Leonel A. Perez
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Network Design Engineer
Gigapower
03.2023 - Current
- Responsible to plan, design, and implement telecommunications Gigapower systems, networks, and building facilities
- Ensured that all network quality requirements are followed by all vendors and personnel on the project
- Certified that all aerial and underground construction and engineering requirements were met
- Guaranteed that all mitigation and restoration methods for emergencies such as fiber damage, power -failures, and other disasters
- Configured and installed network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)
- Performed network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
- Monitored performance and ensure system availability and reliability
- Monitored system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning
- Provided Level-2/3 support and troubleshooting to resolve issues
- Worked within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure
- Selected and implemented security tools, policies, and procedures in conjunction with the company’s security team
- Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
Principal
AT&T
07.2022 - 03.2023
- Responsible for portfolio management of about $95M of multiple development budgets to support, optical and broadband programs
- This responsibility included the administration of credits from Juniper, Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, Coriant-Infinera, and Nokia to offset architecture and application development cost
- Accountable for the evaluation and implementation of OPT-E-WAN AT&T process as an option to aid in a more rapid deployment and implementation of the OpenROADM initiative
- Responsible to gain traction for the OpenROADM initiative at multiple levels
- Devised a plan to bring installation vendors together on a national forum to do root-cause analysis on all pending area deployments
- Engineered OpenROADM overall implementation process to analyze and improve current cycle time milestones at the installation vendor level
- Planned process to apply corrective action to the disarray in OpenROADM parts databases
- This improvement will facilitate ordering of parts by field Ops
- This enhancement will close the formatting gap between AT&T and vendor databases., member of the WEST GRANITE Inventory Group
- Responsible for GRANITE Database integrity for ALL Mobility equipment in the WEST
- Developed the initial process to correct inventory for all Tektronics Probes in the WEST
- Breaking the code in GRANITE
- Develop form to entry field inventory
- Trained all team members for SoCal
- Lead for Socal on the ATX Tie Down Database Discrepancies/ TDI project
- Aligned Legacy-S database TIRKS with Legacy-T database IRIS.
Strategic Infrastructure Planner
AT&T
07.2021 - 07.2022
- Planned and managed building key infrastructure components for SIP’s West region
- Managed and supported team members in various Implementation Provisioning & Optimization (IPO) initiatives:
- Managed and provided analysis support for various SIP projects
- Reviewed regional leased buildings and developed exit plan
- Developed plans for wireline or wireless sites in the region that required complex resolution to resolve infrastructure constraints or issues
- Developed Regional Site Playbooks, 5-Year Plans and Comprehensive LATA Infrastructure Program for key regional buildings and areas
- Develop Space, Power and Cooling assessments on all technical spaces
- Supported activities to review sites and develop DePOP plans for sites
- Updated executive dashboard reports on the key regional buildings
- Serve as primary communication source for MIP, wireline, GES, CRE and other teams on infrastructure prioritization efforts and standards
- Supported savings opportunity initiatives through equipment reuse, site monetization, site consolidation, lease reviews
- Developed each SIP Business Case and Decision Documents for the West Region to ensure accuracy, fullness, and proper structure
- Manage regional capital projects to ensure it met budget and forecast requirements
- Lead SIP planner for Monetization - Monetization is an opportunity to enhance our technical space portfolio by reducing AT&T’s footprint
- This reduction will BRING additional savings to the business in the form of cost avoidance, and revenue generation
- Monetization includes various transactional options such as
- In charge to identify monetization candidates
- Responsible for assessing technical feasibility throughout the process across multiple planning organizations and stakeholder processes
- Accountable to mitigate non-productive time spent in analysis avoiding expensive, complex, and long-term network exits.
Design –Engineer
AT&T
12.2012 - 07.2021
- Responsible for planning, prioritization, supervision, training, reviews of a group of Network Engineers as Senior Technical Support
- Accountable for the prioritization of projects, schedules, assigns and evaluates work; procures and provides resources to staff as needed
- In charge of monitoring and evaluation of staff performance and quality of work
- Initiated informal and formal disciplinary actions as necessary
- Participated and assisted in identifying opportunities for improving service delivery methods, implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and cycle time delivery
- Identified resource needs, and reviewed with appropriate management staff to implement changes
- Responded to and resolved routine customer inquiries and complaints
- Gathered and compiled information on operations and activities for reporting purposes
- Attended and participated in professional group meetings, keeping up with new trends and innovations, products in use in other jurisdictions, literature reviews of vendors in the marketplace and developing Network Engineering strategic or management plans
- Ensures after Action Reports are prepared following any major problems or upon request
- Prepared reports, correspondence and other documents
- Participated on committees and task forces
- Attended meetings, conferences and training sessions
- Responsible for preparing, administering, recommending and monitoring unit or project budgets;
- Tracked, analyzed and monitored expenditure and staffing levels for assigned areas;
- Researched costs for new hardware, software and other items and prepares reports and recommendations
- Produced plans for ongoing maintenance for all systems managed by the unit
- Ensured vendor maintenance contracts are in place with all vendors
- Provided technical and functional supervision of contractors/vendors
- Assisted in solving problems regarding network engineering, telecommunications, operating systems, communications, business process analysis, and applications
- Reviewed new and proposed laws, regulations, codes, methods, materials and techniques for application to projects
- Developed and implemented procedures, standards and systems
- Responsible for the management of equipment inventories
- Managed complex technology projects requiring the support of multiple diverse staff
- Met with customers to determine needs and to address service deficiencies
- Designed, and directed work unit quality assurance activities and coordinated resolution of complex and technical problems and system changes that affect the work of the unit
- Created and monitored performance metrics for technical support, applications, and infrastructure uptime to ensure that the customer service is aligned with the department's vision
- Reviewed and approved systems development and systems enhancement plans, work orders, consultant and related bills and purchase orders;
- Prepared and monitored consultant agreements
- Lead an effort to integrate installation vendors as an option in the deployment of Legacy-T equipment and eliminate travel drivers
- Acquired and analyzed field performance data on this equipment from Ciena
- Analyzed future deployment of this technology and correlated savings
- Formally presented Ciena Field Performance to AT&T Labs
- Researched and Presented training track for technology change
- Worked in conjunction with AT&T Labs to eliminate the use of Golden Kit, a very expensive testing procedure
- This study also reduced the testing time for certain technologies from 4 hours to 15 minutes
- MSP/DMX/IOS Card Only Removal Automation, resulting in annual savings of $600K
- Elimination of charges on ODU3 & ODU4 Growth Jobs, resulting in annual savings of $600K
- Moving the installation & testing of the Transponder Bay Adds to our Operating Territory Vendors, resulting in annual savings of $77K
- Consolidating projects to reduce the number of TEO’s issued and bundle the work when it is occurring at the same site for multiple Projects, resulting in annual savings of $2M
- Reduction of SOAK Test, resulting in annual savings of - $1.2M
- Developed the Training Material and Job Aid for the nationwide deployment of the Parking Lot Panel for L-T Ciena 6500 & Coriant 7300
- Responsible for presenting this material to the RIOCs and MEIs on a national forum
- Application of this process acquires 46.4% savings
- Accountable for the development, update and maintenance of the L-T IOC RIP Job Aid
- Responsible for training and assisting MEIs with all questions pertinent to L-T IOC RIP
- DWDM
- OLS-OTS
- LCT
- OA
- ALU WAVESTAR OLS 400G
- NEC2400
Senior Technical Consultant
AT
12.2002 - 01.2012
Technical Manager
AT&T
07.2001 - 12.2002
- Chair for an on-going effort to share best implementation practices and the integration and standardization of business practices across SBC
- Team efforts have resulted in standardized processes improved supplier and vendor contracts, achieving substantial savings
- Part of SME team in charge of tracking surplus material in SBC nationwide operation footprint
- Owned tracking spreadsheet
- Assisted in the organization of two distribution warehouses
- Coordinated enterprise-wide procurement of surplus material
- Project attained savings of over $20M in vendor material fees
- Developed technical statement of work templates for all technologies in the western region
- Templates were issued by the Engineers as bids to the installation vendors
- This practice brought standardization and uniformity in the quotes issued to our vendors
- Installation quality control for all SBC’s Central Offices in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego Counties
Central Office Engineer
AT&T
03.2000 - 07.2001
- Responsible for estimating, procuring, and managing the installation and expenditures of several concurrent jobs for data technologies (e.g
- VPOP, ADSL, Frame Relay, ATM)
- Managed multiple budgets and projects to within 1% difference (85 projects at peak times)
- Budget size varied from 100K to $6M
- In charge of providing technical support and direct multiple vendor/Telco activities
- Provided technical assistance to installation vendor during high installation volume time
- Accountable for maintaining high quality project standards that ensured the integrity and reliability of the network infrastructure
- All projects were finished on or before the deadline with zero defects
- Responsible for identifying and resolving network issues to ensure minimal service disruptions
- Never had an outage in geographical area of responsibility
- Reviewed processes and made recommendations for improving system accessibility, performance, and utilization
- In charge of coordination with work groups, AT&T affiliates, and vendors to resolve problems quickly
- Responsible for a 50 Central Offices in Southern California
Senior Technical Consultant
AT&T West region
, Nevada
- Principal member of the IDIS Inventory/ IPAG Group 2009
- Developed the initial process to inventory the IPAG equipment into IDIS for all regions
- Contributor on the design of the EIU document for all devices (MX 480, MX 960, CISCO 2821 and CISCO 2950)
- Developed the EIU for the CIENA LE311V
- Trained all team members for all regions
- Responsible for the IPAG equipment inventory accuracy
- Developed forms to correct inventory in TIRKS
- Engaged and trained CPC personnel to correct discrepancies in IPAG inventory
- Developed the forms to be used to correct inventory
- Trained regional IDIS/IPAG SMEs and transitioned regional IDIS/IPAG responsibilities
- Continue to be the IDIS/IPAG SME for the WEST
- Primary member in a company-wide effort to identify, streamline and improve Equipment Inventory Update (EIU) and Common Systems activities as part as the transition of these tasks to AT&T- approved installation vendors
- Developed the EIU training material
- Trained the installation vendors in all AT&T geographical areas
- Developed the EIU score card that will be used to evaluate the vendors performance on this task
- Help to develop, streamline and improve the Common Systems processes
- Assisted in the development of new web-site that will enable the installation vendors to access AT&T records
- Successfully led a team on a Nation-wide effort to ensure that all necessary ORACLE based job closing information was properly transferred to the new budgeting tool, FDW
- Managed the technical performance of 11 engineers in accordance to established budget variances and engineering implementation guidelines, including quality, training and project evaluation
- Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for all business and collocation transactions between Advanced Solutions Inc (CLEC) and AT&T (ILEC) for the West
- Led an analysis to return unused space, facilities and power, realizing substantial savings in the first year
- Led a team that coordinated over 800 projects, synchronized their timelines and combined their collocation applications achieving substantial savings
- Led a company wide SME team in an interdepartmental effort to approximate the forecasting tools and budget tools to within 3% difference from the initial and final budgets, returning about $20M
Education
Doctor of Science - Cybersecurity
Marymount University
Master of Science - Information Security Operations
Champlain College
Master of Business Administration - Technology Management
National University
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
California State University
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
California State University
Configuration Management, Certification, Accreditation & Security Assessment, Security Incident & Event Management and Contingency Planning. - undefined
Skills
- Threat Vulnerability Analysis
- Incident Response Event Management
- Security Testing - Black, White and Gray box testing
- Malware Analysis - analysis of malware and recovery from a malware infestation
- Strong understanding of data security tools and controls
- Data tokenization;
- Data encryption
- Secrets management
- Experience embedding security into Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
- Basic development or scripting experience
- AWS cloud provider
- Experience with Fortanix (data tokenization), Hashicorp Vault (secrets management)
Timeline
Network Design Engineer
Gigapower
03.2023 - Current
Principal
AT&T
07.2022 - 03.2023
Strategic Infrastructure Planner
AT&T
07.2021 - 07.2022
Design –Engineer
AT&T
12.2012 - 07.2021
Senior Technical Consultant
AT
12.2002 - 01.2012
Technical Manager
AT&T
07.2001 - 12.2002
Central Office Engineer
AT&T
03.2000 - 07.2001
Senior Technical Consultant
AT&T West region
Doctor of Science - Cybersecurity
Marymount University
Master of Science - Information Security Operations
Champlain College
Master of Business Administration - Technology Management
National University
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
California State University
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
California State University