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
Experience in execution
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.
Current interest · Emerging focus
Direct-to-Device (D2D) lets an ordinary phone connect straight to a satellite when no terrestrial signal reaches it. Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) are the broader architecture behind it — satellites (and other airborne platforms) working as part of the mobile network, not alongside it. It is the convergence I am now focused on: the same performance, device, and operations questions I have spent my career on, extended past the edge of the terrestrial grid.
Why it connects to my work: D2D lives or dies on the handset, the link budget, and the handover between satellite and terrestrial coverage — device behaviour I have worked on directly with Apple and Samsung (including DSDS), spectrum trade-offs like the N71 lease analysis, and the operating discipline it takes to hold KPIs when coverage comes from a moving network in orbit.
Standard handsets talking directly to satellites for messaging, emergency, and eventually voice and data — no special hardware, no separate dish.
Terrestrial connectivity where it exists, NTN where it doesn't — with seamless mobility, spectrum sharing, and one performance view across both.
What D2D NTN means for coverage obligations, MVNO economics, device certification, and the NOC — the questions operators, not just satellite firms, have to answer.
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.
An operator's perspective
My career has centered on one problem from several sides of the industry: how connectivity performs once it leaves the lab and meets real traffic, real devices, and real scale. At Comcast I have led wireless network performance and optimization since 2021, scaling a greenfield wireless platform (5G standalone / CBRS) from a pilot cluster to 11,063 sites nationwide.
Before that, six years at T-Mobile working on wireless performance strategy, and earlier roles with Nokia, Ericsson, and Aircom — the vendor and tooling side of the same discipline. That mix is why I work the way I do: strategy set by someone who has also had to make the KPIs move.
That operating discipline extends beyond the radio network. I manage the technical operations framework for telecom operations — ensuring a smooth transition from the construction phase to full operations, covering technical monitoring, operational automation, incident response, and vendor management, and coordinating with engineering and construction teams on equipment commissioning, system handovers, and operational readiness.
The newest chapter is AI in operations. 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 — and replaced a vendor KPI-monitoring platform with in-house tooling, together delivering 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. More on D2D & NTN.
The experience behind the results Connect on LinkedInCareer
COMCAST · CHALFONT, PENNSYLVANIA
T-MOBILE
NOKIA · MEXICO CITY
Aircom International · MTN Nigeria
ERICSSON · SOUTH KOREA & PAKISTAN
D2D / NTN — direct-to-device satellite connectivity for standard handsets, hybrid terrestrial + non-terrestrial coverage, and the device, spectrum, and NOC implications for operators.
Telecom operations — the technical operations framework that carries a network from construction through commissioning and handover into full, ready operations.
AI in network operations — generative AI on PM/CM data, and replacing vendor tooling with in-house capability.
MSc, Modern Wireless & Radio Frequency
University of Leeds · 2005–2007
B.E.
NED University of Engineering & Technology
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.
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