Offered senior consultancy services to various clients including Furrion – a manufacturer of high-end appliances and electronics for recreational vehicles: ∙ Set up a USA MVNO which provided an LTE uplink service for an RV-based wireless router product. ∙ Selected an MVNA from a pool of over 100 potential vendors and negotiated the contract.∙ Certified the new LTE device on the Verizon Wireless network.∙ Established that tax collection was required at the point of sale in all jurisdictions; found and recruited a service provider.∙ Identified a SIM card provider for the router product and negotiated the contract.∙ Created a dynamic financial model to continually optimize wholesale data plans.∙ Devised a new billing system to collate daily usage files and provide detailed reports.∙ Concluded this 12-month engagement two months ahead of schedule.

As a wireless advisor to Rimedo Labs, I review proposals, contribute to projects, and vet solutions. Generally, I offer to assist in any way I can for the success of the ventures.

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Bangkok Beach Telecom helps Telecom Pros develop their skills to love a career in Telecoms. We provide online advice, coaching, courses, tip, tricks, tactics and techniques to advance their careers. Much of this is provided for free. Online courses and books are not free.Contributions:✅Nearly 200 articles published on my blog https://bangkokbeachtelecom.com/✅Wrote a book for Telecom Pros to create an awesome LinkedIn profile✅In conjunction with CafeTele, hosted weekly "5G Friday" free webinars.Much of this work is merging with CafeTele

IT&E operates 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks; a DSL landline network serving voice and broadband to the Marianas Islands.• Led on all technology including Mobile core and RAN, Fixed & Transport Networks, Network Operations Center, International Circuits, Enterprise, IT & Billing, and Roaming. • Owned $8m CapEx and $18m OpEx.• Reported to the CEO / Board. • Managed/motivated a high-performing team of 75 professionals. Achievements:• Deployed a 3.5G overlay network on time / within budget. • Created a new billing strategy that enabled the 3.5G overlay network launch and saved $700k.• Renegotiated carrier’s carrier contract; generated 70% savings and improved EBITDA by 5 percentage points.

Mobi is a regional mobile operator serving voice and mobile broadband subscribers with a pay-in-advance, no-contract business model with a very low-cost structure. • Led on all technology including Fixed Network, VAS, Transport, Billing, and IT providing voice and mobile broadband services with an annual OpEx budget of $10M and a CapEx budget of $3M.• Built Enterprise and mobile LAN / WAN to support 100k subscribers on five islands; established three corporate locations, eight retail stores, and Data Center.• Built state-wide microwave backhaul network to increase bandwidth and reduce OpEx.• Architected subscriber provisioning to improve reliability / reduce complexity.• Established new roaming agreements, launched roaming products, and managed the service.Achievements:• 2008 Employee of the Year Award.• Selected / deployed VAS Platform (voicemail, SMS, MMS, OTA, IVR, E9-1-1) $1m under budget.• Negotiated/renegotiated contracts with vendors to lower costs and improve services; successfully reduced costs by $5m in 2011 and $6m in 2012.

As a professional working in mobile telecom, I volunteered my time to advise the Governor on how to spend funds collected in support of the E-911 emergency service.• Served on this senior committee whilst employed by Mobi - members are selected from the Emergency Services and mobile operators. • Appointed for a Four-year term; chaired Finance Committee responsible for $9M annual spending and member of the Technical Committee.• Successfully defended funding during the 2008 budget crisis.• Implemented rigorous budgeting procedures for the Board and PSAPs, facilitating improved forecasting and adherence to the allocated funding level.

Founded company building commercial WiFi Hotspots and providing consulting service to Mobile Operators in Bangkok, Thailand and throughout Asia-Pacific.Contributions:Developed WiFi hotspot solution using Open Source Software on x86 boardsCreate back office software and User Interface solution using Apache/mod_perl/MySQLNegotiated partnership with Thai ISP.

Responsible for Customer installation and pre-sales support in AsiaContributions:As the 1st Asia-Pacific employee, did Business Development justifying the creation of the Singapore office Built Service Delivery team in Asia-PacificCreated Standard project deployment templates

IT Consultant during network build-out and implementation responsible for building nationwide WAN and several regional LANs.

Build new GSM mobile networks in various countries in Europe, working in the Network Engineering department.

In this role I was an AirTouch consultant to AirTel Spain starting from scratch to build a completely new GSM Mobile Operator in Spain. My job was to implement various IT applications used by Network Engineering and Customer Care. Hired and managed 18 local IT and Telecoms professionals.

In this role I was a Pactel Cellular consultant to Belgacom Mobile sent in to help integrate all business services for a formal service launch. My job was to implement various IT applications used by Network Engineering and Customer Care.

Engineering consultant to one of the very first on-air GSM networks in Europe, developing methods and procedures governing day-to-day operations in NMC and OMCs. This company was also known as D2.