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Glen Ellyn, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Aurora, Illinois, United States

• Leading multiple engineering teams to update products representing 85% of a $400M business to new U.L. 217 standards in less than a year. Utilizing VA-VE to deliver a 35% reduction in cost while improving.
• Managed support of multiple launched IoT products across global HW, FW, Cloud, and App teams to ensure Airplay 2 and Alexa certified updates were developed, tested, and deployed efficiently.

Greater Chicago Area

• Front-line project manager/product owner creating a tool to automate invoice audits of $2B in annual spending.
• Hands-on management driving process improvement to reduce order cycle times and customer retention for AT&T.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed program and operations for team of 250 systems engineers in 5 countries, including OPEX/CapEx, headcount, location strategies, and project staffing/reporting.
• Optimized deployment of critical resources to next-generation Nokia products to meet rapidly closing 5G and IoT market windows by establishing project governance, quality policies, KPIs, dashboards, Kanban boards, and.
• Defined/Created/Drove the portfolio for moving Nokia’s Mobile Network products to the cloud by using network function virtualization(NFV), microservices based architectures, machine learning, and DevOps approach in.

Naperville, IL

• Oversaw all aspects of ALU's relationship with Apple, including contract negotiation, governance, and enforcement. Built and led global team to ensure ALU and Apple product interactions were continuously optimized.
• Expanded relationship to encompass 5 business units by identifying opportunities and proactively developing Apple relationship from occasional engagement for crisis management into full-scale daily collaboration.
• Delivered 10 different iOS products with zero show-stopper issues in field.
• Saved $19M in device and tool costs by leveraging various partnerships, such as Apple, Qualcomm, and Google.

Naperville, IL

• Directed end-to-end stakeholder management, feature commitment, software development, schedule development and tracking, status reporting, and customer deployment/field support.
• Ensured highly satisfied customers by delivering 20 software releases over 5+ years without missing a delivery date.
• Achieved TL9000 certification and produced best in class results against TL9000 metrics for software quality.

Naperville, IL

• 5ESS Software Update Manager Led team of 18 software engineers to deliver monthly software upgrades to 3.5K+ operational customer telecom offices.
• Reduced staff 50% while maintaining flawless delivery execution, resulting in $3M+/year ongoing OPEX savings.

Naperville, IL

Lucent Soft SwitchResponsible for estimates, budgets, commitments, cross-department coordination, project management and development of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the Lucent Softswitch. Managed daily activities of 22 engineers supporting new feature development and customer problem resolution, including goal setting, performance evaluations.

Naperville, IL

5ESS Test Tool DevelopmentResponsible for setting the business strategy, budgets and obtaining stakeholder approval for the transition of 22 major testing and development tools to China. Managed staff in maintaining existing customer service level agreements while simultaneously transitioning work to China.

Greater Chicago Area

Managed subcontracted design, testing, and software acceptance to implement “live” operation of computer-aided dispatch and mobile data terminal systems to provide critical information to response teams.

Greater Chicago Area

• Directed team of 43 engineers to develop and deliver multi-tiered client/server SCADA systems deployed at 100 customer facilities in 6 states.
• Created and grew business from 1 customer to 3 customers, resulting in $64M revenue stream.