Albert Figura

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Address: ** ********** *****

City: Warren

State: NJ

Zip: 07059

Country: USA

Phone: 908-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 130

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ALBERT J. FIGURA

18 Wilderness Trail

Warren, NJ 07059

908-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Director/Architect of Software Development with a rare mix of strong management experience, broad technical skills, and an overriding dedication to ongoing customer satisfaction. Successfully managed teams of 15 to 25 highly technical professionals in both Development and Systems Administration roles. Expertise in the full software development lifecycle for technology- intensive telecommunications software applications. Fervent advocate and practitioner of continuous quality improvement processes. Recognized for strong analytical and problem solving skills and effective project management, with consistent record of producing quality deliverables on-time and within budget.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cross-functional leadership Project Management HW/SW Architecture

Vendor management ISO-9000 based SDLC process Solution Architecture

Budget management CMM Level 5,CMMI Level 3 High-availability platforms

Off-shoring experience Telecommunications UNIX, Java, C++, Oracle

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

* Achieved a 20-fold increase in throughput capacity by re-architecting an aging product to a scalable and highly-available distributed (N+1) blades-based cluster configuration.

* Transformed project from serious non-conformances with internal (ISO-9000 based) quality process to full compliance within 4 months of assuming leadership of the team.

* Saved over $400K/year in staff expenses by coordinating a partial off-shoring of the product development team to Chennai, India lab.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AT&T (Contract consultant through Rose International, Inc.) Apr. 2011-present

Middletown, NJ

Consulting Architect

Currently responsible for project management, architecture, system requirements, and design, of a tablet-based (iOS) portal for installation and repair technicians to provide full mobile access to customer order and account information, facility data, test access, and job closeout (billing, customer verification) functions.

AMDOCS (Contract consultant through Rose International, Inc.) Oct. 2010-Jan. 2011

Solution Architect

Recruited as a recognized subject-matter expert for short-term, highly focused role to develop solution architecture and migration strategies to upgrade from legacy telecommunications operations support system platform to a modern J2EE/SOA based solution for fiber-based broadband networks in a major telecommunications provider.

* Delivered data migration strategy document which formed a key part of solution proposal presented to customer.

TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES (formerly Bellcore/Bell Labs) 1980 - 2010

Piscataway, NJ

Director, Intelligent Services Peripheral and ASMS/AIN Development (2005 - 2010)

Internally recruited to manage the full software development life cycle of two software development teams. The first, Intelligent Services Peripheral, was an embedded network system providing highly-available real-time call-processing support (out-going voice processing, voice recognition, and DTMF-based menu processing). The other, ASMS/AIN, was a highly-tunable J2EE-based (Weblogic) provisioning system coordinating activations and updates in network management systems.

* Rolled out new strategic Hosted Solutions offering for a number of Mobile Virtual Network Operators by resurrecting an essentially discontinued product into a core component of the solution. In order to meet an aggressive time-line, re-staffed and reorganized the team (including off-shore supplementation in India).

* Achieved a 20-fold increase in throughput capacity by re-architecting an aging product to a scalable and highly-available distributed (N+1) Oracle RAC blades-based cluster configuration. Successfully directed Oracle tuning and debugging efforts to resolve initial sub-optimum performance issues in one of the customer deployments.

* Saved over $400K/year in staff expenses by coordinating a partial off-shoring of the product development team to Chennai, India lab.

* Successfully led project through 2 external ISO-9001/TL-9000 surveillance audits (in 2005 & 2008), enabling the corporation to retain its overall certification and continue to satisfy contractual obligations to a number of customers.

Director, Performance,,Configuration Management, and Installation (2003-2005)

Managed a multi-disciplinary team, which provided centralized "dotted-line" performance engineering, configuration/build, & installation support to 12 software development projects throughout Telcordia.

* Demonstrated highly-effective resource management consolidation of four separate groups of over 50 staff members down to a single group of 20 members with no disruption or SLA degradation to the supported projects.

* Successfully addressed application performance issues at a major customer's production site, partnering with the development team and customer representatives to tune Oracle table configuration and SQL statements to significantly reduce bottlenecks.

Director, Common Installation, Configuration management, and Standard Operating Environment Management (2000-2003)

Responsible for the development of a commonly distributed installation process for 6 Telcordia products that were being deployed as a single integrated solution; specified and implemented a standard operating environment, and coordinated integration for those 6 products.

* Achieved multi-million dollar cost-savings for the company by implementing a novel electronic software delivery method. This effort resulted in the team being recognized with the 2003 Telcordia CEO Award.

Director of Software Integration and Development, JumpStart Solution (1999-2000)

Led development of 1 component, and systems integration of several other Telcordia and third-party software products, for a CLEC-focused operations support solution.

* Coordinated all Y2K activities for business unit across a number of products, successfully meeting all milestones and quality goals.

Development Director, Broadband Common Services/System Pilot (1998-1999)

Transferred to assume management of a development project that was suffering through quality and process deficiencies. Successfully led the design, coding, test, and project management of the product suite of internal middleware used by other Bellcore products.

* Transformed project from serious non-conformances with internal (ISO-9000 based) quality process to full compliance within 4 months of assuming leadership of the team.

IT Director, Systems Administration Group (1997-1998)

Directed UNIX and NT Systems Administration for a 70-server (HP & SUN) and 250 NT workstation environment. Managed a $6M/year capital budget and third-party software vendor interactions.

* Resolved ongoing problems with HP/UX and compiler patches by partnering with Hewlett-Packard development representatives.

* Achieved significant productivity improvements in the systems administration team (reducing the number of administrators on the team despite a growing support population) by applying software development based quality principles.

Member of Technical Staff (1980 - 1997)

PAWS and FORCE products (1992-1997): Assumed successively more responsible positions in development and systems engineering roles, including initial architecture and high-level design, and evaluation of technology & platform options for one of the first N-tiered client/server applications deployed by Bellcore. This culminated with a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff recognition award for outstanding and sustained individual technical contributions.

SOAC and LFACS products (1980-1992): Lead developer of key automatic assignment subsystem, and feature leader for various new loop-plant technology support features; Systems Engineer defining functional requirements, data conversion specifications, and interface specs.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems/Platforms: HP/UX; Solaris; AIX; Linux; NT/XP; J2EE; CORBA; DCE. Languages: C++, C, Java, UNIX shell, SQL, Visual Basic, HTML, XML.

Middleware/Tools: Oracle; VisiBroker; WebLogic; HP Service Guard; CVS; Purify/Quantify; HP Openview & Glance Plus; RogueWave; MS Office; RequisitePro.

Hardware: HP mid-range (J, L, N class) servers; SUN Sparc workstation and midrange servers; IBM (AIX) mid-range (p630) and blade servers (JS20, JS21, JS22); Intel-based PCs & servers.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

* Designated by mayor to be a member (1996-2001) and chairman (1999-2001) of the Warren Township Cable TV Advisory committee; negotiated several concessions from the local cable company for the township including concealment/beautification of equipment installations and initial setup of the local community access TV station.

* Coach of Warren Township recreation-league softball team, 2004-2006.

* American Heart Association CPR/AED training, 2007-2009.

* NJSDC Certified Swim Meet Official, 2011-present.

EDUCATION AND RECOGNITION

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College, NY

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College, NY

* Invited external speaker at an internal HP/UX Developers Symposium in Cupertino, CA. 1998 giving a customer's view of challenges managing HP/UX and compiler patches.

* Featured speaker at a telecommunications industry forum on new loop-plant technologies, 1990, presenting a paper on Loop Inventory and Assignment of Fiber to the Home and Digital Loop Carrier systems.

* Recipient of Bellcore Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award, 1992, recognizing sustained technical excellence and leadership roles in the company.

* Recipient of the 2003 Telcordia CEO Award for development of an electronic software delivery system that resulted in several million dollars in cost savings for the company.

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