Mark Stegall

Melissa, Texas *****

Cell: 972-***-****

Email: dwdjgi@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/markstegall

People Manager, Project Manager & Solution Architect

Skills Summary:

Project Definition/Project Manager, Technical Solution Architect, Business Analyst. Experienced at working across organizational, functional and geographic boundaries to deliver projects and solutions. Demonstrated ability to ramp in short time frame to contribute to new technology programs quickly and effectively.

Experience:

GENBAND Inc., Plano, TX, May 2010 to Dec 2011 (GENBAND acquired the Nortel CVAS division)

Architect, Media Server. June 2011 to Dec 2011.

• Managed the architectural integration of Radisys Media Server and SIPWare Conferencing Server with the GENBAND A2 call server product including specifying requirements, integration interfaces and integration strategy per business requirements.

• Technical led working with Product Management, Radisys and A2 development organization to define 3rd party integration including service suite definition, platform and service management, backup/restore, security, OAM, reliability and scalability solutions.

C3/A2 Product Integration Led. August 2010 to June 2011.

• Developed and managed the technical requirements and service set to be offered to market with the C3/G9 (PSTN GW) and A2 (SIP Server) integration.

• Worked across the product teams to specify viable integration options and solution test strategy for product integration verification and deliver the product to market.

Architect, Voice Call Continuity (VCC). May 2010 to August 2010.

• Developed and managed the strategic technical solution definition for GENBAND VCC (VCC enables wireless devices to transfer voice calls between 3GPP/2 circuit switched, packet switched and non-3GPP packet switch networks) leveraging GENBAND assets to meet customer requirements.

• Liaison with technology teams, sales team and customers to develop and define solutions.

• Develop content for (RFI/RFP) Request for Information/Purchase development from telecom operators regarding VCC and Convergence capabilities.

Nortel Networks, Richardson, TX, August 1989 to April 2010.

Carrier Voice and Application Services (CVAS) Architect. December 2009 to April 2010.

• Develop and identify convergence solutions that provide wireless access solutions to the wire-line market (VCC, ICS, Mobile Extension).

• Developed architecture solutions and product roadmaps for Fixed Mobile Convergence solutions including interfacing with marketing, business line management and customers (AT&T, VzW, Clearwire) to define network evolution path.

• Produced CVAS white-paper identifying product convergence strategy.

• Trained wire-line peers in the critical cellular network architectures and operations.

Sr Manager 3G, 4G Architecture. January 2006 to December 2009.

• Managed senior level architecture team (7) as Architect of Voice Continuity and Convergence (VCC) solutions for 3GPP2 2G/3G/4G networks.

• Developed and contributed multiple 3GPP2 standard contributions for VCC.

• Patent holder with multiple patent submissions in process.

IMS/MMD Architect. September 2004 to December 2005.

• Defined Converged Mobility /FMC solutions for the 1xRTT CS, WiFi and 3G EVDOrA technologies.

• Performed initial analysis of VoIP quality characteristics and performance working with Verizon Wireless.

• Primed the definition of 3GPP2/WiFi Voice Call Continuity working with Verizon Wireless and Sprint Cellular for viability of the solution.

CDMA Quality Analyst. September 2001 to August 2004.

• Accountable for analysis, review, and investigation effort to improve CDMA field performance.

• Included validation and correction of corporate quality reports for CDMA products while highlighting quality problem areas and tracking and reporting quality trends and quality score forecast.

• Managed a team of 30+ cross product architect and support members on effort of improving product performance under traffic overload conditions.

• Effort delivered a significant improvement in CDMA field performance.

Sr. Manager, Wireless Services Framework. February 2000 to August 2001.

• Managed team of 50+ (30 direct and 20+ dotted-line) accountable for new Personal Assistant / Unified Messaging product.

• Multi-site project management; people management; project definition, research, development and test; process definition and management; 3rd party vendor negotiations and evaluations.

Prior Nortel Experience, Aug 1989 to February 2000.

Key Technologies:

Software:

- C, C++, Java, Pascal, Protel, Assembler

Standards:

- 3GPP/3GPP2 and IETF standards bodies, including varying levels of expertise in IMS, ICS, VCC, FMC, Media Server, VoIP architectures, IN/AIN, GSM, UMTS, CDMA, EVDO/rA, LTE, WiMAX.

Platforms:

- NG VoIP, Mobile Applications and Unified Communications: including SIP, XML, Web Servers, App Servers, Mail Server, LDAP, Oracle, Windows, UNIX, Solaris, Linux.

Hardware:

- Nortel DMS250, DMS500/100, CS2K, DMS-MTX & A2 SIP Server circuit and packet-switch cores.

- Various Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware platforms. Sun, HP, Intel, ATCA Blade architecture.

Education:

• Master of Business Administration Degree

Arkansas State University, State University, Arkansas.

• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Arkansas State University, State University, Arkansas.

• Numerous Professional Training courses, including:

Leadership, Communication, Objective Setting, multiple People Management courses and multiple specific technology courses.

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