John Babich

Current

• GSM Project Planner at Ericsson
• Volunteer at Fedora Project

Past

• GSM Project Controller at Norconsult Telematics SA
• Data Core & NGN Expert at Norconsult Telematics SA
• Sr. Data Network Engineer (BSS/OSS) at Norconsult Telematics SA

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Education

• Towson University

Recommended

3 people have recommended John

Connections

196 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• Fedora Project
• My Blog
• Fedora People

John Babich’s Summary

Experience:
ICT consultant with broad experience in information technology and telecoms, currently working in the telecoms industry as a GSM project planner.

Goals:
- To increase application of project management and planning skills
- To promote emerging ICT technologies
- To foster the growth of free and open source software (FOSS) alongside the use of proprietary software in ICT
- To apply ICT and FOSS to make the world a better place.

John Babich’s Specialties:

- Technical project management
- Packet switched networks
- Next generation networks (NGN)
- Technical Writing
- GNU/Linux, especially Fedora Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Microsoft Windows, especially MS Office and Project
- Visual Basic for Apps (VBA), esp. MS Excel
- Network architecture
- TCP/IP networking

John Babich’s Experience

• GSM Project Planner

  Ericsson

  (Public Company; ERIC; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  As part of the PMO for MUKSA, performed duties as a Project Planner for Mobily projects. I periodically conduct risk management workshops for various projects. I also am developing a report writer in Excel VBA to create complex reports from Site Handler data.

• Volunteer

  Fedora Project

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  The Fedora Project is a volunteer community project sponsored by Red Hat, Inc. and is a joint effort between the FOSS community and Red Hat employees.
  
  I currently am a non-paid volunteer. I support the Fedora Project with my time and energy because I wholeheartedly agree with its philosophy and goals. Due to job demands, I unfortunately had to scale back my involvement. I still track activities in FP and hope to become more active in the near future.
  
  I was re-elected to the Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (FDSCo) and served as an elected member of the Fedora Ambassador Steering Committee (FAMSCo) in 2008.

Additional Information

John Babich’s Websites:

• Fedora Project
• My Blog
• Fedora People

John Babich’s Interests:

technical project management, emerging technologies, enterprise software, technical documentation, technical writing, philosophy, history, Fedora Linux, GNU/Linux, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), jazz, music

John Babich’s Groups:

Project Management Institute, Fedora Project

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Telecom Professionals
•    Web 2.0
•    Global Program and Project Networking Group (9400+)
•    Project Manager Networking Group
•    Consultants Network
•    PMI Certified PMPs
•    Open Source Universe
•    Microsoft Excel Users
•    OpenOffice.org
•    The Linux Foundation
•    Linux Expert
•    Fedora
•    Towson University
•    GNOME
•    IBM co/ex workers independent group
•    Compuware Connection Group
•    Ericsson Global
•    Telecom & Mobile VAS Professionals Worldwide
•    PMI Baltimore Chapter
•    PMI College of Scheduling
•    Job Openings for U.S IT Professionals
•    PMI - SP Exam for Planning & Scheduling Pros