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MATTHEW J. GIERLACH
Senior Systems and Software Engineer
Commercial Software and Systems Product Development Leadership
In coordination with sales/account
management, project management
of multiple competing agendas, risks
and priorities to fulfill delivery of
numerous simultaneous customer
engagements

Partner with, and influence, cross

organizational teams throughout the
entire project lifecycle from RFI/RFP
to bid and proposal, pre-sales, sales,
Product Management, Quality
Assurance and customer support

Proactively introduce and trial new

ideas, technologies and processes,
e.g. SCRUM/Agile and Test Driven
Design (TDD)

Manage Customer, Partner and

Vendor relationships and
negotiations. Author project
Statement of Work. Strong written
and presentation skills.

Led cross organizational team

collaboration and partnerships to
define, plan and execute product
deliveries to schedule and budget
goals

Agile/SCRUM Development
Transformation and Project
Management for improved
product quality, customer
satisfaction and reduced time to
market

Product development and delivery to

IEEE, IETF and 3GPP wireless
standards: 802.X, Diameter, SCTP,
HTTP/S, TLS, IMS, LTE, EPC, UMT S,
GSM, SS7, GTP, IPoATM, IPoFR, AAL5,
W3C and SIGTRAN

Recruit, hire, develop and manage

high performance teams locally and in
multiple inter and intra country
geographic locations

Quality Management Systems:

CMMI, TL9000, ISO 9000/9001,
six-sigma, lean and CQI

EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS
Project Management: Delivery of quality products to schedule commitments improved to nearly 100%
within 12 months. Trained and experienced in SCRUM/Agile SDLC. Utilized Waterfall, Agile/SCRUM and TDD
SDLCs to plan, execute and project manage on-time, within budget delivery of high quality commercial
software and systems. Delivered software and systems that fueled and supported business growth under
challenging schedule and budget conditions. Project Managed technically and organizationally complex and
highly visible projects at AT&T, SPRINT and Bell Mobility.
Team/Organization building: Achieved high cross organization collaboration and teamwork through
relationship building, load sharing and integrity. Managed software technical teams locally and in multiple
inter- and intra- country geographic locations. Recruited, hired and managed France team: grew from 6 to 15
then 24 and NJ team: grew from 4 to 10.
Quality and Change Facilitation: Introduced processes, test automation and project management practices
that improved product quality and delivery to schedule commitments to nearly 100% with increased
customer satisfaction within 12 months. Transformed company SDLC from Waterfall to Agile/SCRUM and
TDD.
Wireless Technology and Systems: Wireless telecommunications product integration test and Tier III/IV support
of AMPS, TDMA, 2G, 3G and LTE/EPC networking systems for Tier 1 Carriers and TEMs; AT&T Wireless, Deutsche
Telekom AG, Bell Mobility, MetroPCS, Amdocs/Bridgewater Systems.
Technical Leadership: Defined product portfolio for 3G/LTE/IMS. Reduced HW product 1st article production from
12 to 6 months by designing a scalable, reusable embedded core network interface technology asset. Managed
and negotiated vendor/suppliers/partners requirements, terms and conditions. Led challenging technical and
process brainstorming sessions and problem analysis discussions.

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BUSINESS EXPERIENCE (Cont)
F5 Networks/Traffix Systems
Sr. Project Manager

2011-2013

Project managed delivery of multiple SDC/DRA implementations/deployments of Bell Mobilitys LTE PCRF Core
Network. Authored Professional Services Statements of Work. Teamed and collaborated with pre-sales, account
management, product development, delivery management, delivery engineers, procurement and customer
support developing the project plans: resources, work tasks and feature deliverables required to fulfill and deliver
the project Statements of Work.
Planned and managed design, delivery, ATP and Tier III support of LTE DRA systems for Tier I wireless carriers in
the Americas. Project Managed two partners and six engineers in the delivery and support of LTE/EPC DRA ADC
systems:

Geo-redundant/HA DRA Deployment of Diameter Sy for PCRF/OCS LTE deployment

Geo-redundant/HA DRA deployment of Diameter Gx, Rx, Gy, Sy and SOAP for PCRF/OCS and PGW/OCS LTE
Geo-redundant/HA deployment of Diameter Gy router for LTE data usage
High Availability RADIUS / SOAP Gateway

ULTICOM, INC.
2006-2011
Director of Engineering/PMTS System Solutions, Mt. Laurel, NJ
A Platinum Equity company providing the telecommunications industry with a range of middleware and system
level solutions enabling Mobility, Location, Payment, Switching and Messaging services within IP Multimedia, IP,
Wireless IP and Wire line networks.
Reported to the Director and Sr. V.P. of Engineering. Managed software and hardware product development
teams locally and in multiple inter- and intra- country geographic locations.
Aligned business product direction with the burgeoning broadband communications market:
o Defined and designed product portfolio for 3G/LTE/IMS networks collaborating with Sales, Marketing
and Product Management to capitalize on new business valued at $50,000,000 per year:
Diameter/SIP/GTP Application Delivery Controller (ADC), IMS DRA, 3G Security Gateway and SLF.
Result: Developed Diameter ADC in 2010 to stake IMS market position.
o Produced an enterprise scale Linux SOA/Apache/Tomcat/Oracle/JAVA/XML/HTTP/PHP secure 3GPP
Mobile e-commerce authentication and authorization server in partnership with Gemalto
Supported $5,000,000 in sales with delivery of major customer desired features/capabilities for the STP
product and by streamlining the enterprise order fulfillment process.
Company implemented recommendation to accelerate internal product development of STP/Signaling

Gateway product per technical M&A due diligence findings for potential licensing of competitors
STP/Signaling Gateway product.
Within 6 months, improved quality of software delivered to QA by 300%. Exclusively used Agile and SCRUM
for software and system development since 2006.
ADAX, Inc.
1999 -2006
Director of Engineering, Berkeley, CA
A privately held firm providing the telecommunications industry with a family of high performance signaling
controllers, protocol middleware and core network elements.
Managed product roadmap, product development, delivery and Tier III/IV support of entire company product
line. Hired, developed and managed software and hardware development teams locally and in multiple
inter- and intra- country geographic locations.
Developed, productized and brought embedded Linux SS7 Signaling Transfer Point (STP) and SIGTRAN (SS7

over SCTP/IP) Gateway (SGW) product to market.

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BUSINESS EXPERIENCE (Cont)
Improved schedule reliability and delivery of quality products to customer commitments to nearly 100%
within 12 months.
Developed a scalable, reusable embedded core technology asset that rapidly ported to PCI-X, PCIe, cPCI,
PMC and AMC architectures to provide the shortest time to market for customer systems and applications
spanning the data center, central switching office and cell site hut.
AT&T, Basking Ridge, NJ
District Manager-Business Operations & Network Management Systems
Technical Manager- AT&T Network Wireless Systems
Technical Manager- AT&T Federal Systems Integration Lab
Technical Staff, Network Communications Development

1983-1998
(1995-98)
(1991-95)
(1985-91)
(1983-85)

Delivered first to market TDMA digital wireless systems implemented throughout Southwestern Bell.
Delivered business process reengineering and system improvements. Targeted systems contributed to

$41,000,000 of revenue growth with $100,000,000 in net present value in 1997 and $10,000,000 in
operations savings in 1998.
Reduced operations expenses by 25% with Web browser customer self-service e-maintenance systems.
Initiated and drove improvements in test productivity of 98% through test automation to meet aggressive
first office trial system delivery commitments.
Drove improvements in development productivity with reductions of time to build product software and
test preparation by 83% and 70% respectively. Also reduced software build failures to virtually zero.
Designed product solution for a $1,800,000,000 US Department of Treasury contract award.
Salvaged near default of $10,000,000 US military contract thereby keeping the company in the running for
future US Federal Government business.

EDUCATION
M.S., Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis
B.S., Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis