GIUSEPPE A. CURRERI
Beverly, Massachusetts 01915
Phone: 508-***-**** E-mail: addovc@r.postjobfree.com
Summary: Experienced and self-motivated telecommunications manager with
expertise in design, installation, maintenance, and customer service
project staging, and validation testing. Unique ability to link technical
knowledge with business strategy. Ability to establish KPIs for
benchmarking performance. History of decreasing operating expenses by
maintaining network efficiency and vendor cost controls. Understanding of
employee personality traits and how to use these traits to implement
successful change strategies. Ability to influence and restore inter-
departmental conflicts through process control and teambuilding. Effective
communication and presentation skills.
US Army Reserves -Power Generation Equipment Repair - Honorable Discharge
Work Experience:
Ceragon Networks, Inc. January 2010 - Nov 2012.
Vice President of Customer Services in charge of Technical Support,
Customer Training, Staging Services, RMA, and IT infrastructure.
Responsibilities include: Process development & optimization; Inventory
management, KPI development, ERP system data analysis, Trouble ticket
analysis, and RMA failure analysis.
Developed and automated equipment staging & packaging process required by
key customer accounts. Developed and documented process flow diagrams.
Redesigned the RMA warehousing process to proactively measure performance,
improve inventory control, and improve customer turnaround time. Developed
key performance indicators used to analyze customer support cases and
manage support engineer workloads. Manage USA conversion from a USA based
Toshiba VoIP/PBX to a Microsoft Lync Global VoIP phone system. Managed SIP
trunk implementation for Lync/Audiocodes installation. Developed call flow
diagrams for new Lync system. Developed and documented network diagrams for
North American telecom/data networks.
Ceragon Networks, Inc. June 2007 - January 2010.
Vice President of Customer Services in charge of managing technical staff
for North America. Organization included Pre-Sales Engineering, Field
Services, Technical Support, Customer Training, and IT Infrastructure
Systems Management.
PSI-Protech Solutions, Inc. February 2006 - June 2007
Division Manager in charge of developing and growing a wireless field
services organization.
- P&L and general accounting responsibilities.
- Management of field personnel.
- EF&I order management.
Adea Solutions 2004 - February 2006
Manager - North American Telecommunications Support Services
Strategic account manager, responsible for the success of national field
operations and business development within the wireless communications
service industry. Responsibilities include project management of
installation and maintenance services, development of detailed scope of
work documents, quotations, and project deliverables. The above requires
frequent interaction with customers and property managers to determine
scope requirements as well as cultivation of new business.
- Developed a startup microwave radio installation and maintenance division
from 0 to $2 million in just 1 year.
AT&T Local Network Service 1998 - 2004
Field Operations Manager
Project Manager accountable for maintaining budgets, quality, and
timeliness of project completions for New England, Great Lakes, Mountain, &
Southwest Regions. Project tasks included interfacing with engineering,
warehouse, site acquisition, provisioning, and vendors as well as
processing change orders to ensure timely delivery. Responsible for
material management ensuring proper maintenance sparing requirements were
met in each market.
Supervised staff members including work schedules, travel expenses,
promotions, disciplinary actions, and performance appraisals.
- Managed Microwave radio installations across multiple states with a
98% on time performance rate.
- Developed and implemented a program that removed inefficiently used radio
network equipment, which saved $0.5M per year in lease payments.
Redeployment of electronics equated to $2.5M in capital savings.
- Identified process control issues and coordinated with external
department liaisons to correct deficiencies.
- Managed 24/7 maintenance to ensure a 2-hour mean time to repair.
- Developed and implemented a national telemetry network design to ensure
100% receipt of all radio network alarms.
- Developed course material and trained internal maintenance technicians
across multiple markets to reduce vendor expense by 50% per market.
- Coordinated with AT&T Labs to define, locate, and certify new wireless
technologies including Free Space Optics products for deployment on the
AT&T Network.
- Received numerous Roll Model performance appraisals.
- Recipient of 2003 Project Management Excellence Award.
Sideband Systems Inc. Beverly, Massachusetts 1990 - 1998
Responsibilities included Sales support, engineering design, installation
management, and 24/7 maintenance of wired and wireless communication
networks for high profile customers such as Putnam Investments, Algonquin
Gas Transmission, and Rhode Island State Police. Engineering Functions
included systems integration, network design, microwave link budgets and
terrain profile analysis. Management functions included coordination of
staff, contractors, and project deliverables.
- Designed and implemented one of the first hospital wireless LAN
deployments to support patient bedside care.
- Deployed a 144-site multi-drop circuit network between Boston, MA and
Lambertville, NJ. System was used to monitor pipeline activity for
Algonquin Gas Transmission. Developed and deployed a disaster recovery
network to reroute critical pipeline data.
- Designed and deployed small business networks carrying voice and data
ranging from sub-rate DS0's to multiple OC3.
- Installed and tested channel banks, M13 muxes, small business PBX's,
Bridges, Routers, Wireless LAN's, Wireless WAN's, Microwave Radio
Systems, voice and data in-house cabling.
International Auto Repair Gloucester, Massachusetts 1988 - 1995
Owner/Operator - As a Business Owner, was responsible for daily operation
of auto repair business. Maintained P&L's, all receivables/payables,
payroll, and inventory as well as managed employees and customer service.
As an operator, involved in all aspects of foreign and domestic repairs,
specializing in electrical repairs and diagnosing electronic engine control
malfunctions. Member of Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce.
Education:
University of Phoenix, Woburn, MA.
Masters in Business Administration - Technology Management. - 85%
completion 3.9 GPA
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA. - 1997
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a concentration on
wireless communication theory.
Related Experience:
Military experience - United States Army Reserve - Power Generation
Equipment Repair.
PMP - Tools and Techniques of Project Management
Cisco Certified Entry Network Technician CCENT, VLAN management, Ethernet
Traffic Prioritization (QOS, P-bit, TOS, DSCP, VLAN, BPDU), LLDP, OAM,
RSTP, QinQ, LAG, CIR, EIR, RMON, Latency, Jitter, Stream testing, QOS
testing, RFC-2544 Testing, EPL, EVPL, E-LAN, SNMP, MIB, TTL, FTP/SFTP
Telnet, SSH, HTTP/HTTPS, Radius.
Pathloss, MFG Pro, Microsoft Access Database, WireShark, Spectrum Analyzer,
LTE Backhaul, sub rate DS0 to OC-3 testing.
Some Italian and limited Spanish.