Ryan Lay Email & Phone Number

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Manage the RF Design Engineering and Traffic Planning team that supports the Verizon Florida Market.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Responsible for a network engineering team that manage, design, and implement translations for Acme Packet, Samsung, Lucent and Ericsson Routing Databases.

Responsible for 12 engineers who manage, design and implement translations for the Lucent and Nortel CDMA switches as well as the Ericsson and Nortel GSM switches.

Primary responsibility is creating, modifying, and supporting data fill and the messages that are generated by that data fill within the call control protocols located in the Application Layer as described by the SS7 Protocol Suite, TCP/IP Model, and OSI Model. Some of the current circuit domain protocols that translations supports are ISUP, IS-41, and MAP.1.Provided support for Alltel’s implementation of Wireless Number Portability. 2.Maintained Nortel IHLR, supported various subscriber migrations. 3.Acted as tier 3 support for Alltel’s technical help desk and network operations.4.Interacted with Nortel Technical Support on advanced network trouble.5.Implemented and provided support for IS826 WIN Prepaid Solution,Lead Translations Engineer, Nortel IHLR to SDHLR Migration, First Cellular Network Conversion, Alltel Ring Back Tone Project, Western Wireless Network Conversion, Alltel Touch 2 Talk Project, Enhanced 911 Phase 1 and Phase 2, Implementation of CDMA OTAPA

Worked as a part of the Alltel Network Operations Team during the Alltel CLEC rollout in Little Rock, Arkansas.Responsible for commissioning, acceptance testing, and daily operation of all Cisco DSLAMS located in Little Rock, Arkansas.Performed daily hardware and software maintenance on the DMS 500, Alcatel 1630/1631, Carrier Access Navigator, Carrier Access Channel Bank, Nortel Access Node, and Nortel Access Node Express.Tested, cross-connected, and turned in service various special circuits including DS0s, DS1s,DS3s,56K,SMDR, and SMDI links.Experienced in UCD and ACD programming and functionality.Supported Customer Care Liaisons by correcting daily trouble and providing technical assistance during customer conversions.Coordinated with various communication companies to test and turn up T1s.Applied and maintain GR303 interface with the DMS500.Appointed to Alltel T1 Task Force, advanced/chronic T1 trouble resolution.