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Bedminster, Nj

Manages Strategic Initiative programs, supporting many project managers and overseeing dozens of projects, with more than $20 million budgets. Directs the efforts of IT project managers in defining project scope/business requirements, delivery schedules, system requirements, design, development, testing and managing day to day project operations across the software development lifecycle. ✔ Successfully led multiple large scale projects from inception through implementation and market introduction. ✔ Customer focused and always exceeded expectations of both internal and external customers.✔ Continually identified areas of improvements to reduce cycle times to meet client expectations.✔ Presented weekly and monthly project and budget status to the leadership including directors and VPs.

Middletown, Nj

Successfully led 8 application development teams spanning across the US and India in requirements gathering, time and cost estimation, design, development, testing and implementation. Delivered more than 20 install activities per year and exceeded delivery objectives, including schedule, budget, cycle time, and product/process quality. Subject Matter Expert (SME) for many AT&T sales and marketing tools and business product offerings. Integration lead for many projects. ✔ Achieved annual savings of $300,000 for AT&T sales organizations by designing, developing and implementing a set of bulk load functionalities for SAART Web, the sales compensation system.✔ Achieved 85% improvement in processing time by automating manual steps for updating a pricing tool which resulted in annual sales increase of $1,000,000.✔ Exceeded customer satisfaction objectives by building strong relationships, ensuring understanding of client businesses and priorities, and responding to the client needs.✔ Managed and delivered 12 enhancement projects annually that supported new and innovative business services across many AT&T sales and marketing delivery systems.✔ Reduced TTR (Time To Repair) metrics from 11 days to less than 1 day under 6 months, while reducing number of open tickets by more than 90% during the same time.✔ Provided consultation and advisory leadership for AT&T ILT (IT Legacy Transformation) effort to determine migration strategy for many legacy applications to the target architecture.

Short Hills And Morristown, Nj

Created and co-developed an enterprise portal platform that integrated more than 10 stand alone AT&T sales and marketing systems/applications, and substantially improved usability, performance, data retrieval and processing time.✔ Leveraged synergy among the applications to uncover actionable business intelligence, and increase business value and potential revenue opportunities for AT&T executives. ✔ Created cross application navigation flow and realigned the tools along their marketing functions.✔ Developed high level Dashboard/State of Business view with capabilities to deep dive to the underlying detail information.✔ Created a single secured access with seamless movement from any application to all others.

Murray Hill, Short Hills And Morristown, New Jersey

Proposed, designed, developed, and implemented cost-effective, client-server and web-based applications replacing manual processes and untraceable sales and marketing reports.✔ Achieved an estimated savings of $2,000,000 by successfully testifying as an expert witness to the accuracy of AT&T advertising claims in arbitration hearings between AT&T and MCI. ✔ Played a leading role in business requirements, data architecture, and technology selection for AT&T Data Warehouse project. Contributed extensively to the design and development of the Data Warehouse end state database model. Established a process to identify data quality exceptions. ✔ Automated contract generation, ordering, and service delivery processes by creating a single tool that navigated the user through all steps of the process.✔ Created tools to trace and audit changes as part of the contacting, ordering, and service delivery processes in order to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.✔ Designed and developed a decision support system which integrates data elements from various AT&T billing, sales and ordering systems in support of AT&T sales and marketing executives.✔ Awarded AT&T SMTS Salute award for demonstrating “innovation, incredible teamwork,” and “tremendous contributions to Data Warehouse transition project.”

Middletown, Nj

Designed and developed firmware for AT&T router offerings.

Ms | Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Bs | Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Ba | Bachelor Of Arts, Mathematics