Kurt Temme

Kurt Temme

Technical Controller

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Release Manager II at U.S. Cellular

  • Education

    • Tusculum University

      2002 - 2004
      Bachelor's Degree Organizational Management 3.85/4.0

      Activities and Societies: Omicron-Psi National Honor Society Successfully completed Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management.

    • Lincoln Memorial University

      2004 - 2005
      Master's Degree Information Technology 3.96/4.0

      Activities and Societies: Alpha, Phi, Omega Successfully completed Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Information Systems.

  • Experience

    • United States Air Force

      Jan 1982 - Jun 1986
      Technical Controller

      Served as a technical controller and NCO at NORAD Space Command Center located at Cheyenne Mountain complex and Telecommunications Controller at Ramstein, Germany Air Base USAF Headquarters. My duties included training personnel, supervision, circuit installation and continual surveillance of all communications systems including satellite, base-band sweeps, quality control checks (QC), secure data, and wide band voice systems.

    • American Airlines

      Jun 1986 - Apr 1996
      Network Operations Supervisor

      Duties and responsibilities included supervision of engineers in day to day management of the packet switching network for American Airlines. Primary responsibilites were to help implement and provide surveillance for over 500 magellan nodes.

    • U.S. Cellular

      Apr 1996 - now

      Primary responsibility of Release Control which includes but is not limited to ensuring each scheduled release contains the proper artifacts in the relevant stages of the release lifecycle. Develop release policy, roadmap, tools and coordination of Release Management program within the Engineering and Operations organizations. Plans release activities for 4G, 5G, and VoLTE network equipment (ALU,Nokia, Ericsson) which includes but is not limited to MME, eNB, HSS, iOMS, SAEGW, PGW, OpenNet, OSS, and OneNDS. Show less

      • Release Manager II

        Aug 2017 - now
      • Regional Planning Manager

        Jul 2013 - Aug 2017
      • Manager Network Deployment Management

        Apr 2012 - Jun 2013
      • Manager Change Management

        Jan 2010 - Jun 2012
      • Sr. Network Deployment Engineer

        Jan 2004 - Jun 2010
      • Manager Data Services

        Jan 2000 - Jun 2004
      • Surveillance Manager

        Apr 1996 - Jun 2000
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ITIL Foundations

      AXELOS Global Best Practice
      Dec 2015
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Mentor

      Issued by Faith Lutheran Church on Oct 2004
      Faith Lutheran ChurchAssociated with Kurt Temme