Project Manager Management

Mark Stevenson

469-***-**** ****.*********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/markst

PROJECT MANAGER / MANAGER

Cooperative, resourceful leader with extensive project management experience, responsible

for multi-million dollar capital and expense budgets. Excels at hardware planning and directing

procurement, system engineering, and the installation and delivery of telecom and IT

networked systems and modernization projects. A team player focused on delivering projects

on time and under budget.

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Determines scope, deliverables, and Vendor Relations

schedules. • Proactive solution implementer

• High-level Engineering • Budgeting and Forecasting

• Translates functional requirements to • Manage Bill of Materials (BOM)

implementable project installation plans • Emergency project solutions

• Stakeholder communications • Resourceful material planner

• Analyzes and manages risk issues

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ericsson Inc. / Nortel Networks 2000 to July, 2013

Project Manager - CDMA Telecom Lab Manager

Managed largest telecom equipment center in Richardson with 15 CDMA IP packet systems

totaling over 700 nodes for 24/7 operation. Administered budgets of over $11M in Capital and

$5M in Expense for equipment procurement and system installation. Performed high-level

engineering for project sizing and budget estimates. Created, generated and presented reports

for project and financial progress.

Project Management:

• Managed prioritization and workflow for all equipment additions and system reconfiguration

projects. Planned, scheduled and tracked project timelines for 20 major projects annually and

handled day-to-day management of small projects and change requests.

• Directed technical support teams in all facets of equipment introduction and delivery into the

equipment facility including: system engineering, equipment procurement and receiving,

installation and user acceptance tests to meet product delivery milestones.

• Facilitated troubleshooting between vendor support services and internal teams on complex

lab performance issues.

• Strategized low-cost lab configuration solutions through material recovery and redeployment

and through flexible system connectivity to satisfy task requirements.

• Saved $377K by coordinating the acquisition, testing and re-deployment of 13 Advanced

Telecommunications Computing Architecture shelves.

• Strong knowledge of telecom and packet system interconnectivity and networking that enabled

rapid response to lab capability requests and rapid planning of lab modifications.

• Developed system documentation to track equipment and connectivity. Reduced query

resolution time by 93%.

Financial Management:

• Developed budget proposals, conducted budget review meetings, obtained budget approvals,

approved purchase orders and facilitated upper management approvals of orders weekly.

• Track spending and justify variance from projected budget.

• Administered contracts and managed contract labor to assist in equipment center support.

• Negotiated contracts and quotes with vendors for equipment, follow-on support and service

agreements.

Mark Stevenson

469-***-**** ****.*********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/markst

Special Assignment Projects:

• Reduced system downtime 80% during system relocation by creating detailed move plan.

• Saved 500K as member of Nortel to Ericsson Integration Team for early migration onto

Ericsson Infrastructure. Created test team and test suite to validate migration of tools.

Tracked trouble tickets to completion. Authored Bulletins with instructions and menus for

new equipment center electronic access methods to train group members.

• Supported corporate effort to outsource design and testing of software offshore by planning

lab moves and shipments overseas. Collaborated with sites in India and China to gather

project requirements, created BOM and resolved equipment shortages either by purchasing

new, purchasing used or by shipping existing equipment offshore.

• Participated in team effort to catalog over 3000 capital assets and consolidated various data

sources into one database. Reduced group depreciation by transferring and writing off

assets and resolved over 500 data discrepancies.

• Collaborated and planned equipment moves and reductions with functional teams to

collectively save $1.6M annually in operating expense by consolidating equipment into one

location.

1994 – 1999

Nortel Networks

Project Coordinator - GSM Telecom Lab Coordinator

Coordinated hardware for GSM product test department. Administered system connectivity,

HTML documentation and support of end-to-end telecom systems including GSM base

stations.

• Provided 24/7 support of complex data configurations for GSM Design load builds.

• Developed and executed product test cases for billing software features and performed

hardware robustness test cases on GSM system nodes.

• Developed and documented GSM Lab Support processes.

SKILLS

W indows, Microsoft Office, Advanced Excel Skills, Power Point, W ord, Project, Access, Front

Page (HTML), UNIX, Linux, and UNIX scripting. ISO/TL9000 compliant.

EDUCATION

BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS

• PMP Certification course work in progress

• IP Technology Certified - Ericsson Training Certification Program– TCP/IP, MPLS,

OSPF, Multicast, BGP, DNS, DHCP, OSI Layer 1 – 3 and IPv6 – May, 2012

• Data ATM & IP Boot Camp - Nortel Networks Training Program

MILITARY

U.S. Navy, Honorable Discharge, Rank: E6

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