Brad Edwards

About Brad Edwards

Nowadays, it’s important for a business to have strong leadership and a solid team…

Experience

1. Senior Director Business Operations

   CommScope

   Jun 2020 — Present

   With a long history of success at the helm of operational streamlining, sales & operations planning (S & OP), culture building, and product manufacturing, I recently stepped into a high-visibility, high-priority leadership role to plan and align NCC Cable’s capacity and supply chain—critical to meeting increased global demand for CommScope Broadband as well as near- and long-term service and profitability requirements. In this strategic and tactical role, I joined forces with the VP of global operations to establish and translate S & OP for global cable and fiber drop cable assembly operations into >$600M revenue success in 2021. Personally spearheading $75M in global capacity expansions that generated >$200M incremental growth in fiber connectivity revenue, fiber cable and assemblies grew more than 75% in 2021 and 2022. Charged with surpassing 2021 savings targets, I cut nearly $10M from annual operating expenses (OPEX) by spearheading efficiency, design, and cost-reduction initiatives to meet year-over-year (YoY) reductions plans. Blending a regional and low-cost manufacturing model into the 3-year strategic capacity roadmap, it maximized service delivery and profitability. Treating every challenge as an opportunity, I right-sized capacity levels according to region (North America, including Mexico, Europe, and Asia) while tracking and measuring expected market lead times.[ABOUT THE COMPANY: CommScope (NASDAQ: COMM) is a network infrastructure provider with $8.59B in revenue (2021) and employees.]

Education

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Product Marketing
• Telecommunications
• Coax
• Broadband
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Internet Protocol (Ip)
• Unified Communications
• Ethernet
• Fiber Optics
• Optical Fiber
• Ip
• Iptv
• Business Development
• Voip
• Channel Partners
• Wireless Technologies
• Product Management
• Wireless