Management Project

Ramona Price

TELECOM/WIRELESS FINANCE ADVISORY

** ****** *****, ********, ** 08873

(H) 732-***-****

(C) 732-***-****

E-Mail: **********@***.***

Telecom/Wireless executive with an extensive background in top tier

consulting, specifically around financial reporting, order to cash,

billing accuracy, revenue assurance, and cost management. Experienced in

business analytics, project management, and defining and implementing

best practices.

Professional Experience

Cannon Group Enterprises, Blue Bell, PA 2007 - 2009

Consulting Director

. Managed all client delivery teams in the development and execution of

over 41 projects, including proposal development, budgeting, SOW

development, and project close assessments.

. Designed and implemented standardized project management activities

including, project planning, status reports, issue documentation, and

periodic project assessments.

. Managed 20 staff members on various telecom projects including

contract negotiations and management, inventory management, and RFI

and RFP facilitation. These projects generated over $4.6 Million in

client services revenue, and resulted in a reduction of over $20

million in telecom expenses.

. Achieved a 25% in year revenue growth through streamlined processes

and improved data analysis. .

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Florham Park, NJ 2001 - 2007

Director and Telecom SME

. Developed and maintained client relationships in the telecom and

wireless industry, generating over $2M a year in client sales.

. Developed and delivered client solutions, specifically in the areas of

telecom, wireless, ordering, billing, financial reporting, and

inventory management.

. Designed user requirements for the development of processes and

systems resulting in the identification and capture of over $70

million in discrepancies between contracts, vendor billing, ordering,

provisioning, and customer billing. Manipulated data from systems

like TBS, using specific cleansing techniques to allow for the

comparison of inventory and pricing results between systems and

prioritized and tracked findings for optimal reconciliation.

. Reviewed vendor commitments and compared expected call flows to actual

call activity to identify discrepancies in network design or

engineering. Worked with traffic engineers to ensure accuracy of

findings and assessments and generated $5 million in additional inter-

carrier revenue.

. Provided subject matter expertise in the design and implementation of

Wireless Number Portability, examining all technical, inter-carrier,

and regulatory tasks, and meeting aggressive timelines to enable

customers to transfer phone numbers between wireless and wire line

service providers in the US and Canada.

. Represented PwC in various telecom industry standard organizations and

held leadership roles in the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry

Solutions (ATIS) for the development of ordering and billing industry

standards.

. Designed and facilitated training of the Carrier Access Billing

Specifications (CABS) for Resale, UNE-L and UNE-P billing, and

provided a comparison of the paper invoices to the CABS output,

allowing for the confirmation and regulatory acceptance of the CABS

Billing Output Specifications as an electronic bill of record for

these services.

Residential Communications Network, Princeton, NJ 1998 - 2001

Director, Cost Management

. Designed processes and managed a team of 23 resources to compare

contracts, interconnection agreements, network planning, and traffic

translations to effectively audit 1200 invoices and generate over $12

million in vendor billing credits and $6 million in unrealized inter-

carrier revenue.

. Became a critical resource in complex inter-carrier negotiations and

reconciliations to optimize profitability for over $36 million in

annual inter-carrier revenue, and $140 million in annual network

expenses.

. Utilized CLEC ordering and billing knowledge to reconcile current

orders and reduce network expenses by over $3 million annually.

. Acknowledged as the "revenue generating cost group" by Chief

Accounting Officer and Chief Financial Officer for improving company

profitability by 6%.

Verizon, New York, NY 1987 - 1998

Sr. Manager, Various Forecasting and Marketing Positions

. Created accurate forecasts for over 100 products and services,

including Group Bridging Services, Mass Announcement, and Interactive

Information Services, using key performance indicators (KPIs),

trending, regression, and judgment. Forecast results always came

within 2% of actual revenue and units.

. Identified and captured $25 million in revenue by identifying an

accounting error, presenting findings to corporate executives, and

tracking results to resolution.

Education

Master of Business Administration, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY

Bachelor of Science, Marketing, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY

Certified Six Sigma - White Belt

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