Summary of Qualifications

• An accomplished manager, administrator, engineer and researcher with extensive experience in industry, government and academia.
• Broad, in-depth, telecommunications expertise and project management: packet data networks - wireless networks - wireline networks - network architectures - processes - operations & support systems - telecommunications management
• Highly skilled in project & program management, delivering on schedule in complex environments

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Cingular WirelessSenior Project Manager/Business Consultant

• Single point-of-intelligence for a $10M account providing wireless data services to a mobile workforce of over 13,000 service technicians and to a deployment of over 14,000 network operations vehicles. Performed as systems engineer, project manager, technical consultant, and coverage analyst. (5 indirectly supervised.) Identified and resolved technical problems that would have impeded successful vehicle deployment. Analyzed massive network and service application data that resulted in new service software releases.
• Responded to requests for proposals with technical solutions to meet the customers' wireless data needs.
• Special Projects (Billing and Collections Liaison): By means of process analyses and identifying customer needs, created and implemented new processes that resulted in improving billing accuracy from 60% to over 99% and in collecting over $800K in account delinquencies.

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIESSenior Manager

• Initiated and managed a program that educated a Program/Project Management organization on the details of how telecommunications technology works to provide billable services. Focused on the integration of AT&T networks influenced by new technologies including its wireless network, Internet Protocol (IP) network, CATV systems and planned new services. Also implemented and managed the Quality Assurance Program within Lucent to meet AT&T's customer-specific needs for installing and removing telecommunications equipment. (8 directly supervised and 12 indirectly)
• Technical Manager - Bell Laboratories. Conceptualized, recruited, and managed a team of Bell Labs experts that developed an innovative PC-based network design and modeling tool to estimate the costs of building end-to-end information networks. (1 directly supervised and 7 indirectly)

AT&T CORPLoaned Executive

• On loan from AT&T to the Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT) as Vice President, Operations. As chief operations officer and strategist, led the programs to introduce remote health care and remote education into society. Also as Visiting Scientist to Clark-Atlanta. University, provided leadership for its future by identifying and initiating Distance Learning as an institutional initiative. (1directly supervised and 2 indirectly)
• AT&T Visiting Professor - Bell Laboratories. On loan from AT&T to Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. Served as a positive role model, taught and motivated over 400 students, developed course curriculum, and identified areas for overall academic improvement.
• Member of Technical Staff, Supervisor - Bell Laboratories. Managed and directed a technical group from its inception; formulated and implemented a work plan in telecommunications numbering and routing which influenced domestic and international standards, AT&T network capabilities, and the manner in which AT&T provided its telecommunications services. (10 directly supervised)
• Member of Technical Staff - Bell Laboratories. Led and managed teams that (a) developed the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) implementation plan for AT&T, (b) developed a 5-year plan that served as the baseline for the evolution of AT&T's switched and transmission networks, (c) defined the intelligent network architecture that provides today's 800 number services and software defined virtual private networks for businesses.

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Engineering - University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
• Master of Science (Engineering) - George Washington University, Washington, DC
• Bachelor of Science (Engineering) - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• Continual education, including a mini-MBA from The Wharton School (sponsored by AT&T)

PUBLICATIONS

• Numerous AT&T and Lucent Technologies internal technical memoranda.
• Journal study on student academic preparedness to pursue careers in engineering.
• Magazine article in a journal aimed at motivating African-American college students.

CITATIONS

• Lucent Technologies: For technical excellence and for role model behavior in addressing customer needs.
• AT&T-Bell Labs: For technical and administrative leadership, as a role model for future engineers, for influencing university research, and for influencing the roles of African-Americans within Bell Labs.

OTHER EXPERIENCES OF MERIT

GRA-TECH GROUP, Atlanta, GA - Principal and Senior Consultant
Business and technology consultant for selected segments of the Information Industry.

• Develops and conducts telecommunications training seminars on topics such as cellular, Wi-Fi (wireless LANS), satellite, and wireline network services, including laws and regulations.
• Provides guidelines for selecting products, vendors, services and other purchasing decisions.

NASA - Langley Research Center , Hampton, VA - Aerospace Technologist

• Reviewed and evaluated the basic research programs within NASA and Industry for program redirection. Administered an independent research grants program.
• Managed aircraft technology programs and assisted in preparing NASA budget to Congress.
• Consultant to the Space Shuttle Aerodynamics Advisory Group. Conducted research in supersonic aerodynamics and in advanced aeronautical systems technologies.
• Original research in missile aerodynamics design read into the Congressional Record.
• Over two dozen formal NASA publications. Technical paper published in aerospace engineering society magazine.
• Cited for research excellence, technical innovation, and for contributing to the development of youth.