Project Management

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Renee Liu PMP,M.A.in tech management, B.Sc.

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Summary:

-Ten years in project portfolio management, team lead and co-ordination, SDLC, release management, business

planning, market evaluation and product launches, technical planning on a global basis.

-Five years in product development and management in technical industry.

-Ten years in Network design, application research and development planning and deployment management/ support.

-Master degree in Telecom Management specialized in wireless and IP networks, technologies with global standard,

policy and market management focus.

-Project Management Professional certified

Core Competency

Global team leadership, Agile project management, Process improvement, Business planning, Product positioning,

Cross functional department leadership, Product management, ISO, mobile/ Ethernet device design (software and

hardware), infrastructure standardization and other international certification involvement

Projects/ Achievement:

-SMB/ enterprise IT software/ hardware planning, design and implementation including VoIP, SIP,PBXs,WiFi,WLAN,

Database warehousing, migration application development on open source and Microsoft based technologies;

distributed (cloud) computing and applications.

-2.5G/ 3G switching applications and services-Lucent

-Cable internet service content and infrastructure alliance-Eastern Multimedia

-SOCs : WAP, VoIP, xDSL, Ethernet and WLAN(WiFi), Bluetooth with applications-Toshiba

-Cell phone chipset product planning experience: GSM/ CDMA/ PCS/WCDMA-Toshiba

Professional Experience:

-Led global teams in cross functional departments to deliver major international product lines with multimillion dollar

international contract value under tight schedule

-Recognized opportunities and developed achievable milestones and processes; acquired major channels within 6

months and increased sales by 50%

-Revived 3 major product lines within 1 year saving multinational fortune 1000 company millions of dollars in research

and development funds raised bottom line profit by 200%.

-Efficiently managed teams, projects and responsibilities within matrix organization with satisfying agile development

results

-Led and participated in PMO guidelines, benchmarking, and strategic goals setup, assignment and improvement

-Led multiple mobile/ telecom devices through global certification and launch with success; clients include top five

Ethernet/ Telco user devices worldwide.

-Effectively managed key stakeholders’ expectations for major project success in local/ international market

deployment; contract value in million dollar range

-Planned major project requirements and deliverables with contingency plans to ensure project deliverable timeliness

and mitigated risks

-Implemented ISO system for project knowledge management and change control purposes.

-Planned, managed major product line estimation and finance with senior management for market success.

-Established practical timeline, WBS, critical path control based on solid field technical and management experiences

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-Managed SDLC with agile project management method with team on global technical projects and participated in

mentoring, feedback in PMO

-Monitored and controlled supplier and potential risks which contribute to project success

-Ability to evaluate project from all perspectives such as: legal, technical, business, market, finance.

-Certified research and development products under international certification requirement for global distribution.

History:

IT consultant:/Project, program Manager Toronto Canada, New York, NY2002-2011

An information technology consulting company experienced in enterprise solutions.

Championed application/ network requirement development and led development across departments gained long

term customer’s faith.

Directed clients’ IT department strategy, business model, processes and budgeted efforts for long term growth

Managed portfolio of projects with remote / local PMs , participated in improving PMO efficiencies

Facilitated partner and suppliers’ PLM and NPI efforts by feeding back market input and consulting necessary

changes, stage gate to be met, QA, global certification, release method.

Software and Database development/ integration with remote and local teams on platforms such as Linux,

Microsoft, Share/ hosted environment, cloud services with Java, J2EE, C, SQL, SDC,XML, and other up to date

technologies/ applications which successfully increased business efficiency by 200%.

Hardware/software/application integration for cable ISP, WiFi, WLAN, VPN, VoIP, SIP and other relevant

services/ infrastructure. Technology encompasses: DOCSIS, 2.5G/3G platform, and relevant protocols and

applications cross different standards and geographical boundaries with ROI and business continuity in mind

Led database and VPN multi-site data sharing development, network evolvement for companies with frequent

changes and large data volume exchange by both agile/scrum and traditional method with success.

Facilitated and participated in indirect partners’ government bids process analyzing network systems, sourcing

relevant network components and bidding processes in North America

Led and designed/deployed multiple software development projects with agile/ traditional method and maintain

multimedia sites for data sharing /distribution purposes, established company’s international footprint.

Established international corporations’ online presence and software hardware environment for efficiency

Led remote and local teams to deliver development projects under tight deadline with satisfaction

Led database and VPN multi site data sharing development for companies with frequent changes

Consulted customer on converged data and voice traffic integrating solutions by minimum technology/business

changes

Lucent Technology: Product /Project Manager Taipei Taiwan 2000-2001

Launched Research and Development efforts from Britain, North America and finalized wire line and wireless product

features, promoted products with local Research and Development team, Sales, Telecom Vendors, third parties, and

project teams; CLEC, ILEC vendor solutions. (Competitor: Cisco AVVID)

Established three major CLEC and ILEC carriers with killer features/ applications

Championed requirement development, global standardization process ( 3G / 2.5G : UMTS, CDMA 1xEVDO, MMS,

USSD, and global backward compatibility ) with various applications and infrastructure issues to retain/acquire major

clients

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Won and maintained 2 national wireless carriers for future central office switching system upgrades

Participated in government bidding and contracting processes within cross geographical and cross departmental

teams with contracts valued in millions

Create and maintain the project schedule, deliverables, budget, issues, and risks with team through all project gates.

Track progress and variances and mitigate risk with standardized PMI method.

Toshiba Electronics: Product/Project Engineer Taipei Taiwan 1999-2000

Design in chipset solutions with research and development team, global clients, sales, marketing, and alliances for

user / telecom devices. Technologies includes: WAP, xDSL, H.323, SIP, Ethernet, PHY, Bluetooth, WiFi, open source,

Microsoft platform, SQL, C, Java, MPEG, Q.931, ISDN, ATM, WinCE/ XP/98/NT,zOS. RTOS…etc.

Managed Portfolio of projects and participated in program and departmental strategic development with senior

managers quarterly

Managed counterpart PMO’s efforts within the company and external channels, vendors, third parties’ efforts for

project program progress, adjust strategic directions in biweekly meeting and established CR processes

Managed project portfolio costs, and budgets by ABC accounting, also managed BOM and component costs

Participated in forecast meetings and quarterly evaluation meetings for project benchmarking

Led requirement development process through certification requirement compliance and various project gates with

global team; managed vendors, alliances, and global standardization issues to various product successful launch.

Led initial product research and development design / launch plan; effectively introduced the product to various

channels and accounts with significant revenue contribution.

Designed in chipset with application solutions for various global vendors and successfully gained market share

worldwide.

Managed project implementation including design, specifications, testing, SDLC and deployment and resulted in

efficient internal ecosystem and saved 50% resources/ costs

Managed projects to match major milestones and analyzed critical path to meet deadlines and resulted in 100%

more productivity as a team.

Led Research and development efforts from concept design through all gates to delivery for international multimillion

dollars contracts

Established project management office’s best practices and learned lessons for strategically significant clients

Led and participated quality and testing standard set up with clients to accelerate project delivery

PMIS implementation and training, established change control system ( IBM Lotus, SAP, Oracle)

Led team to agile operation

Eastern Multimedia: Strategy Specialist Taipei Taiwan 1998-1999

(Major Cable Internet service provider with FTTx infrastructure) Collaborated with Engineering, Finance, and

channels on cable internet service detail planning under Vice-President’s supervision, CCTV, ISP solutions.

Participated in global cable alliance and standardization process to certify user devices and established carrier’s

pricing, service infrastructure.

Coordinated with various multi functional departmental major strategic initiatives and a portfolio of projects with

counterparts’ PMs

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Participated in bi weekly PMO meeting with senior management for strategic initiative, prioritizing efforts, CR and

process improvement with PMs

Managed vendors and partners’ initiatives and integrated into program/ project management directives according to

decisions made in biweekly PMO meeting

Developed applications with sales/marketing, engineering team and launched with national success.

Developed alliance plan with community to provide cable internet service as packaged services which lead to

10,000 more user counts and later on an alliance business model

Gained shareholders approval on deploying cable ISP services and infrastructures national wide with the team

International Trade Company: Coordinator/Database Architect L.A. CA USA 1997-1998

- Coordinated, controlled delivery schedule, quotation, client issue resolution

Established customer database which streamlined processes to achieve 200% more operational efficiencies

based on Microsoft technologies

Education:

Master degree in Telecom management, University of Southern California, L.A. CA USA Business planning, New

Technology Introduction (VoIP, DSL, Cable, Fiber Optics, GSM/ CDMA…etc.),

Bachelor, National Taiwan University, Taipei TAIWAN

Professional Development:

PMP certification: PMI 2009

Establishing project program office 2011

IT Project management 2009

LTE concepts 2009

CCNA 2007

Continue education study in Information Technologies USA 2004-2006 Syracuse University

Distributed systems; Cloud and Utility Computing; UNIX; RDBS; Wireless systems; IT finance and ABC accounting

LAN/ WAN technologies 2005

Linux 2004

C++ language concepts 2002

Situational leadership 2001

Project management: work breakdown structures, critical path analysis 2001

MCSE and Microsoft operating systems/server 2001

LAN/ WAN concepts 2000

GPRS 2000

SIP and H.323 1999

Technical Experience

Telecom:

High level understanding of LTE, CAMEL , GSM, GPRS, PDSN, WAP, SS7, SCP, STP, 3G, MMS, CDMA and CDMA

1xEVDO

Strong understanding of SMS, USSD, SIM technology and other GSM protocols Strong understanding of VoIP

technology, hosted and CPE style IP PBX technologies and functionality; QoS Cable DOCSIS, CATV, CCTV,

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Broadband Internet, Interactive TV, Pay Per View (PPV), VoD, HFC, Coaxial, CATS, ISDN (On-Ramp), xDSL, MPEG

DVB, MPEG2 and 4, HD TV, Various modulation and encryption techniques, such as QAM, QPSK, FSK etc.

Familiar with NTSC and ATSC, PAL/SECAM standards and CRTC and SCTE specifications

Other skills

Microsoft proiect, Share point, Clarity, Primevera, Visio, Access, Excel, Powerpoint, DOS, Windows NT / 95 / 98 /

2000 (Enterprise/ Advanced/ Professional)/ ME / XP, sharepoint, Linux Routers, Switches, Hubs, Computer

Hardware and Peripherals ,RAID, SDC, LAN / WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, VPN, Fibre optic etc. HTML, Photoshop,

Search-Engine Optimization & working knowledge of SQL, Microsoft .net, UNIX, SAP, Oracle, Siebel, JAVA, C++,

J2EE

References available upon request

Eligible for North American employment without sponsorship

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