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- Lead the sell-in and ranging of Lenovo’s cellular connected products to telco operators in North America: Verizon, AT&T, TMO, etc.- Partner with Lenovo’s global portfolio leads to ensure products – across different categories and verticals – meet telco RFP requirements.- Manage team responsible for obtaining the carrier technical acceptance of Lenovo’s cellular connected PCs.- Ideate and invent new business models for Lenovo’s cellular connected devices.

- Managed the technical relationship with Verizon Wireless and Sprint, on behalf of the consumer and enterprise Lenovo PC teams. Activities included: determining operator acceptance specifications, detecting and troubleshooting defects, obtaining technical acceptance, and negotiating operator requirements. - Partnered with engineers and managers, at sites globally, to construct common carrier certification schedules, prioritize defects, and review certification results.- Designed, created, and demoed wireless “proof of concepts.”- Aided Lenovo sales teams by presenting new wireless technologies, to customers, and helped troubleshoot and resolve customer defects.- Assisted with the implementation and launch of wireless promotional offerings. Activities included: securing partner funding, ensuring internal and external stakeholder acceptance/alignment, verifying promotional integrity, and supporting sales training sessions.

- Created and executed software verification tests on mobile devices. - Tracked and documented test case results and helped to solve related issues using a systematic, detail-oriented approach.- Collaborated with early adopter teams to create surveys and determine top end user needs and wants before market launch.- Analyzed consumer feedback to aide in defining focus areas for future sprints and releases.

- Oversee software and hardware verification activities for a specific phone project.- Engage with customers, most notably Verizon Wireless, to determine operator acceptance specifications, detect and troubleshoot defects, provide test results needed to gain technical acceptance, and negotiate operator requirements. - Work with software and hardware project managers and engineers to ensure issues are prioritized and resolved in a timely manner.- Present and report verification status to management, at various levels, in the development organization.- Partner with leads and managers, at sites around the world, to construct a common software and hardware verification schedule.- Create and maintain budgets, associated with verification costs, throughout the lifecycle of a project.

- Led product software verification activities for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.- Interfaced directly with software and key project managers to ensure issues were addressed and products were sent to customers above industry standards.- Collaborated with leads and managers globally to create software verification schedules and test plans.- Determined resource and equipment needs, used in software verification activities, to align with project budgets.

- Implemented and coordinated new processes within the organization to improve employee efficiency and motivation.- Performed software verification tests on mobile devices, tracked and documented results, and helped to solve related issues using a systematic, detail-oriented approach.- Created and reviewed reports used to gain operator acceptance.- Wrote scripts used to analyze issues found in defect management systems.- Managed the development of tools used to exchange defects between Sony Ericsson and Sony Ericsson’s partners: most notably, HTC and Microsoft.