·  Operations Management                                                                                                          

·  Staff Development

·  Compensation/Benefits Administration

·  Skilled Negotiator

·  Technical Expert

·  Microsoft Office/Excel/ Word and Outlook

·  LTE, UMTS, GSM, FTTCS, 3G, 4G,

·  Prepare and present reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MINDLANCE / NOKIA

Field Manager (BHM/MEMPHIS)                                    08/2014 to 01/2015

·  Completed TMO MR700-BTS-001-FLXLTE-USA course at Nokia 9/2014

·  Field Manager for Nokia /T Mobile Rural America 4 G upgrade project

·  Managed the daily field operations including the night cutover bridge.

·  Attended needed project meeting at market level covering all areas from Quality, Progress, Logistics and Reporting.

·  Located both in the T-Mobile office and in the field with most Emphasis in the field.

·  Evaluated CG and Nokia Field staff and quality of work by visiting his/her BTS sites daily.

·  Provided construction management for installation of new cell sites and modification of existing sites.

 

TOWERCOMM LLC

Pelham, AL

Gulf Market Manager                                    02/2011 to 05/2014

·  Focused on growing the tower side of the business from 2 crews to over 20 in-house tower crews.

·  Increased quality of crew members by developing, initiating, and managing our Veteran’s program.

·  Hired 95% of all new employees, negotiated salaries/benefits, and directed crew placements companywide for over 3 years.

·  Initiated an in house COM training program that standardized employee training and led to increased customer satisfaction by 18%.

·  Served as mentor to junior team members as well as CM’s and PM’s.

·  Managed a number of different wireless projects from the TC Gulf office to include ATT, Sprint, C-Spire, Crown Castle, Mastec/Nsoro

·  Oversaw new site builds, LTE upgrades, FTTCS and Decom projects.

 

TOWERCOMM LLC

Wireless Construction Manager                                    01/2008 to 01/2011

·  Managed 50+ UMTS upgrades and 5-10 new site builds for AT&T in N.C. market

·  Perform site walks w/ A&E, power, telco, tower owners, GC’s and customers, prior to construction.

·  Oversaw all aspects of construction from A&E to hand off, including tracking and reporting over 50 sites at a time.

·  Implemented a UMTS punch list for construction, tower, L/A work, for Nokia, Ericsson, Emerson equipment used as well as the closeout documentation used for follow up on site readiness before turning site over to the customer.

·  Built out 20+ Wireless Internet sites for Stelera Wireless, Oversaw all construction and Site build activities in their South Texas markets.

·  Managed, coordinated, and assisted in most aspects of Construction including but not limited to site acceptance,  assembling bill of materials, and interfacing with Stelera’s Project Manager and A&E Firms to meet cost and schedule requirements for each site.

·  Responsible for General Contractors from civil, tower, microwave, and Nokia equipment.

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PCS INC. / PRDS/ MTS INC

Independent Contractor                                                 01/2007 to 06/2008

·  Preformed Site Acquisition and Zoning Services for multiple clients.

·  Prepared and submitted Site Candidate Information Packets (SCIP) for raw land, rooftop, water tank and collocation wireless cell sites.

·  Upon approval by RF, performed Lease Negotiations and pre-zoning functions.

·  Interacted with RF Engineers and Construction to ensure that proposed sites were in compliance.

·  Researched local jurisdictions for all applicable planning/zoning codes and regulations necessary for the site construction.

·  Prepared and submitted zoning applications.

·  Scheduled and attended all necessary meetings and zoning hearings to obtain approval for site development.

·  Coordinated site walks with RF Engineers, A&E and Construction personnel to ensure that the selected sites met objectives.

·  Reviewed preliminary site plans for final approval through CD’s.

·  Provided complete lease packages to include, deeds, right of ways and other applicable agreements from property owners.

·  Ordered and reviewed Title if necessary.

·  Attended weekly progress meetings and or calls.

 

LEMCON USA CORPORATION

BTS / BSC Engineer                                                 01/2005 to 01/2007

·  Nokia ROC- Take calls from field technicians and help trouble shoot their site, test T-1, site rebuilds, upgrades, while tracking work in Rocket and Seibel and using Hit Macros and scrpits as well as the use of MML commands.

·  Nokia Care Group- Monitor, Troubleshooting and Recovery of Cingular Blue and Orange, T-Mobile, SunCom GSM/GPRS/EDGE Networks.

·  INT SW 2.2 (EO) Upgrades using Nokia Transmission Loader, Flashing FXC Cards (Superbee), BSC upgrades S11.5 Cingular, T- Mobile.

 

 

t.s.s.

Overland Park, FL

BTS / BSC Engineer                                                 01/2003 to 01/2005

·  Nokia / AWS in the Troubleshooting /recovery for GSM/GPRS/EDGE Network.

·  Monitor Network by use of Microsoft Access Data Base

·  Citrix Program, Reflection, Hub Manger, Node Manager used in Troubleshooting and recovery of sites.

·  Microsoft Programs Access, Excel, Outlook, Project, and Internet Explorer used daily.

 

DYNATEK DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

Lakeland, TN

Construction /Project Manager                              01/1998 to 01/2003

·  Completed NOKIA Install/Commissioning certification class, Irvin TX

·  Supervised radio installs crew for the Sprint PCS project in the Houston BTA.

·  Completed over 200 installations while maintaining quality and schedule.

·  All projects were completed on time and according to specifications.

·  Attended bid walks, obtained necessary permits from appropriate municipalities.

·  Organized and coordinated power and telco installation through local providers.

·  Supervised construction by General Contractors to completion.

·  Helped with site audits for placement of equipment for A&E firm doing site sketches for an out of state firm doing the drawings.

·  Managed Nortel radio installs for Sprint PCS in the Atlanta, GA market.

·  Construction Management / Project Director for Memphis, TN Sprint market.

·  Supervised radio replacement program.

·  Completed NOKIA Ultra site Installation Update Licensing Course, Oct 2002, contents of course: Complex cabling configurations of the Ultra site BTS Edge.

 

EDUCATION

UVSC, Orem UT

Business Classes                                                                                         1994