SUMMARY:

• Telecommunication Technology Professional with over 15 years of experience working with the OEMs and internal teams in diverse technologies, roles, and responsibilities to include strategy planning, project management, production deployment planning, capacity planning, operations support, and lead test engineer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Telecom Protocol: LTE, IPX, Diameter, VOIP, TCP/IP, SIP, CDMA, IS41, SS7 (MTP, SCCP, TCAP, CNAP, LNP, ISUP, Circuit switching, ICD, SIGTRAN, SCTP, M3UA)

Telecom Switches/Servers: F5 (Viprion C4400/C4800), ASR5500, National Platforms (MME, S/PGW, HSS, SPS, PCRF, Oracle DSR/DRA, IBM Blade Center, HP C7000, HLR, and VMS), Mini Macros

Programming Languages: Perl, Bash, Korn Shell, C, HTML, ASP, IBM AS/370 BAL, JCL, COBOL

DB and OS: ORACLE, MySQL, SQL Server, LINUX, Solaris, HPUX, SCO, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 20XX, DOS, OS/2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Lead Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer to provide support of new product trials and field integration testing (FIT).
• Provides training to test engineers, creates MOPs and providing tier 3 support to the team.
• Working with field engineers to commission, test, and integrate the RAN elements.
• Collaborating with the OEMs and field engineers to troubleshoot issue during commission.
• Documenting lesson learned and worked with Network Development teams and OEMs to in corporate and to improve commissioning and integration process.

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Network Planning Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with the OEMs and internal teams to plan the deployment of the national platforms.
• Supporting the planning of national platforms in CDMA and LTE networks.
• Planned the deployment of national platforms to include acquiring system and connectivity requirements for FIT and production deployment.
• Providing technical support to help with network connectivity and platform issues prior to NRD.

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Network Strategy Planning

Responsibilities:

• Tasked with the strategy and long term capacity planning of SPS, HLR, F5, Media/Web Optimization, and SDC to include network modeling using the forecast and production data.
• Teamed with Network Engineering (NE) and Network Development (ND) to refine the national platforms capacity assumptions, to update network diagrams, to provide technical and best practice recommendations for production deployment.
• Provided five years equipment and budget plan for the national platforms based on current capacity and forecast to present to leadership.
• Confidential ended vendor's quarterly roadmap and strategy conferences to stay current with technology trend.

Network Planning

• Leading Planning Engineer of the national platform, LTE EPC and DSR/DRA to provide deployment strategy and schedule.
• Worked with Confidential PMO to identify and to define system requirements and SLAs to plan for the deployment of the NV Projects and national platform.
• Collaborated with ND Teams to refine network design based on production discovery of issues.
• Reviewed system requirements, design, and verify funding prior to assigning to planners.

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

National Platforms Planning Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led a group of planners as a technical and deployment SME to interface with customers.
• Appointed as a primary point of contact for the implementation of the national platforms.
• Proposed and presented deployment solutions to the customer to meet the timeline.
• Gathered system requirements, design document, and verify funding prior to assigning to planner/s.
• Evaluated work scope and worked with customers, OEMs, and Confidential PMO to identify and define system requirements, and SLAs for the planning of the NV Projects and national platforms.
• Reported deployment status and feedback to customers to prepare for FIT.

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Network System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Teamed with Network Development, Planning, SS7 Translations, and OEMs to review platform and application requirements to plan for upgrade and subscribers migration.
• Project managed, coordinated, and tested the installation of HLR (900 MHz eCS, SDHLR, CMT, eSM), messaging platforms (ISMSC MO/MT), Qchat (USDS and eSM), and VMS.
• Worked remotely with the field’s technicians to troubleshoot and to provide technical guidance to replace defective components and to resolve issues with network connectivity and platform.
• Collaborated with various internal teams and vendors to resolve issues related to the Services Management Systems (SMS) and Wireless Service Control Point (WSCP) such as X25 mate - update links between WSCP pairs, SS7 links, HLR and SMS features.
• Supported team members and vendor's Customer Technical Support Engineers to troubleshoot network, platform, and application issues to restore services with minimal impact to customers.
• Provided system support and administrator of the HLR and SMS (eSM) platforms running on Solaris and HPUX Operating systems to include system tuning and Oracle database sizing and optimization.

Confidential, Fairfield, Iowa/Denver, CO

Switching Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assigned as a system administrator, network engineer and team lead of five technicians to support for the international gateway switches to maintain, configure, and test SS7/C7 connections
• Worked with OEM to convert the configuration from Excel LNX2000 to the Siemens EWSD switch to prepare for the switch migration
• Configured to utilize the Inet Spectra/MGTS to generate traffic to test and troubleshoot SS7/C7
• Worked with International Carriers such as AT&T, Indosat, Confidential, Primius, etc. to execute interoperability test plan and trouble shoot to resolve SS7 signaling and switching issues, etc.