Scale. Performance. Automation.
Executive leadership for connectivity & wireless transformation that scales — and keeps performing.
I lead connectivity and wireless transformation: taking wireless networks from pilot to nationwide scale, holding performance as they grow, and using AI to run operations leaner. My experience spans greenfield wireless build-out, RAN performance strategy, and network operations across Comcast, T-Mobile, Nokia, and Ericsson — plus the technical operations framework for telecom operations, ensuring a smooth transition from construction to full operations. My current focus is where terrestrial networks meet the sky: Direct-to-Device (D2D) and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN).
Open to both paths: full-time Director-level roles in connectivity and wireless transformation, and fractional leadership for companies that need senior wireless transformation, telecom operations, and AI-automation expertise part-time. See the ways to work together.
Selected leadership experience
An operator's perspective
I manage the technical operations framework for telecom operations — ensuring a smooth transition from the construction phase to full operations, with AI-assisted technical monitoring, AI-driven operational automation, and AI-assisted incident response alongside vendor management, and coordinating with engineering and construction teams on equipment commissioning, system handovers, and operational readiness.
AI is now at the centre of that work. I built a RAN-specific generative-AI assistant on performance and configuration data in Amazon Redshift and took it from proof of concept to pilot: engineers get plain-language answers instead of digging through raw PM/CM data, daily network summaries instead of manual reporting, and likely-cause explanations of KPI movements that cut investigation time. I also replaced a vendor KPI-monitoring subscription with an in-house platform built on AI-driven anomaly detection, automated KPI summaries, and root-cause suggestions. Together, that work delivered roughly $1M in annualized savings. I also supported the business case for 30–50% MVNO bill savings as part of Comcast's wireless economics.
My current interest is where that terrestrial story goes next: Direct-to-Device (D2D) and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) — ordinary phones connecting directly to satellites beyond terrestrial coverage, and what that means for device performance, spectrum, and operations. That is where AI comes in next: AI-assisted performance management for satellite-terrestrial networks, so hybrid coverage is run with the same discipline as the terrestrial network. More on D2D & NTN.
The experience behind the results Connect on LinkedInExperience in execution
Wireless transformation is a global discipline, and I've led it from both sides — operator and vendor — in the US, Mexico, South Korea, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Romania. At Comcast I scaled a greenfield 5G SA / CBRS platform from a pilot cluster to 11,063 sites nationwide. At T-Mobile I led performance strategy through the 5G launch era. At Nokia I led national performance across 8 regions in Mexico. At Ericsson and Aircom I ran RF optimization and NOC operations in South Korea, Pakistan, and Nigeria. Same problem everywhere: how connectivity performs once it leaves the lab and meets real traffic, real devices, and real scale.
Global Perspective. Operator Accountability. Engineering Execution. At Scale.
International telecom ecosystems and technology exposure.
Network deployment, performance and transformation.
Distributed teams, automation and analytics.
AI-RAN, satellite, D2D and 6G.
Career
COMCAST · CHALFONT, PENNSYLVANIA
T-MOBILE
NOKIA · MEXICO CITY
Aircom International · MTN Nigeria
ERICSSON · SOUTH KOREA & PAKISTAN
Transformation results
sites nationwide
Wireless transformation, scaled from pilot to nationwide
Comcast greenfield connectivity platform (5G SA / CBRS), grown over five years from a single pilot cluster.
offloaded traffic per day
8,103× growth in daily offload
Daily offloaded traffic on the Comcast wireless platform as the network scaled.
annualized cost savings
AI and in-house tooling
Delivered by replacing a vendor KPI-monitoring subscription with in-house tooling and reducing dependence on cross-functional support teams.
post-launch optimization budget
A 25-person organization
Nine direct technical reports, plus a 16-person offshore RAN NOC established and managed.
Selected results from prior and current executive-track roles.
Future Connectivity · Strategic Focus
My wireless leadership experience spans network performance, spectrum strategy, handset behavior, and large-scale operations. I am applying that experience to the evolution of Direct-to-Device (D2D), Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), and hybrid satellite-terrestrial connectivity.
The opportunity is bigger than extending coverage. It is about making satellite and terrestrial networks operate as an integrated connectivity ecosystem — with seamless mobility, device compatibility, spectrum efficiency, and consistent customer experience.
Satellite-to-device connectivity and expanded coverage.
Terrestrial and non-terrestrial network integration.
Spectrum, mobility, device ecosystems and operational readiness.
Ways to work together
For operators, MVNOs, and vendors who need a senior connectivity leader embedded part-time — typically one to two days a week — to own a wireless rollout, a performance turnaround, a construction-to-operations transition, or an AI-automation program without a full-time hire.
What fractional meansFor organizations hiring a full-time Director of connectivity, wireless transformation, network performance, or technical operations. My scope at Comcast — 11,063 sites, a 25-person organization, a $5M budget — is director-level work, and it is the level I am targeting.
Discuss a director roleFor leadership teams and event organizers who want an operator's perspective on connectivity and wireless transformation at scale, taking telecom operations from construction to full operations, applying generative AI to network operations, building high-performing RAN organizations, or what D2D / NTN means for terrestrial operators.
Discuss an engagementFor telecom operators who need hands-on leadership of a defined program — a network transformation, a failover / resiliency initiative, or an operational turnaround. I step in to own the program end to end: the plan, the team, and delivery against milestones, until it lands.
Discuss a programThe fractional model
A fractional executive is an experienced leader a company hires part-time — a fraction of a full-time role — instead of carrying a full-time executive salary. The leader typically works one to two days a week, or against a defined program, often for two or three companies at once, on a monthly retainer. The company gets director-level judgment and ownership from day one; it pays only for the share of that leadership it actually needs.
It sits between hiring full-time and hiring a consultant: a fractional leader is embedded and accountable — in the meetings, owning the outcomes, managing the team — where a consultant advises from outside and hands over a deck.
Standing up or rescuing a wireless deployment — including 5G standalone and CBRS — the pilot-to-scale path I ran at Comcast, applied to your markets, vendors, and milestones.
Managing the technical operations framework for telecom operations — technical monitoring, operational automation, incident response, and vendor management, run as one accountable operating discipline.
Ensuring a smooth transition from the construction phase to full operations: coordinating with engineering and construction teams on equipment commissioning, system handovers, and operational readiness.
A network that is live but underperforming: KPI diagnosis, optimization strategy, and the operating rhythm to hold gains — the work I led at T-Mobile and Comcast.
Replacing vendor tooling with in-house capability and putting generative AI to work on performance and configuration data — the program behind ~$1M in annualized savings.
Helping an operator think through Direct-to-Device and non-terrestrial coverage: device readiness, terrestrial–satellite handover, spectrum, and how NTN traffic shows up in performance management and the NOC.
MSc, Modern Wireless & Radio Frequency
University of Leeds · 2005–2007
B.E.
NED University of Engineering & Technology · 2000–2004
Digital Strategy in the Era of AI — Certificate, in progress
Wharton
Perspectives · From LinkedIn
Themes from my LinkedIn posts — the lessons behind the numbers, in colour: wireless transformation at scale, AI in the NOC, wireless economics, and now D2D / NTN.
Q3 Earnings · Starlink D2D
Strong Q3 results from T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon are overshadowed by Starlink D2D, which already covers most of the US and is positioned to extend — not replace — terrestrial networks as the next coverage layer.
Read on LinkedInAgentic Operations
After a week with AWS's agentic-AI team in Herndon, the post argues that agentic AI is truly agentic only when it acts on live network intent and telemetry, and the winners will be operators who let it do so.
Read on LinkedInLEO Satellites
On a Qatar Airways flight I measured 173 Mbps down / 43 Mbps up with 30 ms idle latency at 35,000 ft via Starlink's LEO satellites (~550 km up), showing in-flight Wi-Fi can now rival ground broadband.
Read on LinkedInCBRS · SAS
With Google exiting the SAS business within 12 months while Federated Wireless says AI-driven coordination can unlock 5x capacity, the post argues the coordination layer is where shared spectrum wins, drawing on my Comcast greenfield 5G SA CBRS build from a pilot cluster to 11,063 sites nationwide.
Read on LinkedInStart a conversation
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