Guilherme Brea

VP Program Management | Cybersecurity, Cloud, 5G, IoT, BSS, OSS

Dallas, TX, United States

Details

Education: Postgraduate Degree

Cloud Computing

Texas McCombs School of Business

2022 : 2023

Advisory Council Member - Global Business Program

University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management

2017 :

Bachelor's degree

Computer Science

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC)

1991 : 1995

Experience: Responsible for driving Ericsson's Security Reliability Program ($5M budget) in North America, consisting of embedding security and privacy requirements into the development and integration of all products, solutions and service offerings throughout Pre-Sales and Delivery.

2023 : Present

Ericsson

VP, Program Management - Cybersecurity

Led the delivery team (45+ resources) responsible for the design and implementation of a brand new IMS Core network for VoWiFi and VoLTE ($3M budget).

2021 : 2022

Ericsson

VP, Program Management - IMS Core

Led the delivery team (180+ resources) responsible for the Verizon 5G Core Program ($280M budget) consisting of deployment of Ericsson's 5G Core products plus heavy software customization to achieve feature parity with Verizon's existing Nokia 4G Core.

2020 : 2021

Ericsson

VP, Program Management - 5G Core

Led the Ericsson 5G Core Center of Excellence for North America ($2M budget) formed by a team of Solution Architects (15+ resources) responsible to gather new 5G Core requirements from tier-1 customers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile) and work with multiple Ericsson core development teams offshore on the development, testing and implementation of those requirements to certify their inclusion into the 5G Core product offering roadmap.

2020 : 2020

Ericsson

VP, Head of 5G Core Center of Excellence

Led the design and implementation of a Get-Well Plan to help the Hargray program ($18M budget) delivery team (80+ resources) recover from timeline delays caused by a third party vendor, consisting of the implementation of a multi-vendor CI/CD pipeline, DevOps metrics improvement, Change Management Board and C-level Steering Committee.

2020 : 2020

Ericsson

VP, Program Management - OSS & BSS Full Stack

Company: Ericsson

Years of Experience: 25

Spoken Language: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Skills

5G, 5G Core, Agile Methodologies, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Business Process, Business Support System (BSS), Capacity Planning, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Contract Negotiation, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Customer Experience, Cybersecurity, Database Administration, Data Migration, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Global Delivery, Information Technology, Infrastructure, Integration, IT Infrastructure Management, Leadership, Microsoft Azure, Networking, OSS, P&L Management, Performance Tuning, PMO, Pre-sales, Production Deployment, Production Operations, Program Management, Project Management, Service Delivery, Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Management, Team Management, Telecommunications, Vendor Management

About

Technology leader with 20+ years of global experience in leading large customer engagements and cross functional teams to develop and deliver advanced products and solutions in the areas of Cloud, 5G, Cyber Security, IoT, BSS and OSS.