Engineer Management
Resume:
Delbert W. Hall
Springfield, Pennsylvania 19064 201-***-****
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PROFILE SKILLS
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Extensive experience in telecommunications engineering management;
Designing, implementing, testing, and managing teams for large scale and complex Network and Network Providers in both areas of Telecom and IT;
End to End Management that resulted in the timely completions of projects;
Implement and produce KPI, re-engineer network design to meet budget requirements;
Excellent communication, team building and leadership; motivated, resourceful and highly organized
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WORK EXPERIENCE
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2004 – 2010
Project Management
Backbone Management COMCAST COMMUNICATION Mt Laurel, New Jersey
Coordinate and Manage Capacity Constraint and provide guidance to Senior Leadership Team (SLT), alerting on network constraints, recommending preventative mitigation, and forecasting network trends to prioritize work flow in order to ensure the appropriate levels of attention is given to network constraints that can be customer impacting . Held monthly meetings with SLT to review KPI.
• Project Manage the design and implementation of the Backbone Network and new methodologies for reporting and forecasting usage. Review comprehensive studying of the network edge interconnect, and analyzed Commercial, Peering, and Transit Providers usage behaviors. Oversee the implementation/network upgrade from the installation of Voice Over IP Network and the roll out Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Circuits, T1, P2P and Optical Carrier (OC) circuit. Also produce studies on how the implementation affects network capacity.
Capacity Engineer
• Provided a comprehensive study for the sizing and optimization of Comcast Backbone and Core Network. Played a key role with OSS on networking reporting issues.
• Wrote scripts in VB & SQL to consistently trended and forecasted ISP/RAN and Backbone elements to predict capacity exhaust. Compiled documentation; captured recommendations on how to improve processes; generated studies on network impact due to the network speed increase; provided analysis on future network products and determined the impact at the customer level; provided a written proposal outlining my vision for the team clearly itemizing the process in which to achieve these objectives.
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2000 - 2003
Director of Network Administration ESPIRE COMMUNICATION Herndon Virginia
Primary responsibilities were to perform, facilitate, coordinate, implement, evaluate, design and manage network and network engineers in a fast paced, limited resources environment. Implement companywide KPI.
• Coordinated the planning of network capacity, using marketing forecast as the guideline to determine facilities required.
• Implemented data traffic and reporting guidelines; Optimized the network utilization;
• Evaluated new soft switching platform; Vender Management; Prepared budget for network building as well as provided due diligence studies for the refinancing of the business module; evaluated and implemented processes to facilitate smooth transition between order entry and customer installation.
• Served on several task forces for the installation and testing of new product/equipment, and processes. Worked with Legal team on LEC related issues for Reciprocal Compensation, and other billing issues. Provided network impact analysis to the Legal team on the cost of adoption new Interconnection Agreement (IA). Worked with ILEC and IXC on all escalation related to IA.
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1997 - 2000
Sr Switch Engineer
T-Mobile - Omnipoint
Cedar Knolls, NJ
Responsibilities included Design, Sizing, Installation, Testing, and deployment of new switches; coordinated seamless transition from testing and deployment phase to online and operational usage phase. Managed team of field switch engineers in a fast paced, limited resources environment.
• Installation tested and integrated all new network platforms; Performed interoperability testing between different switching manufacturers.
• Led a team of engineers in the installation and testing of MSC, HLR, SCP, SSP, SMSC, GPP, VMPMS, SDM/FD, IN and call intercept platform;
• Planned, coordinated and managed all vendor related activity. (Vendor Management) Identified required resources, distributed workload, and adjusted work schedules to meet project deadlines. Prepared final acceptance reports based on the test results. Worked in multi-vendor environment that exposed me to software nuances.
• Performed test of protocols and standard. (ANSI, ETSI, SS7, GSM). Gained comprehensive knowledge of LAN/WAN and TCP/IP Networking during the troubleshooting process. Acted as Liaison with technical transition team for Voicestream/Tmobile network integration.
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FIELD WORK
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Switch and Cell Site planning, dimensioning, sizing, installation, testing and optimizing. BSC, HLR, STPs, OSS, IVR, business systems, signaling systems, transmission systems, and roaming.
Voice mail and SMS administration. Platforms include Centigram, & Converse,
Traffic engineering and forecasting. Implement solutions to capacity exhausts.
New equipment installations; software/hardware upgrades; equipment migrations and swap out; support for 3G, E911, GPRS, DACC, SS7, LNP, ATM, TCP/IP, VoIP
PSTN ordering and coordination; cost reduction and management
Basic switch translations including OM's and logs from switch.
Designed and managed disaster recovery and spare parts policies.
TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT
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Allocate resources to effectively manage projects.
Realign team to meet daily requirement.
Annual and Semiannual reviews with clear goals and guidelines.
Prepare annual budget.
Track, monitor, and communicate progress against costs requirements and milestones.
Supervised and conducted and team building exercises.
Hands on equipment testing and implementing. E911, Calea deployment.
Facilitate problem-solving meetings.
Write and present technical papers on implementation.
Competent in Vendor and Contract Management
EDUCATION
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1991 - 1994 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
BSME
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1990 - 1991 Essex County College Newark, New Jersey
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CERTIFICATIONS/SKILLS
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Nortel switch, Ericsson switch, Sema SMS, Voice Mail Platform, SS7 and TCP/IPMS Office Suite, Access, Excel, Power Point, Word etc. Visual Basic, SQL, Visio, MS Project, Visual Studio.
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