Innovation arm within mobile operator. Led architecture | design for scaling next generation billing cloud deployment within Verizon. The SDN based Cloud and Inline data plane platform with TCP optimization is deployed nationwide for all future sophisticated commercial offerings from Verizon. Designed and developed along with a team of 6 architects a billing platform prototype which culminated with an investment of $20MN. Led managers and their teams of software development, QA and operation across US and India to take the billing prototype to a fully integrated SDN platform for deployment in live network. Indirectly managed a team of cross functional program managers to align development, marketing, legal and operations team efforts with timelines. Responsible for go to market decisions. The platform led to open up the network APIs for programmability of billing, policing services by a subscriber in real time. Product is deployed nationwide to serve 100MN subscribers advanced billing needs.