Summary

With 14 years of experience in the Telecom industry organizing new market launches, managing team transitions, maintaining project finances, working with vendors and sub-contractors and training employees.

Experience

Communication Technology Services, LLC, Willowbrook ILDecember 2013 – April 2015

Program Manager

 

CTS was established in 1990 based out of Marlboro, Massachusetts and provides the highest quality in today’s network environment.  Focused on building and maintaining DAS networks,  Small cell solutions, WiFi, Public safety, structural cabling and other variety solutions.

·   Create and maintain an overview schedule for all on-going projects in the region.

·   Assist in resource management within the region(s).

·   Support operations with project logistics

·   Weekly Project Progress Reports detailing

·   Project pipeline

·   Resource Scheduling

·   Project financial reviews

·   Assist in developing project estimates & project scope documents

·   Project purchasing and subcontracting

·   Verifying and Approving Vendor Payments

·   Project Closeout Preparation and Submittal

·   QA/QC

·   Safety Compliance Monitoring

·   Provide HR Orientation to all new employees and assist with their new hire package

 

 

Nokia Solutions and Networks, Downers Grove IL     January 2013-December 2013

Regional Change Manager

 

NSN awarded the T-Mobile Modernization project

Ensuring Change Management processes are trained and executed within the region

·   Working with the National Change Manager on needed process or competency improvements Required Competencies and Skills: Establishing and managing to a POR includes the following Change Management activities:

·   Facilitating/expediting the review and approval of all change requests against the various components of the POR

·   Executing the mechanisms/processes by which various elements of the POR can be changed

·   Identifying the parties potentially affected by a change to the POR

·   Facilitating the communication of changes to all parties affected by a change

·   Helping to ensure that the impacts of a change are captured and accounted for in the POR and the Cost Baseline as applicable.

·   Working with Regional Suppliers and Customers to ensure alignment of the POR across contracts.

·   Promote change management practices and processes across all streams and within all Program activities

·   Ensuring a carefully defined, documented and implemented site-based change-order process with our Suppliers             

 

ExteNet Systems, Lisle ILApril 2011-January 2013

Project Coordinator

 

Chicago based company, that designs, builts, and operates,owns and maintains distributed antenna system (DAS) networks. Reports to the Regional Director of Program Management, and supports assigned projects within multiple regions.

·   Responsible for ensuring the integrity of project information throughout the project lifecycle from proposal request through project closeout. Capture, manage and disseminate information to members of the project team and the customer.

·   Ensure that the company’s project tracking system and document repositories are current, well organized, and reflective of the status of the projects in the portfolio.

·   Set up kick-off meetings, design review meetings and implementation kick-off meetings, making sure each department is represented and everybody has all requirements needed to be able to meet their timelines/deadlines.

·   Tracked status of each proposal.

·   Provide daily updates on the status of all working proposals to the Central Region Program Management Director, Sales Engineer and Vice President of Business Development.

 

 

Nsoro – Mastec, Rolling Meadows, IllinoisNovember 2010-April 2011

Project Coordinator/Trainer

 

Atlanta based company entering the Chicago market awarded AT&T work on a new site-build project. Working with 20 new Chicago-area employees brought on for the launch, organized processes and systems to ensure proper project administration.

·   Wrote project control procedures for Nsoro coordinators that has become the established process for working within AT&T Norad system, Nsoro Oracle system and issuing purchase orders to vendors.

·   Worked closely with Project Manager to determine funding requirements for over 150 new sites.

·   Monitored spending per-site to ensure each project remains within budget. Provide regular reports to management on current status of each site.

·   Coordinated with AT&T through their Norad database to request proper purchase order funding per-site.

·   Issued purchase orders to vendors for materials and services through Oracle.

·   Trained new project coordinators (five to-date).

 

 

Wireless Facilities Inc. (WFI), Darien, Illinois                     June 2004 – July 2010

National Project Controls Administrator

·   Project Controls: Responsible for all documenting and tracking of project deliverables by interfacing with project staff to ensure timely data entry for real time status reporting

·   Materials: Work closely with Project Managers to ensure project progresses on material ordering and making sure orders are being expidited.

·   Planning and Scheduling: As Manager directs prepare status reports for management, client, project personnel or others and modifies schedules or plans as required to meet deadlines

·   Developing Closeout Packages for Milestone Payments: Establishing and maintaining a filing system that documents all project activity and from which data can be pulled for Site Completion Binders and project closeout files.

·   Entering Scheduled Data and Maintainging Construction completing trackers: Establish 3rd party vendors and orders services as specified by project staff.  Work closely with the regional accounting office to develop purchase orders.  Responsible for maintaining expense logs for purchase orders and petty cash accounts. 

·   Timecards and Payroll Functions: Serves as single point of contact between project and regional office for Payroll, T&E, Accounting, IT, and Shipping & Receiving. Responsible for mentoring and training new Project Controls Administrators.

·   Offer Management Department Database: Checked daily for new vendor PO’s and uploaded any new PO’s we received into this database, also provided upper management with a report weekly on all new PO’s we received for budget purposes

·   Project Analyst: Primarily responsible for ensuring that complete and accurate project budget information is updated in Excel and Oracle by required deadlines working closely with Project Finance Manager.

·   Project Accountant: Responsible for preparing monthly profit and loss statements on project.  Work closely with Project Managers on billing distributing F/S per project.  Provide Project Managers percentage of completion on turnkey project and revenue and expenses in project, including capturing all expenses to be billed.

 

Areawide Cellular, Joliet, Illinois October 2003 – May 2004

Assistant Manager

·   Responsible for all aspects of Joliet store including; sales/customer service, daily cash accounting, all bank transactions, Inventory accounting and re-stocking, sales reporting and forecasting.

 

Crate & Barrel, Naperville, IllinoisMay 2002 – March 2003

Freight Claims Specialist

·   Responsible for placing claims on lost, stolen or damaged merchandise from all freight carriers for 150 stores, 9 regional warehouses and direct marketing.

 

Nextel, Elmhurst, IllinoisJuly 2001 – February 2002

Construction & Purchasing Coordinator

·   Responsible for tracking, scheduling and monitoring all activities related to the 3^rd Generation site update project. Managed and maintained the 3G database and reports, which included, but was not limited to, entering construction project data, running queries, creating work flow charts and generating construction reports for the Construction Manager as needed, creating requisitions in Oracle, receiving and handling Purchase orders

 

Teligent, Chicago, Illinois      June 1999 – July 2001

Installation Coordinator

·   Developed and maintained the filing system, received and processed conditional and permanent licenses and maintained license spreadsheet, maintained the Chicago/Milwaukee Deployment Schedules, updated WebBats database for Chicago/Milwaukee, processed all engineering releases, requested sites to be radio and wireline tested, maintained and Created Notice to Proceed, Purchase Orders and Change Orders, checked daily the Chicago Path data sheet for new equipment arrival, updated Recirds database, updated weekly the Reconciliation report and 3 week rolling forecast, confirmed site walks are scheduled and Engineers are there on time

 

PrimeCo, Itasca, Illinois                            April 1998 – June 1999

RF Administrative Assistant

·   Developed and maintained confidential spreadsheets for department staff time off, individual training dollars, and recognition reports, checked engineering hotline for the Chicago and Milwaukee Offices; recorded all incoming calls; prioritized and forwarded to appropriate supervisors, checked Scopus database for troubleshoot tickets and distributed to appropriate teams, created antenna adjustment work orders for sites, created personnel binder for department staff information

 

Education

 

Hotel Computer Operations Certificate    Athens, Greece               Completed 1993

Hotel Restaurant Management Technical College     Athens, Greece               Completed 1991

Riverside Brookfield High School            Brookfield, Illinois         Completed 1989

 

Achievements

PrimeCo, Impact Award for successful assistance on the refurbishment project

PrimeCo, Impact Award for demonstrating dedicated service and commitment of the Central Illinois Tower Sale Leaseback project

Teligent, Service Award from the implementation team

WFI, received The 2008 Presidents Award for performance excellence

Computer skills: MS-Windows, MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Oracle, Norad

Fluent in Greek and English

First Aid CPR AED, completed course thru American Heart Association

Warehouse Forklift Operator, completed course thru Hertz Equipment Rental

OSHA 10-HR Construction Safety, completed course thru Advanced online solutions

 

 

References

References available upon request.