January 4, 2015
	CHARLES UFONGENE
	Ph. 860-810-7167
	E-mail: charlesufongene@sbcglobal.net

 

Dear Sir/Madam;

Employment Application

I am interested in the position advertised by your Company. I am a Finance and Technology Management professional with a wealth of experience in Management, Strategic Planning, Analytics, FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis), Financial Modeling, Business Development, Product Management, Project Management, Technology Strategy, Marketing and Technical Sales with major Telecommunications, Aerospace and Internet Information Provider companies including, FRANCE TELECOM in Paris, BOSCH TELECOM in Germany, LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, UNITED TECHNOLOGIES and GOOGLE in the United States.

·               I held various positions at these companies including: Offer Manager, 3G UMTS Wireless and Manager, Product Realization Strategy at Lucent, Project Manager/Analyst at United Technologies, Research Engineer in Telecom Network Economics at France Telecom, Product Manager at Bosch Telecom and Finance Manager in FP&A at Google.

I hold a Master’s degree in Engineering & Management of the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT). This so-called Technical MBA, organized under the MIT System Design and Management (SDM) Fellows program is an interdisciplinary program jointly offered by the MIT Sloan School of Management and the School of Engineering, and designed specifically to go beyond the traditional MBA, enabling technical professionals to acquire Management skills to tackle the complexities of competing in global markets while leading their organizations to success by applying state-of-the-art skills in Systems Thinking and Innovation. I also hold a Graduate Certificate in Systems Engineering from MIT and a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondis (Master’s degree) in Physics of the UNIVERSITE LOUIS PASTEUR, STRASBOURG, FRANCE.

 

·               During the course of my career I have developed quantitative models for the Financial Analysis of several Business Case scenarios:

 

o     At FRANCE TELECOM, as a Research Engineer in Telecommunications Network Economics, I developed Financial Models for the purposes of Strategic planning, Technology Analysis, TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), & ROI Analysis including the estimation of CAPEX and OPEX and Cost Optimization of Broadband Network Architectures to enable the Company understand the Economics of the deployment of fiber optics in their Access Network and to develop a strategic plan to introduce fiber optics into their Access Network to deliver high-speed broadband services to their customers - cost-effectively.

o     At Lucent and Bosch Telecom, I developed Models for P&L forecast and strategic planning to help top Management at those companies assess the profitability of its products, and therefore to adopt the best strategies for New Product Development; & Marketing.

o     I developed Models used to forecast the demand growth of wireless Base Station infrastructure and fiber optic cables based on network system architecture, marketing, traffic morphologies, demographic and bandwidth /capacity requirement.

 

·               At Google, as Finance Manager in FP&A:

o        I developed models for the cost analysis of the Company’s fiber optics network, enabling the forecast of network capacity growth trends and associated costs. I also developed quantitative and qualitative analysis of the business plan for the Company’s network and identified and analyzed Risk factors in the business plan assumptions and developed risk mitigation plans. I worked with PMO (Project Management Office) to quantify the cost of several projects to build, upgrade and/or add capacity to GTR (Google Transport Records) – Fiber optics links between two points, cities, etc. and analyzed the cost of leasing versus owning capacity and networks.

o        I developed a Cost-Compression Analysis to enable Company take advantage of falling electronics cost over time and consequently to reduce network cost.

o        I developed analysis for network failures to enable Company understand network failure patterns and quantify the cost of such failures as well as to develop strategies to mitigate the cost impact of such failures.

 

My MIT education has indeed prepared me for even greater challenges: In addition to the above transferable skills, I would bring the MIT perspective on cutting-edge techniques and approaches to problem-solving & Innovation in diverse areas:

 

· Leadership & Lean Enterprise Concepts – to help you increase Profitability via improved Efficiency by adopting the best practices for People Management, Quality, Productivity, & Process Improvement in both hierarchically and matrix structured organizations

· Disruptive Technologies – to help you stay ahead of the competition by identifying emerging technologies that could have significant impact or disruptive effect on your industry or business model, enabling you to react appropriately by adopting correct Technology Strategies

· Operations Strategy - to help you increase Profitability via Operational Excellence by making informed decisions in Product development and production strategies with respect to Make versus Buy, Innovation versus Vertical Integration / Merger & Acquisition & Supplier Management

· Risk Management - to enable Top Management gain better Insights into Business Models/Plans and mitigate risks via Quantitative analysis

· Perspective of my work at MIT on Make versus Buy, Innovation versus Merger & Acquisition (Vertical Integration), Joint Ventures (JVs), Supply Chain and Supplier Management.

 

I hope to apply these skills as well as my Quantitative and Analytical skills in the position you advertised. Attached for your consideration, please find my chronological Resume. I look forward to an opportunity of an interview with you.

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

 

Charles Ufongene

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHARLES UFONGENE

Ph. 860-810-7167

E-mail: charlesufongene@sbcglobal.net

 

MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP:-, Business Development, Strategic planning, Financial Modeling & Analysis, Financial & Managerial Accounting, Vertical Integration/M & A/ JV Processes, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial (cash flow) model development (NPV, IRR, CAPEX, OPEX, Life Cycle costs, P&L Analysis, Finance Ratio Analysis), Disruptive Technologies, Technology & Operations Strategies, Supply Chain & Product Management, System Architecting & Engineering, Risk Analysis, Quality & Process Improvement

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

Project Management Approaches/Techniques: Earned value management (EVM) - Budget at completion (BAC); Estimate at completion (EAC); Cost Performance Index (CPI); Cost variance (CV); Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP); Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (BCWP)

Project modeling techniques: Critical Path Method (CPM); Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT); Project management triangle (Cost, Scope & Schedule); work breakdown structure (WBS); Project Planning; Project Monitoring and Control.

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project Management & Primavera

 

SYSTEM DESIGN: System Architecture, Functional & Requirements Analysis, LEAN Enterprise.

 

Telecommunications:- Networks: Design, Capacity, Traffic, Performance and Cost Modeling of 2G Wireless 3G Wireless – UMTS; Optical Networks: Passive Optical Networks (PON) FTTC/FTTH, DWDM/CWDM/SONET/SONET/SDH/PDH

 

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Excel VBA, C#

 

·               Other Languages – French – Fluent written & Spoken ; German – Basic

 

EDUCATION

 

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA: (2007 – 2008)

Sloan School of Management and School of Engineering

Masters of Science (SM) in Engineering and Management

MIT System Design and Management (SDM) Fellow Program:

·         Course Focus: 1-System Architecture; 2-Product Design & Development ; 3-Systems Engineering; 4- Human Side of Technology; 5-Special Graduate Studies in ESD; 6-Special Seminar in Marketing; 7-Technology Strategy for SDM; 8-Engineering Risk-Benefit Analysis; 9-Systems Optimization; 10-SDM Thesis Seminar; 11- Financial & Managerial Accounting; 12-System Dynamics for Engineers; 13- Operations & Supply Chain Management; 14-System Project Management; 15-Integrating LEAN Enterprise; 16-Disruptive Technologies-Predator or Prey; 17-Operations Strategy; 18-Special Seminar; 19-Thesis –Analysis of Options for Sourcing Engineering Design

 

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA:(2005 – 2006)

Graduate Certificate in Systems Engineering

 

UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG-1 (LOUIS PASTEUR), FRANCE: (1990 – 1991)

MS in Physics

 

CERTIFICATES

 

E.N. T. P.E. Vaulx-en-Velin, FRANCE: (1989 – 1990)

Certificate in French Language

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

GOOGLE Inc. (Feb 2012 – Jun 2014)

Title: Finance Manager

Job Function: FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) for Network Operations

·               Developed models for cost analysis of Company’s network

·               Developed quantitative and qualitative analysis of the business plan for the Company’s network

·               Identified and analyzed Risk factors in the business plan assumptions and developed risk mitigation plans

·               Employed network data to analyze Company’s Production Fiber Optics Networks to forecast network capacity growth trends and associated costs.

·               Worked with PMO to quantify the cost of several projects to build, upgrade and / or add capacity to GTR (Google Transport Records) – Fiber optics links between two points, cities, etc.

·               Analyzed the cost of leasing versus owning capacity and networks

·               Developed a Cost-Compression Analysis to enable Company take advantage of falling electronics cost over time and consequently to reduce network cost.

·               Developed analysis for network failures to enable Company understand network failure patterns and quantify the cost of such failures as well as to develop strategies to mitigate the cost impact of such failures

·               Performed Statistical Analysis of Cost of Network Failures using MINITAB Statistical Software Tool: Cost of Network Failures over time is calculated from large data sets – therefore, the Cost of Network Failure is a Range with MAX and MIN values defined by a Mean and Standard Deviation (Variance)

·               Developed Stress-Test Analysis to quantitatively challenge/test and therefore to validate the results of Cost of Network Failures obtained. (The Stress-Test consists of Statistical Analysis to determine the Network Failures Distribution: Normal, Log-Normal, etc.)

·               Employed UN Demographic Information and data from comScore and Nielsen - global leaders in consumer information, television measurement, online intelligence and mobile measurement – to analyze YouTube Online Video and forecast expected worldwide Traffic growth over 5 years including: Number of Unique Viewers, Time Spent per Unique Viewer, and Number of Video Hours per Month.

 

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES(Jan 2005 – Feb 2012)

Title: Project Manager/Analyst

Job Function: Avionics Systems Engineering & Risk Management; Requirements Analysis &

●        Performed Project Management on a $3 Billion SDD (System Design & Demonstration) Program

●        Developed Analysis to mitigate/eliminate the Risk of Cost & Schedule Overruns in SDD Programs - with the potential to save millions of Dollars in product development cost.

●        Development, Requirements Functional Architecture Analysis, Quality & Process Improvement

Main Achievements

·               Completed a Master’s Degree at MIT while working. My MIT Master’s thesis dissertation titled: “A System Dynamics Model for the Strategic Analysis of Options for Sourcing Engineering Design” presents an Analysis methodology that enables OEMs make informed decision in product development and production relating to: Make versus Buy, Innovation versus Vertical Integration / Merger & Acquisition, and Design to Cost strategies, with the potential to save the OEM millions of Dollars.

 

INDEPENDENT TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT(April 2003 – Dec 2004)

Title: Director

Job Function: Business Case Development

Main Achievements

●        Analyzed Wireless Industry Trends. Author the Research Report titled “3G Mobile Networks: Vendor Positioning and Deployment Strategies”.

Top nine 3G infrastructure vendors - Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent, Motorola, NEC, Nortel, Nokia, SAMSUNG and Siemens are analyzed: companies’ 3G Strategies, Product Portfolios, JVs and Market Shares Worldwide Deployments/Contracts by Technology Type -CDMA2000, WCDMA/UMTS, as well as 2.5/3G mobile wireless technologies and standards and strategies for upgrading from 2G to 3G networks cost effectively are presented.

 

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, WHIPPANY, NEW JERSEY(May 1997- Nov 2002)

Job Title: Offer Manager, 3G UMTS Wireless and Manager, Product Realization Strategy

Job Function: Financial Modeling, Strategic planning, Marketing & Technical Sales, Business Case Development, Technology Strategy & Analysis, Competitive Analysis

Main Achievements

·               Developed modeling techniques to support Product Planning, Development and Marketing of Company’s Wireless and Fixed Hybrid Networks.

·               Built Models for P&L forecast and strategic planning - based on network system, marketing, traffic, demographic and bandwidth /capacity requirement.

·               Performed Technology Industry Analysis: Competitive (SWOT) Analysis and developed Value Proposition for the Company’s 3G UMTS Wireless and Fiber Optics products, versus the competition.

·               Developed a Cost Based Model for Wireless Architecture, United States Patent 6,393,290, May 21, 2002.

·               Developed a Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing System, United States Patent 7149429, Dec 12 2006

·               Co-authored Book: “Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing: Technologies and Applications”; ISBN: 0849335337, Publisher: CRC Press.

·               Analyzed Company’s Wireless and Fiber Optics products versus major Industry competitors – Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel, Nortel, etc.

·               Developed an Attenuation Slope compensating wavelength assignment technique that increases the reach of non-amplified CWDM systems by up to 40%.

·               Created a Value Proposition for CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing) systems in the Metro Optical space

·               Developed network models to study the cost impact/benefits of the utilization state-of-the-art Phased-Array/Steerable Beam antennas in wireless base station

·               Designed Networks and performed Multi-Year Financial/Cost Analysis for Lucent’s Wireless Network operator Clients in response to RFPs from: TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile); WIND – GSM/GPRS/UMTS Network Operator, Italy; Omnitel (Vadafone – Omnitel)  - GSM/GPRS/UMTS Network Operator, Italy; Dix.it – a UMTS license bidder – later joined with Andala to win UMTS license in Italy and BT CellNet , UK.

 

ANT BOSCH TELECOM, GERMANY(April 1995 – Dec 1996)

Job Title: Product Manager, Optical Access Systems

Job Function: Financial Modeling, Business Case Development

Main Achievements

·               Developed Strategy and Value Proposition to support Product Development & Marketing of Company’s Optical Access Network products.

·               Built Models for P&Ls forecast and strategic planning - based on network system, marketing, traffic, demographic and bandwidth /capacity requirement.

·               Lead effort to establish Company’s Optical Access Network Planning Unit and developed modeling techniques to support Product Planning, Development and Marketing of Company’s Access systems.

·               Managed a DM10 million Project to develop a Network Planning Tool for the Company’s Optical Access Network Systems.

 

FRANCE TELECOM, PARIS – FRANCE(Sept 1991 – March 1995)

Title: Research Engineer in Telecommunications Network Economics

Job Function: Business Case Development Financial Modeling, Strategic planning, Technology Analysis, TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), & ROI Analysis

Main Achievements

·               Developed a Network Model for the purpose of the economic analysis and network cost optimization of Broadband Optical/Wireless Access network architectures. This model was the basis of the implementation of an optimization algorithm I employed for the Estimation of Installed First Costs of FTTC/FTTH network architectures at France Telecom, and enabled us to determine the optimal splitter ratios of couplers/termination capacities of ONUs (Optical Network Units) to be deployed in order to minimize network cost.

·               This Model culminated in a software that can be used for the estimation of detailed End-to-end Network costs in Greenfield and Network Upgrade deployment scenarios - including Outside Plant (civil engineering, labor and material) and systems costs as well as generate Bill of Material (BOM) for FTTx architectures to a high degree of accuracy -- in a fraction of the time and cost it takes traditional methods which require costly and time-consuming detailed OSP network design using maps/GIS.