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• Director of Systems Architecture in Vermont

Summary:

• Fulbright scholar with over ten years of hands-on development and management experience in OAM&P for embedded, EMS, NMS and OSS applications.
• Managed team of 5-80 engineers in a multi-national development projects.
• Extensive interaction with the Telecommunications Service Provider customers on Operations Support Systems (OSS) requirements and direction.
• Application development leveraging J2EE, CORBA, Messaging, RDB and OODB technology in scalable multi server, multi tier environments utilizing various programming languages.
• Rich client and Web client application development.
• Embedded development on multiple OS with thorough understanding of Network Applications, Wireless, Optical Transport, IP and ATM technologies.
• In depth knowledge of existing and next generation networks that provide multi-service functionality utilizing wireless as well as traditional access technologies like PON, DSL etc.

Experience Summary:

Director of Systems Architecture

• Created and lead a multi-disciplinary architecture team for Network Operations Software (NOS) Group, a $300 million business unit.
• Envisioned, motivated the organization and realized a company wide EMS platform that is used by all new products. This platform has dramatically improved time to market, interoperability and well received by customers.
• Lead the architecture and design team for the company's next generation network management system (NMS) platform. It has reduced the development cost by 75% and significantly shortened time to market for initial and follow-on releases.
• Extensive customer contacts and on site visits aided in setting direction for the OSS product portfolio and building a solid understanding of the OA&M needs of large networks.
• Directed the company's effort in the ITU, TMF and ATM forum to drive the OSS standards strategy.