Experience

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  Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

  • Priority Communications Services

    • May 2023 - Present

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  Independent

  • Kansas City, Missouri Area

  • Technology Consultant

    • Jul 2019 - Jun 2023
    • Kansas City, Missouri Area

    Independent Technology, IPR, and Regulatory Consultant assisting clients with financial technology investment challenges, patents, legal technology expertise, and regulatory technology concerns.25+ years of experienced spanning installation, operations, planning / design, and technology evolution in Wireless & Wire-line telecommunications, IOT / AI, NFV /Telecom cloud, information, Legal / Regulatory representation and consulting, and technology financial decision analysis and modeling.

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  CenturyLink

  • United States
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Chief Architect NFV, Eco-system Strategy & Development

    • Jul 2009 - Jun 2023

    Align industry direction in SDO's with NFV requiremts, and glue together the existing and new requirements into the technology conceptual models that result in blueprints for implementations across the industryIndustry NFV / Cloud Activities -Established Starfish Open Source to align (Telecom IaaS patterns with Redfish/TOSCA, in order to enable Broadband forum resources to become Telcom IaaS order able resources on API's)Established Join MEF / ATIS OBF work projectFounded Starfish Open Broadband Project w/Redfish Project (User Managed Objects Portal framework) Founding member in OPNFVCenturyLink Primary Member - ETSI NFV, OPNFV, Starfish project, ...

  • Complex Network Evolution Modeling Subject Matter Expert

    • 2001 - Jun 2023

    Part of my Graduate work at KU was on Decision Support modeling using Montecarlo simulations generally classified as "real-options" modeling.In my telecom roles I have used this many times to consult the senior lead teams on technology evolution change outs, by creating "evolution" models of the network, with forecasted customer, revenue, and network cost based on this call flow path using expandable variance types for each of those elements. The first public work was released via the University of Kansas that is mentioned in the link below. this type of financial network evolution cost analysis has since spread into multiple disciplines in multiple industries. If you google "real options bugenhagen" you can locate multiple references to that early work. It's a somewhat un-common modeling skill due to the amount of experience required with the technologies involved, however the approach is portable and can be learned, and is applied by many finacial decision support teams today.In the link below it references the Network Model I made that Nortel added some costing too, and John Charnes from KU developed the portable model from that has propogated to date. See the first 2 pages of the PDF.Link - http://www.vmi.edu/assets/0/2053/2367/2623/2647/D1102E74-1EA6-46F8-8703-DD87714B59A4.pdf

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  Sprint

  • Network Design arch III

    • 1997 - 2005

    Lead internal evolution consultant responsible for evolution roadmap. Technology and Business Innovation analysis, impact, and roadmap planning. External Consulting for industry evolution of System development, Business, Op's, and Tech requirements.

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  @Link

  • Voip design lead

    • 1999 - 2001