Bahrid Boboch, PMP, L* Appian Certified Senior Developer, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
QTP/UFT Pro, BA
Fairfax, VA 22030 ************@*****.*** 757-***-****
Strategy and Technology leader with + 10 year of Program Management and Engineering Leadership
Top Performer for last 5 years (top 1%)
Built high performance and unique teams while achieving Organization goals
EXPERIENCE
Universal Service Administration Company (USAC), Washington, DC 2016-Present
Senior Technical Program Manager / SME
Led programs for High-Cost areas within the assigned scope, time, and budget within an annual operation of $ +500M by developing a deep plan of the projects and program operation and stakeholders which created a consultative business strategy development practice within the teams.
Developed and implemented a strategic plan for High-Cost Programs verifications and Audits, which defined and built out new comprehensive and complex IT systems, reporting suits, and platforms.
Developed strategically Risk Management plan for High-Cost functional areas concentrating on managing the governance and identifying the control framework across a large business and financial operations while serving as the Risk Officer.
Proposed and developed dissemination systems (Knowledge Management) to share organizational learning with a broad range of stakeholders.
Provided leadership development of inter-team cohesiveness and sustained a strong positive culture during organizational growth aligned with the designed strategy map.
Acted as the highest tier of Technical support escalation for the very complex network build including Tele-healthcare, Schools and libraries, and High-Cost Programs, which required strong knowledge of various broadband technologies complied with the FCC rules and PNs.
Samsung Telecommunication America (STA), Bellevue, WA 2013-2016
Technical Projects Manager
Subject Matter Expert on various broadband network quality and end-user experience issues. Led technical and business presentations to Samsung's customers with a focus on KPI improvements.
Led network upgrade for Sprint’s LTE Network Vision covering 5 million POPs using the Samsung LTE eNB equipment for 1000+ cellular sites in WA, CO, UT, and ID states achieving all project and deployment milestones.
Proposed and implemented a vendor evaluation process to rank and evaluate GCs (General Contractors), highlighting bottlenecks in their daily, weekly, and monthly forecasts and enforcing penalties where applicable based on SLAs.
Orchestrated the migration process including forecast (more than 15 milestones for every site) with risk analysis on a per site basis and delivered on the promised forecast with a 95% accuracy (1000+ cellular sites including DAS over 26 months)
Developed the master Bill of Material (BoM) for the network (1000+ cellular sites), requiring constant communication among multi-matrix teams, including Sprint, GCs, field employees, E911 Team, RAN/TAC teams, sales team, and executive management.
MTPCS d/b/a CELLULARONE, Alexandria, LA 2011-2013
Engineering Manager
Lead Engineer for the FCC Mobility Fund Program; for broadband cellular deployment throughout the rural United States Program. Work resulted in over $9M in government funding.
Proposed and implemented the design, optimization, and performance of a complex CDMA/GSM/LTE wireless network operating on multiple vendors (Ericsson, Nortel, NSN, and Star Solutions) for LA/TX/MT and GOM Markets that enhanced cellular data speed from 120kbps to 4.5Mbps.
Developed daily/weekly/monthly executive dashboards highlighting network KPIs, red flags, data roaming trends, and actionable prognosis/recommendations for the Engineering, and Executive managements teams
Managed lease contracts for over 680+ cell sites; interpreted agreements, interfaced with landlords, and recommended the termination of leases for 4 low-revenue producing towers; resulted in annual savings of $100K
Exceeded key performance and quality thresholds for the ATT’s voice and data network, delivering the Service Level Agreement (SLA) parameters for 400 + sites in many markets
FedEx, Memphis, TN 2008-2011
Senior Appian Developer/Team Lead
Act as the subject matter expert related to the Appian Platform.
Designing and Creating Workflows, Class structures, Rule sets, Rule set Versions, Activities, Activity Step Methods, Flow Shapes, Harness rules, Layout and Sections
Provided technical assistance for integration of Appian systems along with external systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft, MuleSoft, Salesforce and ETL AbiNto
Establishes the necessary governance, tools and processes to ensure long term stability and success of the platform, set clear expectations with distributed development teams and support the Customer goals.
Ensure Appian applications are developed per Customer standards and policies and Appian Best Practices
Propose, evaluate and contribute in Architectural solutions for our Customers.
Ensure the Customer stays compliant with Appian licensing and access managements policies
Educate Appian employees and consultants to help them be as effective and successful as they need to be.
Analyze and improve the performance in critical applications.
Geico, Chevy Chase, MD 2005- 2008
Automation Test Lead
Creating and updating automation mobile framework nGRAF (New Generation Robust Automation Framework) on mobile labs/perfecto device connect using UFT
Migrating existing UFT test cases to Selenium\Appium (web and mobile), Python with behave (BDD/Cucumber)
Used Ruby to execute Selenium automation suites on different browser combinations.
Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behaviors and step definitions. Developed required Selenium support code in RUBY for Cucumber
Provided solutions to the application challenges and DevOps (Jenkins/Azure)
Coordinate with functional team to gather application requirements and functionalities.
Automation Test Data preparation for regression test cases
Test Design Preparation - Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Data and Tractability Matrix
Involved in preparing Metrics Plan, Effort Estimation as per the number of Requirements and Test Cases for the requirements and for Test Scenarios
Test Bed/Suite Management using Visual Studio Test Manager
Test Execution, Defect identification, defect validation and Defect Management
Defect Management - Isolating Defects and reporting it in JIRA or TFS Bug
Daily/Weekly/Monthly Status Reporting for the product to Managers\Leads
EDUCATION
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Risk Manager Professional (PMI-RMP) -- PMI License 3377816
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)
Project Management Professional (PMP) -- PMI License 3377816
Appian Academy
Appian Certified Senior Developer – L2
Appian Academy
Appian Certified Associate Developer – L1
AWS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Validation Number 135GDYPBFMR41KST/ Validate at: https://aws.amazon.com/verification
TIU
B.Art.in International Economic Relations
ADDITIONAL
Skills & tools: Strategy and Leadership, Performance Management, Change Management, Project Management, Risk Management, Product Management, Agile, Scrum Master, Vendor Management, Balanced Scorecard, Microsoft Project, Visio, Mapping tools (ArcGIS, QGIS, R), Data Integration, Data Analysis, Cost Models, P6 Primavera, Mobile Network Planning (MapInfo, Planet, Atoll, IBwave, TEMS), Metro Ethernet.
DiSC Profile: (CS) Conscientiousness and Steadiness
Clifton Strength Theme: Strategical, Analytical, Deliberative, Significance, and Learner