Sophia Zimmermann Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New Jersey, United States

As the Strategic Account Alliance Lead, I am focused on driving towards marketplace wins through effective cross-functional team execution. I cultivate and nurture solution and technology partnerships, ensuring seamless onboarding processes that set the stage for success. By prioritizing project organization and delivery readiness, I enable high-impact solution launches. Additionally, I provide partner training that emphasizes go-to-market strategies that drive growth. I also lead the collaborative development of our ecosystem communications plan to enhance partner engagement. At the same time, I am committed to advancing company OKRs and aligning our team’s efforts to achieve shared success.

Greater New York City Area

Lead strategic planning, execution, delivery of end to end solution for cloud native 4G/5G core private network include C-band N77 SA ORAN in Verizon Basking Ridge lab and in preparation for maintenance engineering production lab, include EMS, provisioning gateway, capacity, performance, orchestration requirement review with Verizon planners and alignment with third party partners include Redhat, HP, Wind River.Successful delivery of public safety network slicing use case with end-to-end 4G/5G NSA solution with mmW radio to Verizon executive briefing center in Ashburn, VA. Include partnership with marketing to develop story board and messaging for enterprise customers. Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of CBRS fixed wireless access (FWA) solution for field trials (Milton FL and Mound MN) and production deployment (Altoona IA, Totowa NJ data center) and 5 edge sitesLead the planning, execution, and delivery of Mobile edge computing (MEC) field trial in multiple Verizon markets (Plant City FL and Detroit MI)Design and enhanced feature commitment and release process for the successful delivery of Femto Core project in Verizon maintenance engineering lab, and deployment commercial launchManage statement of work contracts for private network solution, public network slicing, security gateway, mobile edge computing phase 1 and phase 2 field trial, and Femto Core professional services and software (Total >$10million)Prepare quarterly executive dashboard and KPI/metrics/scorecard to Verizon Supplier Strategy GroupLead the RFP response for Verizon eFemto projectDevelop and streamline feature and release commitment process include commercial alignment phase, request, requirement, estimating, and delivery.Drive the progress for automation and orchestration projects to achieve rapid service enablement goals

Murray Hill

Direct and lead high performance cross functional team to achieve successful technology showcase to support Verizon 5G First press release (5G First Call, 5G Outdoor, 5G Mobility) in support for account and product strategiesEstablish program structure for 5G RAN (Radio Access Network) and Pilot program include alignment on scope, reporting interfaces, roles and responsibilities, risk mitigation, action plan. Develop the program budget include hardware plan for radio, test equipment, devices and simulators, personnel / resource, travel plan for new product introduction, first market application (FOA) and services team ($12 million)Program execution and communication plan with stakeholders

Murray Hill

Drive the development and test of Nokia Bell Labs Innovation.

Murray Hill, Nj

Executive reporting to senior leadership team.

Murray Hill, Nj

Lead large global cross functional team for project planning & development. Key liaison with product management, system engineering and architecture, mainstream guardian, load build team, software development, feature test team, system test team, and release management. Responsible for pre-approval of feature budgets. Manage software stream strategy: stream establishment, branching strategy, and mainstream decisions. Lead investigation and resolution of key release-level issues. Analyze data to provide recommendation for executive dashboard metrics. Establish and lead execution of release-over-release improvements to product quality and team efficiency.

Murray Hill, Nj

Manage CDMA Cell Current Engineering customer feature and change requests, releases and deliveries.

Lead wireless security software development to complete on time and within budget according to project management methodologies. .

Lead product trials and certification for Access and IP Multimedia Subsystem for service providersSystem integration and testing of Peer-to-Peer Video Sharing and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Report to executive, director, and C-level leadership team on project accomplishments and risksManage customer interface, personnel resources, schedules, priorities, action itemsPlanned and mobilized team efforts for product trainings for internal and external customers.Conducted customer product demonstration, plan, design, execute 100+ system test cases

Mba, Marketing, Gpa 4.0/4.0

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Rutgers Governing Association Finance Committee of Appropriation. Eta Kappa Nu Honors Society.