Project Manager Engineer

TOMMY LEE *** White Oak Ridge Rd Short Hills, NJ *7078 ****************@*****.*** 904-***-****

Personal Profile

** ***** ** *****-** experience with 5 years in leadership role in deploying large scale data networking technology to market. Expert in the design, development and delivery of integrated solution to exceed customer requirements. Combine strong engineering skills to lead cross functional teams.

Innovations

12/2001 US Patent 7944843 for a path based network management method and apparatus for data communications networks. The method was applied into the design and development of a PVC Tracing Tool over a Core ATM network. The tool was initially used internally for Lab Testing. Later, it was adopted for commercial use.

7/2001 US Patent 8195771 for the method and apparatus for the configuration of network elements. This innovation was used for the design and development of an automation tool that was aimed at helping field technicians deploy thousands of ATM access switches in customer’s wireless network. The tool was able to improve deployment time by 75%.

Education

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2003 The City College – City University of New York, GPA 4.0

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1996 The City College – City University of New York, GPA 3.61

Professional Experience

Alcatel-Lucent 1997 – Present

Technical Manager – IP Transformation Center (2011-Present)

• Provided value-added services beyond ALU’s product portfolio.

• Integrated & Customized delivery for AT&T’s Universal Service Platform deployment, hosting voice and multimedia services to both fixed line (U-Verse) and mobility (VoLTE) users.

• Managed a team of engineers with a focus on quality across product & service delivery.

• Worked with R&D teams globally to negotiate delivery content & date.

• Led architecture discussion with teams across ALU / customer / 3

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Party vendors.

• Budget resources allocation and provide statement of work for execution of projects.

• Designed adversarial tests to improve the quality of the overall solution.

• Provided readouts to executives on the status of projects.

• Hosted customer demonstrations and technical deep-dives.

Technical Project Manager / Systems Engineer – IMS Global Support Center (2004-2011)

• Introduce Softswitch & IMS technology to market through trials, testing and support.

• Technical leader for Network Level Testing and customer trials.

• Architect lab infrastructure modeling customer configurations.

• Managed lab resources and ensured that they are available and configured properly.

• Certified IMS Solution with timely execution of regression, capacity, and redundancy tests.

• Led project to build & stress a network with 5M subscribers operating under limited resources.

• Resolved critical issues that have been escalated through support organizations.

• Analyze RCA and recommended mitigation plans for customer issues.

• Identify improvement areas based on a view of customer operations.

• Completed customer deployments with AT&T, Verizon, Telus Mobility, and TOT (Thailand).

Lead Tester – Next Generation InterOp Center (2001-2004)

• Plan, Build, and Execute integration project for Verizon GSI’s TDM over ATM network.

• Built optical network simulating a global network with SDH/SONET/DWDM.

• Integrated OSS/NMS/EMS Systems managing ATM circuits over Optical Network.

• Tested flow thru provisioning systems that operated TDM circuits with compressed voice.

• Provide recommendations for development of fixes/workaround where issues were discovered.

• Demonstrated upgrade procedures and verified stability before it were deployed in production.

• Developed/Deployed automation tools used for verifying circuit continuity.

• Administered all UNIX servers in our department.

• Demonstrated Fiber-to-the-Curb solution using PON technology.

• Evaluate product features and readiness during acquisitions.

Lead Developer – Bell Labs Research – Pluto Optical IP Router (2000-2001)

• Designed & Implemented software platform providing consistent interfaces to software modules.

• Ported routing modules such as OSPF, BGP, RIP, and ISIS into new software platform.

• Developed tools that converted ASN.1 messages to event handlers used for SNMP sub-agent.

• Managed source code and developed all Makefiles for the project.

Support Engineer – PathStar Access Server (1999-2000)

• Deployed replacement product acting as Class-5 Telephony switch primarily targets for CLEC’s.

• Led on-site activities, such as installation, configuration, integration and customer acceptance.

• Trained services team where technology was moving well ahead of documentation.

• Remotely support site turn-up of ISUP and CAS trunks as well as IP connectivity.

• Developed 5ESS like dialplans, which handled complicated call processing scenarios.

• Mentored team members on product architecture and software modules.

• Reported summary of customer issues to development managers.

Release Manager – PacketStar 6400 EMS (1997-1999)

• Provide software development tools and processes targeted for improvement of product quality.

• Managed source code using clearcase, which facilitates parallel development in multiple releases.

• Maintained Makefiles and deliver scheduled builds to system test.

• Maintained development servers and its network infrastructure.

• Developed a Tcl/Tk based GUI used as the EMS upgrade tool.

Network Administrator – Lupie & Zaffrin Associates, Inc. – NYMEX Relocation

1996 - 1997

• Performed system administration duties on HP9000 Servers used to host Openview/CiscoWorks.

• Developed expect scripts to automate configuration and monitoring of Cisco Routers and Switches.

Test Engineer – QC Department – Mini-Circuit Laboratory

1995 - 1996

• Ensured the quality of products exceeds its engineered specification.

• Tested with products such as RF splitters, amplifiers and modulators.

• Operated network analyzers and created test setups that deviated from standard ones.

Areas of Expertise

Networking: TCP/IP, Ethernet, ATM, SONET/SDH, PSTN/SS7, CDMA Languages: Shell, C, C++, Java, Perl, SQL, Tcl/Tk, Expect Operating Systems: Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, Windows Network Devices: Cisco 7609, Juniper M10, Riverstone, Foundry, ALU 7750SR Protocols: IMS, SIP, H.323, SNMP, TL1, DNS, DHCP Miscellaneous: AcmePacket, BroadWorks, ClearCase, Perforce, SVN

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