C. Daniel Baca

Current

• President at Baca Consulting, Inc.
• Faculty Member at University of Phoenix

Past

• Sr. Director - Software Development at TelePacific Communications
• Sr. Director - Network Systems at Comcast Cable
• Network Management Systems Engineer and Manager of Systems Engineering at Time Warner Communications

• Multiple Positions at Mountain Bell/US WEST Communications & Advanced Technologies

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Education

• University of Colorado at Boulder
• The University of New Mexico - Robert O. Anderson School of Management
• University of Colorado at Boulder

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Industry

Telecommunications

C. Daniel Baca’s Summary

A strong and successful leader / individual contributor that is well suited to meet the challenges and needs of technical organizations based upon extensive experience initiating (i.e., defining scope, assigning resources, building and approving schedules, etc.) and managing several projects simultaneously. A team player and builder who is accustom to being given total accountability for the delivery of viable business and IT solutions by upper management. A visionary who is adept at establishing tactical and strategic direction that goes along with ensuring that technical assets yield financial benefits and provide relative competitive advantages to the company while being cognizant of schedules, budget constraints and satisfying business requirements in a highly ethical fashion.

C. Daniel Baca’s Specialties:

Information systems, financial analysis, statistics, savvy management experience, telecommunications, contract management, ability to establish teams, and get them focused and delivering.

C. Daniel Baca’s Experience

• President

  Baca Consulting, Inc.

  (Telecommunications industry)

  November 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)

  Dedicated to providing effective subject matter expertise in various areas:
  • Telecommunications (circuit, HFC, etc.)
  • OSS planning and management
  • Technical IT management
  • Financial analysis
  • Operational planning

• Faculty Member

  University of Phoenix

  (Public Company; APOL; Higher Education industry)

  September 1986 — Present (23 years 4 months)

  I have taught at the graduate and undergraduate level the following subjects:
  
  • Finance and Accounting
  • Management Information Systems
  • Statistics, Mathematics
  • Project Management and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Languages

• Sr. Director - Software Development

  TelePacific Communications

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 11 months)

  • Established and staffed a satellite software development
  organization in Denver.
  - Kenan OM/BP => FX Conversion
  - Wholesale Portal
  - NMS Applications
  • Implemented a Agile software development
  methodology.
  • Developed and presented business cases (Payback
  Periods, NPV, ROI/IRR, etc) in support of IT initiatives
  based on process modeling (i.e., multi-server queuing
  analysis) and demand forecasting (e.g., OLS, MVA,
  Classical T.S.).
  • Established and administered 22 contracts with outside
  suppliers.

• Sr. Director - Network Systems

  Comcast Cable

  (Telecommunications industry)

  July 1997 — October 2003 (6 years 4 months)

  • Co-lead a team that deployed provisioning applications (i.e., Telcordia’s MediaVantage) to provided Telephony services over HFC in 10 different geographical markets and 2 in-market upgrades in one year.
  • Developed business cases to ensure initiatives achieved at least a 38% internal rate of return and a discounted pay-back period of 2 ½ years or less.
  • Wrote the software requirements and specified the logical system architecture for a circuit switched provisioning system that achieved over a 95% order flow through rate.
  • Reviewed and contributed to methods and procedures through technical consultation to field engineering and application support personnel.
  • Earned a special recognition award from the Vice President of Engineering.
  • Trouble ticketing and hi-speed cable modem provisioning systems.

• Network Management Systems Engineer and Manager of Systems Engineering

  Time Warner Communications

  (Telecommunications industry)

  April 1995 — July 1997 (2 years 4 months)

  • Negotiated contracts and oversaw all other business aspects of the procurements (e.g., financial analysis to make “build versus buy” decisions).
  • Contributed toward establishing an internal software development level by producing and deploying nineteen OSS related applications in approximately six months. Managed an IT Systems Engineering team.
  • Performed selection analysis pertaining to network OSS solutions.
  •Liaison between client communities, upper management and IT.

• Multiple Positions

  Mountain Bell/US WEST Communications & Advanced Technologies

  (Telecommunications industry)

  February 1977 — March 1995 (18 years 2 months)

  • Senior Member of the Technical Staff
  • Project Manager
  • Financial Manager - New Mexico
  • Manager of Computer Operations
  • Senior Programmer

Additional Information

C. Daniel Baca’s Honors:

Financial Management Society - National Honor Society