I Delivered 5 Nines Uptime, and no one noticed!

You want to build your career while your building networks. I get that. Here’s a Pro Tip. The last greenfield mobile network I built was a super experience on many levels, including my best-ever boss. After service Launch, the CEO awarded Employee of the Year to the entire Engineering dept. for the startup effort. When …

Tracking Cost Containment Progress

I hope you have enjoyed my earlier writings about Cost Containment.  If you have started working to be recognized in your organization as a Cost Containment leader you should also consider how to track and present your accomplishments.   The chart shows concisely the EBITDA impact of Cost Containment efforts.

What is Cost Containment?

I’ve been banging on now for a couple weeks about using Cost Containment to advance your career. But what exactly is Cost Containment? Is it as simple as spending less money? Must essential services be foregone; customer-pleasing amenities eliminated? Cost Containment is about providing similar services more cheaply, or additional services for roughly the same …

Infrastructure as an Expectation 

I’ve said it before: the best infrastructure is invisible because you don’t see it until it breaks. Even worse, no one ever expects it to break. Infrastructure is taken for granted; always there, always doing what it should. When it does break, oh the outrage, the inconvenience. How could it fail at this time, why now? …

Advance Your Telecom Career with Cost Containment 

It is often said that the best infrastructure is invisible because you don’t even know it is there until it breaks. In Telecoms, it means that the network should simply work without problems and the Technical Team responsible for that network remains behind the scenes, out of view. For telecom engineers, this approach can have …