Ray-Andrew Reynolds

Senior Telco Architect @ IBM

About

Ray-Andrew is a Senior Packet Core Network Engineer at Microsoft, with over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He holds three certifications from Cisco and Checkpoint, demonstrating his proficiency in IP networking and firewall management. He is an expert in deploying and supporting 5G cloud native functions (CNFs) and Kubernetes (k8s) infrastructure, as well as providing customer consultation in rolling out network function virtualization (NFV) solutions. He also has extensive knowledge of the evolved packet core (EPC) and its interfaces, and acts as a bridge between the customer and the developers. His passion is to apply his growth mindset to enable himself and his team to do more with less, and to deliver exceptional results to his clients.

Country

United States

City

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Industry

Telecommunications

Skill

IP, Service Orchestration, Telecommunications, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, JSON, GSM, GPRS, Mobile Devices, CCNP Certified, Data Center Virtualization, VMware, VoIP, Mobile Technology, Networking, 3G, Project Management, Troubleshooting, Management, SGSN

Experience

Senior Telco Architect

IBM

2023-4 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Senior Packet Core Network Engineer

Microsoft

2020-11 - 2023-4 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Senior Network/Packet Core Engineer

Affirmed Networks

2014-12 - 2021-8 · 6 yrs 9 mos

AT&T Atlanta

Provides Post sales: • Carrier Grade Network Engineering support • Leading operational support for the AN EPC ( PGW/SGW/Proxy ) including the relevant 3GPP interfaces • Providing customer consultation in rolling out the Affirmed NFV solutions • Field Expert for Service Orchestration integration • Robust bridge between the customer and developers translating customer requirements in technical objectives

Senior Network Engineer

Convergent USA

2014-10 - 2014-12 · 3 mos

IP and Operations Manager

Digicel Group

2010-6 - 2014-5 · 4 yrs

Jamaica

• Set team objectives which maintained network availability and drove optimization to maximize revenue. • Reviewed and approved all changes to the network ensuring that procedures and methods adhere to best practices and minimized/avoided downtime. • Designed/Implemented complex IP, Mobile Data & Content services across Digicel Caribbean markets • Forecasted traffic growth based on fiscal year commercial projections ensuring that all segments of the packet core were appropriately dimensioned for aggressive growth targets (Hardware/license/Bandwidth ) • Performed network impact assessment for potential products and services • Provided technical support and crisis management during emergency scenarios across the Digicel Caribbean markets to minimize down time and perform root cause analysis. • Managed Postpaid and Prepaid Data Billing platforms to ensure rules and rates adhere to multifaceted business logic and provided feasibility assessments on proposed product solutions based on in-depth knowledge of the billing systems software architecture.

Senior Mobile Data Services Engineer

Digicel Jamaica

2009-10 - 2010-6 · 9 mos

• Drove and implemented quality improvement initiatives in order to guarantee superior network quality • Designed, planned and implemented the provisioning of new packet core services • Facilitated data growth by executing Frame relay expansions • Translated business requirements into technical design and recommended the best fitting solution & network architecture for internal and external customers • Planned and Implemented IPSEC/GRE solutions for corporate customers via the IP and mobile data network. • Configured complex data billing rules to maximize revenue