Iyad Tarazi
Iyad Tarazi, Vice President of Network Development & Engineering, is responsible for the development and integration of new products and technologies within Sprint’s wireless and wire line networks and for the engineering of the RF and core networks. He is also responsible for managing Sprint Nextel’s technology Integration labs. Iyad oversees an operating budget of $500M and a capital budget of approximately $1.5B. Iyad has been with Sprint Nextel since 1998.
Prior to the Sprint Nextel merger, Iyad provided leadership to Nextel’s Network Engineering department. His responsibilities included network planning, integration, performance engineering, testing and deployment for Nextel’s core network consisting of forty-seven Metropolitan Switch Offices. Iyad was also responsible for Nextel’s inter-MSO transport network, the data network and service layer network applications. Network Engineering activities include design, planning, engineering, integration and vendor management.
Prior to Nextel, Iyad held progressive management and senior management positions with MCI where he was responsible for planning and implementing MCI’s switching, signaling and optical network architecture for both local and long distance networks.
Since assuming, from its inception, the role of Nextel’s Vice President of Network Engineering in 1999, he has been the chief engineer of building and evolving the organization, the core Nextel network, and its support infrastructure. Iyad has a broad background in financial and capital management and all aspects of engineering, planning, and design for both wire line and wireless networks.
Iyad received his BSEE from the University of Maryland and holds a Master’s of Science in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University.
Iyad has become an avid runner and for the past three years he has run and finished the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC in addition to many other races. While he appreciates golf and strives to get better, his golf game is best described as a work in progress.
Session: Femtocells: State of Technology and Deployments
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 25
Time: 2:40 PM
Session: 4G Deployments — North America
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 25
Time: 3:40 PM
