Lizette Velazquez

Current

• Senior Manager Mobility R&D / IOT & application/network offer integration at Alcatel-Lucent
• Member Advisory Committee Business Innovation & Technology Transfer at National Science Foundation
• Consultant at Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

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Past

• Senior Manager / SW Construction & Lab Engineering and Operations at Lucent Technologies
• Consultant OOP Expert, Object Review Consultancy Associates at Lucent Technologies
• Methodologist, Technology Transfer Agent, Domain Analyst & Project Management at Lucent Technologies

• Senior Manager/ Forward Looking Work SW Methods & VoIP at Lucent Technologies
• System Engineer, Domain Analyst, Software Developer & Process Engineer at AT&T
• Research at University of Iowa
• Program Director Computer Science & Instructor at University of The Sacred Heart
• Supervisor of Software Development Teams & Technical Consultant to Govenment at University of the Sacred Heart
• System Engineer, Lead Architect, SW Developer / Resource Center for Science and Engineering at University of Puerto Rico

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Education

• University of Iowa
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• University of Puerto Rico

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Connections

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Industry

Telecommunications

Lizette Velazquez’s Experience

• Senior Manager Mobility R&D / IOT & application/network offer integration

  Alcatel-Lucent

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALU; Telecommunications industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

• Member Advisory Committee Business Innovation & Technology Transfer

  National Science Foundation

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  April 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)

• Consultant

  Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

  (Government Administration industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years )

• Senior Manager / SW Construction & Lab Engineering and Operations

  Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

  2001 — 2005 (4 years )

• Consultant OOP Expert, Object Review Consultancy Associates

  Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

  January 1995 — 2003 (8 years )

• Methodologist, Technology Transfer Agent, Domain Analyst & Project Management

  Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

  1997 — 2001 (4 years )

• Senior Manager/ Forward Looking Work SW Methods & VoIP

  Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

  1997 — 2001 (4 years )

• System Engineer, Domain Analyst, Software Developer & Process Engineer

  AT&T

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years )

• Research

  University of Iowa

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  1987 — 1995 (8 years )

  Constraint-based programming; self-stabilizing systems; object-oriented interactive systems; cognitive models and microworlds

• Program Director Computer Science & Instructor

  University of The Sacred Heart

  (Higher Education industry)

  1984 — 1986 (2 years )

• Supervisor of Software Development Teams & Technical Consultant to Govenment

  University of the Sacred Heart

  (Higher Education industry)

  1982 — 1984 (2 years )

• System Engineer, Lead Architect, SW Developer / Resource Center for Science and Engineering

  University of Puerto Rico

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  1981 — 1983 (2 years )

Lizette Velazquez’s Education

• University of Iowa

  PhD , Computer Sciences , 1990 — 1995

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  MS , Computer Sciences , 1981 — 1984

• University of Puerto Rico

  BS , Major Mathematics; Minor Computer Sciences , 1978 — 1982

Additional Information

Lizette Velazquez’s Interests:

Agile, OOP, SW Development Methodologies, Project management, Information Technologies, VoIP, Cultural Anthropology, Cognitive Sciences, Innovation, Technology Transfer and Deployment

Lizette Velazquez’s Groups:

•    Rensselaer Alumni Association (RPI)
•    Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders
•    Agilistas
•    Scrum Alliance, Inc.
•    University of Iowa Alumni Networking
•    Software Testing and Quality Assurance
•    VoIP Focus Expert Group
•    Quality & Regulatory Network
•    Domain Specific Languages User Group
•    Alcatel Lucent Association Group (+ 4,000 members WW)
•    Retrospectives
•    Universidad de Puerto Rico Alumni
•    Agile Coaching
•    Lucent Technologies Concept Center Alumni
•    Fifth Annual IIT VoIP Conference and Expo 2009

Lizette Velazquez’s Honors:

• Panelist (SW Eng Directorate) & Advisory Committee (Business Innovation & Tech Transfer) - National Science Foundation
• Lucent Technologies Network Solutions President Award: UMTS – highest values & standards world-class R&D, 2006
• Bell Labs President Award: Appl Platforms - Innovation & Tech Excellence with Business Impact, 2005
• Lucent Technologies Platform and Architectures Center of Excellence President Award: VoIP - Role Model Behavior & World Class Contributions & Innovations with industry impact, 2000
• AT&T Mobility Applications Award: Contributions to advancement of OO Methods and Processes, 1996
• Invited panelist & technical reviewer in variety of technical journals and forums
• Mentor, HISPA Advisory Program Mentor
• Featured as Hispanic role model cover articles: work on Natural Language Processing ("El Nuevo Dia") & IT ("Hispanic Career World")
• Magna Cum Laude & Medal of Mathematics, 1972
• Recipient, Roberto Clemente Award for civic work, 1978

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