ComcastSr. Director Operations - Xfinity Mobile
Mar. 2019 - Dec. 2024Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States* Launched and operated a new mobile service for Comcast to strengthen Xfinity brand and provide customers with the most desired products and services.
* Developed organizational plan and staffed teams to provide release management, change management, incident management, network management, performance engineering, and network monitoring functions for the newly formed Xfinity Mobile service. * Cultivated start-up culture to drive new capabilities quickly and overcome process challenges that encumbered agility. Fostered fail-fast / experiment often / learn quickly mindset within teams to accelerate business and launch readiness. * Assembled a network management team that established and maintained networks between Comcast and Verizon, providing a path for Xfinity Mobile to activate new services as well as obtain usage data used to bill customers.
* Developed data-driven insights to guide network management strategies and improve operational efficiencies across established networks. Connected global call centers to Xfinity Mobile Backoffice Systems thus ensuring 24x7 customer voice and chat support coverage.
* Established observability and reliability teams that built monitoring into all applications and used data to forecast future component failures to avoid customer-impacting outages. * Lead Root Cause Analysis for customer impacting failures to drive continuous improvement processes to mitigate repeat failures.
* Developed the Business Continuity Initiatives, maintained a Disaster Recovery Plan, and conducted data center/service failover war games semi-annually
* Managed engineering teams across three continents to provide 24x7x365 operations coverage for technology stack supporting mobile products and services.