30 plus years of Telephony and IT experience as a Project Manager, Network Design Engineer, and Technical Instructor, working with such companies as Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Bank of America, Capital One Finance, Sprint, Verizon, Qwest, and Nortel Networks.

1. RICK BUDLONG
Overland Park, KS 66213
Home: 913-832-8871 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickbudlong
rbudlong08@gmail.com
SUMMARY
Consummate professional Project Manager,Network Design Engineer, Technical Instructor with over 30
years of Telecommunications (Wireline and Wireless), Financial Services, and Leadership experience.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EricssonManaged Services, Overland Park, KS 07/2013 -03/2016
ProjectManager II (Sprint Account)
RF Capacity Project Manager supporting 3G and 4G wireless capacity activities throughout the US.
Managed severalmedium (> $500K) to small (< $100K) capacity augment projects within -5% to -7% of
budget and 98.6% on time.
Yoh (Contractor for Ericsson), Overland Park, KS 07/2012 – 06/2013
ProjectManager II (Sprint Account)
Contractor with Ericsson performing as a RF Capacity Market project manager supporting the
implementation of Carrier and T1 augments, special event capacity augments, and other capacity
upgrades to the Sprint 3G and 4G CDMA network.
Hewlett Packard (EDS), Overland Park, KS 08/2010 -07/2012
ProjectManager III (Bank of America Account)
Previously a senior project manager supporting the Bank of America Credit Card Technology Operations
(CTO) retail activities, specifically the Voice over IP implementation to all call center locations in the US,
Canada,Mexico and the Philippines. This managed services program encompassed 18,000 VoIP desktop
upgrades in over 40 locations, and included infrastructure WAN/LAN capacity and specialized back
office system upgrades.
Genesis 10 (Contractor for Bank of America) Overland Park, KS 10/2009 -08/2010
Technical Project Manager II
Managed the rollout of Voice over IP services for Bank of America Contact Centers from an oversight
perspective. Maintained a close vendor/partner relationship with HP and Avaya throughout the planning
and implementation processes. This PM role required an in-depth knowledge of Program Delivery
Management, ET&D Project Management Methodology, Clarity, Six Sigma project management
practices,and a variety of Bank of America project management tools.
Collabra (Contractor for CAPITAL ONE FINANCE, Richmond, VA 06/2009 -10/2009
Senior Solutions Engineering Planner
Project managed the database redesign and grooming activities in support of critical application systems.
Conducted resource management, procurement, implementation planning, monitoring, reporting, and
general liaison activities between the Banking lines of business and Enterprise Technology Operations,
with oversight responsibility for all assigned implementation project activities.

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SPRINT NEXTEL, Overland Park, KS 12/2005 – 03/2009
ProjectManager III (Technology Development)
Project managed the software and hardware upgrades to twenty-nine Motorola mobile switching center
locations, operating with budgets between $3.2M and $7M annually. Project and product managed the
joint Sprint/IBM creation and implementation of an $8.5M communications and collaboration tool from
inception through product retirement. Project managed the decommissioning and relocation of the
CDMA/iDEN test lab from Reston, VA to the Advanced Technology Lab in Overland Park,KS,
delivering the project on schedule and 5% under budget.
VERIZON,Reston, VA 08/2005 – 12/2005
Implementation ProjectManager
Managed the deployment the newly defined IP based network solutions which supported the migration of
voice and data services onto high speed Ethernet transport facilities (FIOS). Provided PM and engineering
consulting support on this new converged network technology which spanned over one hundred
metropolitan area deployments in the North East.
CAPITAL ONE FINANCE,Glen Allen, VA 05/2003-07/2005
Implementation ProjectManager
Project Managed consolidation and integration initiatives in support of Capital One bank mergers and
acquisitions. Primary duties included database consolidation and modernization efforts, disaster recovery
site construction. Managed portions of the testing, development, implementation of federally mandated
file transfer interconnections between 3rd
party vendors, Capital One and the FDIC.
QWEST COMMUNICATIONS,Denver, CO ProjectManager (Contractor Apex) 2001
@LINK NETWORKS INC.,Louisville, CO Senior Manager - Planning and Development2000-2001
SPRINT,Overland Park, KS Senior Network Planner and Design Engineer 1997-2000
NORTEL NETWORKS,Raleigh, NC Senior Technical Instructor 1989-1997
NORTEL NETWORKS,Raleigh, NC ManagerManufacturing Operations 1984-1989
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, Vietnam Era Veteran - Officer 1972-1984
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Geology, Excelsior College (Regents Program), Albany, NY 1988
Post Graduate Certificate of Management – University of Texas. Dallas 2016
CERTIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Project Management Professional and Six Sigma trained (not certified)