems engineers and support technologists.
• Manage the system design, installation, and training of custom seismic monitoring.
• Manage technical support and sales support.
• Project management for large deployments.
• Provide technical direction and systems design leadership.
• Maintain high level contact with existing and potential customers and develop strong relations, driving customer satisfaction with key decision makers.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Built strong Tier 1 customer relationships based on trust, transparency, technical and sales acumen.
• Engaged with customers to identify new revenue opportunities, driving requirements and solutions resulting in multi-million dollar sales opportunities.
• Creating customer product training opportunities to improve product knowledge and shorten verification schedule duration. This had a direct result to expedite product development and deployment, technical solution.
• Lead customer visits to China R&D center to work with R&D and product teams, promote and drive new products and solutions development for introduction into the Canada market, resulting in the customer being one of the.
• Collaborated with account teams, sales, marketing, finance, supply chain and cross-functional verticals to secure business opportunities for key account specific “break-in” strategies.
• Defined and delivered technical, solution and new product pricing proposals, network design strategies and product configurations to customer management teams.

• Managed HSPA/LTE FOA and product trials for Bell Mobility and TELUS wireless operators, including pre-launch and proof of concept evaluation to meet customer acceptance test criteria resulting in the first successful.
• Directed test engineers in new Software and Hardware product rollouts, release program management, system, regression, trial and verification test activities to expedite delivery and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Managed the investigation of network performance failure events and instituted preventive maintenance recommendations resulting in cost reduction and improved efficiency.
• Prepared weekly project status reports for upper management identifying areas of concern, growth opportunities and highlighted key achievements.

• Planned, tracked and mitigated various types of in-depth failure analysis of Network Integrity Systems projects while working tight schedules to deliver Tier 1 customer quality products on time, improving customer.
• Collaborated with multi-site cross-functional teams to provide training, process improvement and resolved technical and product quality issues resulting in customer and internal recognition and satisfaction.
• Prepared and delivered progress reports to upper management, highlighting current risk items and steps required to resolve issues of modeled data with the goal of highlighting useful information, suggesting.

• Lead the on-site commissioning of the first ever Nortel China CDMA wireless LAV network. (Validated, optimized, and characterized the functionality and performance of CDMA and LTE RF wireless products in a real live.
• Long term mentorship of the newly established LAV team in China, delivering knowledge transfer training sessions.
• Ownership and maintenance of the Calgary CDMA LAV Network operations.Provided on-site trial technical support, execution and optimization for the first Verizon LTE trials in the USA.
• Developed and delivered system process development enhancements sessions and test case tool training sessions to local and remote teams.

• Established a computer consulting company which provided practical technical solutions and critical client support.
• Managed investigation of customer fault analysis, provided design solutions, hardware and system troubleshooting of network configurations, computer installations and maintenance of computer hardware and software.

• Led and trained a team of technicians in CDMA design, integration and verification activities, coordinating CAR’s and providing direction and positive mentorship.
• Planned and executed CDMA RF and base-band product testing, PCB troubleshooting, fault analysis, antenna matching circuit design and final stage product verification.
• Planned and implemented test procedures to investigate cellular modem specification compliance of pilot configurations and post-production units.

• Chosen to provide on-site diagnosis and design solutions to GSM SIM card development.
• Designed, assessed and validated digital and analog circuit design performance of vehicle mobile phone systems using PCB software, RF circuit test instrumentation and real-time signal analysis.
• Planned and executed environmental, RF chamber and ESD verification of mobile phone systems.

• First point of contact with part vendors providing timely delivery, assembly and component integration of end-end image recognition system components.
• Provided on-site installation, client training, troubleshooting, maintenance and support of character recognition imaging and data capture systems.
• Coordinated mechanical and electronic component outsourcing, purchasing and manufacturing schedules of electro-optical image recognition systems.
• Provided post-manufacturing feedback and testing recommendations to improve product quality.
• Compiled installation, troubleshooting and user manuals for computerized imaging systems, as well as prepare BOM, cost and timing estimates and recording of hardware inventories.
• Optimized PCB layout, schematic capture and prototyping.

• Researched and composed feasibility studies to document design, operation and performance of components and control systems.
• Composed tender documents for various telecommunication configurations.

B.Sc, Electrical Engineering

Project Management Certificate