Raul Buendia Email & Phone Number

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Within the Verizon Consumer Group(VCG), the multi-year strategic planning process prioritizes a close link between finance (capital planning, M&A, P&L), corporate, and strategy. Raul joined a team of stars leading the consumer group strategic initiatives, to oversees the multi-year capital planning allocation across all the functional teams and ensure the alignment with the agreed $17B-$18B corporate and group strategic investments. Worked with multiple teams to communicate the strategy from the functional and capital planning perspective. Leading role to find opportunities or challenges for new and exciting technology trends, to serve as a capital planning liaison for cross functional groups on one side, and the strategy stakeholder for the finance partners on the other side. This included complex choices and trade-offs framework design, incorporating key decision making ratios, for senior CxO leadership discussions. Partnered with leading consultant firms and established complex business and process transformation initiatives, taking the lead in the development of full strategic perspective for certain programs, including macro/micro analysis, new financial and performance metrics development, organizational structure ideation, and technology evaluation platforms to support the long term strategic direction. Led strategic guidance for the Verizon satellite to device program, including go to market strategies, economic models, ROI projections, and technology requirements. The Verizon Consumer Group is the responsible for all the Verizon consumer related activities, including the wireless, wholesale, and wireline businesses.

- Verizon Headquarters Planning bring concepts, ideas, and innovation to reality by Verizon products long term strategies. In my case, I lead the Visible program, a full virtualized wireless telecommunications network slice.- Full accountability for the Visible 5G network design and strategy, both Non-Standalone and Standalone models. - Provided expertise analyzing new network ideas.- Engaged and led cross functional teams to resolve challenging business scenarios. - Guidance to the Visible business to properly analyze complex solutions, network flows, and vendors proposals, being the owner of the networks end to end roadmap and features for this program. This also includes contractual negotiations, capital cost analysis, vendor management, business case preparation, and deployment feasibility guidance. - Business case, financial models, multiple contracts analysis, third party NDA, and new partnerships analysis are also my responsibilities. - Full design accountability of the Visible network framework, annual budget preparation, program management, strategy, and funds budget management.- Prepared networks innovation funnel to support the successful launch and growth of new wireless brands, such as Visible and Yahoo! Mobile. - Product management responsibility over the Visible network. - Expertise in finding the proper technology path to fulfill the business needs. - Ability to present to CxO, multi-disciplinary groups, large audiences, or engineering level.- Combined financial acumen with technical skills. Enjoy preparing a WACC analysis one day, and developing code the day after. I am engineer who love finding intangible value where financial DCF or multiples evaluations, while needed for objective analysis, need additional insights to make reasonable decisions. - What is Visible? Visible is a successful USA wireless operator brand, launched in May 2018, focused on an all-digital innovative service based business model.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Proud to be part of an excellent group of brilliant engineers taken care of the security(Authentication, Authorization) and the profile subscribers repository for the #1 wireless telecommunications network in America. Actively involved in Network Function Virtualization evolution activities, helping the combined development and operations team to resolve engineering, design and network planning challenges required to build and on-board critical wireless infrastructure applications over one of the largest Openstack environments of the world.Helped to make Visible, a new network operator launched in may 2018, a reality, from the initial proof of concept phase, first Visible production call, to the market trial, and then commercial service.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

As member of the Cloud Networking business unit team, we managed multiple wireless service providers accounts, hence becoming the customers' trusted partners and evangelizing new technologies, such as traffic optimization frameworks, NFV/SDN evolution, big data analytics, and Application Delivery Controllers.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Managing technical sales for Citrix ByteMobile product portfolio, including wireless networks video/web optimization frameworks and application delivery controllers(NetScaler product).

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Subscriber Data Management(SDM) sales and business development support for North American telecommunications markets, focused on Verizon Wireless account.- Bids preparation and defense, pre-sales management and architect for customer solutions involving SDM products, such as Home Location Registers, Home Subscriber Servers, Equipment Identity Registers, or Authentication-Authorization-Accounting platforms.

- Pre-Sales engagement responsibilities with Latinoamerica and Northamerica operators for the Next Generation Subscriber Data consolidation Product.- Design architecture requirements for Cellular, Cable, Wimax or PSTN operators to better integrate Apertio portfolio within customers network.- Work with Marketing and Sales leaders to provide the pre-sales support required to success with customer engagements, as well as Business Development collaborations.- Regional expertise for One-NDS products , as well as the rest of the Apertio portfolio offer, including AAA, Bootstrapping, HSS, HLR, EIR and Routing Server platforms.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- IMS Seamless Mobility Core Product Organization at Motorola- End to End vision of VoIP IMS solutions with final responsiblity of Telecomunications Design solutions for Network Operators.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Managing a team of advanced engineers to deliver new solutions for a Tier 1 operator in Europe

Executive Mba, International Business, Finance

Bachelor, Telecommunications