Mary De Luca
2572C South Arlington Mill Drive
Arlington, Virginia
Residence: (703) 998-9762
[email protected]

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PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Telecommunications professional offering over seventeen years diverse experience in regulation and engineering, with extensive knowledge in local and long distance services, inter-carrier compensation, contract negotiations, the Telecommunications Act, network architecture and numbering.

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General Capabilities:

Develop overall policy/strategy for products, services and technology;

Contract negotiations, interconnection agreements; Network Architecture design, requirements; Telecommunications interconnection and public switched network expertise

Supervisor/manager; Evaluate new technology; Regulatory policy expert

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Professional History:

WorldCom, Inc: 1998 to 2001: Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Regulatory Policy

Highlights: Successfully advocated company position before the FCC to obtain desired results in both intraLATA dialing parity and general numbering efforts. Participated in various North American Numbering Council (NANC) study groups for the expansion of the NANP, number optimization measures and pooling administration. Identify regulatory issues associated with new technology such as Voice over IP (IP telephony).

MCI, Telecommunications, Inc: 1996 to 1998: Senior Manager, Financial Operations:

Highlights: Completed Interconnection agreements with SBC for Texas and Missouri for PUC filing; provided testimony for SBC arbitration contributing to PUC successfully granting second round of arbitration hearings; Developed model agreement for CLEC interconnection negotiations; negotiate MTE agreements with Independent Telephone Companies (ITCs); responsible for strategy and national policy for ITC agreements; supervise project manager responsible for implementing the ITC contract plan; supervised and coordinated the MCI negotiation teams for SBC and US West Interconnection Agreements for local service.

Federal Communication Commission: 1991 to 1996: Senior Engineer:

Highlights: Sec. 251 Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Interconnection); Local Number Portability; Toll Free Numbers; 800 Portability; N11; Enhanced 911; Caller Id; CICs; Expanded Local Interconnection. NANC; 888 Implementation; Area Codes; Carrier Identification Codes (CICs) Special Assignments: Co-Chair of the FCC 888 Numbers – Industry Implementation meetings; Designated Federal Official for NANC, Alternate and technical advisor; FCC Liaison; Technical Advisor for 800 Portability Implementation Meetings

MCI Telecommunications Corporation: 1983 to 1991 Telephony Engineer:

Promoted from various positions within MCI to include: Planning Engineer; Compliance Engineer; Switch System Integration Test Engineer; Private Line Engineer; Traffic Analyst; Field Ops Supervisor, on Special Assignment.

Highlights: defined architecture for MCI Validation Network for Card Services; technical liaison to the BOCs and other carriers for negotiating SS7 interconnection; developed MCI plan for SS7interconnection with Bell Companies; MCI representative on the technical subcommittee for the New York State PSC ISDN Trial; defined migration plan for transition from X.25 based network to SS7 TCAP network; defined requirements for X.25 to SS7 TCAP converter for LIDB messages; planned and implemented ISDN Field Trials; MCI SS7 subject matter expert in national standards forums.

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