Management Manager

Justin

Justin L Davidson

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Versatile, experience

Versatile, strategic business leader, M&A transaction and Chapter 11 turnaround specialist with over 14 years experience in

Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, Telecommunications, and Information Systems

Professional Summary

Hands-on leadership, bottom line focused utilizing IT/IS technologies to help drive strategic direction.

Excellent Operations and Project execution skills.

Business optimizer by identifying operational synergies and implementing efficient solutions

Comprehensive understanding of the financial impact of projects based on capital budgeting and cost accounting

Leadership by example enabler utilizing Theory X,Y, and Z management methods.

Extensive goal-orientated leadership experience for highly visible projects in complex political climates.

High level of accountability and desire to take on responsibility with an accomplished attitude.

Soft direct communication abilities that educate and empower teammates to share and execute to achieve results.

Unmatched drive to execute and deliver in a fast paced results-oriented 24/7 environment.

Experience raising capital and managing investor expectations.

Technical advisory to senior management leaders on complex topics.

Career Experience

employees) 2009

2009-present

One Communications formerly CTC Communications, Burlington, MA (2400+ employees)

Manager of Network Management Systems and Internal Telecom (Oct 2009 – present)

Manager (Oct

Lead technical teams to ensure “realized” synergies. Provide strategic cross-functional architectural direction to upper

management

• Promoted to include all Internal Telecom resources to include a $1.8M annual budget.

• Responsible for all internal desk and cell phone contracts, conference calling systems, and collaboration tools

• Responsible for all hire/fire staffing decisions and team development for both responsible functions

• Additional continued responsibility for all Network Management Systems functions below.

One Communications formerly CTC Communications, Burlington, MA (2400+ employees) 2001-

2001-2009

Manager of Network Management Systems (Dec 2005 – Oct 2009)

Manager (Dec

Lead technical teams to ensure “realized” synergies. Provide strategic cross-functional architectural direction to upper

management. Partner with Marketing, Sales, Network Engineering, IS/IT and Operations Management teams to develop and

support advanced services in a Matrix structure. Manage vendor relationships while negotiating multi-million dollar capital

investments. Identify and model products and services that exploit corporate strengths and mission. Research, select, and

implement all carrier grade production network operational tools. Recruit and manage technical teams.

• Promoted to Manager of Network Management Systems.

• Technical SME lead for M&A due diligence that identifies synergies for the actionable 100-day plans.

• Saved over $61M in corporate expenses since 2001 by negotiating, engineering, diverting and managing solutions.

• Wrote simplified custom enterprise software integrations, reducing licensing and maintenance costs of $8M.

• Streamlined headcount with software systems saving $3M in annual payroll expenses

• Negotiated $1M software product prices to $400K and reduced hardware quote from $600K to $150K.

• Reduced annual follow-on software maintenance cost 50% from $300K to less than $150K.

• Implemented M&A integrated systems architecture saving over $100K in professional services.

• Virtualized 40% of datacenter departmental footprint utilizing VMWare, saving power, cooling, space, and $1.3M.

• Comfortably manage remote employees, contractors, and vendors via email, chat room, and conferencing.

• Managed $2M integration budget for M&A NMS software architecture. Implemented with less than $1M.

Senior Network Management System Engineer (Mar 2001- Dec 2005)

Senior (Mar 2001-

Increased operational productivity through process automation and systems consolidation to aid a Chapter 11 bankruptcy

turnaround. Engineered and managed all network management systems integrations as the sole resource while growing from

$150M to $850M in revenue via M&A. Acted as a cross-functional resource lead while performing systems analysis, design, and

development in an extreme programming environment for highly visible real-time carrier grade systems.

• Replaced 15 professional services consultants saving $3.8M in annual labor costs.

• Eliminated 10 fault management software packages and authored a service activation web interface replacing the

workload performed by 5 consultants. Saving over $250K of headcount costs and $160K iin software maintenance fees

• Eliminated 2 performance management software packages saving over $270K in software maintenance fees

• Assumed work load of 3 in-house engineers, reducing head-count and resulting in $200K annual payroll saving.

• Simplified existing software integrations by eliminating overly complicated implementations resulting in $300K savings.

• Negotiated maintenance contract costs down $450K by completely dropping maintenance.

• Wrote over 150,000 lines of integration code in 5 different languages to fit the square peg in the round hole.

• Implemented automated service activations for asset upgrades and reconciliation, delivering $8M in annual savings.

• Reduced SkyTel paging costs by eliminating poor automated paging behaviors saving $2.4M annually.

• Increased revenue $2.5M annually through improved cross-selling business intelligence of network usage.

• Developed and documented in-house server installation and service procedures, reducing outsourcing costs $340K

• Reduced need to order bandwidth, by reporting efficient use of physical/logical assets, resulting in $7.2M cost cut.

1999-2001

1999-

Cignal Global Communications, Cambridge, MA (300+ employees)

Senior Network Management/Security Engineer (Nov 1999 – Mar 2001)

Senior (Nov

Supported engineering as one of only 2 security engineers. Key member selected to transfer all systems to Europe post-buyout.

Participated on the due diligence discovery team as the technical systems lead for our production network build-out. Actively

coached and mentored new hires.

• Promoted to a senior software engineering position

• Implemented solutions to lockdown all equipment and internet gateways for 26 locations.

• Eliminated 750 user lists with a Single Sign-On System (SSOS) resulting in reduced time savings.

• Scaled information systems for the explosive growth from $1.2M to over $60M in revenue within just 3 years.

• Implemented a SLA Monitoring center (SLAM-C) in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 30 days as a backup NOC.

• Designed 95% percentile network usage based billing system

• Developed Network Management Systems architecture for global network monitoring

Senior LAN/WAN Administrator (Mar 1999 – Nov 1999)

Senior (Mar 1999)

• Coached and mentored IT new hires. Supported all company desktops and servers. Worked with email, routers,

firewalls, and web development technologies. Selected to perform “jack of all trade” uncharted projects.

• Researched, evaluated, procured and implemented over $3M worth of technical assets globally.

• Built out and supported the IT infrastructure in 26 countries for a start-up company.

• Obtained CCNA certification in four days for fun.

1994-1998

1994-

Gruntal & Company, L.L.C., Boston, MA (500+ employees)

Full Service Stockbroker/Sales Force Automation Engineer (Mar 1994 – Nov 1998)

Full Stockbroker/Sales

Implemented sales force automation tools such as an automated dialer for telemarketing integrated with database marketing

and a Goldmine CRM. Coached and mentored cold-callers. Developed client relationships with outbound telephone and face-to-

face sales techniques. Not afraid of rejection.

• Quantitatively analyzed investment opportunities utilizing asset, discounted cash flow, and market multiples.

• Formulated investment strategies for over 300+ clients of all ages that I raised.

• Raised capital from new prospects while making over 800 direct sales call per day via an automated dialer.

• Performed technical analysis with many trading systems while trading stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and options.

• Earned 100% commission with no base salary.

Education

Education and Certifications

Suffolk University – Sawyer School of Management, Boston, MA

Management, 2006

Sep 2006 – May 2008

Masters of Business Administration, Finance – Summa Cum Laude

Summa

Courses work - Private Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital Finance, Financial Statement Analysis,

Strategic Management, Global Capital Budgeting, Business Law, International Business, International Marketing, Options &

Futures

University, 2003

Northeastern University, Boston, MA Nov 2003 – May 2006

Bachelors of Science in Business Administration, Management Information Systems – Summa Cum Laude

Summa

Course work in - Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Portfolio Management, Organizational Behavior

Accredited Asset Management Specialist (AAMS)

Series 7 & 63 Registered Securities Representative (CRD# 2479156) - lapsed

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Program (MCSE), Boston, MA

Educational

Educational Highlights

Lead M&A team to perform a mock acquisition of WebEx pre-Cisco’s purchase by one month.

Lead strategic teams to analyze Verizon, Home Depot, Furniture Brands, BMW, Blockbuster, and Dow Chemical.

Lead mock turnaround of the core simulated global food distributor as the only strategic consultant.

Professional Associations and Awards

Financial Management Association National Honor Society

Boardroom Scholar’s Round Table Award

Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society

Alpha Sigma Lambda Honors Society

Sigma Epsilon Rho Honor Society

The National Dean’s List

Golden Key International Honor Society

Technical Skills

Advanced Microsoft Excel modeling, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft PowerPoint

Solid experience with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio

Advanced Software programming (PERL, Java, Expect, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, TCL/TK CGI, JSP, ASP, C#.net, VB.net)

DBA/Developer experience (Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, Informix, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Solid DB, Instant DB, Berkeley DB)

OS Support (RedHat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Solaris Unix, Microsoft Windows Server)

Telecommunications IP/MPLS/Optical/ATM/VoIP Engineering

Telecommunications Carrier class complex Network and Operations Information Systems

Microsoft Exchange Server Administration

Advanced Cisco Router/Switch Configuration

Network and Information Security

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