AT&TPrincipal Technical Program Manager
Jun. 2021 - Apr. 2025Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States- Architected a 3-year modernization roadmap covering 6 mobility-core platforms; pulled two legacy platforms forward by 6 months and trimmed projected capex by 8%
- Managed a $4M annual budget across concurrent programs; closed the books 2% under plan
- Leveraged savings to pilot a 5G DBE proof-of-concept, boosting capacity by 10%
- Streamlined USP & BVoIP pipelines, slashing lab-to-prod time from 18 to 12 wks, accelerating feature rollouts by 20% for 150M+ subscribers
- Negotiated new SLAs with Nokia and F5, enabling zero-touch telemetry; MTTR fell 5%, averting $300K in potential SLA penalties
- Led bi-annual program readouts, maintaining stakeholder & management engagement