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10/2014 - Present

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Quality Auditor

Performing quality audits for the install of Nokia equipment on the T-Mobile Rural Americas Project.

In my role of Quality Auditor, it was my scope of work to visit the sites and assess the installation of the ground equipment. Items looked at included the cabinets or racks, system modules, conduit, coax, fiber, grounding, ice bridges, etc. and create a report on my findings. We were not punching sites but instead we would spend two weeks in each market auditing a sampling of the various GC's in each market to determine which contractors and which markets were performing acceptably.

8/2014 - 10/2014

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Construction Manager

Served as CM on ATT in Ohio and Charlotte, NC markets and CM on Sprint 65MHz in Missouri.

In the Ohio market I was communicating with the Troubleshooting War Room daily to receive trouble tickets and sites requiring downtilt adjustments as well as report back to the War Room with updates as sites were completed. I was directing 4 Tiger Teams to address trouble tickets and downtilt changes.In the Charlotte Market, myself and another CM managed the GC's constructing the sites. Responsibilities included meeting the crews to issue material, visiting sites to ensure that quality and safety requirements are being met, tracking daily progress, and attending daily afternoon conference calls with the client to deliver updates. Typical crew load was 4 to 6 crews.

7/2013 - 7/2014

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Site Supervisor

Served as Site Supervisor for Commscope on Verizon LTE/AWS upgrades

Duties included managing sub-crews, issuing material and managing warehouse, performing site audits, pulling permits and calling in for inspections, monitoring sites with nesting protected birds to ensure compliance with wildlife regulations. I typically managed 3 or 4 crews. CM's were not asked to manage a high number of crews due to the large area we covered and diverse nature of our responsibilities. We walked the sites for pre-cons, created the BOMS, managed the warehouse until the project schedule ramped up to the point that a warehouse manager was justified, delivered permit applications, picked up permits, called in for permit inspections, visited crews on site, performed, quality inspections at the completion of site builds.We had daily internal conference calls to update project management, they in turn managed all communications with Verizon's management team. The CM's primary communication with Verizon was with the site technicians. We notified them of construction activity that was scheduled for their sites.

9/2012 - 7/2013

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Construction Manager

Served as Construction Manager on the Minneapolis T-Mobile/NSN Modernization project.

My duties as Construction Manager involve performing site Pre-con walks with NSN, working with the client to determine how the site will be built, soliciting quotes and scheduling lifts or cranes as needed, working with the crews to keep them productive and ensure they have the material they need as well as understand the customers expectations on each site. Other duties included managing subcontractors and closing out building permits. We typically kept 5 or 6 in house tower crews in market that I managed along with a local electrical that performed carrier ground equipment installs and a second electrical contractor that was performing site support cabinet swaps for us.On water tank sites, the cities in the region typically had an engineering company manage the sites. Construction activities on these sites required attending pre-con meetings that included NSN, the city, and a representative from the engineering company managing the site. Construction dates and installation methods were all dictated by the engineering company and I was responsible for coordinating with them as well as clearing any changes to the drawings as they arose.In completing sites,I worked closely with my PM to gather all necessary documentation, redline drawings, and contacting jurisdictions to get permits closed out.

10/2011 - 9/2012

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Field Technician

My primary reponsibility is Technical Services but I have helped out with tower crews to a significant extent during my time here.

I have performed LOS surveys for the upcoming MetroPCS microwave project in Atlanta, GA. I earned my Ericsson Mini-Link certification in anticipation of this project. Other duties have included rendering detailed boomgate drawings of Sprint sites for our engineering department and working with tower crews on AT&T UMTS upgrades in the Tennesee and Carolina markets.

5/2011 - 10/2011

Industry: Telecommunications Services

BTS Installer

AT&T Louisville market UMTS upgrades.

We were installing Ericsson 3206 cabinets as well as RRU's and RRUW's to perform first, second, third, and fourth carrier upgrades. This included installing new racks, running power, coax, T1 extensions, grounding. We were also installing new RET CCU's.

9/2010 - 5/2011

Industry: Telecommunications Services

RF Engineer

I was on a pathing team in the Minneapolis, MN and Hartford , CT Clearwire markets. I recently was assigned to the AT&T Zodiac/ Alcatel-Lucent Microwave project in the Minnesota/ South Dakota/ North Dakota region.

Installing Dragonwave equipment may require programming the modems and troubleshooting defective equipment, coordinating with the War Room to ensure the path meets the engineering specifications and completing closeout documentation.

5/2009 - 9/2010

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Tower Foreman

Performed T-Mobile UMTS upgrades in the Upstate New York market, Clearwire 4G upgrades in Seattle, and AT&T UMTS upgrades in Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Wisconsin, and Arkansas.

I was responsible for all the normal duties of foreman on a tower crew. Directing personel, sweep testing(Anritsu certified), troubleshooting when necessary, setting azimuths, installing antennas and coax, collecting documentation for closeout packages, gathering materials, and ensuring that the crew follows all applicable safety directives. I was also responsible for supervising setting BTS cabinets, including crane lifts on rooftops.

2/2009 - 4/2010

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Sweep Tech

Involved in the T-mobile UMTS upgrade in the New England area, primarily Hartford, CT.

Duties include sweep testing, Programming RETs, running lines, istalling antennas and TMAs.

11/2008 - 2/2009

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Sweep Tech

Performed troubleshooting for Goodman Networks on AT&T sites in Austin, TX market and T-Mobile co-locates in KY.

4/2008 - 9/2008

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Tower Crew Foreman

I served as foreman on AT&T UMTS project in the Dallas market as well as new installs for Metro PCS and Clearwire trouble tickets. Daily responsibilities involved directing a crews activities, monitoring site safety, assigning job tasks, sweeping lines, all necessary documentation(JSA's, close-out documents, time sheets, daily reports, RET logs or screen shots, etc.).

8/2007 - 4/2008

Industry: Energy and Utilities

Sub-Metering Technician

I am presently working for a small company in the utility sub-metering industry. We install remote meter reading systems comprised of transmitters at the meter and data collectors that call in the daily utility usage to a control computer. Data is analyzed and depending on customer preference we forward the data to them for billing of tenants or we can do the the billing.Duties involve analyzing data to determine problems as well as installing, programming, and troubleshooting these collection systems.

2/2007 - 8/2007

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Tower Crew Foreman

Served as foreman on tower crew for the Clearwire build in the Longview, TX market. Responsible for a 4 man crew installing Orthogon and Dragonwave microwave paths, ensuring that safety policies are followed and construction schedules met. Worked with Clearwire technicians to path align micrwave antennas. Served as foreman for Sprint/Nextel project in Southern Louisian market.

7/2005 - 2/2007

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Assistant Lead

I was involved in the Cingular/AT&T Dual-Band/UMTS integration. My duties as an assistant lead to the foreman included planning the worksite activities, including rigging, assigning tasks to the crew, identifying job hazards, ensuring that the crew was performing their assigned tasks in a safe manner to required quality standards, and completing necessary documentation. I was assigned to a Tiger Team(troubleshooting crew) for a year in the North FL market. We responded to customer compaints regarding site issues and were responsible for identifying performance problems in sites built by our crews and sub-contractors. I also had the chance to work with Nokia GSM cabinets on a regular basis. Regular duties included climbing, operating capstain hoists, rigging, hanging antenna mounts, installing coax, grounding, erecting ice bridges, and decommissioning old sites.Certifications include: Bechtel competent climber, Rescue training, CPR/ First Aid, OSHA 10 hour

8/2000 - 7/2005

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Tower Technician

Primarily involved with the installation and path alignment of microwave antennas and elliptical waveguide. Other duties have included installing cellular sites, stacking monopoles(rare), setting shelters, site takedowns, hanging boomgates, and installing icebridges. I am proficient at path aligning microwave dishes, fitting connectors, rigging, and operating capstans. I have current certifications in rescue training and OSHA 10 hour.

1/2000 - 7/2000

civil worker

Performed all duties associated with installing shelter pads, spreadmat tower foundations, and tower grounding halos. Laid rebar, shot grade, cad-welded.

11/1999 - 1/2000

Tower Inspector

Performed full scale tower inspections. Recorded information included huy wire tension using a shunt meter, ultrasound on tower members, plumb & twist, recording tower dimensions, mapping and tagging all transmission lines, identifying and recording all antennas, identifying tower lighting and noting operating condition, measuring and diagraming the compound, shelters, and shelter interiors along with photos of the compound and shelter interiors.

EDUCATION:

5/1988

High School or equivalent

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