Andres Torres

Responsible for building long-term partnerships, managing key accounts and driving growth in the renewable energy sector. I work closely with key clients to support their PV and BESS portfolios in Europe and Latin America, understanding their requirements and pain points to deliver a solution that can meet their business objectives.

Member of the account department and responsible for customer satisfaction, E2E contract fulfillment and project delivery. In charge of achieving business operation KPIs such as sales and revenue. Responsible for the negotiation of 4G/5G CORE network projects based on IT virtualization environments for main telecom operators in Chile.

In charge of the whole account Program Management, and responsible of supporting the presales for new projects negotiations and led the post sales stage during the implementation of the projects. Responsible for aligning internal and external stakeholders and supporting the project managers along with the project lifecycle. Served as Program Manager on key Carrier & IT projects: • In charge of portfolio management for main NFVI Core, Datacom and DWDM Projects. • Accomplished the CORE Network swap of DPI, PCRF and MME, introducing new NFVI platforms. • Accomplished the wireless swap of more than 50 GUL sites in the capital city and introducing new commercial 5G NSA sites. • Project manager for implementing first Huawei Hybrid Cloud in Chile for a key carrier. • Served as Program Manager to build the 1st Hybrid Cloud (private + AWS) in Chile.

In charge of Movilnet account projects on scale up to 95MM USD in revenue, responsible of projects E2E, customer satisfaction, complaints and ensuring the main Project and office KPIs, such as: • Project Plan completiton rate and risk in-time closure in 691 GU sites swap, 200 LTE sites installation, implementation of 27 BSC/RNC, swap of 686 IP microwave links and 164 tower reinforcements in a market with human resource and raw material limitations. • Responsible to ensure the billing, revenue and gross profit for projects and track the financial issues and costs. • Able to ensure team motivation and to design incentive plans to team members and subcontractors in order to accomplish with Project high demands, maximum personnel supervised: 25.

In charge of radio Access and Core Network planning, dimmensioning and the inclusion of new features and technologies based on the company strategies and business achieving: • Performed Live Network audit in Panama UTRAN and GERAN networks in terms of features, performance and durability, thus, gauging the technical advantage to swap Telefonica´s GSM and UMTS Networks in Venezuela. • Leader of Telefonica Wifi Off-loading solution as new business model for GSM/UMTS networks off-loading, achieved its planning, solution and implementation. Technical Application: • GERAN, UTRAN and LTE parameters mapping • e-UTRAN solution design towards the PGW, SGW, and MME. In charge of hardware planning for Huawei's e-NodeBs. • In charge of RF, HSPA and HSPA+ planning and parameters for: admission control, transition states configuration, URA/CELL_PCH, load balance, RRC, RLC, RAB, RANAP, RNSAP, DRX and timers based on 3GPP protocols • Experience in DBS3900 and BSC6900 for Huawei products and RNC3820 for Ericsson • In charge of capacity planning for 3rd and 4rd UMTS carriers implementation. • Coverage and Wifi capacity planning using Ericcson solution and EAP-SIM protocol and Web portal for authentication for smartphones.

1.- GSM/UMTS Core Network Planning, parameters configuration working with Nokia´s NEs such as HLRs, MGW and MSS. • Experience in Nokia´s (BSC 3i and Flexi BSC and BTS) • Experience in Nokia´s (MGW and MSC) signaling, trunks and interfaces as A, IuCS, Nb. 2.- UTRAN planning & network engineering in Huawei's and Ericsson's RNCs. • Experience in RF and CORE planning, parametrization and implementation of Huawei RNC BSC6900 and Ericsson RNC3810 and RNC3820 in its different pack scenarios. • Consultant in IuPS, IuCS, Iur and Iub configuration interfaces using 3GPP standards. • In charge of the capacity plan and performance improvement in UTRAN Network 3.- Estimate CORE Network's yearly CAPEX/OPEX.

Technical leader in wireless projects for mobile operators in Venezuela. • UTRAN Optimization and network planning, Network Solution provider. • In charge of supervision of a group on engineers to comply with weekly and monthly targets • In charge of HSPA+ planning and optimization for Telefonica Venezuela. • Planning/Deployment and optimization of first UMTS Network in Telefonica Venezuela from 2008.