James Jones, MSCS

Overseeing end-to-end technical strategy for a cross-platform mobile application (iOS & Android) with a web-based administration platform, overseeing architecture, tooling, security, and scalability from MVP through early growth. Implementing a cloud-native backend using modern serverless and API-driven patterns, integrating third-party services for authentication, payments, communications, and AI-powered functionality. Establishing engineering best practices including CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, environment management, and production monitoring to support rapid iteration and reliable releases. Collaborating closely with product, design, marketing and business stakeholders to translate user needs into technical solutions, focusing on speed, cost, and long-term maintainability.

Technology Strategy Lead Coordinating team workstreams and defining technology roadmaps. Leading the development and execution of technology strategic plans, performing capability analysis and gap management to ensure strategic realization. Acted as the dedicated technical liaison for strategic business units, creating and refreshing technology roadmaps to drive strategic advantage. • Key Technologies: Agentic AI, AI Inferencing, Computer Vision, Spatial Compute, LEO Satellite Wireless RAN (5G, Wi-Fi, CBRS, 6G), O-RAN, Neutral Host Networks, AR/VR/XR, Digital Twins, Li-Fi, Free Space Optics, Network Slicing, Private Networks, IoT, Neuromorphic Compute, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), Drones (UAVs)

Define and evangelize new wireless technologies. Work with customers to understand and define use of forward-looking technologies in networks, including deployment and monetization. Create and lead ad hoc cross-functional teams. • 5G Performance: Led team of engineers to define end-to-end network performance requirements for 5G Wireless product. Published 5G Performance and Capacity Reference Architecture document, currently serving as basis for 5G RAN KPI targets and performance roadmap. • Co-created 5G Network plans with customers focusing on: Mobility, Performance, UE Connection, Mobile Edge Computing and Network Slicing. Drove customer decisions on 5G network configurations, defining critical roadmap issues and network functions needed to reach final network configurations and internal specifications. • Unlicensed Spectrum and Small Cells: Managed virtual team of more than 20 engineers across 3 locations in LTE-U Forum, working with VzW, Ericsson, Samsung, QUALCOMM and LG to author LTE-U specifications pre-cursor to 3GPP standards-based LTE-Licensed Authorized Access, resulting in accelerated market introduction of LTE-U. • Served as Mobility Architectural Liaison to Small Cells business unit for Unlicensed Spectrum technologies. Addressed issues across LTE-U, LAA, CBRS and MuLTE Fire. Authored responses to FCC queries, favorably positioning LTE-U and LAA in FCC’s eyes and gaining new equipment waivers for unlicensed spectrum equipment. Authored corporate position white papers on the use of unlicensed spectrum that were used to socialize the official position across customer facing teams within the Wireless business unit

Established M2M / IoT footprint in CDMA market. Developed successful business plan and go-to-market strategy to grow IoT within CDMA. • Led exploratory team of 12 engineers in developing IoT business and product plan for wireless business unit, resulting in joint agreement with QUALCOMM to sell IoT into CDMA market with extensions to LTE. • Directed ALU contingent in IoT co-creation with QUALCOMM, resulting in published standards CDMA Revision F (CDMA 1X Machine to Machine enhancements), facilitating significant cost reductions for CDMA IoT device components. • Led technical “deep dives” on IoT and Smart Metering for Inquam (Germany), Dutch PTT, and Asia Pacific Telecom, leading to specification of network architecture, requirements and POC trials, thereby creating new customer streams for Wireless Business unit. -Drove decision making on product positioning of CIoT technology candidates ( NB-M2M, Extended Coverage GSM from Ericsson. Narrowband Hybrid Modulation from Nokia, Narrowband OFDMA) from Qualcomm. Cooperative Ultra NarrowBand from SigFox. Combined Narrowband Chirp Spread Spectrum from Semtech. and “Merged NB-M2M/NB-OFDMA” from Huawei/Neul/Qualcomm.

Developed small cells as new business within CDMA overseeing every phase from product concept and specification through R&D and deployment including overall P&L and go-to-market strategies. Managed 12 direct reports, and 80 indirect reports. • Built Small Cells business from the ground up by establishing Product Management, Procurement, R&D and Deployment structures, resulting in organization of 90 people with $40M operational budget and R&D budget of $7M. • Created market analysis, business strategy and cases, leading to both short-term and long-term product solution, product roadmap, and go-to-market plan with projected Standard Gross Profit (SGP) of $59M in 2nd year. • Led development teams using Agile methodologies, Kanban, and Scrum, providing network features to support small cells solution. • Managed 3rd-party vendors including M&A exercises and drove product integration, leading to successful deployable small cell solution.

Led Architecture team for Wireless Core Network (20 direct reports). Set product direction, managed customer expectations, and provided development specifications. • Created and drove execution of evolutionary roadmap of wireless core network, resulting in 4 generations of architecture evolution, each providing performance improvements, cost and footprint / power reductions. • Evangelized product evolution plan to major customers (Verizon Wireless, Metro PCS, Sprint, and Reliance), resulting in across-the-board customer buy-in of long-term release plan and feature set. • Partnered with Bell Labs Research to identify new product opportunities, leading to creation of 2 new products from concept: 9980 Application Intelligent Network Platform and Wireless Network Guardian.

Concentration in Distributed Networks. Participated in OYOC a program designed to complete the requirements in one calendar year.

Bell Labortories Engineering Scholarship Program

The Boost program is intended to expand understanding about business performance by integrating different perspectives on strategy, finance, management and human dynamics. A central feature of Boost is a business simulation called the Business Strategy Game (BSG).