Michael Smith

Telecom Contracts

Resume

 

Michael G. Smith

3226 Manda Dr 

San Jose Ca 95124

(530) 510-3352 (cell) (best response)

(530) 242-6895 (residence)

Personal email: mgsmithusa@yahoo.com

 

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Project Experience:

 

·               Wireless/Cellular Project and Construction Management

·               Power Utility Telecom Projects (Power Protection, SCADA, Smartmeter, RAS, RTVI, Mobile Radio, Network Infrastructure)

·               Fiber Optic Outside Plant (OSP) (copper & fiber) project construction experience

·               International & Domestic project experience

 

 

Work History:

 

·               Samsung                                          Cellular Commissioning Construction Manager              5/14/13 to 4/1/15

·               Pacific Gas and Electric               Power Utility Telecom Contractor                                          Dec 06 to 04/28/13

·               Lemcon/Nokia                             Cellular Construction Management                                          June 05 to September 06

·               Bechtel                                          Cellular Project Controls AWS Project                             May 02 to May 05             

·               AMS Inc                                          Fiber Optic Project Manager                                          Oct 01 to 4/02

·               El Paso Global Gas & Electric              Fiber Optic Project Supervisor                                          May 01 to Oct 1

·               Alcatel/CDI                                          Fiber Optic Field Engineer and QC Manager                            Dec 00 to May 01

·               Lucent Technologies/WESA              OSP & Wireless Project Supervisor – Saudi Arabia              98 to 6/2000             

·               MRT Inc.                                          Telecom Project Manager                                                         85 to 98                           

 

Skills & Qualifications:

 

Telecommunications:

 

·               Project Management

·               Project Controls

·               Construction Management

·               Quality Control

·               Contract Administrations

·               Project Safety

·               Contract Negotiations

·               Procurement

·               Multiple electronic, civil engineering and logistical skills

·               Multi-project, multi-nationality team environments.

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

 

 

 

11/2/14 Telecom Project Manager (Private Contract)

to current

MRT Canada.

Kuwait City, Kuwait /San Jose, California

Project manager for various international telecommunications, broadcast, video and RF related projects for contract clientele in Middle East.  Responsibilities included project administration, project engineering, project & bid proposals, product & vendor acquisition, manufacturer sourcing and interfacing, purchase negotiations, contract negotiations, project commissioning & turnover Related projects (project list available upon request) .

 

 

5/14/13 toConstruction Finance/Commissioning Manager

11/1/14SNS Samsung Network Services (Blue Telecom)

Review and Issue General Contractor (GC) Purchase Orders Request (POR) for Sprint/Samsung LTE NV project Northern California.   Define project scope, prioritize demands, manage timelines, prepare and present finance reports to stake holders. Resolve in risks and provide risk and escalation management as needed.  Analyze GC PORs against Samsung contract for out of scope work.  Deny, accept or negotiate pricing between GC and Samsung while reviewing for compliance with Sprint’s SOW .  Work scope included all RF, civil, power and transport services necessary to bring LTE service on air.  Once on air handled contractor decommissioning review and approval of all sites as completed.  Worked with stakeholders on both sides of the project.

 

 

Dec 2006 to   PGE ITIS Technical Contractor – San Jose

4/28/13PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric (Contracted through Canus Corp)

Utility Power Protection Specialist

Telecommunication specialist monitored maintained and repaired power protection equipment at various locations including substations, power generation facilities, wind farms and various telecom facilities.  All sites were under NERC and PUC compliances.  Equipment maintained included General Electric and RFL transfer trip relays and modems for breaker status and direct transfer trips upon fault events.  Also maintained various SCADA equipment for monitor and control at these same locations.  Full PUC and NERC reporting and maintaining of records was applied to all on site occurrences.

 

RTVI Specialist

Identify and rectify RF problems concerning radiant noise coming from power facilities owned by power distribution and transmission departments.  Reported to PG&E Compliance department to bring about needed repairs to bring facilities into CPUC/FCC specifications.  Designed utility plan for developing specialist role for this position including integration of the role into all departments.  Designed RF program to help identify RF noises coming from singular sources that specifically dealt with PG&E equipment.   Completed full project management plan with P&L and Risk/Impact report for project to go forward. Presentation was for Director review. 

 

Also participated on other Gas & Electric Utility projects including:

 

Cornerstone SCADA Upgrade; Major upgrade to Gas & Electric monitoring and control system (remote monitoring  of gas and electric substations as well as control of switching hardware) with modem upgrades (9600 baud).  Modem type included RF, wireline, fiber and cellular .

 

PG&E Smartmeter Project;  PG&E’s first replacement of all customer’s electric and gas metering from manual meters to radio meters.  Remote monitoring used 800 Mhz and UHF Spread Spectrum radios to transmit data to central operation for automated billing system. 

 

PG&E Vehicle Radio and Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) system.  New radio system (TAIT) integrating voice and digital data over UHF radios.  Over 400 mountain top repeaters and 3000 mobile and base station equipment upgraded.

 

2006 Re-Cabling Beale Street HQ.  Re-cabled buildings for new VOIP phone and network system (Cisco)

 

Maintained multiple IT facilities as communication tech.  Systems maintained included backup power systems, multiplexers, routers, modems, PBX switches (digital and analog), microwave, two way radios, voicemail switches (Avaya) DAS systems. ATM, VoIP, TCPIP protocols experienced.

 

High familiarity with Utility company training ,operations, safety and security procedures. Fully NERC trained.

 

NERC Certified and trained

Substation Certified

Utility vehicles certified

 

 

June 2005 to   Construction Project Manager – Las Vegas

Sep 06LEMCON/Nokia

Reported to Western Regional Manager – Lemcon/Nokia

Reported to Las Vegas Area Manager - Cingular

 

Construction Manager (Market Manager) for Cingular Growth market in Las Vegas.  Manage all Growth activity for Lemcon client Nokia. Cellular carrier was Cingular.  Report directly to Cingular Growth Manager.  Project included Complex, Simple Adds, New Site Build.  Internally reported to Lemcon Western Regional Manager.  Duties included overseeing both EF&I integration resolving all issues to final turnover. 

 

Project included the re-home of the region during on going during the project duration.  Day to day contact with NOC for ET reassignment were on-going for over a 6 month period. Lead Transport duties for all sites including order/reorder telco facilities including T1s, DS3, Fiber or alternative microwave as established during precon walkdown.

 

Quality Control Manager position was assigned to design and establish Nokia’s quality control program known as Service Excellence Program (SEP). Assignment included establishing training tracker database, contractor evaluation, program monitoring and reporting.  Worked on project from conception of the program to implementation.   Training program included UMTS Core and Node B equipment training program.

 

 

 

Lemcon is the Project Implementation contractor for Nokia International.

 

May 2002 to   Sr. Project Controls Management

June 2005Bechtel Cingular/AWS Project

San Francisco, Los Angeles, & Seattle Markets

 

Reported to Western Regional Manager – Bechtel

Reported to Northern California Area Manager – Cingular

Reported to Ericsson Integration Manager

 

Worked directly with client AWS/Cingular and Ericsson Integration manager on planning, overseeing and management of all phases of AWS/Cingular Growth project for Central Northern California.  Responsibilities included project bid review, project engineering and design review, material and equipment review, resource planning, milestone projections, and project turnover.  Reported directly to regional Bechtel and Cingular PMs.

 

Met weekly with Ericsson interface to meet all milestones previous to cabinet installations including new sites as well as cabinet growth.  Weekly meeting were with integration manager concerning all aspect concerning engineering, construction and scheduling issues.   

 

Interfaced with all departments including Site Acquisition, Construction, Contracts, Procurement, Transport and Engineering to maintain project progress.  

 

Client: AWS/Cingular.  Vendors included Ericsson, Nortel, Lucent.  Projects included GSM and TDMA Overlay as well as the first UMTS project on the West Coast (SF Market). 

 

UMTS project was the 2^nd largest UMTS build in U.S. (SF Metro) with over 350 Node B sites to be installed within the SF metro market.  The project included many design engineering solutions that have now been initiated through out the country. 

 

Number of sites responsible for over a three-year period (TDMA, GSM and UMTS), was in excess of 2900 sites. 

 

Skill levels required knowledge of engineering and construction methods for:

 

·   GSM, UMTS and TDMA

·   850/1900 Growth and Overlay sites included indoor, outdoor, micros

·   NSB Sites

·   Sectorization

·   Sector Add

·   Power Upgrades (AC/DC)

·   E911

·   HVAC additions or modifications

·   Antenna Modification

 

 

Process controls included;

 

·   Review of  RFDS (Radio Frequency Data Sheet) for establishing site type and material take offs

·   Review of PSDs (Project Specification Data) from the client and match with in and out of scope work against Project SOW (Scope of Works)

·   Review of Walk Down data against PSD and RFD’s for possible scope changes.

·   Prepare Work Authorizations for required additional work.

·   Review of both engineering drawings and red lines for work performed against scope of work.

 

Project tracking included; CASPR (AWS/Cingular) project tracking , ePM (Bechtel)  Project Tracking, SIMMs (AWS/Cingular) RF Tracking. 

 

 

Oct 2001 to   Construction Manager Fiber

April 02AMS Inc

Encinitas CA

 

Supervised various Wireless & OSP plant projects for California market.  Project was Global Photon - San Francisco to San Diego offshore/terrestrial fiber redundant fiber loop. Also completed rewrite of Fiber Construction Manual for Falcon Cable. 

 

May 2001 to   Construction Project Manager

Oct 01Pinnacle/El Paso Gas & Electric Global Networks

Phoenix Hub Ring

Phoenix, AZ 

 

Project Manager for multiple FO Hub Rings in the Metro Phoenix market.  Reported to the Regional Construction Manager. Oversee Site Inspectors and supervise construction with contract companies.  Report all production.  Prepare construction bids; oversee all pre-bid meetings and pre-construction meeting.  Interfaced with engineering for utilities design changes , reviewed redlines for final as built drawings.  Interface with City of Phoenix.

 

Dec 00 to   OSP Field Engineer / Quality Control Manager

May 01Alcatel/CDI

Global West Networks Project

San Diego, CA

 

OSP Fiber and Wire line Field Engineer

Field engineered fiber routes both rural, metro and long line.  Worked on identifying ROWs with city, county, State and multiple utilities including R&Rs.  Also coordinated routes with multiple fiber carriers and phone companies for access permission to various vaults.  Used stick (OSP Poles) and wheels (OSP underground) for prepping pre route drawings.  Worked with USA (when available) on verifying existing underground facilities.  In vaults identified available ducts and who the occupying carriers were.  Identified locations for pull boxes, vaults, splice boxes and above ground cabinets. Identified existing pole spans and various pole hardware both power and wireline as it related to the new build. Worked with engineers on final drawings.  Worked with various field computers pads to field identify and draw routes plus identify existing facilities both underground and overhead.  GO95 and GO128 trained.  Make ready work included identifying pole hardware needed, evaluating pole conditions and identifying current existing non compliance construction and potential out of scope work.

 

 

Contract position to prepare, produce and manage Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) for Fiber Optic terrestrial project.  Prepared Underground FO Construction Manual, FO Aerial Construction Manual, Safety Plan and all Safety Reports. 

 

 

Contracted under CDI to Alcatel Network Service Division (France) for 1^st USA terrestrial FO route project (Global Photon’s Global West Networks Project) awarded to Alcatel France.  Position reported directly to Project Manager.  ISO 9001 standards were used for all established procedures. 

 

Project was combination of Submarine FO cable and terrestrial FO cable routing from San Francisco to San Diego. 

 

 

Feb 98 to   Construction Manager - Wireless

June 00Lucent Technologies/Bechtel (Seconded)

TEP 6 OSP Project

Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

 

Coordinated the construction and locations of terminal (base station) and subscriber equipment for client (Saudi Telephone Company (STC), Coordinated Lucent Installation Managers and Lucent field contractors for field installation of Lucent’s Airloop Wireless Local Loop System (fixed wireless cellular subscriber system).  Construction responsibilities included site selection and acquisition in coordination with WLL engineering staff.  Geographic areas of responsibility included Riyadh, Makkah & Medinah.  WLL project scope was 150K Subscribers in 7 different regions served by over 142 transmitter sites throughout the Kingdom Technology was CDMA based.  Tracking software HP Openview via Unix operating system.  Backbone Network interfacing included copper, fiber & microwave via E1 links.  Lucent staffing averaged 120 personnel at peak of construction.  Two contractor companies were utilized for equipment installation with a total of 120 teams in the field (Kingdom wide).

 

Reported directly to NIU Integration Director.  Managed staff of 15-25 personnel including 5 Field Site Coordinators.  Internal staffing included site planners, mapping coordinators, & various clerical personnel.  Coordinated with Operations & Maintenance Centre (OMC) for equipment provisioning, System Administration and Provisioning Department for subscriber activation verification and Maintenance Department for coordinating and verifying subscriber locations for solving field problems relating to crossed RF paths, BER problems and base station and subscriber alignment antenna problems.  Reported weekly to Lucent /Contractors meeting for review of contractor issues.

 

1985 to   Wireless Telecom Project Manager

Jan 98Mideastern Resources & Technologies Inc.

Kuwait City, Kuwait /Los Osos, California

Project administration manager for various international telecommunications, broadcast, video and RF related projects for contract clientele in Middle East.  Responsibilities included project administration, project engineering, project & bid proposals, product & vendor acquisition, manufacturer interfacing, purchasing negotiations, contract negotiations, project commissioning & turnover plus international bank transactions and overseas shipping.  Related projects (project list available upon request) included:

 

FTTH Fiber OpticsVSAT (Data & VF Transmission)

PTT Exchange Monitor & Control Telephony Call Processing Servers

Fixed & Portable Broadcast Microwave Links Land Mobile Radio Systems

Video Conferencing SystemCommand Control & Monitor Systems

TV Broadcast ENG & SNG VehiclesFM Broadcast Radio Stations

UHF & VHF TV Transmission Stations

 

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Software Experience

 

Primavera;  Milestone updating, daily project updating, material reporting

Microsoft Excel;  Project reporting and tracking with heavy emphasis on V and H Lookups , Pivot Tables

Microsoft Shareware;  Data collection and filing.

Power Point  Management and Training Presentation

Microsoft Project; Milestone reporting

Siterra; Site milestone update and documentation controls

Various databases.

CASPR ATT Tracking Database

SIMMS

SAP Database enquiries, report generation, document control.

Visio

 

 

EDUCATION:

Santa Monica College                                          2 year technical diploma

General Electric RF Electronics Training              Two Way Radio Repair Certification

Bell & Howell RF Electronic Training                            Course Certification             

GE Sales Training                                                        Sales Training Certification

Apple Computer Inc. Core Mgmt Training              Management Training Certification

Alcatel Quality Assurance Training                            40 Hours