Lucy. Tang
************@*****.*** 732-***-****
Project manager/PMP
qualifications summary
Excellent in variety types of Program/Project Management. Possesses PMBOK (9
knowledge areas and 5 processes groups), extensive technical knowledge,
outstanding interpersonal skills and problem solving skills. Have proven
tracks of successfully leading many software/hardware and
applications/products development/deployment with local or government
agencies, and 2G/3G Wireless technology implementation projects with
worldwide carriers (North/South America, Asia and Europe). Full life-cycle
Product Management experiences include product requirement management,
product feature enhancements and roadmap management; stakeholders (design
partner, customers, functional teams) management; products development and
deployment management, product deliverable quality and acceptance test plan
and execution management, project scope/schedule/cost/quality/resource/risk
management. Had formal training from PMI, certified PMP.
A Technical Manager in Software/Application/System/Network/Production, with
over 12 years experience in IT industry. Cross technical function areas
knowledge and experiences, include design/development/implementation of
optimized solutions for backend network infrastructures, and for end user
application systems and software/firmware/hardware equipments productions.
R&D experiences include researches on 2G/3G/4G wireless network radio
propagation model calibration algorithm, air interface advanced simulation
and optimization methodologies. Wireless Engineering experiences include 3G
CDMA (IS-95/) 2000/UMTS/WCDMA/TD-CDMA wireless network planning, modeling,
simulation and optimization. Specialized at air-interface propagation model
calibrations. Wireless network system performance analyzing and
troubleshooting. Specialized at advanced analysis on wireless network
capacity, coverage and performance issues. Specialized at evaluations of new
generation wireless technologies, hardware/software products, infrastructures
and functionalities. Wireless end user equipments/application systems
design/development/deployment.
Possessing backhaul network modeling, network and system High Availability &
Load Balancing design, system performance analysis, capacity, backup/recover
strategies and optimization skills. Excellent in troubleshooting network
issues and root cause analysis. Possessing Unix/Linux system administration,
Database management, Database Data Guard and RAC implementation, Cisco CCNA &
CCNP skills. Certified Sun Solaris and Oracle database professional.
Marketing/Pre-Sale/Post-Sale experiences include markets and competitors
analysis, providing marketing strategies, product demonstrations and
presentations to global customers, leading and conducting Pre-sale trials and
Post-sale technical supports to global customers.
Excellent in editing technical research documentation, presentation,
proposals, reports and technical trainings document. Writing research
document, marketing requirement document, function design and system
specification document, project methodologies, project plan document, project
detailed analysis and summery reports, system/product acceptance test plan,
procedure and report documents, product-training document and user guides.
professional Experience
09/2007 to present Northrop Grumman Brooklyn, NY
(Information Technology Sector)
Project Manager
A PM leading wireless network infrastructure, application systems, end user
equipments and a variety of deliverables' design, development, acceptance,
deployment, and integration for the large-scaled New York City Security
Wireless Network project. As the PM of the NYCWiN Department of
Transportation intelligent transportation monitor system Phase I development,
deployment and integration project, responsibilities including: Hosting
external weekly workgroup meetings and interfacing with government agencies
and customers. Organizing all types of technical discussions meetings among
functional teams and 3rd party contractor companies for system design,
development, implementation, CM and O&M activities. Defining detailed
workflows, methodologies and processes. Performing technical supervisions and
supports at different aspects/stages of the project life-cycle including:
requirement definitions, design, development, acceptance test, deliverables
functionalities analysis, deployment, production and maintainence. Performing
cross-functional stakeholders' management, coordinating among customers,
manufactures, application systems development teams, network infrastructure
development team, system provisioning team, RF wireless engineering team,
quality assurance team, O&M team and other functional teams and parties.
Implementing IPWireless 3G TD-CDMA wireless technologies, evaluating wireless
network air-interface capacity, signal quality, RF coverage and key
performance indicators. Analyzing UEs and RAN sites performance (data rates
distributions, resource allocations, call success rate, disconnection reasons
and throughputs performance) under a variety of RF conditions and loading
conditions, in both labs simulated environment and actual network
environment. Analyzing network latencies and data packets losses statistics.
Processing/analyzing network performance statistics (INCs, Radius, UEs and HP
OpenView logs, etc). Identifying and defining solutions to typical and
specific issues based on experimental and root cause analysis results.
Conducting and supporting wireless network optimization processes (network
parameters tuning, NL and RAN sites antenna physical parameter tuning).
Leading the designs, developments and enhancements of a variaty of government
agencies' end user wireless applications, systems, devices/equipments
hardwares/firmwares and backend network infrustructures. Defining
specifications on the equipment hardware/firmware components specifications,
and on the end user devices/applications design/development with Flash and
Java on BREW platform. Enforcing data security, technology and standards
compiliances. Improving systems automations and provision processes.
Conducting performance (efficiency, service quality, connectivity, stability,
reliability and retain-ability) evaluations on wireless end user equipments
(hardware/firmware/software) and systems communication under normal operation
and variety of stress conditions. Designing/evaluating/enhancing application
systems integrity, high-availability and redundancy. Performing end-to-end
system performance evaluations and troubleshooting.
Conducting wireless application systems, end user devices/equipments
development/deployment/integration projects planning, scheduling, status
tracking, and top-level technical supporting. Editing proposals,
functional/no-functional requirements for application system
software/firmware/hardware design and development. Coordinating among the
development teams and 3rd party contract companies for design reviews and
closing action items. Performing resource and budget projections/estimations.
Coordinating with subcontractor companies and related parties for the systems
deployment and integration. Supervision and identification on critical
events/alarms from system delivery stage to production operations stage.
Defining system provisioning and troubleshooting procedures for network
control and provision center. Define system configuration, installation,
maintenance and provision procedures for manufacture, installation and field
O&M teams. Conducting application system troubleshooting and root cause
analysis. Providing trainings and top-level 7x24 technical supports to the
related parties. Creating, presenting and distributing technical document and
reports to all related parties.
Successfully led the efforts of the entire project end-to-end wireless
applications/systems/products/deliverables internal/external
functional/non-functional acceptance plan, creteria and standard definitions,
enviroment setup and procedures development. Conducted project ATP(Acceptence
Test Plan) schedules, resources and scopes management. Conducted ATP
procedure development, excution progresses and milestones monitoring.
Recorded and reported status to customer and management. Supervision and
excuted ATP with New York City garverment agencies. Evaluated/demonstrated
functionalities of variaty of wireless application systems including: DOT
intellegent traffic control monitoring system, automatic vehicle location
based service system, VoIP emergency callbox system, and other variaty of end
user applications/equipments IP data communications through the wireless
network. Coordinated and acquired supports among related functional teams for
issues investigations and resolution processes during/after the acceptance.
Analyzed and documented the system/product acceptance results. Successfully
met the defined ATP goals, scopes and schedules. Received company excellent
reward.
Technologies used: 3G/4G Wireless technology knowledge; specific vendor
knowledge (IPWireless/NextWave); 3GPP2/TD-CDMA standards; RF
planning/simulation/optimization tools (CelPlan and other utilities), System
provision tools (HP OpenView, IPWireless network element manager, user
equipments provisioning Remedy system); Network performance monitoring tool
(WireShark, Netperf, Ixia, Iperf, and other data traffic simulation and load
generation utilities); Linux OS, Windows, Unix and network administration.
Cisco router management and IPSec data security techniques. C, Java, .Net
programming language, and BREW, Flash, Java, Perl, Unix Shell, Windows
scripts,
01/2002 to 09/2007 SCHEMA New Jersey, NJ
Technical Manager
A Technical Manager in companies' North America PMO, led various wireless
plan/simulation/optimization software product development and implementation
projects, with conformation to the Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
Discipline. Created project-specific, high-level milestone, deliverable, and
master plans to meet the business objectives. Created detailed project
schedule, scope and quality management plans. Defined project requirements
and deliverables per customer expectations, managed client communication
channels and functional project teams. Conducted internal/external management
meetings and technical reviews, monitored multiple project progresses and
reported project status. Performed project implementation, deliverables and
results analysis, edited project final reports, and given presentations to
high-level management and customers. Performed management tasks
cross-functional departments, from product management, development,
pre-sale/post-sale, and professional services to technical supports.
Led the design, development and evaluation of company's RF propagation model
calibrator and predictor software products. Conducted designs and researches
on wireless network performance statistics analyzing and comparison
methodologies for propagation model calibration and prediction quality
evaluations. Possessed extensive experiences in RF radio Propagation Models
generation and calibration (supporting common 2D/3D, DTM dependent,
independent experimental, sophisticated model types, and ray-tracing model
type in the market) and network signal quality and KPI prediction
validations.
Led and performed variety types of researches and developments activities in
company's R&D division on new wireless communication technology trends, on
2G/3G/4G wireless networks specifications, protocols, and standards.
Collected market and customer specific requirements. Defined and reviewed
product MRD, FRD and SRS. Performed researches, case studies and defined
different software product validations and evaluations procedures. Led field
validations efforts on new releases and feature enhancements of the company's
2G/3G/4G software products, including network planning, simulation (Monte
Carlo model, LNF model, etc) and optimization software, propagation model
calibration & prediction generation software, and new generation
Mobile-Statistic based network modeling and optimization software. Designed
methodologies/software/tools/utilities for variety of vendors and carriers
wireless networks' KPI statistic analysis, capacity/performance/coverage
improvement evaluations, and other network key parameters before/after
optimization improvement evaluation methodologies.
Specialized at analyzing 2G/3G RAN (Radio Access Network) issues and
statistics (Coverage, Capacity, Performance, etc), specialized at optimizing
NB/WB networks with advanced methodologies - especially with new
Mobile-Statistic based optimization and traditional Propagation model based
optimization. Provided high-level professional and consulting services to
major wireless network carriers and customers worldwide, on
CDMA/EvDo/UMTS/WCDMA/GSM/TDMA wireless network planning and optimization
projects. Leading and performing RF engineering activities through different
project stages, which include: surveying and defining network parameters and
cluster features, identifying and analyzing different network issues, link
budget analysis, calibrating and tuning propagation models, reviewing traffic
distribution models and predictions, defining optimization criterions and
scenarios, performing network simulations and optimizations, new network
planning and network site reduction analysis, evaluating
capacity/coverage/quality improvement based on various statistics, supporting
optimization plan implementation, network fine retunes, post-implementation
KPI analysis, cost & efficiency evaluations. PN and NL planning and
optimization, and frequency planning and spectrum optimization. Familiar with
major RF planning tools (PlanetEv, Aircom Asset, dBPlanner, Atoll,
GeoPlanner, Wizard) in the market. Familiar with certain vendor network
monitoring and management software such as Nortel CACP, BSMM, DO-EMS, DO-RNC
and other utilities like Cli and BalkCLi.
Acting as Technical Manager in the company's Marketing, Pre-Sale/Post-Sale
division. Providing technical and strategy supports to sales and marketing
team. Leading and performing worldwide wideband/narrowband Pre-Sale trails
with major wireless network carriers and operators including (AWS, Verizon,
Cingular, Sprint, USCC, Alltel, Cellcom, T-Mobile in North America.
Centennial, Movistar, Vivo, Tricom, Movienet in Latin America. UMTS customers
including Vodafone and 3 UK in Europe. Hong Kong Sunday, China Unicom, M1 and
Singtel in Singapore. Reliance in India and others). Performing product trial
results presentations and new product demonstrations to the customers.
Leading various worldwide 2G/3G wireless networks optimization trials and
projects. Leading onsite/offsite technical support teams to worldwide
customers on software installation, upgrade and troubleshooting. Collecting
customer requests and feedbacks. Writing product User Guides, project
workflow and methodologies document. Providing on-site trainings to customer
engineers.
Possessing extensive experiences in UNIX and Oracle database administrations.
Familiar with system HA design, VCS and Sun Cluster implementation, Oracle
Data Guard and Oracle RAC configurations. Familiar with Oracle Application
11i portal implementation and administration. Possessing extensive
experiences in processing, converting and merging geographical maps from
different map vendors with different formats. Such as raster and vector maps,
including clutter, terrain, roads, building contour and other types of maps
for application usages. Familiar with major geo map software and processing
tools in the market, such as MapInfo, ArcView, Manifold, Global Mapper and
other datum and projection conversion utility software in the market.
Technologies used: 2G/3G Wireless technology knowledge
(TDMA/GSM/UMTS/WCDMA/HSDPA/HSUPA, CDMA IS-95/1xRTT/1xEvDo, OFDM); specific
vendor knowledge (Lucent, Nortel, Motorola, Ericsson); 3GPP2/IMT-2000/IEEE
802 standards; Windows, Unix, Database (Oracle, MySql, SQL Server) and
network administration.
12/1998 - 12/2001 Fujitsu Consulting Group, US NJ, USA
Sr. Consulting Engineer/Software Team Leader, AT&T Network Division
A Software Development Team Leader in developing a large-scaled multi-tier
Web, Client/Server with Oracle database application projects for AT&T long
distance, cable services and wireless network management system. Responsible
for coordinating system design reviews, development and acceptance tests,
coordinating across different functional teams (system engineering, software
development, integration/system test and QA teams). Managing schedules and
resources through the project life cycles. Successfully delivered the project
in defined scope and gained high customer satisfactions.
Led the design/development of the system backend server-side
processes/modules in C++ and PL/SQL stored procedures, ProC, DataComplete
APIs, Expat XML parser APIs (implement both DOM and SAX), and InConcert
Workflow Engine APIs. Led the development of client-side front-end system in
JavaScript, SQL Server Web Tasks using PL/SQL to generate XML. Led the design
and development of the system Client-Server interface and gateway processes,
which connected and communicated with over 20 distributed local or remote
AT&T subsystems in C++ and CORBA (editing IDL and creating TCL scripts for
IDLGen).
Participated in installations and configurations of Oracle software on
different OS platforms (NT/HP/Sun Solaris). Setup Oracle Clients and Server
infrastructure for the development, pre-production and production
environments. Performed on-going production support activities including:
Configured ODBC and JDBC connections, maintained users, roles, and system and
object privileges. Conducted server disk space management, monitoring and
planning for the provisioning data center. Developed database backup and
recovery strategies (cold/hot backups, logical backup and complete/incomplete
recovery). Planned UNIX system storage strategy. Implemented RAID with
Veritas Volume Manager and SDS. Performed backup and restore with Veritas
NetBackup. Performed System performance tuning and troubleshooting with
utilities such as Sar, vmstat, SymbEL and Perfmeter. Configured and
troubleshooted TCP/IP network, DNS, NFS, NIS related issues.
Technologies used: Unix and NT platforms, C/C++, Java, CORBA, ProC, PL/SQL,
DataComplete APIs, XML, and Expat XML parser APIs, JavaScript, UNIX Shell,
SQL, Perl scripts, Oracle database.
07/1998 - 11/1998 GraphNet, Inc NJ, US
Software Engineer/Developer
Participated in the development of client/server modules/procedures with
Visual C++, MFC, Win32 APIs, Windows NT and CORBA in Orbix for Wall Street
financial companies' business faxes, telex and e-mails communication systems.
Customized GUIs for each of the major US and Canada financial companies'
communication systems with Lotus Notes API Script. Provided technical
supports and end user trainings. Conducted software installations, network
and database monitoring and maintenance.
09/1995 - 07/1998 New Jersey Institute of Technology NJ, US
Graduate Research Assistant
Participated in the design/development of GIS based provisioning software for
NJ State inter-county commodities supply and demand operation system. Created
GUI for the information database of the system in Visual Basic, Avenue
scripts based on ArcView platform.
Technologies used: C++, MFC, Win32 APIs, Windows NT and CORBA, Lotus Notes
scripts, VB, ArcView, Avenue scripts
Education & Certifications
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Master of Computer Information & Science
Master of Transportation Engineering
PMI Education Center
. Certified PMP (Project Management Professional)
Oracle Education Center
Certified Oracle 8/8i Professional/DBA
SUN Education Center
Certified Sun Solaris7 SA
TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE / VENDOR EXPERIENCE
RF Knowledge: CDMA IS-95/1xRTT/1xEVDO, GSM/UMTS/WCDMA/TDMA, TDD-CDMA, OFDM,
3GPP2/3GPP and IEEE standards
Programming and scripting languages: C, C++, UNIX Shell Script, Perl, PL/SQL,
ProC, DataComplete API, Visual Basic, VB.Net, Java AWT/Swing/Servlet, PHP,
JavaScript, JSP, XML, DTD, CSS, DHTML, C#, ASP.Net, VBScript, UML, EJB, CORBA
Software development tools & APIs: Visual Studio, Orbix, JDK/SDK, Visual
Caf , InterDev, HomeSite, WebLogic, Lotus Notes API, Workflow Engine API
Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Access, MySQL
Analysis and Design methodologies and Implementation: UML, Rational Rose
Programming and administration on different OS: Unix (HP/Sun Solaris), Linux,
Windows
Administration Tools: OEM, DBA Plus, TOAD, SQL*Net/Net8, SQL*Loader, Import &
Export utilities, SQL trace & TKPROF, RMAN, Spotlight, DataStage, Oracle XML
parsers/Expat XML parser, Oracle XML SQL utility, WebDB, Veritas Volume
Manager & Netbackup, VCS, Sun Cluster, Oracle Data Guard and RAC, LDAP,
Oracle Application 11i
Project management tools: MS Project and MS Office
Other software & utilities: HP OpenView, Network Element Management tool,
PlanetEv, Atoll, dBPlanner, Aircom Assets, CelPlanner, Wizard, propagation
modeling and calibration, wireless network planning and optimization
software, DT processing Software Actix, TEMS, performance statistic tools
like Prospect, Optima and others, GIS tools like MapInfo, ArcView, Manifold,
Network performance monitoring tools like Ethereal tool and other utilities
like Iperf, Netperf, Ixia, etc.
Vendor Experience: Nortel (GSM/CDMA1x/EvDo), Lucent (TDMA/GSM/CDMA2000),
Motorola (CDMA), Ericsson (GSM/TDMA), IPWireless (TD-CDMA)
TRAININGS/SEMINARS
PMP (Project Management Oracle 8/8I Oracle Certified Professional
Professional) Advanced Java Programming
TDMA/GSM Technology Computer Architecture
CDMA/1X/UMTS/EvDo Technology Software Development & Production
Object-Oriented Programming E-Commerce Project
Network Architecture & Protocol Advanced Web Developer
Unix Cluster & Oracle RAC
Client/Server Network Network High Availability Design
Programming CCNA
C# .Net programming CCNP
Oracle Financial Application
11i
Linux System Administration
Solaris 7/8 System
Administration