Focused telecommunications professional with 20 years experience in wireless site development & construction, field and switch operations, A&E, site acquisition, vendor management/selection and full scale project management.

                                                                                                      

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Netversant

Contract Assignment- National Site Development Construction/Project Manager II-Sprint

2011-Current

Network Vision, iDen Thinning, National Real Estate Management, Capacity Construction/Project Management

·   Manage all tasks related to the construction and development of assigned projects

·   Forecast and track and report milestones progress daily via share point

·   Select and direct general contractor teams and associated vendor partners

·   Create and distribute request for bids to approved vendor partners and General Contractors

·   Track PO and budgetary matters related to the project

·   Coordinate all power and Telco construction relates tasks associated with sites in assigned region

·   Partner with SAC vendors to obtain entitlements and permitting as applicable  

·   Work with FSO to schedule modifications and integrations

·   Identify Power Gaps through analysis of FSO data

·   Focused on limiting scope changes post SOW and award

·   Accountable for time, cost, quality, performance and customer satisfaction for assigned projects

·   Good working knowledge of the SMRT, Titan, Siterra, WFM, CADB, NRM, CSS, FoTask, Savion

·                                Proficient with Excel ability to create spreadsheets, reports, charts, graphs and pivot tables

 

I am responsible for entitlements related to each project, MOA, LL partnerships, LL approvals, access and permissions with Government Agencies and Port Authority. I review and interpret existing lease language, audit each project to include site survey review, loading studies, zoning decisions as appropriate, as built drawings, redlines, RF Engineering data and scope documents that support each project. I gather all appropriate information and draft legal language related to the project. I manage the document execution process from start to finish including original draft of amendments, partner with Sprint legal, Sprint Director level approvers to execute documents in support of planned projects. I am responsible for evaluating, budgeting, coordinating, scheduling, equipment ordering for assigned projects. Responsible for the bidding process including: RFQ creation and distribution, award and PO tracking. All Power & Telco construction related activities for assigned sites. Additional duties include managing various General Contractors in each of the markets and reporting progress to Ericsson management and to Sprint.  I am also responsible for tracking T1 orders through the project’s T1 tracking tools. With information available for review, my task is to provide accurate forecasting of when the installation of the new T1 and capacity radio equipment will be scheduled and installed with the field technicians.  Scheduling the carrier adds requires the use of Sprint’s scheduling software to create SSTAT/WFM work tickets. Work with the local switch operations to create CNC tickets for high profile customer sites.  Coordination with Sprint’s CE engineers and RF engineers is required in order to verify/assist with ensuring carrier add equipment and RF configurations are correct so that the field teams are able to install the carrier adds/T1 augments.  I have also served in a similar capacity to the Iden decommission and removal team as a National Construction/Project Manager.

 

 

 

 

T-Mobile

Development and Construction Manager M3

April 1996- May 2010

·   Contributed and Managed the build out (soft cost through integration) of nearly 3000 new site builds , 500 microwave hubs, back-haul projects, 2 switch locations and 100 DAS projects, upgrades and modifications

·   Managed search ring to integration for all sites in market

·   Created milestones for each project and tracked progress daily with assigned team, including 15 direct reports, 50 general contractors, 3 Vendor Partners with 30-50 team members each

·   Managed and reviewed RFP’s or RFB’s before distribution

·   Managed to budgets as approved,  responsible for  quarterly budgets of 3-5 Million

·   Monitored and tracked PO life cycles, GRIR exercises, quarterly budget alignment and close outs

·   Responsible for three warehouse locations, associated staff, asset life management and recycling program, with stored assets of over 20 million

·   Managed to goals as assigned by Regional Operations and Development Director with regard to on air commitments

·   Partnered with network and facilities team for T1 orders, FOC dates and test and turn up supporting projected on air dates

·   Approved all NTP’s for market 

·   Reviewed and approved BOM’s using the RFDS,  CE data sheet and CM recommendations

·   Responsible for quality for each modification or installation

 

 

 

 

 

United States Cellular

Network Operations and Construction Manager M2

Field Technician II

1994-1996 and August 2010-October 2010 (relocation forced resignation)

·                        Provided leadership to California Field Operations Team

·                        Managed Seamless 24X7 operations of the network

·                        Monthly reconciliation of assigned Capex and Opex budgets for California

·                        Coached to commitment and focus on SLA’s

·                        Fostered relationship with NOC facilities and field operations teams

·                        Bid reviews and vendor selection for projects

·                        Served as program manager for all site upgrades, modifications, new builds for California region

o   Field Technician I,II

o   Managed and maintained assigned cell sites

o   Responsible annual and monthly site maintenance

o   Partnered with construction managers to integrate and install new equipment

o   Managed FOC orders and delivery dates, partnered with LEC for drop, test and turn up

o   Disaster recovery and outage restoration

 

 

 

 

 

Education and Certifications and Tenure

·                     20 years of wireless construction and development, operations and maintenance, SAC and Real Estate

·                     Project Management Certificate- Stanford University

·                     Advanced Project Management Certificate- Stanford University (Fall 2014)

·                     AS Telecommunications Technology- NW Kansas Technical College

·                     Telecommunications Engineering Technical Diploma (2 year certification)- NW Kansas Technical College

·                     Certified in Dynamic Organization Principles and Practices

·                     Conflict Resolution and Arbitration Certificate

·                     Internship, Nortel Networks-  Sonet Installations, Translations for DMS 300 250 switches

 

  Applications and Platform Experience

SMRT, WFM, NRM, CSS, CADB, Siterra, Harbor Flex, People Soft, MAPCi, Siterra and SharePoint.

GSM and CDMA platforms.

Experienced with Nokia, Lucent, Samsung, and Nortel base stations and Nortel, Nokia, Ericsson switch and BSC’s.

Clear understanding of backhaul solutions and platforms

 

 

 

 

Personal and professional references available upon request.