Experience

Connected Development
• United States
• Wireless Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Technical Project Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Present

BridgeConcepts of NC, Inc.
• Project Manager

  • Jan 2014 - Sep 2014


ARP & Associates Inc.

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Support Consultant

  • Nov 2008 - Sep 2014

  • Generation and review of internal and customer-facing documentation including project status and technical manuals for military communication subsystems. • Review, coordinate and verify engineering services subcontracts with prime contractors. • Collect input from internal development archives to generate product description documents and user guides. • Review and revise technical briefings for external customers and project stakeholders. • Establish and maintain system requirement matrix for internal development and verification teams based on customer Statement of Work (SOW) and other product description documents. • Create and maintain project plans based on SOW and required contract objectives and deliverables. • Develop coordinate and execute satellite terminal test software licensing agreements used by DoD agencies and radio contractors. Show less



Sony Ericsson

• Spain
• Building Materials

• Verification Project Manager

  • Jul 2004 - Nov 2008

  • Project management responsibilities for all verification activities including Regulatory Approval, Software and Hardware Verification. Supported entire Development project team by providing scheduling, tracking and reporting of overall progress information for all verification activities, Confer with line management to align resources, resolve conflict and escalate sub-team issues.  Work with overall project management team to identify necessary support activities based on regular verification project responsibilities. Manage master verification schedule. Provide input and deliverables to design project on behalf of the entire verification team. Delegate responsibilities within existing verification roles. Work with Verification line managers to track project tasks.  Represented verification team in project meetings and held weekly sub-project meetings. Gathered and reported sub-project status in weekly report.  Management of all vendor related issues to ensure resolution prior to launch. Gather regular weekly input from issue owners and platform vendor. Maintain active list to support and drive tracking activities. Produce and track issue resolution metrics.  Compile development process milestone deliverables and recommendations and coordinate team consensus and with and line management approval.  Escalate all launch critical issues found during verification and track resolution plan Show less



Ericsson

• Sweden
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • Jul 2000 - Nov 2002

  • Customer liaison managing entire roll out from conception to delivery including all technical design phases, scheduling of product releases and acceptance activities.  Work with customers to facilitate definition of requirements for new projects.  Executed technical investigation of new features and documented impacts of enhancements on legacy product performance.  Resolved Quality Assurance issues found during all test phases. Coordinated verification efforts to guarantee synergy among various international test teams.  Primary contact to external contract vendors to ensure accurate delivery to customer. • Led cross-functional team throughout design, test and rollout of wireless data network products (CDPD). Maintained impeccable record of on-schedule, under-budget project completion while consistently exceeding customer expectations. Project management responsibilities include:  Resource allocation to ensure synergy and successful task completion amongst all project groups including product management, sales and marketing.  Planning and forecasting of product strategy and roadmap of deliverables, including estimates for new feature introduction for new technologies.  Tracking of project schedules and budgets. Preparation, presentation and reporting of benchmarks to project stakeholders and executive management.  Establish and maintain design and delivery processes. Identify, develop and implement process improvements.  Support technical teams by providing leadership, motivation and skill development opportunities.  Developed customer documentation for product development and training. Execution of on-site network management training succeeded in improving network capacity allowing international customer to increase system utilization and increase revenue. Show less



Alcatel

• Türkiye
• Telecommunications

• System Integration Engineer

  • Jul 1998 - Jul 2000

  • Managed development of software modifications required for US market trial. Identified necessary changes for RF Spectrum variations and PCM link conversion. • Led verification lab set-up for international product transfer and system test of GSM base station. Developed and executed system compliance tests including SS7 (MTP) compatibility. • Designed and implemented Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Mobile Switching Center (MSC) Operation and Maintenance management platform. Trained users on GUI development tool. • Developed software features for System 12 Mobile Switching Center. Designed and performed incremental testing of MSC software. Show less