SUMMARY

• 10 years of Project/Program experience in matrix organizations of Wireless Mobile and Infrastructure industry
• 6+ Years of experience in validation and testing
• Years of experience in all aspects of SDLC
• 21 years of experience in all aspects of product development in the wireless telecom industry.
• Experienced with AMDOCS and CRM
• PMI Certification in Progress
• Experienced with PM Tools/Methodology: AGILE,SCRUM, MS PROJECT, PRIMEVERA
• Projects include IT, Capital Reporting and Telecom
• Experienced with LTE,HSDPA, UMTS, CDMA 1XRTT/EVDO, EVDV, TDMA
• Developed CDMA Cellular system for Verizon,Sprint,U.S.Cellular using C,C++ in UNIX environment
• Significant experience in system integration of SW & HW
• Used to present project status to president of business unit on a weekly basis
• Extensive interface with very demanding customers (KDDI of Japan)
• Significant experience in managing outsourced software projects.
• Expert in Relationship Management
• Champion and recipient of quality awards for improving processes
• Outstanding Leader (Quoted in Business Week, Text Books, etc on Leadership Development)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Startup IT company to create tools for small and medium size companies
• Using state of the art PM tools like AGILE & SCRUM to manage projects.
• Most of our business is helping troubled projects
• Training for the project managers in our client’s business
• Projects included testing of AMDOCs, Blling and CRM

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Validation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of ~60 engineers in the U.S., France and China
• Responsible for interfacing with customers on quality issues.
• Automated 80 % of Test Cases, thereby freeing up resources to do scenario based testing (Each Tester would assume a user profile)

Confidential

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created new revenue stream by defining and deploying managed services to global telecom operators. This revenue stream is critical to meeting the sector’s revenue targets in a negative growth telecom infrastructure market.
• Negotiated Managed Services Contract with Huawei
• Created a new service offering for Automated CDMA Optimization. This service wasan industry first and was very favorably received at CTIA 2003. Responsible for Sales and Marketing of this service.
• Created services for Push to Talk over Cellular and Deployment

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• f an existing System Integration & Test group of 18 people responsible for E2E and Confidential /Performance testing of WAP, Voice Recognition and Multi Media Services (MMS).
• Raised software Maturity Level from SEI level 1 to 2 (rest of the organization is at level 1).
• Developed and implemented processes and quality gates reducing escaped defects to customer by 200 %.
• Lead evaluation and selection of automation tools (WinRunner and LoadRunner) achieving a 4X increase in automated tests and taking on additional tasks without increase in headcount.
• Created an environment to improve quality within the department. Created a new testing philosophy allowing testers to increase their creativity . All of this led to a reduction of attrition from 50% to 5%.
• These services were crucial in winning trial contracts in the anticipation of conversion to commercial contracts worth several million dollars.
• Assumed additional territories in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe anticipating substantial business, while maintaining work flow for North and Latin America.

Program Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Selected by senior management in October of 98 to jump - start a stagnated Y2K program. With 2 project managers, coordinated a virtual team spread over 123 countries and obtained buy-in from over 50 operators worldwide for the deployment plan. As a result of the excellent teamwork, the Y2K deployment was executed flawlessly.

Eng. Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered a $3 billion opportunity to KDDI and IDO on time with superior quality. Business was crucial to meeting the high rate of subscriber growth in Japan.
• The SEC requires that stringent requirements be met for revenue realization when a new technology is deployed. Met milestone on time as determined by KPMG auditors generating $450 million in revenue.
• Coordinated and negotiated with a cross-functional team of approximately 500 hardware and software engineers spread across the USA, India and Japan.

Section Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Introduced and institutionalized processes to reduce cycle time by 3X for development of very complex SW and hardware systems across locations. Realized $700 million in revenue.
• Received 96 CIG Quality Award for Excellence for PDC Half Rate product.
• This program was referred to in the article “In Praise of Middle Managers,” Harvard Business Review, Sept 2001.

Section Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The lab helped to tune the system’s performance to exceed the contractual obligations and Motorola was able to collect the hold back of $300 million (20 % of contract).
• Program Managed X-functional team of engineers and managers for introduction of TDMA and CDMA.
• Wrote Software that is at the heart of CDMA systems like Verizon, Sprint and US Cellular Using C, C++ in a UNIX environment
• Distinguished Member of Technical Staff is 1 % of the technical population.