Wayne Thomas         waynethomas39@hotmail.com

(954) 274-3846

 

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Results and detail-oriented Telecommunications and Network Engineer Project Manager Professional with more than 20 years of experience in networks, telecommunications, and wireless technologies. Experienced in technical, sales, proposals, demonstrations, design, networks, service, organization, planning, concepts of operation, and problem solving.  Proven ability to manage projects from design, prototype, and reliability testing to manufacturing on time and on budget. Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills with customers and others. Experienced leading analysis and simulation activities necessary to determine.

 

Areas of Expertise

 

Operating Systems: OS2, DOS/Windows, Macintosh/MacOS IOS, Java, Windows NT SP5, Windows 2003, Windows 2005, 2007 2008, Server, Windows, HP UNIX, Linux, AT&T, VMS, VAX and Sun Solaris. agile, waterfall, SDLC, SSO MS Words, MS, Excel MS PowerPoint.

 

Software and Hardware:, Framework with Options “Single Sign-On: Remote Control: Switch and Asset Management: Software Delivery”, Track-IT IP, Connect Remote, APC Power Chute, Registry Editor,  InocuLAN,  PowerOpen, Fax, Monitors, ISA, PCI, SCSI, Epson, Scanners, Tape Drives, CD-ROM, DVD, Multimedia, Blue Ray Disk, NetObject Fusions, Floppy Drives, Hard Drives, Keyboard, Mouse, Optical, Digital, , Remotely Possible and Plotters. Smart Cards ISO 7813 & 14443 and Card Readers, Biometrics, Healthcare EMR and Casino hardware and software. Experience with various Access Control systems, EMV standard, POS and ACI, ISO 9000 Processes and Guidelines

 

Networks and Equipment: Network Authentication, PKSS, Smart Card, Cisco, Bay Networks, HP, Internet Servers, LAN & WAN, ATM, Cat 5 & 6E, ATP, Network Design, MS BackOffice, Client/Servers, Proliant, Hub’s, Switches, Routers, HP Openview, CA Unicenter, , Token Ring, Ethernet, IBM, MPLS, Frame Relay, ATM, T1-T3, 10/100Base2, Novell, Microsoft NT & Exchange, Cabletronics, Wellfleet, , 6509 and Catalyst 4000, Ethernet/Token Ring, Layer 1, 2 & 3 Network Sniffer, Juniper/Extreme, CiscoWorks, POS Terminals, Local and Wide Area Networking, MPLS Lead analysis and simulation activities necessary to determine performance, reliability, bandwidth and other system design characteristics

 

Telecommunication & RF Systems  & Equipment, Fiber Optics, Cable Certification, RF Assemblies, Wireless, Satellite, Microwave Links, CSU/DSU/KSU, Large & Small PBX, GPS Clock, Nortel, Lucent, Meridian, Northstar, Rockwell, RCA, Honeywell, ROLM, OcTel, Kentrox, Telenex Matrix, Ameritech Centrex, Fujitsu FLM and UPS Backup Systems/Batteries, Videoconferencing, Wireless E-mail, ATM, Frame-Relay, Hi-Cap, DSO-DS3, SONET, MPLS, Ethernet, DSL Giganet Fiber Systems, OC-12, OC-48, OC-192 and Lucent G3R Technologies. Hands on experience in RF Design Engineering, BTS, Nortel, Nokia, Phase Lock Loop, TX/RX, CDMA, 3G, EVDO, PCB

Professional Experience

 

PROJECT MANAGER AT&T NEW YORK/ UMTS / LTE / NSB /DAS/ Small Cell/ Deployment Project

August 2013 to Current

GENERAL DYNAMICS – Upstate New York

·   Supervised design implementation, site engineering, quoting, permitting and installation

·   Managed daily operations, staff assignments, manpower utilization and project administration

·   Led, organized, and motivated workforce to execute projects within scope, margin and quality expectations

·   Managed personnel who specialized in LTE Antenna and Line Installation, Enterprise Cable Routing design and layout; Fusion Splicing, Equipment Installation, Cable Burial and/or other work required for the project.

·   Managed the day to day operations of DAS/ Small Cell installation agile, waterfall, SDLC, SSO 

·   Interfaced directly with customers and venue owners to ensure projects meet customer design and site performance expectations

·   Coordinated material deliveries, selected and scheduled appropriate resources for projects

·   Managed project quality, budget and schedule to ensure team achieves objectives aligned with project

 

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER

July 2012 to July 2013

T-MOBILE USA - Indianapolis, IN

·                        Worked on T- mobile modernization project. UMTS – LTE projects and managed civil and tower general contractors building wireless cell sites

·                        Managed construction services of general contractors and construction services

·                        Managed basic construction, vendor equipment requirements, Towers, creation of work orders and BOM's (bill of materials) for contractors

·                        Created and distributed daily/weekly status reports through Excel / site tracker. Used RF planner to plan new sites builds

·                        Provided vendors with CIQ & database design documentation lines and Antennas

·                        Consolidated constructions reports and conveyed clear/accurate reporting to of work / ordered materials

·                        Developed a scope of work / ordered materials needed to upgrade each site

·                        Solicited contractors and vendors to submit competitive bids

 

GSM – UMTS PROJECT MANAGER

June 2011 to May 2012

AT&T - Alpharetta, GA

·   Managed transport facilities ordering for the new projects, coordination with different functional, regional, and market teams

·   Analyzed validity of schedules submitted by outside parties contributing to the project

·   Ensured the timely delivery and integration of Telco to each site, ensuring market clusters are completed according to their order of priority

·   Facilitated the creation of work orders by managing the activities of regional Telco work order administrators

·   Created and distributed status reports

·   Worked with vendors on preparation on CIQ and IOT documentation

·   Coordinated with MSC and RNC planner on the rehomes and IP conversions working on IUCS, IUR and IUPS conversion from ATM to IP. Worked on New RNC’s installations

·   Worked with RF planner to plan sites for rehomes

 

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

AT&T Wireless

 

Network Planning, Power Utility & Engineering, PMO and RF Design

December 2010 to May 2012

MPLS, RNC AND REHOME SURGE PROJECTS - Northeast to Southeast including Puerto Rico Markets

 

Sr. Project Manager for AT&T RNC/REHOME SURGE TEAMS from northeast to southeast including Puerto Rico managing 85 Project Managers in 14 different markets and working with Vendors such as Ericsson, ALU and others. This was a surge project that covered both RNC’s during the daytime and REHOMES during the night. Also was responsible for IuR, IuCS, IuPS and IuXX integration. This position was key customer facing, high profile project that manages the execution and delivery of a large RNC deployment and traffic migration programs.  It involves the deployment of over 450 new RNC's in the NER and SER markets also using PMATT and Clarity to track the milestones. Other trackers and spreadsheets were used for scheduling for nighttime REHOME work done during the maintenance window. Had daily and weekly conference calls with AT&T PM’s and Vendors including PMO and Leadership calls. Worked with Utility Power companies in multiple states for Sub-Station power to Cell Sites, including HVSC and Transformers/Generator installations. Was responsible for keeping the project schedule updated throughout the project life cycle, and for managing a change control process to reflect changes in requirements, deliverables, dates, or budget. Also identification of project risks and issues, and tracking these through the project life cycle and coordination of customer testing, with the assistance of a Test Analyst on larger projects for scheduling, facilitating and recapping project team meetings. Used SDLC project guidelines, MS Office Suites 2010, MS Project and SharePoint for managing project plans.

 

·   Responsible for the development of the RNC & WMS deployment and migration plan/schedule including the buy in from the functional organization and alignment of resource plans to support  the program execution

·   Identify the program risks and manage those risks throughout the execution of the program

·   Managed the end to end program execution including scope, material forecasting, material ordering, site engineering, network design, installation, integration, and CATP

·   Identify and drive the migration requirements and executions

·   Demonstrated project management concepts and skills to plan, execute, and close issues across multiple functional organizations  and work with the functional teams to address any process or resource related issues

·   Was the central interface to ALL Markets while working with the peer PMs and PMO to get sites ready for installation, integration, and migration

·   Coordinated and managed the order fulfillment, tracking, order delivery, service readiness for the internal functional groups and warehouses

·   Coordinated master schedule that entails AT&T deliverable activities

·   Coordinate and work with AT&T customers and vendors on training and readiness for the new RNCs and REHOMES

·   Managed weekly updates and communicated progress internally and externally to PM’s

·   Interface with ALU/Ericsson and National PMO teams to balance risk and meet expected timelines

·   Was single point of contact for the Markets and customer interface/relationships while insuring that program objectives are clearly defined, communicated, agreed to, tracked, and met

·   Coordinating and managing network/traffic cutovers and migrations of RNC’s

·   Was proficient with personal computer business applications such as Power Point, Excel, and Word and scheduling programs like Microsoft Project and PMATT

·   Developed, managed, and implement project schedules for specific geographic/market areas

·   Track and reported project dates, status, and actions weekly

·   Coordinate site walks with AT&T, RF and Vendors

·   Worked as a liaison between regional networks, market teams, vendors and all HQ organizations to resolve conflicts as necessary for project completion.

·   Maintained tasks/activity schedules including IWOS (Integrated Work Order System) CTS (Cellular/Customer Ticketing System) and AOTS (Automated Ticketing System)

·   Issued CTS/IWOS/AOTS tickets as needed and maintained issues item log

·   Identified action item owners & follows up on task completion using PMATT milestones

·   Hosted regular project calls ensuring project team alignments

·   Ensured E911, billing, OAM router dumps/loads, transport cut sheets, drive test routes & RNC readiness were completed for Go/No Go calls

·   Provided regular management reports

·   Managed the engineering document controls – ensures data integrity

·   Managed the MOP approval process and implementation steps

·   Maintained a Master Calendar for all key nighttime maintenance activities and resolved scheduling conflicts with PM’s and markets

·   Evaluated status and made decisions to proceed or fallback as required for sites

·   Managed the call test teams – ensuring that call test plan is followed & call test report is issued

·   Issued a post REHOME e-mail report immediately following the activity

·   Public Utility for electric power distribution to Cell Sites, this included load profile and transmission

·   Setup of MPLS encapsulated packets and protocols for fast protection reroute/routing (IPv6)

·   Worked with PBB, MPLS-TP, NPLC, ILL,and IPLC (National Private Lease Circuits) using IETF RFC 3031 on SONET/SDH/WSONs

·   Installed Juniper/Extreme routers and switches in BTS  (M7i/M10i) (Summit X460) 24-48 Gigabit

 

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER   – MPLS/GSM/LTE T1 UMTS/HSPA NSB/RELO/COW/ETTCS/FTTCS

Network, Utility Power Planning & Engineering - Circuit Path Design & Power Plant Ordering

November 2008 to December 2010

ERICSSON (AT&T WIRELESS, ALABAMA) - Birmingham, AL

 

Sr. Project Manager, for client driven infrastructure and Cell Site construction projects, developed precise project plans, , managing full life-cycle wireless deployments, ensured communication and delivery of design criteria and critical milestone dates, resolves issues and barriers while leading a cross functional/organizational team. Worked with Utility Power companies in multiple states for Sub-Station power to Cell Sites, including HVSC and Transformers/Generator installations.  Also responsible for defining scope, managing timelines, and monitoring capital controls to ensure on-time delivery of network infrastructure to support Speed-up Program. Worked on CapiItal funded contract position with emphasis on UMTS/HSPA T1 & Ethernet to the Cell Site (ETTCS) delivery. Consulted on GRANITE WORKS, CRIM, 3T09, TRIFECTA, MetaSolv M6 and GESW migration and implementation teams, developed design and engineering materials for the Central Office, Outside Plant and 3G Data organizations as well as trained various job functionalities for the M6 and GESW platforms. I worked on the project doing provisioning and design jobs that I developed and engineered for user reference, materials included ASR, circuit hierarchy, circuit inventory, 3G equipment and Data network systems. Delivered engineering designs to Documenting Writers, Circuit Designers and AT&T, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent Engineers, also performed basic system administrations functions including setting up users, documentation, establishing work queues and setting up permissions/security levels. Worked as Sr. Project Engineer, using, TIRKS, ZING, WOSS, CAFÉ, Xpercom and GE Smallworld Provisioning software including the below responsibilities: Responsible for developing, tracking and reporting on milestones and roadblocks/ issues. Maintain and manage project tracker status updates. Escalate unresolved issues impacting timely delivery. produce desired results by using appropriate techniques in all project management activities . Project resource allocation. Ensure that appropriate resources are assigned to each project and that projects can be completed on time. Flag and report bottlenecks and changing project priorities in order to maximize project flow and overall efficiency. Ensure all resources are tracking their time via PWA Project Server. - Assisting in establishing standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation and process improvements. Effectively apply the SDLC methodology and enforce project standards. Participate in project audits when requested. - Acting as liaison between the Business Manager and cross functional SME (subject matter experts). Mitigate team conflict and communication problems. Handle internal escalations and resolutions appropriately. Was responsible for keeping the project schedule updated throughout the project life cycle, and for managing a change control process to reflect changes in requirements, deliverables, dates, or budget. Also identification of project risks and issues, and tracking these through the project life cycle and coordination of customer testing, with the assistance of a Test Analyst on larger projects for scheduling, facilitating and recapping project team meetings. Used SDLC project guidelines, MS Office Suites 2010, MS Project and SharePoint for managing project plans.

 

·   RF Engineering Expert of UMTS/HSPA protocol, UMTS/HSPA design and optimization.

·   Create/Prepare & validate scripts to be run in the RNC, Node B & MSN (Aggregator)

·   Perform RF/RAN network design, planning and optimization activities, link budget analysis, design criteria and traffic analysis

·   Carry out area and site surveys to identify RF equipment location and antenna orientation

·   Undertake network performance improvement (KPIs) and optimization tasks

·   Undertake RAN/BSS parameter audits, suggest and fine tune parameters

·   Assisted in resolving complex or chronic problems in the UMTS Network.

·   Implement new S/W or BSS/RAN parameters for overall network improvement

·   Log data integrity check (drill-down cluster acceptance KPI)

·   RAN parameter consistency check and feature implementation.

·   Consult on IRAT implementation

·   Review counter and system KPI report (e.g. CST, latency)

·   Consult on change request, introduce/modify best practice,

·   Undertake BSS parameter audits, suggest and fine tune parameters

·   Channel Quality index (CQI) improvements.

·   Recommendation for CE, Codes, RAX boards etc.

·   RSCP and Ec/Io analysis.

·   Implement new S/W or BSS parameters for overall network improvement

·   RAN parameter translation, implementation of parameter change, consult on parameter setting, consult on RAN

·   All processes within the entire project lifecycle (initiate, plan, execute, monitor & control, close)

·   Public Utility for electric power distribution to Cell Sites, this included load profile and transmission

·   Setup of MPLS encapsulated packets and protocols for fast protection reroute/routing (IPv6)

·   Worked with PBB, MPLS-TP, NPLC, ILL,and IPLC (National Private Lease Circuits) using IETF RFC 3031 on SONET/SDH/WSONs

·   Installed Juniper/Extreme routers and switches in BTS  (M7i/M10i) (Summit X460) 24-48 Gigabit

·   Experience implementing and integrating businesses into an ERP package environment; Oracle ERP

·   Have broad experience with major business integration projects after an acquisition

·   All processes within the entire project lifecycle (initiate, plan, execute, monitor & control, close

·   Oversee multiple concurrent projects or one larger project with multiple work streams, depending on the size and complexity of the project(s)

·   Determine the appropriate level of rigor in applying standard methods and tools for managing a given project

·   Experience leading projects and functional/technical leads to accomplish complex initiatives that involve technology implementation, business process re-engineering and people change management; experience managing the business and IT to complete all aspects of a project/program

 

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER - WORKING ON ERICSSON MBNL GSM / UMTS EXPANSION PROJECT T-MOBILE

August 2007 to November 2008

ERICSSON - Europe - Guildford, UK

·                        Worked on T- mobile MBNL project. UMTS – LTE projects. Managed civil and tower general contractors

·                        Managed wireless cell sites builds and construction services: including basic construction and vendor equipment Project plan and implementation for deployment of Ericsson SDH / Sonnet  microwave radio .
Contractor management for deployment of SDH/ Sonnet  microwave links for UMTS rollout for T- Mobile .
Vendor management (Alcatel, Ericsson and NEC) for microwave equipment ordering, delivery and distribution nationwide In the UK.
Project plan and implementation of Tower offloading nationwide involving traffic cutovers/traffic re-routing and reuse of equipment at T- Mobile

·                        Established/provided vendors with CIQ & database design documentation. Installing lines and antennas, consolidated constructions, managed all aspects of a Site Development team, including, site acquisition, zoning, A&E, Permitting, Phase I & II, Raw-lands, collocation, Rooftops and Stealth Tower Construction

 

CONSTRUCTION MANAGER

December 2004 to December 2008

ERICSSON - Europe - Guildford / Vodafone, UK

·   Managed civil and tower general contractors building wireless cell sites

·   Created scope of work, basic construction, vendor equipment requirements, tower installations, created work orders and BOM's for contractors

·   Created and distributed daily/weekly status reports through Excel Working with RF planner to plan new sites builds

·   Planned and designed GSM /UMTS Networks, led and guided the work of technical staff and served as liaison between engineers, manufacturing, logistics and customer

·   Led technical teams / directed project activities to complete varied telecom installation projects

·   Implemented leadership skills in negotiations, customer orientation & conflict management

·   Collaborated with the company's engineering staff to determine which existing facilities needed to be upgraded with the new technology

·   Installed microwave application at Cell Site

 

SENIOR NETWORK MANAGER

July 2002 to December 2004

QWEST - Fort Lauderdale, FL

·   Assisted and coordinated support team with customers RFP's and RFQ's

·   Worked closely with agents to build relationships in the industry

 

NETWORK ENGINEER

February 1998 to May 2002

NORTEL NETWORKS - Europe - New Southgate, UK

·   Managed phase 2 of DWDM project. Worked on Cable and Wireless UK project responsible for commissioning OC-192/TN64X Optical Ring

·   Managed project for installation and testing of new equipment

 

NETWORK ENGINEER & TEAM LEADER

January 1996 to February 1998

ERICSSON - London, UK

·   Designed, implemented and provided ongoing technical support for a 10 Gigabit network infrastructure topology that connected Manchester to London

·   Team Leader and Project Engineer duties involved managing a team of 7 consisting of Network Engineers, Installers and Planners

·   Managed phase 1 of Project - Worked on Cable and Wireless UK project responsible for commissioning OC -192/TN64X Optical Ring

·   Installed and tested of new equipment

 

Education

 

Bachelor of Science: Telecommunications & Network Engineering, 1996 - South Bank University - South Bank, UK

Certificate of Training: CCNP2 (Networks) Cisco - UK

Certificate: RNC, Node B, Training Courses Ericsson - UK

Certificate: NSN Node B and RNC Training Courses

Diploma: Photonic Platforms MHL3000 DWDM/SDH Network Rollout Ericsson - UK

Certificate: CENA, DWDM/Photonics Layer (DWDM Long Haul/Regeneration and amplification) Certificate: UMTS - RNC-Training Courses, Ericsson UK Project Management Training Course