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  anonymous, 26 Mar 2008 @ 8:15pm

  
  

  The engineers who destroyed mci worldcom

  As long as they do not have the Brian Ladage and Lena Lowe team doing switch planning and engineering they will be just fine.

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    From the Sound of Things, 29 Jun 2008 @ 2:40pm

    
    

    Re: The engineers who destroyed mci worldcom

    Managers of switch planning put the identical frame relay problem that AT&T had into the MCI Worldcom network inside of the same year.
    
    Was that a just dumb luck or was it done on purpose. People like Ladage and Lowe could be key to finding how who could purposefully do something like this and topple MCI Worldcom.
    
    Switch Engineer Planning managers who are causing fortune 500 companies to fail are not going to help a company do just fine.

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  Anonymous Coward, 20 Aug 2008 @ 9:12pm

  
  

  Worldcom Switch Planning Managers Role in downfall

  There is a team of switch planning managers at a telecom firm such as an MCI Worldcom. Their job is to plan and oversee testing of new additions or changes to the network hardware and software. Each annual quarter new features or changes are made to meet marketing projections and adapt the network to generate what is projected to and by Wall Street. Worldcom already had sold a lot of UUNet. Frame Relay was very important in meeting projections. A manager or these managers dropped the ball which made business customers take data elsewhere after they botched the Frame Relay equipment consolidation of former MCI with Worldcom. Big Brass was forced to cover up the losses in order to not spook Wall Street. The managers could not ever back out of their leadership. Ones like Lowe and LaDage had no fall back plan. Even though AT&T had same problems, Worldcom, with the same equipment vendors, took longer to fix things. Business customers not only took data business, they also took lucrative business telephone services and went elsewhere. Yes, these engineering managers really did ( or someone in similar position) cause the downfall of MCI Worldcom. The stock was overstated, but there was a reason and that reason on a timeline directly correlates to the SWITCH PLANNING AND ENGINEERING MANAGERS AND DIRECTORS!! People are in prison because of them!!!

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  Interested in Interviewing These or Hearing more, 30 Mar 2009 @ 5:18am

  
  

  Send More Info on Why Worldcom Fell (Good MoviePlot)

  This is interesting. Managers plan network consolidation of MCI and Worldcom, engineers carry out plan. Managers incompetent. Merger of networks fails and there is no fallback plan to back out of the nationwide integration. What goofballs!!! I understand Lowe was a woman who liked her engineers laying down. She gets away scott free!!! Others go to prison because of her

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  Randall Lass, 29 Jan 2011 @ 12:19pm

  
  

  MCI Worldcom Switch Planning Mgrs of the year 2000

  if a network goes down because of engineering plans implemented by engineering managers then yes, it can be attributed to loss of customers due to a prolonged outage. HOw many customers left after the outage? How long was the outage? I think it was several weeks. That can cause a big loss in customer base. That can lead to a drop in quarterly revenue. Is that the case?

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