Fernando Sanchez

**** ******** **., ********, ** 92008 858-***-****

abocx5@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Program Manager achieving products to be certified at Verizon, AT&T, T-

Mobile, and Sprint with sales impact of over 75 Million dollars year to

year. Experience extending over 20 years in wireless communications.

Disciplined, goal-oriented, reliable under pressure, multi-lingual leader

with strong interpersonal and communications skills that provides Executive

Management a single point of contact to ensure production readiness and on

time delivery of products. Relationship and team builder among Sales,

Product Marketing, Product Line Management, Engineering, and Contract

Manufacturer while working with people of many different cultures.

Professional Experience

Novatel Wireless, Inc., San Diego, CA

2010 - 2013

Program Manager (2010 - 2013)

. Managed and led 3 Novatel Embedded products(E362, E371, and E396),

simultaneously, to support the Dell Project, having sales impact of 75

Million dollars year to year

. Planned, Scheduled, and launched New Product Introduction that

supports 4G LTE to the market place while providing day-to-day

direction of upcoming milestones and coordinating contingency plans to

mitigate risk

. Managed and directed system test teams, project OEM managers, and

technical account managers to integrate Novatel products into systems

for a successful product launch at carriers such as Verizon, AT&T,

Sprint, and T-Mobile

. Managed and led teams through the Product Life Cycle (concept to end

of life) by utilizing toll gate process in order to meet Business

goals and on time customer delivery of products(Alpha, Beta, and

Production Ready) in over 25 Dell model laptops

. Authorized and oversaw the expansion of Novatel office in Taiwan to

support day-to-day activities with contract manufacture and PC ODMs of

Dell to support all certification activities

. Prioritized and authorized, along with Supply Chain Management,

Novatel's contract manufactures (Foxconn and IAC) to manage build

plans and keep inventory under control

. Streamlined process and SKU management to support multiple accounts

such as Dell, HP, Google, and other M2M customers while working with

Novatel's contract manufactures

. Chaired weekly meetings with customer for status of program execution

and led internal meetings from the disciplines of firmware, software,

hardware, product test, system engineering, mechanical, packaging,

marketing, procurement and other operations group to support the

backend for a successful product launch

Kyocera Wireless, San Diego, CA

2005 - 2010

Senior SW Product Manager (Sr. SW Program Manager) (2005 - 2010)

. Managed certification process for Kyocera devices to be accepted at

Sprint, Alltel, and TracFone(VZW MVNO) having sales impact of 100

Million dollars

. Accomplished Technical Acceptance of 6 devices in 2 years at Alltel

resulting in sales of over 4 Million devices and receiving vendor of

the year award

. Successfully planned and delivered regulatory and certification

reports comprised of SAR, Bluetooth, CDG 2, CTIA, MMS IOT, FOTA IOT,

and BREW resulting in on-time delivery for lab entrance at Carrier

. Led and managed SW teams internal and external to Kyocera through a

Change Control Board to implement Engineering Change Requests(in

Agile) that resulted in on time SW delivery

. As a Customer Relationship Manager, integrated 3rd party SW companies

from companies such as Qualcomm, Telespree, mPortal, SEVEN, and HP to

deliver the unique Cox solution

. Managed and directed the execution of Product Acceptance Test Plans

against the Requirement compliance matrix gaining Technical Acceptance

in 4 weeks at Alltel

. Collected and reviewed Customer Requirements, which generated

technology roadmaps to bridge the gap of the disconnect between

customer plans and Kyocera product plans and features, in order to

maintain long term customer relationship and satisfaction

Ericsson Wireless (Formerly Qualcomm's Infrastructures Division), San

Diego, CA 1989 - 2005

Senior Manager(Staff Engineer, Manager), Network Solution Design (1999 -

2005)

. Successfully led teams which responded to over 150 RFP's worldwide for

solutions in CDMA2000, CDMA450, and EV-DO with department staff level

at 50%

. Led and managed cross continent Engineers to design RF, Packet, and

Circuit Switched Data Networks through RFP that were technically

ranked #1.

. Senior team member and RF Network Planning lead of Ericsson's CDMA450

Business. Developed and prepared CDG presentations for executive

team.

. Collaborated with Product Line Management the rural solution of

Ericsson's BTS/RBS through the Expander Business, reaching the next

billion users in cellular systems. BTS site can cover a much larger

footprint and thus decreases site count by 30%.

. Implemented CDMA training for RF, Packet Data Modeling, Core Network

Design, and Dimensioning workshop lasting 5 weeks. Successfully

trained, mentored, and coached over 100 Engineers throughout

Ericsson's MU(Market Units) comprised of the USA, Mexico, Panama,

Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Canada, India, China, Indonesia, Africa,

and Sweden.

Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA

1989 - 1999

Manager, RF Network Planning (1997 - 1999)

. Managed and directed all RF Network Design in the region of Latin

America through RFP's and deployments. Hands on manager to include

network design, RF propagation model tuning, system dimensioning and

traffic engineering.

. Designed and deployed the Mexico project(Pegaso). Managed over 20 RF

Engineers for the Network Rollout and Optimization of the project,

consisting of 600+ Sites.

Senior RF Engineer/Project Engineer (1992 - 1996)

. Designed RF Hardware for the Mini-BTS(RBS 1102) and led a team of five

Engineers, (Electrical, Mechanical, and Test) for Production of PCS

Base Station(Sprint PCS Roll out).

. Designed baseband and RF chain of Qualcomm's Wireless Local Loop (WLL)

phone, in the bands of 800MHz and 1.8GHz

. Designed the Up and Down Converter for the PCS Base Station that all

field trials throughout the world were used on(macro, micro, and pico

cell) to evangelize CDMA technology

. Project Engineer for PacTel TTL PCS and Cox Enterprises to field

trials over Qualcomm's PCS test bed system. Which consisted of

microwave interference tests with CDMA cells(macro, micro, and pico)

and CDMA over Fiber in a Pico Cell

Engineer (1989 - 1991)

. Designed, tested, and deployed Analog Common Card for Qualcomm's CDMA

base stations. Consisted of designing analog hardware using Phase

Lock Loops, Digital-to-Analog Converters(DAC), OP-Amp Designs, and

Filtering from Base-band to IF

Education

MBA, Technology Management, University of Phoenix, San Diego, CA,

Completed 20 units

B.S. Electrical Engineering with Minor in Business Management, UCSD

(Revelle), La Jolla, CA

Professional Development

PMP Workshop and Preparation Course, KnowledgeHut, Titanimum Cobra

Solutions, San Diego, CA

LAMP (Leadership and Management for Technology Professionals), UCSD

Extension, San Diego, CA

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