Darrell G.

Freeman PO Box 1203, Breckenridge, Texas

76424
(254) 246-1012
darrell.g.freeman@gmail.com

MARKETING/ENGINEERING MANAGER
Technology ▪ Engineering ▪ Operations ▪ Budgeting ▪ Product Management ▪ Marketing
▪ Strategic Planning ▪ New Product Development ▪Customer focus

Visionary leader with a strong record of achievements in new technology, engineering, market development, new-
product introduction, sales strategy creation and project management. A valuable depth of leadership experience
with a record of strong performance ensuring that business objectives are met and surpassed. A strong sales and
customer advocate with excellent presentation skills.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
SONET/SDH ▪ MPLS ▪ TCP/IP ▪ VOIP/SIP ▪ GPON ▪ DWDM ▪ Metro Ethernet
▪ LAN/WAN ▪ Microwave

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Production Meter and Testing, Breckenridge, TX 2007-present

Technical Specialist
• Engineer, Furnish and Install (EFI) electronic gas meters for mid-stream and gas plant producers,
including spread spectrum radios and communications. Engineered path design and subnet frequency
management for over 500 sites.
• Provided all marketing, sales and technical support in area of gas measurement and communications,
including database and LAN/WAN design and grew customer base by 25% in one year.

Team Freeman, Inc. Breckenridge, TX 2004-2007

Consultant
• Defined strategic direction and market requirements for small start-up businesses.
• Developed a business case (including ROI) and financial justification for new business.
• Ensured all business development milestones were met.

AT&T Labs (Teleport Communications Group), Middletown, NJ 1991 – 2003

District Manager, Local Bandwidth Services Development, AT&T LABS Middletown, NJ
• Led a team of 8 MTS specialists, responsible for service development, systems engineering, and
operations planning and development for Local Private Line and Accu-Ring Services for a yearly
commitment of $610M in annual sales.
• Defined marketing development , operations systems strategy, systems architecture and features
needed to support new and existing layer 1 and 2 MPLS Local, LD and Data customer applications and
capabilities, working closely with various work centers and product management. Provided lifecycle
support.
• Spearheaded direction for LPL Ethernet suite of services, including sub rate and full rate Gigabit
Ethernet, creating a revenue stream of over $10M first year. This was provided in various
architectures, which included MSPs and Wavelength DWDM interfaces. Coordinated the efforts of
design, product development, lab testing, and implementation to deliver product within deadline.
• Defined and led efforts for customer premises-MSP (Access device) for “multi-service access”
architecture for expanding AT&T footprint and enabling bandwidth and IP packet edge connectivity.
This saved 50% in capital expenses and provided a platform for future protocol agnostic interfaces.
• Rolled out numerous new local services, such as OC-3c, OC-12c, OC-48c, SONET multiplexing, STS-
1, E1, STM1, STM4, Transparent LAN, various Ring protection architectures and DWDM systems.
• Met with current and prospective customers and made presentations to C-Level executives. Created
an environment that promoted the active sharing of information, ideas and developing of solutions with
customers for their current and future needs.
 Darrell G. Freeman PO Box 1203, Breckenridge, Texas
76424
(254) 246-1012
darrell.g.freeman@gmail.com

Director
Network Infrastructure, New Technologies, Staten Island, NY
• Provided expertise in SONET Transport Network Architecture and led the packet-aware multi-service
access network study.
• Directed the local optical network evolution team and implemented the first local DWDM system for
fiber relief.
• Evaluated and directed the use of 23 GHz-microwave radio for use in last mile applications to minimize
the use of Type 3 circuits.
• Managed the merger and reorganization activities due to the TCG-AT&T merger in 1998.

Director
Transmission Engineering – West, Englewood, CO
• Planned and directed the design of fiber optic high capacity SONET ring transport transmission and
telemetry systems required to support TCG’s lines of business within 65 markets.
• Supervised department management, engineering and administrative staff of 25, to ensure the cost
effective use of resources, timeliness and accuracy of engineering information required to meet
customer demand.
• Had fiscal responsibility for administration of the department-operating budget, provided technical
guidance to engineering, city operations and other interdepartmental personnel.
• Managed leased transport and equipment vendor organizations to ensure proper deployment
schedules and technical applications compliance.

Manager
Network Infrastructure, New Technologies (Applied Research and Development), Staten Island, NY
• Identified, researched, compared, selected, tested, approved and provided all necessary
implementation support for new transmission technologies and alternatives to enhance present and
future network’s capacity, reliability and reduce operational cost.
• Advised and provided technical assistance to TCG companies' sales and marketing to devise,
develop and offer cost effective solutions to customer requests.
• Identified and researched new products and services to improve and lower costs of provisioning
present service offerings, established and negotiated Master Purchase Agreements with new and
current vendors.
• Developed specific subject matter expertise in all relevant technologies, reviewed and tracked
product developments, developed application scenarios and fed into fundamental and long range
planning processes.
• Designed first OC12/OC3 subtending SONET rings in TCG network.
• Designed and deployed first OC-3c
• Designed first OC48 BLSR SONET ring in TCG network.
• Performed testing and acceptance of equipment/software and provided installation and operational
guidelines.

EXTERNAL PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

Patent for SAN (Storage Area Networks) Transport, co-developed with James Gardner, 2002-0208 “Asymmetric
Data Mirroring with Mid-Span Cache” has been approved US Patent 7549080, June 16, 2009.

Co-authored, with David Yang, Susan Yetter and Keith Curtis, “AT&T Ethernet Transport Services: Metropolitan
and Long-Haul Transport:” white paper which was published in the August/September 2002 issue of the JOURNAL
OF OPTICAL NETWORKING.

EDUCATION
Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX
B.S. in Physics
1986