ALAN A. SEYEDI 214-274-4100 ~ seyedi1331@yahoo.com

              1700 Texas Hills Court ~ Allen, TX 75013

 

ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL

 

Objectives: Implementation / Project / Program Management

 

To excel in a supervisory and management positions with accountability for company business and operational objectives in the area of information technology, Telecom, Energy, Health, Retails, or other challenging opportunity.  With more than 25 years of telecommunication and software engineering experiences in Service provider and vendor/supplier for Telecom and IT companies, I have the unique analytic perspective of communicating and understanding the needs of the customer and their desired goals. I am also experienced in global network management strategy for O&M, network support, systems administration and long-term competence development of teams.  I possess effective leadership skills, excellent oral, written communication and team building skills. Due to my extensive experience with multi-vendors, multi-service providers, and exposure to different caliber of customers, I am able to understand and decipher the needs of the customer and staff alike.

A tenacious problem solver with demonstrated capability to initiate cost reductions, increase efficiencies, and improve teamwork, communications and information flow.

Solutions-oriented professional with notable success identifying, evaluating and developing wireless networks, service quotes, and requests for proposals (RFPs).

An extensive background in LTE/UMTS/WCDMA/GSM Wireless Networks and Software Engineering.

 

NOTABLE SKILLS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·   Developed strategies to effectively build, manage, deploy and operate large-scale projects in AT&T East and West Regions.

·   Designed and Developed the Web and SQL based Quality Tracking system (Q-Track) for Implamaentaion, Scripting, and Integration teams. The application was used by Ericsson Implamenation managers in all regions.

·   Ensured integrity and quality of data by providing system user training and coordinating testing of data migration, new applications, and changes to existing applications to work efficiently.

·   Promoted efficient communication of Information Resources issues pertaining to management staff by compiling comprehensive policies and operation procedures.

·   Managed teams of 7 to 15 cross functional activities and interfaced with upper management team to develop and initiate operational plans for new and existing business computer applications and user specifications.

·   Proposed and cultivated customer network design documents and Data Migration / Configuration Engineering.

·   Developed continuous improvement initiatives and worked closely with other process improvement teams.

·   Recognized with award for managing and automating software configuration, integration and release of the Core and Access software and development of additional applications.

·   Authored network engineering qualitative/quantitative documentation for presentation of collaborating functional teams; developed system engineering documents for new network elements and expansions.

·   Defined, proposed and delivered Ericsson solutions by collaborating with cross functional teams.

·   Maximized revenue opportunities through management of software releases using Software Vault and developed wireless Software Integration and Release (SIR) web pages.

·   Developed Budget and Annual Operating Plans (AOP), KPI’s and assimilated various technologies for strategic planning and to create products with new features and functions related to managing scientific, business software applications and automation tools, telecommunication in various operating systems and programming languages, tools, and applications.

·   Provide infrastructure support for server maintenance activities such as new computers, newworks, Servers, disk space management, backups and software applications.

·   Attended Manager’s meetings as required and reported to Executive Management of Software Integration and Release, Test, and Verification teams.

·   Pursuing PMP Certifications (Taking online classes).

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Sprint/LCC, Tampa FL (CONTRACTOR)10/2014 – Present

Project Manager

·   Managed the Sprint LTE/CDMA Multi-band Optimization project in Tampa market.

·   Completed project phases within allotted timeline and budget.

·   Defined project scope and objectives, coordinated activities of a project team, and identify resources.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Continued)

 

·   Developed detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, budget plan, resource plans, and status reports.

·   Facilitated and conducted project meetings and responsible for project tracking and analysis.

·   Provided technical and analytical guidance to project team. Recommend and take actions to direct the analysis and solutions of problems.

·   Served as the central point of contact for the client, managing all channels of communication, overseeing integration work, to ensure that all client expectations as defined by the project scope are met or exceeded.

·   Executed and maintained project management processes in the areas of project schedule, quality management, communications management, risk/issue management, and change management.

·   Develop and maintained project, schedules, and calendars with the input and assistance of technical leads and tracked project changes, actuals/forecast vs plans producing updated schedules.

·   Built strong communication channels with internal stakeholders in various organizations.

·   Tracked tasks assigned to the project team and prepare regular status reports to the executive team.

·   Ensure adherences to quality standards and reviews project deliverables.

·   Manage team of 5 RF engineers; Solution Architect, and 2 drive tester teams.

·   Ensure smooth communication within the project team and other cross-functional teams.

 

ERICSSON INC., Irvine, CA and Carolina Markets (CONTRACTOR)01/2013 – 08/2014

Implementation Manager II

·   Led equipment deployment with all disciplines that interacted with AT&T Network and managed market level RBS cabinet launches. Managing Change Orders.

·   Generated ATND, STND, and RND using knowledge of RFDS by organizing CIQ info from customer inputs for data translation team.

·   Submitted requests for integration scripts and coordinated with tactical team to manage MOP’s, Go-No-Go calls with ASPs/SPs for Field Engineering services.

·   Manage change orders, work with 3rd party vendors, and escalate the high risks and issues to management.

·   Identified and evaluated needs required to complete project and transferred to preceding team by organizing and scheduling field engineering resources, creating customer service bulletin tickets for site integration with network center and managing requests and data translation script changes.

·   Facilitated training for customer personnel; advised on upgrades and expansion strategies; managed network performance through capacity planning, network modeling and traffic analysis and forecasting.

 

AT&T, Farmers Branch, Texas (CONTRACTOR)09/2013 – 01/2014

Technical Project Manager

·   Conducted end to end project management of large or multiple large projects including Deployment of Ericsson UMTS/LTE 1^st, 2^nd,and 3^rd carrier projects.

·   Worked as a team member or runs individual projects and responsible for completing projects within allotted timeline and budget.

·   Oversaw the internal network deployment team, as well as general contractors (ASPs).

·   Defines project scope and objectives, coordinated activities of a project team, and identified resources.

·   Developed detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, budget plan, resource plans, and status reports.

·   Facilitated and conducted project meetings and responsible for project tracking and analysis.

·   Ensured adherences to quality standards and reviews project deliverables.

·   Provided technical and analytical guidance to project team. Recommended and took actions to direct the analysis and solutions of problems.

·   Served as the central point of contact for the client, managing all channels of communication, overseeing integration work, to ensure that all client expectations as defined by the project scope are met or exceeded.

·   Executed and maintained project management processes in the areas of project schedule, quality management, communications management, risk/issue management, and change management.

·   Developed and maintained project, schedules, and calendars with the input and assistance of technical lead and tracked project changes, actuals/forecast vs plan producing updated schedules.

·   Built strong communication channels with internal stakeholders in various departments.

·   Tracked tasks assigned to the project team and prepare regular status reports to the executive team.

·   Ensured that the quality and integrity of the data being collected and migrated are up to the AT&T Standards.

·   Ensure smooth communication within the project team and other cross-functional teams

 

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Continued)

 

ERICSSON INC., Plano, TX (CONTRACTOR)06/2010 – 11/2012 

Senior Lead Engineer

·   Designed and Developed the Web based Quality Tracking system (Q-Track) for Implamaentaion, Scripting, and Integration teams. The application was used by Ericsson Implamenation managers in all regions.

Defined and delivered solutions by leading teams in performance of network planning, ATND, performance audits and scripts for RAN Transport change implementation in UMTS and LTE access network routers.

·   Used quality guidelines and tools to develop AMOS and XML Scripts; performed desk checks and released Scripts to implementation.

·   Solved complex issues by applying analysis tools and investigated network and system performance.

·   Identified issues prior implementation or network disturbance by troubleshooting scripts and transport network designs.

·   Led the design and development of the Web/SQL based Q-Track application.

·   Ensured scripts were loaded successfully by working with night Implementation and NIC teams; performed audits and made reports accordingly.

 

T-MOBILE, Chicago, IL (CONTRACTOR)08/2008 – 04/2009

Traffic/Transport Engineer Support, Work Order/Project Coordinator

·   Created and prioritized work orders; held conference calls to organize execution and timely completion.

·   Managed traffic, transport, SDDI, BSC/RNC, Operations, provisioning, transport, engineering and management team work order activity.

·   Ensured accuracy by designing trackers using HOMER, Excel, Access, and SQL and generate weekly and Monthly reports; assisted with creation and support of the FRC Routes Alert System.

·   Classified issues and discrepancies within XPM, REWSS, and Granite 6.3; designed paperwork to resolve the issues and discrepancies.

·   Monitoring the network performance and KPI’s.

 

T-Mobile, West Region via Ericsson (CONTRACTOR)11/2007 – 04/2008

NSS/BSS Engineer

·   Engineered network elements; built and wire mapped network elements in Granite/Xprecom; configured Nortel BSC/TCU/PCUSNs, Alcatel Media Gateway/Call Servers, RSP; authored network engineering documentation (EDPs) for the implementation and functional teams.

 

T-Mobile, South Region, Frisco, TX (CONTRACTOR)06/2005 – 11/2006

NSS/Traffic/Software Engineer

·   Planned network design documents and updated network traffic diagrams for central region markets.

·   Analyzed congestion reports to accurately design traffic plans and Switch trunk/TCIC templates and developed work orders for new trunk groups.

·   Performed traffic engineering and studies and issued work orders for market and national operations teams pertaining to configuration of traffic patterns, new node implementation, trunk migration,

 

 

PRIOR EXPERIENCE         10/1994 – 05/2005

 

Nortel Networks, Richardson, TX

Senior Software Engineer , Senior Technical Sale/Service Engineer, Senior Wireless Network Engineer

·   As a senior and lead software engineer, I was in Charge of Planning, Design, development, Testing, and Verification of Telecom related tools and applications and ensuring the application meet the QA standards. Developed resource and budget estimate. Involved in all ascpects of SDLC.                           

 

Lone Star Gas Company, Dallas, TX

Software Engineer

·  As a software engineer, I was involved in Planning, Design, development, and testing of business and scientific applications. Involved in all ascpects of SDLC.

 

ISOCOM Corporation, Addison, TX

Software Engineer

·    Designed, developed, and tested system level applications.

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EDUCATION

 

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, Denton, TX – Dec 1987MS, Computer Science

Texas Women University, Denton Texas – Aug 2011MS, Mathematics (In progress)

Teacher’s Training University, Tehran, IranB.S., Math with minor in Physics

 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

Operating System:	UNIX (HP and Sun Solaris), Win NT, XP, 2010, MS-DOS.
Languages/Tools:	C, C++, C#, Shell, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Expect, Visual Basic, Clear Case, CVS, PVCS, HTML, XML, CGI, Java-Scripts, and SQL.
Additional Applications:	AMOS, MOSHELL, OSS/NMS, Actix, Business Objects, Citrix, FTP, Granite, HOMER. Hyper Terminal, Putty, Procom, MapInfo, Metrica, MS Office applications (Word, Power point, Excel, Access, and Project), Scripting tools/marcos, ProComm, REWSS, Visio, and XPM.

 

 

Training:

 

-          Pursuing PMP Certification (Taking online classes and CBT’s)

-          EAMS, IM tracker, Implementation Management, Site Handler, - Ericsson

-          QA and Continuous Process Improvement. – Nortel

-          Project Planning/Management, Time Management, Risk Management, Conflict Resolution. Decision Making - Nortel

-          Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodologies - Nortel

-          Completed Granite 6.3 System Design, Transport Design, and VILT Assessment training. - Nortel

-          Spatial Atrium Softswitch, and RSP 7670, (Call Server (MSS), Media Gateway (MGW)). - Alcatel

-          Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) and LERG process and procedures – T-Mobile

-          Software Configuration Management under different Library and Revision Control Systems. - Intersolve/Nortel

-          C++, VBA, SQL, Clear Case, and Business Objects - Nortel

-          UMTS/LTE/GSM/CDMA/WCDMA Technologies, BTS/RBS, BSC/EBSC, RNC, VOIP, IS-2000, RSP, MSN, 3G Technology, Routers, Actix Analyzer, UMTS, ATM & IP Networks, GMO Tools, MOSHELL, and OSS/SMS/PPP/ISDN/SS7 overviews - Ericsson/Nortel/Alcatel/T-Mobile

-          Familiar with the Softwars as a Solution (SaaS) methodology, process, and procedures.

-          Pursuing Cloud Technology Certification via online and CBT.

-          LTE Functionality