Qualifications:

 

Over 25+ years of Project Management experience, 15+ years in designing of communications installations and data centers: Managed total network installations - Including phone systems, computer networks, phone service, T1s, LD, ISP, DSL, Broadband, Frame relay and Lan/Wan.  Project Coordination – Coordinated day to day activities across multi-layered business operations. Customer Interface - Extensive interaction with end users.  Customer Satisfaction – Proactive approach to ensure customer satisfaction. Estimating - Site surveys, product procurement, billing, change order control Management of Sub-contractors Design.   Utilize BICSI RCDD and industry experience to design network cabling infrastructure and data centers. Team Leadership - work crews, sub-contractors, support network.  Communications - public speaking, discovery meetings, one on one.  Computer Literate - Excel spread sheets, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project, Windows 7, Visio, Remedy, MicroStation, Visionael, and Cloud apps.

SCI clearance available.

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

04.2014 – 07.2015

VT-Group/VT-Milcom

Project Manager 2 – RCDD DESIGN

State side I have been working on project ISP/OSP design and RFP responses. In 2014, I was

site lead from Kuwait for a team of fifteen (15) installing OSP/ISP passive telecommunications installations for the DOD in South East Asia Theater. Responsible for design/estimates, BOMs, SOWs, QA/QC, team movement within the Theater, material management, equipment, tool, vehicle, apartment rentals, coordinating site access and schedules for projects, and all around communications.

 

2006 – 2013.09

Lockheed Martin, 6+ years

Senior Engineering – RCDD - QA

Senior Engineering is a sub-group within a team of 20+ RCDDs. We are responsible for maintaining the integrity of the infrastructure design at the Pentagon. We build and maintain a network that has four classification levels of fiber, three classification levels of phone service and VoIP.

1. Meeting all industry and military standards.

2. Setting and revising installation practices,

3. Answering design questions and enforcing design installation accuracy,

4. Helping write SOP documents,

5. Develop project documents,

6. Build RCDD/installation teamwork,

7. Approve project designs before installations begin,

8. QA during and after the project ends.

9. Sub-contract Evaluation Board for Sub-contract work off campus.

 

Sub-contract Evaluation Board

As a member of this group, we evaluate Bid documents for technical compliance and contractors for professional workmanship and experience: giving recommendations for awarding  the   contract.

 

RCDD - MAN Project

My assignment was to gain an understanding of the MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) single mode fiber installation in Crystal City, Roslyn and the Pentagon; to assist the cable installation teams and engineers in the ongoing design and implementation of the MAN network.  I was the POC when additional customers need connected to the MAN in Crystal City, Va. through 2011.

 

Pentagon OSP Oversight

In 2009 and 2010 I was part of the OSP team that had oversight of the vast NCR (National Capitol Region) fiber optic network: assigning connectivity, approving new designs, maintaining administrative documentation of the passive network.

 

2002 - 2006

Henkels and McCoy

Project Manager – The Pentagon,

One of four Project Managers for Henkels & McCoy on the Pentagon Project Team responsible for managing a workforce of over 100 technicians.  The multi-year project is the largest voice & data cabling project currently working in the United States.  Some of the individual projects completed under this contract include installations of 200  to 350 workstations consisting of multiple copper and fiber cables utilizing a work force of 10-20 technicians. The build out of server farms, data centers and athletic facilities. Pentagon Site Safety Representative – Performed the duties of the Site Safety Representative for the Pentagon work force for over 1½ years responsible for enforcing the rigid requirements of the H&M safety plan for over 100 on-site personnel. 

 

Project Manager- Department of State

I managed various cable plant installations in the DOS campus of 40+ buildings mainly in the DC metro area. The size of the projects varied from 25 drop locations to 200. I also over saw the O&M team of 5 technicians that did moves, adds and changes in the same 40+ buildings.

 

Project Manager- Lorton office in the Washington Capitol Region.

My projects have ranged from the installation of 34 TVs for ESPN Zone Sports Complex, 102 VD drops for Chubb and Sons, PDS system for the Air Force at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, to the renovation of two floors in the Taylor Building in Crystal City.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001 - 2002

Edd Helms Data Telecom

Project Manager

Oversight of multiple four man crews installing cable, antennas, connectors, ice bridge, wave guide, grounding as well as testing of wireless installations on towers, roof tops and monopoles.  Job description included site audits, material ordering, material delivery, design, installation verification and customer satisfaction through to the billing cycle. 

 

 

1999 - 2001

Convergent Communications

Project Manager/Program Manager

Responsible for the day to day management of $1M+ cabling infrastructure profit center including: Professional Services Group -managed total network installations from phone systems, computer networks, phone service, T1s, LD, ISP, DSL, Broadband and Frame relay Lan/Wan’s while assuring customer satisfaction through quality installations.  Design & Estimating – Performed site surveys, developed estimates, created product procurement procedures and created proposals for the end user.

 

 

1996 – 1998

Fiber Optic Technologies

Estimator

Estimated and designed structured cabling systems with responsibilities such as:  producing

WBS  (work breakdown structure) estimates for projects up to $1,000,000, site surveys &

project evaluations, creation & management of extensive MS Excel spreadsheets &

proposals created in MS Word, estimator to technician hand-off as well as adhering to

ANSI EIA/TIA industry standards.

 

 

1970 - 1994House Building IndustryDenver, Co.

Journeyman Carpenter, Crew Superintendent

Building homes $200,000 to $1,500,000

 

 

Master Carpenter: 25+ years in Commercial – Residential Construction

 

During these 25 years I built houses and pastored small churches.

I’ve built houses that cost from $50,000 in the 70s to $1.5 million in the 90s.

I have managed my own crew, ordered and purchased the materials and worked with other contractors to complete the job. Through these opportunities an old fashioned work ethic became well developed. It was a total integration of project management, people management and business management.

 

 

 

 

Excellent Teacher and Instructor: 1,643+ classroom instruction presentations

 

The 25 years pastoring opportunities honed my teaching skills, conflict management abilities and communication skills (negotiating dialogue).  Abilities to organize and help diverse types of people develop, became strengths during this time. These years hold the key to my team leadership and people skills.

 

 

 

Education:

 

Higher Education

 

1990 – 1991Colorado Christian University - Lakewood, CO

BS in Management of Human Resources

BS in Christian Leadership Program

1965 – 1966West Chester State Teachers College - West Chester, PA

Physical Education Major 

1965Elizabethtown High School - Elizabethtown, PA

High School Diploma

Graduated with athletic honors

 

 

 

Industry Certifications and Affiliations:

BICSI RCDD (Registered Communications Distribution Designer)

PMP – Project Management Certifications

 

LAN Education, PMI Training and RCDD Certification Training:

2013                BICSI Winter Conference in Tampa, Fl.: 4 days – 15 CECs

 

2010                BICSI Winter Conference in Orlando, Fl.: 4 days – 15 CECs

 

2009               BICSI Winter Conference in Baltimore, MA.: 4 days – 15 CECs

 

2008                BICSI Winter Conference in Orlando, Fl.: 4 days – 15 CECs

 

2007BICSI Fall Conference in Las Vegas: 4 days – 15 CECs

 

2006                Fluke Networks Certified Cabling Test Tech.: 7 Hrs. – 7 CECs

 

2005                        Holocom Networks Technologies

Installation Certification Training for PDS Systems: 24 Hrs. – 24 CECs

 

2005                                 Fluke Networks Network Cabling Cert. Workshop: 4 Hrs. – 4 CECs

 

2004                Project 2003  Level 2:  8 Hrs. – 8 CECs

 

2004                Project 2002, Intermediate: 8 Hrs. – 8 CECs

 

2004                Project 2002 Level 1:  8 Hrs. – 8 CECs

 

2004                IBDN Installation Refresher: 6 Hrs. – 6 CECs

 

2004                BICSI Spring Conference: 4 days – 15 CECs

 

2003   Henkels and McCoy Supervisor Academy: 5 days – 41.5 CECs

           Henkels and McCoy PFT Training: 2 days – 16 Hours – 16 CECs

                        Henkels and McCoy Network Systems Solutions: 5 Hrs. – 5 CECs

 

2003Ortronics Cat 6 Technician Training: 8 Hrs. – 8 CECs

 

2002 Continuing Education Requirements for PMI certification

Managing Complex Projects by ESI International: 3 days – 22.5 CECs

 

 

 

2000 Continuing Education Reg. Courses:  

1. Project Planning and Control Toolbox: HQ 4014 – 14 CECs

2. Cost Accounting for Projects: HQ 4051 – 2 days – 14 CECs

 

1999George Washington University - Washington D.C.

PMP Certification

Test covers PMBOK body of knowledge for Project Management

 

1997       Building Ind. Consulting Services Inc. - Tampa, FL

Certified RCDD (Registered Communications Distribution Designer) #00870

 

 

 

Professional memberships

BICSI Membership