Former President, AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer, Andre had responsibility for overseeing the global technology direction for AT&T. This included network planning, the company’s innovation road map, AT&T Labs, AT&T Foundry, and the intellectual property organization. His responsibilities included spearheading the design of the company’s next-generation 5G wireless infrastructure and software-defined networking (SDN) initiative.
He was also heavily involved in AT&T’s push into open source software and other open standards, and engagement and collaboration with the broader developer community.
Since joining AT&T in 1995, Andre has supported and led several organizations responsible for software, systems, and network architecture, planning and engineering, where he holds six patents in the field of network traffic optimization and database design.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at U.C. Berkeley and completed his graduate coursework in Computer Science at Stanford University.
