Nikola Pentchev,

M.Sc., PMP

Portland, USA

503-***-****

ac1qvv@r.postjobfree.com

Vision without action is merely a dream.

Action without vision is just passing time.

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Summary

Fourteen years of experience in deployment and pre-sales pertaining to Telecommunication/IT equipment and applications in domestic and international markets plus eight years of hands-on application development. Comprehensive knowledge of major Wireless solutions, Systems Integration, Network rollout implementation, and SDLC processes. Extensive experience in hardware/software data switching centers migrations/relocations. Strong ability to formulate partnerships between customer, suppliers and the home company to enable future business growth and channel add-on sales opportunities. Excellent leadership, communications, and presentations skills. Passionate about technology and organizational efficiency.

Work Experience

Deputy Project Director – Temporary Assignment

04/2016 – now Huawei, Central and Eastern Europe

Accountable for the delivery of an enterprise cloud solution Vivacom Bulgaria.

Managing the complete enterprise data network swap out based on an SDN approach for Telenor.

Managing the cloud solution software delivery with geographically dispersed teams.(China and Poland)

Customer facing.

Program Manager

09/2016 – 04/2017 Radisys, Portland, USA

Leading the delivery of professional services offerings with Tier 1 operators with solutions within Cloud Migration, Data Centers Evolutions and Architectures, CORD and SDN transformations

Successfully established workflow processes between the PLM (product line management) and PS (professional services) organizations that lead to shortened delivery timelines and more effective customer delivery experience

Leading the pre-sales and post-sales activities within the service and product customization offerings in cooperation with other contributors from ON.LAB

Environment: OpenStack, Cloudera/Hadoop, Cloud Computing

Senior Customer Project Manager

01/2016 – 09/2016 Ericsson, Guildford, United Kingdom

Managing multimillion British pounds infrastructure and software managed services turnkey projects in behalf of EE and 3 UK.

Increased margins +5% by overseeing the project setups and identifying opportunities for cost savings

Govern and analyze project budget and margin success with financial team

Participating in creation of new tools needed to track day to day business

Project Manager Professional Services

04/2015 – 01/2016 Fulcrum, Seattle, USA

Project Management Pre-Sales activities in support of a contract for development and integration of an Asset Lifecycle Management solution with a large telecom operator in India as an end user

Supporting the key account management with input related to business offerings for statements of work for Managed Services and Network Discovery and Reconciliation offerings

Leading software development teams towards program objectives utilizing Agile, Jira, Confluence, MS Project and Git.

Senior Project Manager

10/2012 – 02/2015 T-Mobile, Seattle, USA

Lead the development activities pertaining to expansions and modernization in underserved areas and Indian reservations on a National level

Successfully established and managed the processes and procedures pertaining to B2B (Business to Business) and BSS initiatives within the Company

Lead the Roaming Overbuild Program with multimillion dollars savings brought to the company

Managed the spectrum clearance initiatives toward the roaming partners

Managed the development and support of a Vendor Management portal that provides full visibility about the existing contracts between the Company and its external vendors

Customer Project Manager

10/2009 – 03/2012 Ericsson, Atlanta, USA

Managing multimillion dollars infrastructure and software turnkey projects in behalf of AT&T.

Managing the Sprint Miami CDMA replacement to 4G and LTE

Supporting key customer deliverables, while driving cost, quality, and timeliness

Leading and coordinating on-site fault handling activities and the collection/analysis of network performance data

Managing a team of 5 project managers, three external service providers, and 5-10 internal design and integration resources to achieve key deliverables as part of E2E network infrastructure rollout

Management of outsourced staff in India and Mexico coming to the US on short term assignments as well as performing integration activities remotely

Business Development Manager

01/2009 – 09/2009 Ravinala Consulting Ltd., Vancouver, Canada

Consulting company start-up. Services offered: project management consulting, service management, IT development outsourcing

Developed company’s services portfolio using the latest PMBOK edition, agile project management techniques, and project audit guidelines

Senior Program Manager

10/2008 – 12/2008 TELUS, Burnaby, Canada

Managed the legacy OSS Provisioning System retirement and the migration of the customer’s provisioning operations to NetProvision

3G Customer Project Manager

7/2008 - 10/2008 Ericsson, Moscow, Russia

Overall 3G Core Network Rollout responsible in accordance with the Project Specification, approved by the Project Owner (Sponsor)

Managed hardware, software, and data relocations/migrations at regional switching centers

Managed the Multivendor Verification Activities and provided the corresponding reports to the customer as part of the overall prime integrator role

Managed the swap out from Huawei and NSN to Ericsson

Managed 7 Regional Project Managers across 11 time zones

Program Manager

11/2007 - 6/2008 Subex Americas Inc, Vancouver, Canada

Successfully managed a virtual team of professional services consultants based in US, Canada, and India

Created and maintained strong customer relationship that resulted in add-on sales of new products and services

Successfully delivered a number of service provisioning projects for the major telecommunications operator in Western Canada

Managed client’s and account team’s expectations - understanding needs, technology through troubleshooting, escalating, resolving dependencies, creating custom reports and project steering committee

Successfully managed the legacy OSS Provisioning System retirement and the migration of the customer’s provisioning operations to NetProvision

Technology: Subex NetProvision

Customer Project Manager - Consultant

03/2007 - 09/2007 Ericsson, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Managed the complete mobile network migration from monolithic to layered architecture for Telma, Madagascar

Total responsibility for the BSS integration towards the upgraded network

Oversaw the GPRS launch for Telma, Madagascar

Managed 2 integration engineers, one external service provider, and 6 operation and maintenance engineers as part of a managed services deal

Project Manager

12/2005 - 12/2006 Ericsson, Johannesburg, South Africa

Managed multimillion dollars projects for large telecommunications operators in Southern Africa – MTN, Celtel

Supported the local organization with pre-sales activities resulting into add-on services sales

Successfully launched the first GSM call based on the Ericsson layered architecture in the world

Product/Project Manager

10/2003 - 11/2005 Ericsson, Nigeria and South Africa

Won tenders for supply of transmission equipment in two consecutive years boosting market unit’s net sales

Built the project team for a Transmission Network Backbone Rollout for a customer in West Africa. Project Scope - rollout of transmission equipment at 115 locations in Nigeria (digital cross-connects and microwave transmission equipment)

Initiated the project, and handed over the PM responsibilities after the local staff was trained

Solution Architect

12/2002 - 09/2003 Ericsson, Johannesburg, South Africa

Supported the market and sales organization as an expert in the solution portfolio - Network Management and Service Assurance. Systems Integration towards different underlying OSS systems from multivendor environment, Performance Management, Fault Management, Inventory Management, Trouble Ticketing

Contributing at customer visits as the solution and technical expert and making solution presentations

Defining and producing functional requirements specifications

Lead Designer

6/2002 - 11/2002 Ericsson, Johannesburg, South Africa

Lead a team of six developers that released a billing and statistics module for the billing department of the leading wireless operator in South Africa – MTN

Established strong relationship with the customer via implementing high quality standards and shortening faults resolution lead times

Environment - .Net, MS SQL Server, J2EE, OOP, Rational, Windows 2000 Server, UML

Systems Developer

4/2002 - 5/2002 Ericsson, Johannesburg, South Africa

Played a crucial role in the software code migration from C to C++. Successfully migrated the database from proprietary flat files to MySQL

Successfully established methods and procedures resulting into higher software quality

Part of a team that developed time critical applications for highly demanding market across 43 countries in EMEA

Environment - UNIX, C/C++, MySQL, PPS/PPL, SS7, Sun Solaris, UML

Software Developer

9/2001 - 3/2002 BB&D, Johannesburg, South Africa

Was part of the team that developed a web based interface towards a Hogan based core banking system for one of the major banks in South Africa – Nedbank

Wrote and debugged a numbers of COM objects as to provide VB application’s requests to accomplish the most common banking activities like enquiries, reports, statements, stop orders

Environment – Microsoft Visual Studio, ADO, COM/DCOM, MTS, Hogan

Software Engineer

6/1998 - 8/2001 Softcon, Pretoria, South Africa

Project for Access control, Building management, Vending control and Integrated video equipment: database conversions, syntax analyze, database integrity, transaction logs, data capturing, access authorizations, time and attendance logs, validation rules

Software integration towards 3rd parties equipment like CCTV, xRAY, vending machines

Environment - Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland C++, ADO, MS SQL Server, Crystal Reports, MS Access, multithreading, OOP, UML

Software Developer

9/1997 - 12/1997 CSoft Ltd., Varna, Bulgaria

Project for full banking system: invoices, on-line statements, balance enquiries, pay bills, transfer funds between accounts, future dated payments, creating, changing or canceling stop orders.

Environment - Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Source Safe, multithreading, OOP

Project Manager/Software Developer

11/1994 - 8/1997 Mineralbank, Kavarna, Bulgaria

Project for foreign exchange support including currency rates and automatic interests calculations: transaction logs, daily reports, future payments - Project for full banking report system: transaction logs, various reports to the head branch, system information integration, automatic sending of integrated information.

Environment – C/C++, DBF, Novel, Netware 3.12, IBM Mainframe

Education

08/2011 – now MBA, Colorado State University, USA

6/2009 – 9/2009 MBA, Cornell University, USA (incomplete)

9/1987 - 7/1993 M.Sc. in Computer Science, Sofia University, Bulgaria

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