Experience

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  Millicom (Tigo)

  • Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia

  • CHAMPION- SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT

    • Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
    • Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia

    Support the spectrum strategy , auction/acquisition processes in Latin American including next countries: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Bolivia, Paraguay and Colombia.Implemented a model to determine the current spectrum needs in the operations, allowing to set the short term strategy in each of them. operations.I supervised the spectrum valuation and auction strategy by international consultants that led to the acquisition of spectrum in Guatemala (matched the amount of spectrum of the competitor) and Colombia (5G).

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  Tigo Colombia

  • Colombia
  • Telecommunications
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • TECHNICAL REGULATORY LEADER

    • Sep 2015 - Dec 2023

    Support to regulatory issues: network quality, broadband, net neutrality, infrastructure, interconnection, analysis of relevant markets, portability, electromagnetic radiation, others.• I provided technical support within the regulatory strategy that led to the reduction of the spectrum value by more than 40% (values set in hundreds of millions of dollars).• Coordinated internally and with other operators the proposal for the classification of electromagnetic measurements, which represented a savings of close to 30% of the annual cost of close to three billion pesos.• I carried out the initial studies to request the regulator to reduce portability times from three days to one day. This measure boosted the mobile market by increasing the number of porting between operators by 85%.

  • MANAGER OF TECHNICAL REGULATORY AFFAIRS

    • Mar 2012 - Sep 2015

    Coordination of regulatory issues in Millicom Latin America. Colombia support to general regulatory issues.I led the interdisciplinary group that implemented the compensation regulation that involved the coordination of the operations area, prepaid, mediation, user services, stores, among others.Áreas de especialización.Regulación telecomunicacionesEspectro radio eléctrico.Ventas mayoristas (MVNO).Diseño, planeación y optimización de redes móviles.Tecnologías móviles 5G NR, LTE, HSPA+, HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE, GSMPlaneación de redes LTE con infraestructura y espectro compartido (MORAN /MONC)

  • Whole Sale Business unit manager

    • Jul 2010 - Mar 2012

    Coordinate business projects wholesale and relationship with other operators. Implementation of wholesale business like MVNO, brand reseller and others. Management of relationship with other operators to develop joins projects like share networks.Business plan development and RFI process for the LTE network implementation. Good technical and commercial knowledge of LTE solutions in the market.Support regulation affairs area on spectrum issues, broadband connectivity projects and strategy at the regulatory level.• Partner lead (point of contact) for developing shared LTE network that included the deployment of access network and core (MONC), design and implementation of the shared transmission network and distribution capacity in the access network.• Consultancy for the operation of TIGO in Paraguay for making a strategic decision to develop LTE or HSPA + network in the 900MHz band• business and technical coordination for the deployment of the first MVNO developed in Colombia (brand UFF).

  • RF specialits

    • Jun 2003 - Oct 2010

    CResponsible of BSS-UMTS equipment acquisition process , including every step in the process: Perform different budget scenarios for the equipment acquisition based on marketing data, RFP document preparation and qualification, contract negotiation. Responsible of studies for new technologies implementation (like HSPA+,LTE, Wimax, UMA GAN among others). Coordinator of development Latin America groups (like 3G Optimization Task Force and 3G Task Force), responsible for carrying documents, guide lines and general contributions leading to Millicom’s operations to develop its business under the best market practices. Support regulatory affairs Support in all spectrum issues and regulatory affairs. • Member of Millicom evaluation team for world wide RFQ, working as radio expert in Luxembourg • Member of Millicom latin america evaluation team for 3G RFQ (good knowledge of Nokia Siemens, Huawei, and Ericsson UTRAN solutions) • Work as MIC Paraguay’s consultant for 3G RFQ document development. • Author of technical paper to fulfill ministry requirements to acquire additional 10MHz spectrum. ( band F of PCS spectrum was awarded to Colombia Movil)• Involved every BSS equipment acquisition process for the Colombia Móvil network expansion.(more than 2500BTS) with Siemens and Huawei equipment• Project management of Huawei swap out for Colombia North east region. Network acceptance test supervision. • Member of the team that made the nominal network plan nation wide• Worked in the network design and implementation with almost 600 BTS in less than nine months.

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  EPM medellin

  • EXTERNAL CONSULTANT FOR THE PCS PROJECT

    • May 2002 - Dec 2002

    Technical and Marketing advise in order to get the PCS licensePerform analysis and contribution in order to evaluate the business case feasibility. • Contributed to the network topology design and business schema that allow the negotiation and fusion between EPM and ETB• Member of the team that made documents, analysis and evaluation of the RFI (Request For Information) and RFP (request for proposal ) process, in order to select the best cost effective solution between CDMA and GSM technologies.

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  Nortel

  • CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS ENGINEER

    • Oct 2000 - Oct 2001

    Responsible technical support like structural part of the north Andean sales team.Responsible for design wireless solution; the process includes traffic, capacity and coverage analysis in order to get an optimal solution for the customer. Give presentations to the customer and another organizations to show the latest develops in the wireless technology.

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  Claro Colombia

  • RF SYSTEMS ENGINEER

    • Apr 1994 - Sep 2000

    Perform AMPS/TDMA design, analysis, planning and engineering configuration of the cellular communications infrastructure including RF design, frequency planning, Optimization and characterization of RF performance of cellular network