Fulbert Lato

Monroe, NJ ***** ? Mobile: 732-***-**** ? acawt1@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Seeking a technical position with leadership responsibilities in

Software Engineering and Development, Infrastructure (Systems and

Database) Management, Product Management, and Budget Management.

Open to relocation.

Career Summary

A forward thinker, results-oriented and creative engineering and

development executive with experience in leading team through SDLC,

Systems deployment and Project capital management. I have over 15

years experience delivering on time quality products with a strong

background in UNIX and Database Administration, Quality Assurance,

Systems / Web Development and Business Continuity Planning.

Job Skills

. Adept with ISO/CMM quality driven software development and ITIL

best practices. Continuous process improvement and proactive

anticipation of business needs while ensuring staff and cross

functional teaming to deliver quality on schedule.

. Keep yearly capital budget ($6M) in line and ensuring adequacy in

operations requirements

. Leadership skills: decisiveness, negotiating, self-starter, quality

focused, planning/analytical capacity, Team builder, Effective

Listening and Diplomacy skills, Quick study, Business Strategist

and Thought Leadership

Other Skills

. Technical skills: Power6/7 Blade Center and DS3k/4k/35xx, Flex

System, v3700, Wintel/Linux; AIX 5.x/6.x, VIOS, NIM, HACMP,

Enterprise Linux, Windows, Networking, NAS, Oracle DB 8i/10g/11g,

MySQL; Kornshell, Perl, CGI, SQL, TCL, expect, Java, Javascript,

HTML/XML/JSON/JQuery, C/C++, Python, VirtualBox/VMware/Xen

Concepts, SCCS/Subversion

Education

1999 - 2001 Fairleigh Dickinson University

Masters in Business Administration (MBA)

May 2001

1986 - 1990 DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications

Engineering (ECE)

September 1990

References: Available upon request.

Professional Experience

Ericsson Feb 2013 -

Present

Software Engineer V

Technical Lead to a team of 8 people focused on feature and release

deliverables. Responsible for:

* Ensuring features and installation/upgrade mechanisms and

procedures for the BSS components are delivered on time and meeting

the requirements throughout the Software Delivery Life Cycle

* Provide Tier 3 support for deployed systems and ensure client

resolution on issues ranging from subject queries, operations

planning, critical production problem analysis and resolution

Selected Achievements

* Automation of HW component determination and layout for a given

configuration thereby reducing the staff manual effort from 5 days

to a couple of hours.

Telcordia - SDS Sept 2007 -

Jan 2013

Director of ISGR Infrastructure Administration / CMO / Lab Support

Managed and lead a staff of 25 Engineering professionals globally in

delivering automated turnkey system and application install, setup,

upgrade and Tier3 support of multiple BSS product lines with

accountability in:

* Providing on-time and within budget release delivery and reducing

internal cost in terms of HW footprint, personnel, and time to

market.

* Ensure CMM level 5 and ISO compliance throughout the project life

cycle

* Client Tier 3 support/resolution for over 1500 servers worldwide

and 1800 full/virtual servicers in-house

* Provide project wide CMO and SW packaging, electronic delivery, and

system HW/SW rack-and-stack for resale and vendor management for HW

and SW components used for the deployed product

* Develop team competency, vision, strategy and direction for

immediate business requirements and 2 to 5 year development plan

* Supervise the documentation and implementation of project-wide

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan

Selected Achievements

* First to drive Virtualization to reduce HW footprint for multi

release multi component development environment. Saved 55% of

allocated capital for SPECed HW.

* Improved Management and staff Efficiency (Significant time lag and

better prioritization) of Lab Support staff request handling

through a home grown web based ticketing system

* Through continuous code review, coaching, parallel testing and code

development was able to pull up delivery time of multi-team

development effort. Improved efficiency and work culture of staff

members

* Saved $1M (15% of the $6M year capital expenditure) through

vendor price and discount negotiations and self-maintenance

* Simplified the electronic (FTP) packaging process thereby reducing

dependency of manual intervention saving 20% of labor on every

package created and reduction in overall staff manual interaction

into half of time required.

* Automated cluster and systems test tracking through a home grown

management system thereby creating a focal point for data mining,

reporting and analysis

* Consolidated and centralized multi server setup thereby minimizing

35% execution time and reducing pilot error.

Telcordia Technologies Nov 2002 - Sept

2007

Senior Engineer / Technical Lead of Infrastructure Systems

Administration

Technical Lead to a team of 8 people focused on multiple feature

deliverables. Responsible for:

* Delivering multiple features from cost analysis, prototyping,

feature requirements, detailed design, code and unit testing, multi-

unit integration testing, support through Product Test / Quality

Assurance.

* Ensures quality gates and standards are met on every phase of

development

* Ensure client resolution on issues ranging from subject queries,

operations planning, critical production problem analysis and

resolution

* Provide mentorship to new employees / consultants / Overseas

contractors on internal processes, coding practices and standards,

and project technical background

* Leads the team in feature design, coding, establishing coding

standards and facilitates code inspection for the group and cross

team written in Kornshell, Perl, SQL and Java.

Selected Achievements

* Modularized main system upgrade toolset to provide new enhanced

functionality and flexibility for in-house testability, client on-

site debugging and process circumvent. Provided Overall process

improvement by 2 fold over the previous version. This also served

as the template for future and ongoing feature development.

* Introduced the concept of electronic fix delivery that led to the

"FTP package" serving as the automated delivery of system and

application fixes/patches. Increased time to market and

productivity by 2 folds.

Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) Nov 1997 - Nov

2002

Oracle DBA and Lead Software Engineer

Senior Software development Engineer focused primarily in Application

DB tuning and administration

* Responsible for research, prototyping, and initiating new feature

work - including Highly Available SPACE, Pre-paid back-end

database/server, Database Defragmentation, Database sizing, etc.

using Perl and Kornshell

* Responsible for research, prototyping, and initiating new feature

work. Responsible for creating Design documents with detailed

implementation.

* Ensures quality gates and standards are met on every phase of

development.

* Responsible for automating DBA functions that supports Application

usability, installability and backup and recovery.

* Assists and facilitates in code inspection for various entities

within the group written in Kornshell, Perl, Java and, C/C++

Selected Achievements

* Developed the provisioning server's installation and setup via

datafile driven tools thereby providing the ability to reset /

reconfigure systems for different testing purposes. Improved

recreation/reengineering to half the time.

* Developed Application Sizing and Oracle DB

Defragmentation/Optimization for a one-click operation saving

support countless hours of manual analysis, tweaking, and fixing.

Improved maintainability and administration tasks by 2 folds.

Bell Communications Research Aug 1993 - Nov

1997

Senior QA Engineer / Coordinator and Automation Developer

* Responsible for creating, maintaining and automating test suites

for the different products. Scripts are written in QA Partner / Tcl

for GUI Testing and Unix Korn Shell for call processing testing.

* Wrote tools for simulation, automation, reporting, and maintenance

utilizing Korn Shell, Perl, Expect/TCL and with the MYNAH home

tool.

* Responsible for testing Intelligent Network System (INS) platforms

like AIN, PCS, Customer Contact, 8XX for the following features:

Fault Tolerance, Backup and Restore, Installation, Retrofit and

other call processing related interfaces which include Intelligent

Peripherals, Generic Data Interfaces (i.e. TCP/IP BOSS, CUSTPROF,

LMOS, MIS, Data Express, DMS-100, TN3270).

* Coordinated several major and minor releases and created product

test plan for each release including System Test Overall Plan

(STOP) which conforms to ISO/ 9000 requirements. Oversee SW and HW

upgrade of Product Test integration clusters. Responsible for the

availability of the Test Systems by assisting other product testers

with system related issues.

* Responsible for maintaining the project wide Test Case Database.

Oracle DB backend and Ksh/awk script/troff frontend.

Selected Achievements

* Automated Product Test team's Modification Request distribution

using Perl and SQL. Improved MR tracking and distribution and

gained 5x efficiency.

SM-Equicom Computers Inc., Philippines Aug 1991 - Aug

1993

Systems Engineer / Analyst / Programmer

* Technical lead supervising engineers in the network/systems design,

installation / configuration and rollout of various Banking systems

in multiple branches.

* Designed, coded, tested, implemented and documented the Imaging

System for an investment group and the development of an automated

Data Collection system on PABx systems using Terminate-and-Stay

Resident (TSR) in Assembly/C++ with Clipper as the database

management.

* Assisted sales representatives in product (i.e., hardware and

software) demonstrations.

* Provided network layout, design and implementation of various UNIX

boxes for bank systems connecting to Mainframe and Midrange systems

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