Shabahat Husain

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Summary of Experience

Summary

PMP certified IT Telecommunications Management Professional with decades of extensive experience in technical project management, business capability planning, business requirement development, SDLC project management, business plan analysis, and network software architecture.

Business Analysis Skills:

Business Capability Planning

Business Requirement Development

JAD Sessions With End-Users for Requirement Gathering

SDLC Documentation

Business Plan Analysis

Vendor Management, Vendor Evaluation

Team Building

SLA Monitoring and Executing

Product Management of Custom Built Applications

Product Lifecycle Management and Support

Application & System Test Plan and Quality assurance estimation and Design

Projects Managed or Supported:

Project 1: 100GbE Field Trial Pilot Project Support

Project 2: Ethernet and FiOS Support:

Project 3: Verizon High Bandwidth Network Management Project Support

Project 4: Work and Force Administration Control to VRepair Migration Project Support

Project 5: Layer 1 Conversion Project Support

Project 6: Network Architecture Support

Project 7: Procurement Support for the acquisition of a new Trouble Management System

Project 8: Broad Band Systems Development Support

Project 9: NASA ECS Project Support

Project 10: NASA Procurement FEP Project Support

Project 11: NASA’s Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) Mission Support

Chronology of Professional Experience

Verizon – Verizon Business Feb. 2000 - July 2014

Silver Spring, Maryland

Job title: OSS Planner/ Functional Architect/ Asset Manager

Project - 1: 100GbE Field Trial Pilot Project Support

Roles: Business Analyst, Requirement Analyst, Integration, PM

Project Methodology: PMP

Environment:Granite Xpercom Next Generation, Virtual Inventory Oracle database, BAAIS, Fault, Performance– COTS Implementation Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project, Visio, HP ALM (Application Life management) QC

Project Duration: 24 months - Completed

Responsibilities:

Scheduled several JAD sessions to gather requirements from various different teams.

Met with all the stakeholders and decided to use the currently approved Lucent’s LambdaXtreme equipment for 100 G implementation.

Developed test cases based upon the requirements. Entered these requirements and test cases in HP ALM QC 12.00 for managing requirements, tests, defects and, business components.

After several months of testing, it was determined that LambdaXtreme equipment will not be able to meet our requirements. The vendor was informed.

Met with all the stakeholders again and decided to use the Ciena OME6500 equipment which was also approved equipment.

Repeated same test cases again. All of the test cases were successfully completed. The equipment was approved for the 100G field trial.

Scheduled weekly and daily meetings to discuss the 100G UAT Template status and design as well as co-ordinate UAT test related activities

Provided User Acceptance Training. Provided weekly reports to stakeholders and management team on a regular basis.

Project - 2: Ethernet and FiOS Support:

Scheduled several JAD sessions to gather requirements from various different teams.

Developed test cases based upon the requirements. Entered these requirements and test cases in HP ALM QC 12.00 for managing requirements, tests, defects and, business components

Enhanced OSS systems to grow the Ethernet 1GE port density cost effectively, and enabled growing 10GE ports in the future.

Integrated Cisco CRS ASR 9000v satellite device into the current FiOS backbone network NG LCR platform, providing multiple 1 GigE access ports and a few 10 GigE connections to the host CRS3.

Provided User Acceptance Training. Provided weekly reports to stakeholders and management team on a regular basis.

Project - 3: Verizon High Bandwidth Network Management Project Support

Roles: Business Analyst, Requirement Analyst, Integration, PM

Project Methodology: PMP

Environment: Granite Xpercom Next Generation, Virtual Inventory Oracle database, BAAIS, Fault, Performance– COTS Implementation

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project, Visio, HP ALM ( Application Life management) QC, and Excel VB

Project Duration: 27 months - Completed

Responsibilities:

Scheduled several JAD sessions to gather requirements from various different teams.

Wrote SOWs based upon the requirements. Requested RFQs from the vendor companies. Based upon RFQ response eliminated several vendor options. Issued the RFI/RFP to the vendor community and evaluated vendor responses. Provided the evaluation criterion to the vendor community. Evaluated RFP responses from CISCO, Innovance, Ciena, CORVIS, NEC and Lucent for high bandwidth network equipment and supporting software systems.

Based upon the RFP responses and oral presentations developed alternative analysis matrices for invited vendors. Helped Verizon legal team in preparing pre-award documents and post-award maintenance with the client teams.

Worked with different engineering client teams to collect technical requirements. Wrote the technical requirements for the high bandwidth network systems and their RFPs.

Collected requirements from the Network Engineering team and wrote requirements for Virtual Concatenated Circuit Design for efficient network bandwidth utilization.

Entered these requirements and test cases in HP ALM QC 12.00 for managing requirements, tests, defects and, business components

Provided User Acceptance Training. Provided weekly reports to stakeholders and management team on a regular basis.

Project - 4: Work and Force Administration Control to VRepair Migration Project Support :

Led E2E conversion and test efforts for Work and Force Administration Control (WFA/C) to VRepair migration project

Developed test cases based upon the requirements. Entered these requirements and test cases in HP ALM QC 12.00 for managing requirements, tests, defects and, business components

As a project Lead, completed E2E test orders for New York, New England, and New Jersey regions.

Project - 5: Layer 1 Conversion (L1C) Project Support:

Based upon technical meetings with clients in Boston and Cary, NC developed the Network High Level Architecture (HLA).

Scheduled the HLA review with the Development, Client, and UAT test teams.

Ensured that the implementation of the project is completed based upon the business case and the OSS strategy using the HLA and the requirement documentation.

Project - 6: Network Architecture Support:

Completed the OSS architecture document with Lucent, Telecordia, Tekelek and other vendors’ network equipment.

Provided impact assessments and ROM estimates to the client management team on a regular basis.

Project - 7: Procurement Support for the acquisition of a new Trouble Management System:

Gathered requirements from various different user groups

Led the RFP team to procure the new Trouble Management system.

Reviewed, evaluated multiple vendor responses and invited the finalist companies to present their products. The new VistaIT Remedy based Trouble Management (TM) system was selected as the replacement for the ActiVew TM system.

Verizon – Bell Atlantic June 1997 – Nov. 1998

Silver Spring, Maryland

Job title: MTS- Manager

Project - 8: Broad Band Systems Development Support:

Led a team of software engineers to design and develop the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) control subsystem prototype for the Broad Band Systems (BBS) Division.

Hughes Aircraft Company 1994-1997

Germantown, MD

Job title: Sr. Systems Engineer

No. personnel managed: 10 - 14

Project - 9: NASA ECS Project Support:

Managed communications software development and engineering support to Release B team of the ECS (NASA) Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Core System (ECS) project.

Presented DCE/OODCE cell configuration and interfaces to ASTER (Japanese) organization and wrote a white paper.

Prototyped 100 Gegabytes of ECS data for benchmarking SYBASE and ILLUSTRA, Informix (Object Relational) database. Worked with scientists to generate queries based on different study scenarios.

Allied Signal Technical Services Corporation 1985 - 1994

Seabrook, MD

Job title: Senior Project System Analyst

No. personnel managed: 5 – 12

Project - 10: NASA Procurement FEP Project Support:

Roles: Enterprise Architect, Business Analyst, Requirement Analyst, Integration, PM

Environment:IBM mainframe, NCR Comten Front-End Processor (FEP), IBM DB2 database, X.25-- COTS Implementation

Project Management Tools: Excel VB

Project Duration: 24 months - Completed

NASA Procurement and Project Support 1985 - 1994

Provided procurement support to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Scheduled several JAD sessions to gather requirements from various different teams.

Wrote SOWs based upon the requirements. Issued the RFI/RFP/RFQ to the vendor community and evaluated vendor responses.

Evaluated different Front End Processors (FEPs) responses for wide area network (WAN) and Ethernet local area network (LAN) support.

Maintained the documentation through different phases of the procurement process.

Procured as well as tested the Interlink network TCP/IP FEP (SNA/DECNET) gateway to support Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite and Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite missions.

Project - 11: NASA’s Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) Mission Support:

Designed and implemented the OSI Model for the GRO Mission Communications Interface CMS (IBM) and Experimenters (VAX, PDP, HP, etc.) using X.25 Protocols.

Integrated Communications Subsystem for Interconnect (CSFI) application, Network Control Program (NCP) and NCP Packet Switching Interface (NPSI) to support GRO CMS OSI/X.25 Communication interface. .

Designed, developed and tested the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) Communications Interface.

Certifications, Publications, and Educational Background

PMP (expiring in 2016)

M.S. Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

M.S. Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

B.S., Electrical Engineering, M.M.M. Engineering College

Papers and Publications

“Application of the TMF MTNM 814 Interface Specification to a Large Transport Core Network”, Nice, France May 2005

"Packet Switched Communications System for GRO" – NASA

Describes the Communications system that has been developed for the Command Management Facility at Goddard Space Flight Center to support the GRO spacecraft.

Professional Honors and Awards

Verizon WHOW Award, OSS Integration Analysis for the Business Development, 2001

Special Hughes Bonus Award in support of the customer Design Review, 95

Emerald Award ATSC, Member GRO X.25 support 1993

NASA Group Achievement Award, Cosmic Background Explorer

Command Management System

NASA Excellence Award, Gamma Ray Observatory Command Management System

National Merit Scholarship in High School and College Programs

Professional Training

Project Management Professional (PMP renewing in 2016)

Introduction to IP v6 Constructing IP network addresses

MEF Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Ethernet Service Activation

Data Networking Overview SONET and SDH Overview

Ethernet Virtual Private Line Ethernet Fundamentals

Lucent LambdaXtreme Long Haul DWDM system

Fujitsu SONET and DWDM systems NETSMART EMS

Alcatel-Lucent LambdaUnite Control-Plane/Mesh Provisioning

Simple Network Mgmt Protocol (SNMP) VMWare Installation & Configuration

Verizon Enterprise Center (VEC) IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

Tellabs 5500/5500 NGX Metrowatch EMS

Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) ETMS

Lucent Optical Management System Navis Service Provisioning Manager

Voice Over IP Network Traffic Concepts

Next Generation Architecture SS7 Signaling

ATM Networking QC Application Life Management 11.52

SONET, DWDM, MPLS Cyber Security, SANS

Intro to SQL FastTrack to SYBASE

DCE 1.0.3,DCE1.1, OODCE DFS, Encina, C (SAS/C), ADV UNIX C Web Dev. using Java SilverStream Web IBM 4341, IBM 4381, DIGILOG-900

C++, DEC WINDOWS, MOTIF Object Oriented Analysis

Object Oriented Design DCE Secured Web

UNIX/C, Pascal, LISP QC Application Life Management 11.52

SUN Solaris 2.4 SUN SPARC-20, NOVELL 3.12, Netware Administration

SGI Challenger Rational Rose/C++

HP OrbPlus SEL 32/87, SEL 32/77, PDP-11

FORTRAN-77, PASCAL X.25, X.75, LAN Analyzer (LANVISTA)

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