Lee Najjar, PMP

Current

• Sr Manager, Reporting & Analytics at ARC (Airline Reporting Corporation)

Past

• Manager, Business Intelligence at Sprint Nextel
• Sr. Manager, IT Service Assurance at Nextel

Education

• Southern Methodist University
• University of Maryland University College

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Lee Najjar, PMP’s Experience

• Sr Manager, Reporting & Analytics

  ARC (Airline Reporting Corporation)

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2009 — Present (9 months)

• Manager, Business Intelligence

  Sprint Nextel

  (Public Company; S; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2005 — March 2009 (3 years 9 months)

  Responsible for lifecycle custom software development and maintenance of engineering tools in the capacity management, facility planning and data warehousing space. Implement projects using system development methodologies including SDM (Software Development Methodology), SCRUM and Sprint’s enterprise development methodology. Recruit, mentor and train a regionally based staff of highly skilled software developers, testers, business analysts and project managers, and utilize off-shore contract labor for staff augmentation. Additional duties include strategic planning, risk mitigation, application road mapping, budgeting and forecasting. Projects range upwards of $2M and include predictive analytics tools with integrated KPI dashboards for capacity planning, forecasting and budgeting. Create and implement business decision software with what-if capability for determining when to augment equipment on the CDMA RF network, the CDMA push-to-talk network, the CDMA switched voice network and the 4G WiMax network which contribute to annual savings in excess of $20M in capital deferments and efficiencies gained through automation. Other projects include data warehousing and BI reporting against performance metrics, alarm detail records, network configuration data, wire-line Call Detail Records, ATM and Frame Relay metrics and burst-able IP packet data for billing purposes.

• Sr. Manager, IT Service Assurance

  Nextel

  (Public Company; NXTL; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  Responsible for lifecycle software development and maintenance of applications supporting capacity management, facility planning and network operations; managed a staff of highly skilled software developers, business analysts and Project Managers. Projects ranged in size between 1M - $2M and included business decision software for planning the iDEN network; an automated rules engine for monitoring equipment warranties; and a facility planning tool for work-flowing deployment packages to the field. Applications resulted in annual savings in excess of $3M due to efficiencies gained through automation.

Lee Najjar, PMP’s Education

• Southern Methodist University

  MS , Telecommunications Management

• University of Maryland University College

  BSEE , Engineering

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Lee Najjar, PMP’s Groups:

•    Nextel Alumni
•    SPRINT NEXTEL CONNECTIONS GROUP

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