MARJAN FARAHMAND

972-***-****

acptf4@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Network Engineer & Project Manager professional in telecommunication. Eighteen years of progressive

experience in international, national and regional management. Strong technical and interpersonal skills.

Designed, implemented, and integrated cost effective technical solutions to meet challenging business needs.

Ability to listen to customer needs and formulate strategies to meet their goals. Known for contagious

enthusiasm, ability to work in cross-functional teams, and multi-tasking. Excellent communication skills in

English and Farsi.

National & International Interconnection Contract International Wireless Network Planning &

Negotiations implementation

Transport & Trunking Network Engineering and Sr. Engineer & Project Manager with National &

Architecture International duties

Process Migration & Improvement Joint Application Design & Development

New Services/Business Process Development Point of Interconnection (POI) Planning

EXPERIENCE

AT&T MOBILITY - Dallas, TX 2010-Present

Project Manager: Mobility Network Planning & Engineering, 2013-2015

Project managing the migration of Mobility traffic from Legacy to the new Cisco routers in order

to enhance the network.

Coordinating cross-functional tasks from initiation to implementation using AT&T Technology

and Network Realization Process methodology.

Managing of medium to large scope of traffic migration projects in the West & East region.

Responsible for creating detailed project plans, resource requirements, and timeline schedules for

the project execution.

Ensuring to receive agreements on baseline dates from all business partners and departments

involved in project implementation.

Creating and maintaining status reports and risk identifications in order to maintain baseline and

execution dates.

Project Manager: Network Core Infrastructure-Southwest, 2010-2012

Assigned to be the Escalation Point of Contact for DS3 & OCn in Southwest market.

Ensured jeopardizes are captured and follow-up actions are processed. Reported the impact of jeopardy

cases and escalate as needed.

Coordinated Core Transport activity to meet and maintain Plan-of Record.

Established & maintained project management coordination with Capacity management, Transport

Engineering, Equipment Engineering, Circuit Design, Circuit Ordering, Field Construction & Network

Operations.

Researched and reported Core delivery and resolution issues.

Coordinated and hosted conference calls as inter-team interaction is required.

Attended market and Regional Project conference calls to discuss high priority DS3 & OCn facilities.

MARJAN FARAHMAND

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VERIZON BUSINESS - Richardson, TX 1996-2010

Country Circuit Engineer & Project Manager: International Route Manager, 2000-2010

Implemented International Optimal Call Routing and migration of traditional international voice traffic to

VOIP achieving $6M annual line cost savings.

Achieved over $3M revenue producing tariff engineering and monitoring for Special Access, National and

International Interconnections.

Implemented and managed international network capacity and trunking to 90 overseas carriers in Africa,

Middle East, Eastern Europe, and South America for both TDM and VOIP networks as part of a $1.2B

revenue stream.

Coordinated and negotiated contracts to support network augmentation required the anticipated traffic

growth domestically and internationally with monthly traffic of 3.5 billion minutes.

Evaluated and identified network problems and directed the implementation of fixes with internal and

external field operations and account teams.

Designed and implemented the network for five international wireless carriers’ bi-directional mobile

traffic.

Published and maintained project reports to five organizations including multiple levels of management,

technical supports, FCC, international relationships, and international administrators.

Managed diversity and planning of Verizon’s C7 international signaling network.

Developed forecasting, planning, routing, and provisioning processes needed to meet company goals and

objectives.

Transport Circuit Engineer & Project Manager: Domestic Voice Transport Engineering, 1998-1999

Created network guidelines and training procedures needed to interconnect with 57 domestic based

carriers which resulted in an increase in productivity of 26% for the year.

Implemented interconnections with resellers that generated network cost efficiencies and enabled the

capture of inbound revenue from new countries/administrators.

Investigated abnormal situations and suggested a course of action to senior management.

Trained upper management on manual guidelines.

Planning Engineer & Project Manager: Domestic Cable Design Engineering, 1997

Developed the engineering/planning for the new OC-192 network for the west and Pacific regions of the

US.

Created strategy and guidelines using planning tools to assess the feasibility and benefit of changes to the

existing network.

Designed and presented the first and only domestic radio map making their network infrastructural growth

needs transparent.

Increased network efficiency which resulted in savings by performing high bandwidth capacity

recovery.

Ensured adequate transmission capacity to meet customers’ demands and internal needs for network

growth, DXC-base restoration, and design changes.

Lease Circuit Engineer & Project Manager: Lease Provisioning Engineering, 1996

Designed, developed, delivered and maintained lease capacity from domestic local telecom providers.

Ordered and provisioned local interconnections with various US carriers.

Built topology and created transmission paths to other long haul vendors and local providers.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, Dallas, Texas

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

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