Brandon Freeman

Riverview, FL
(870) 476-5061

bfreeman007@hotmail.com 

Career Objective

 

I seek a challenging leadership position with data management, business development, and problem solving demands.  

 

Accomplishments Summary

·   Program Development – PgMP

·   P6 certification

·   Project Development/Management - PMP

·   Business Plan Development and Presentation

·   Business Process Improvement

·   Data Management/Tracking

·   Developing and Submitting Bids and Contract documents

Skills Summary

·  Program/Project building, maintaining, and tracking within P6, Smartsheets, Google Sheets/Docs.

·  Profit and Loss Management.

·  Efficient, detail-oriented, eager to expand my knowledge base.

·  Consistent, articulate, adept at problem solving.

·  Skilled at creative and technical writing.

·  Possess a strong knowledge and skill set within the field of business, business systems, and business development.   

·  Advanced skillset within Excel, Word, Power point, and One Note.

·  OSP Engineering, ISP Engineering, Permitting, and Planning within the Telecom industry.

·  Software Development.

 

Work Experience

TESINC

January 2005 – Present

Tampa, Florida

·  Business Development

o  Developing and submitting bids and narratives for potential contracts, project development/management, business plan development and presentation, business-process-improvement, and data management/tracking. 

 

§ During my 11 years at Tesinc, I have built and managed a wide variety of projects and programs from infancy through completion. 

·       Experience performing, and managing.

o    OSP/ISP Engineering - FTTP, FTTN, FTTC Equipment Test and Turn-up, Facility Provisioning and Assignment, CAD Drafting and Design, MDU, MTU, Customer Throws/cutover, CO Audit/Inventory, Utility Pole Inspection and Inventory, Pole, and Cable Removals, ROW Acquisition, Fiber/Copper Construction Management, Fiber and Copper Splicing/Throws, Site engineering and Surveys, Records cleanup, Data conversions, IOF Design and Trouble Shooting. 

 

Program Management Highlights

 

·  CAF2 Program Management

o  I have worked closely with the COO, and Sales VP of Dycom, a fortune 500 company, as well as other Construction and Engineering presidents of Dycom subsidiaries including ADTRAN to develop an RFP (Bid) and supporting documents on a 1+ billion dollar Turn-Key CAF project.

o  Dycom was awarded as the sole owner of the Turn-Key program.  Afterwards, there were months of “in-person” meetings and conference calls to discuss and develop the contract language. 

o  As the SR Program Manager of the CAF1 and CAF2 programs, it has been my responsibility to develop and lead the program level team and be the liaison between the customer and the production side of Dycom’s engineering and construction firms.  I host and lead conference calls with key players in all companies as well as attend weekly update calls, hosted by my program supervisors that bring together the customers and Dycom’s state-level project managers. Our current program is utilizing P6 as the Program Database and Smartsheets as the project database, which allows digital inputs from the field and streamlined automation of data into P6.  This program consists of over 200 turn-key activities per work order for a program total of over 7,000 miles of fiber and 3,800 site placements/turn-up’s with associated copper placement and customer throws.

·  Stimulus Program Management

o  Stimulus was $500+ million dollars and hundreds of employees.  It was a government funded program that spanned across 14 states and included over 2,700 job sites.  I was the author and manager of the collaborative tracking system used by Windsteam and the many other companies preforming work on this project.  I was also a key player in the ongoing process development and improvement campaign that was responsible for ensuring the success of the entire program. This program management experience spanned 4 years (2010-2014).   

 

 

Project Management Highlights

 

·  CAF1

o  This was a 10 month Windstream project that was fast and furious.  I managed the engineering of 4 states that placed approximately 450 miles of fiber, 350 sites and associated cutover engineering.  My task was to ramp up from 10 core employees to around 65. I hired, trained, and managed these employees as well as 4 supervisors during this project. 

o  I bid this project, developed it, and managed it.  We were so successful that all of our competitor’s work was reassigned to us.  This project helped solidify an earlier developed relationship with the customer, and ended up paving the way for us winning the contract mentioned previously against Ericsson, Alcatel-lucent, and Bechtel. 

·  Pole vacate Project

o  Previous to the CAF1 Project, I ran a project for our Verizon customer that required me to take over our Verizon department which only had 6 employees and a manager at the time.  Over the 8 month life of that project, I ramped up to 35 engineers.  Due to our quality and on-time delivery, the customer reassigned the work from our competitor’s areas to us.   

·  TIRKS Project

o  This was a 3 year project that ran prior to our Stimulus program. During this program, I led a team of ISP and OSP engineers to audit all central offices and many of their remote locations for Verizon in TX and CA.  They were converting their IOF and business records from AAIS to TIRKS, which required a great deal of research, reconstruction, and record clean-up. This was a very high profile and complex project that was followed by the top executives of Verizon.  I developed the bid, scope of work, and managed this project until its successful completion. 

 

Engineering Highlights

 

·  Prior to my management experience, I was the engineering and drafting “go-to guy” and “SPOC” (single point of contact) for Tesinc projects covering Copper, FTTP, MDU, and MTU projects for MD, VA, NY, PA, FL, and TX.

 

Wellsco

2004-2005

Paragould, Arkansas

·   Drafter and Engineer - California project

·   DBA Error Correction Team

 

Education
 

University of South FloridaTampa, Florida

Hillsborough Community CollegeBrandon, Florida

Arkansas State UniversityJonesboro, Arkansas