2004 – 2005 BLOCKBUSTER INC.,Finance Manager (Development) Dallas, TX

Evaluate mergers and acquisitions of various small operators to achieve BBI growth targets. Prepared bids and models for negotiation tactics for acquisitions of a chain of video stores

Provide financial customer and market analysis to support the firm’s long term strategic planning process ensuring maximum return on investment. Responsibility also included financial modeling

evelop financial and strategic analysis for certain domestic operating units to analyze impact of company initiatives. Present results to operations and finance executives

Analyze monthly results of operations. Identify operating units with significant cost savings and revenue enhancement opportunities. Recommend solutions to capitalize on areas of opportunity

Provide financial support to various

Worked on Real Estate development, placing Blockbuster in strategic locations and renew leases

Develop, analyze, and provide ad hoc analysis and monthly reporting to operations executives

Key in devising the Rhino Games growth / development strategy (acquired by BBI in May 2004)

Manage a team of 2 Senior Financial Analysts and 2 Analysts within the organization

2000 – 2004 NORTEL NETWORKS,Project anager Richardson, TX

Responsible for the first commercial release of UMTS (3G) access software to Vodaphone, Spain. Duties included writing the test plans and test cases for the access components, provisioning the new features introduced and executing test cases to demonstrate the functionality to the customer. This required interfacing with the software and hardware design groups for troubleshooting issues.

Managed the installation and the commissioning of the access side for one of the first 3G labs in USA. This lab made the first 3G voice and data call in the US and used for demonstrations. This lab is now used to demonstrate the features and capabilities of the 3G Nortel Networks access solution. The project was completed on time with fewer resources than promised.

Managed the successful completion of Airtel (Spain), Omnitel (Italy), Taiwan Telecom (Taiwan), CMC (China), and SKT (Korea) 3G trials in a timely manner and under budget saving ~ $2 million

Developed RFF (Request for feature) documents for the customers after analyzing customer needs

Led recruiting, customer training and employee mentoring activities within the organization

Designed training classes and devised better methods for training in an effort to save money

esponsible to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty by delivering the functional and tested product for a timely network deployment.

Ensuring that the quality of software delivered to customers was up to the ISO/TL9000 standards.

2000 – 2000 MINDTAP INC, Founder & Vice President Operations

Managed development of e-enabled contact delivery platform that allows companies to remotely manage all customer interactions including voice, email and web collaboration

Presented business plans (Income and P&L statements, balance sheet, and sensitivity analysis), formulated term-sheets and led negotiations with VC firms to raise $1.5 million in first round funding

Participated in all aspects of Start-up such as investor presentations, company structuring, marketing, recruiting, and incorporation

1996 – 2000 NORTEL NETWORKS,

Senior Software Engineer Richardson, TX

Led a team to set up the V5.2 (CDMA-LTX) lab for the Wireless Software Solutions groups for easier debugging of field issues during the verification process.

Ensured that the errors in the CDMA software delivered to customers worldwide were resolved with minimal customer downtime. This involved interfacing with the Nortel hardware and software teams to ensure quality and timely delivery. Customers included Sprint, Verizon, and Telstra

Provide software / hardware support for CDMA BSC/BTS related issues. This included interfacing with technical assistance, testing / verification and design organizations to troubleshoot and solve BSC/BTS software issues and also assisting in a few hardware related issues

1995 – 1995 Bell Northern Research, Co-Op Student Richardson, TX

Involved in building loads for NORTEL test and design groups of various organizations like MTX, Sprint, GSM, UCS, MCI, also assisted in datafilling the loads when they had fallout.

Wrote shell and awk / sed scripts to make the loadbuild process more efficient