Senior Wireless Technology Leader

Wireless Industry Standards | Network Infrastructure Management | Vendor Management | Strategic Partnerships

Telecommunications Industry leader who can turn a vision into reality, transforming concepts into results.  Respected mentor and charismatic leader, with proven ability to motivate and develop high performance teams A seasoned leader with extensive experience and success in devising, executing strategies, and leading efforts that have produced multi-million dollar results, valuable business partnerships, and solid growth avenues for telecom products and services in the Wireless Technology arena. 

ü      Technology Strategy ü      Core Network Architecture ü      Business Strategy

ü      Budget Management ü      Mentorship ü      Network Deployment

ü      Virtualization ü      Resource Management ü      Vendor Management

 

 

Sprint: Senior Manager in Network Development & Engineering          2004 – Present

Successful lead complex projects throughout the development life cycle (ideation, analysis, design, build, test, and rollout). Responsible for developing and maintaining efficient lab certification processes of new software loads and software patches.  Manage network infrastructure capacity post deployment to support traffic growth and avoid any network failure. Consistently demonstrate outstanding leadership in managing team’s limited resources while keeping the team motivated to meet aggressive timelines within allocated budget. Lead contract negotiations, requests for proposal (RFPs), and vendor selections.

·  Led the design, deployment, integration, and evolution of a complex multi-vendor VOIP Core environment.  The VOIP core included the subscriber database (IMS-HSS), call control function (CSCF), Media Resource Function (MRF), telephone application server to provide call features (TAS), and Session Boarder Controller (SBC)

·  Defined Sprint’s core network architecture to ensure network readiness for deploying Rich Communication Services (RCS) and Voice over LTE (VoLTE).

·  Successfully managed all project progress updates and escalations with executive management as well communication across the different organizations (IT, Marketing, Product, and Device teams)

·  Developed technology planning and roadmap for the VoIP Core, built business cases to support roadmap, and obtain consensus/funding from executive management. 

·  Successfully managed VOIP Core infrastructure capacity planning and certification activities for software and hardware in the certification lab and out in the field

·  Led the design, integration, and launch of several major VOIP services over CDMA, Wi-Fi, IP-PBX, and LTE (Google Voice integration, Small Cell, VoWiFi, Mobile convergence with IP-PBX, etc.)

·  Led the design and deployment of virtualized cloud environment to host multiple applications (Cisco UCS with VMWare hypervisor and HP KVM).

·  Effective budget forecasting, ensuring actual spending is within allowable variance. 

·  Led number of large RFPs and was able to achieve an average of 50% reduction to the unit cost and the total cost of ownership (TCO)

Sprint: Senior Manager in Research and Development              2001 – 2004

Positioned Sprint as a leader in the wireless standards by capturing the company’s requirements and implementing them into the wireless standard organizations by negotiating and collaborating with other wireless entities.  Developed and maintained a technology roadmap across a number of wireless standard bodies for new technologies and services and that resulted in tactical plan to implement these strategies.

·  Authored numerous presentations and technical contributions to present Sprint’s business and technical requirements to standards

·  Held several leadership positions in various industry standards bodies including:

o  Chairman of Presence and Availability in OMA

o  Vice Chairman for Push-to-talk in OMA

o  Board-Of-Directors member in the Parlay Group

o  Chairman of multiple ad-hoc groups in 3GPP2

 

Sprint: IT Project Manager/ Developer1999 – 2001

Collaborated closely with senior leadership to create and implement an overall strategy of the migration of 2G legacy services to next generation 3G architecture throughout all phases (ideation, analysis, design, build, test, and rollout).  This positioned Sprint to be the first Mobile Network Operator to offer a high speed network, applications, and devices in the United States.

·  Designed and developed the first in-house wireless application using JAVA and C++. 

·  Produced several innovative contributions and presentations to standards organizations.

IT Project Manager/ Developer (Multiple Companies) 1992 - 1999

·  Successfully led project timeline, budget, and deliverable IT project throughout all project phases (ideation, analysis, design, build, test, and rollout).

·  Successfully developed in-house and commercial software packages using C++, Java, AutoCAD, and AutoLISP.

·  University of Phoenix, M.S. Computer Information Systems - Graduated with honors

·  University of Kansas, M.S. Engineering - Graduated with honors

·  Zagazig University, B.Sc. Architectural Engineering

 

·                       Licensed Professional Engineer ·                       Member of National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)

·                       3GPP2 ·                       Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) ·                       The Parlay Group

·                       Mobile Payment Forum ·                       Liberty Alliance

Patents: ·                       Configuration of VOIP Devices (Guest vs. Primary users) ·                       Mobile Registration via Registration Proxy ·                       Delivery of Short Message System (SMS) via SIP

Publications: ·                       The Evolution of Push-to Talk Over Cellular ·                       MMS Work Transfer