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Joseph Thill 

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Resume Headline: Operations Management

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Joseph R. Thill

952-500-3011 • JosephThill01@gmail.com

 

Summary

 

Experienced and multi-dimensional customer facing professional with mid-level management experience and skills acquired during a career of increasing company profitability through sound ROI market planning, new revenue discovery, communications with senior management, negotiating property site acquisition, legal and recordable access agreement writing, vendor RFQ release, budgeting, project management, telecommunications outside plant engineering, sales and sales management. 

 

Experience

 

Project Manager                                                                     2013 - 2014

Comm-Works

-          Created, implemented and managed a new company revenue source; Outside Plant construction of pathway.

-          Key customer contact and project lead on a $2m revenue project and with 3 FTE direct reports.

-          Reported and presented project metrics as required to Senior Management pulled from the ALERT database.

-          Produced agenda and conducted weekly conference meetings with Customer and Senior Management.

-          Managed project ROI to 42%

-          Remotely recruited and inspected the work of OSP/ISP vendors and managed the entire process from RFQ to installation of OSP pathway, ISP Cat5E cables and associated hardware on 500+ projects across the U.S.  

-          Actively project managed ~75 ongoing projects in various stages of development in a customized MS Access database.

-          Tracked the receipt of required deliverables from vendors via the ALERT database.

 

Outside Plant Inspector                                                         2012 - 2013

Mastec

-           Project managed outstate Minnesota telecommunications projects in field.

-           Daily reported metrics job statuses on ~40 active projects on average.

-           Developed Excel tracking mechanism for reporting purposes.

-           Customer facing communications daily with ~6 key telecommunications company customer contacts.

-           Perform daily on-site project visits to inspect vendor work in outstate Minnesota.

-           Communicate with government regulatory entities when necessary.

 

Telecom Manager                                                                    2011 - 2012            

Ureka Broadband

-           Perform field engineering for Right-of-Way (ROW) permitting, make ready and route planning for fiber route feasibility.

-           Defined the locations of all appurtenances in the ROW and mapped according to proposed plant route

-           Provided direction and consultation on residential, commercial and infrastructure expansion builds.

-           Participated in consultation on various marketing efforts and strategic planning on FTTH projects.

-           Assisted in the build process of municipal builds in project management and sales/marketing.

-           Participated in the start-up of an FTTH project in Southwest Minnesota with a potential customer base in excess of 3500.

-           Performed sales as well as managed sales staff to a take rate of 63% on the initial sales phase.

-           Hired and managed a very successful sales team with consistent sales sell-in ratio of +50%.

-           Managed the creation of the sales and business office processes.

-           Assisted with Site Acquisition and Engineering/Construction project management.

 

Market Development Manager                                               2002 - 2010             

Comcast Business Services

-           Participated in the management team that grew potential customer base by 43,190 serviceable commercial addresses.

-           Recruited, hired and managed a 4 FTE sales team that negotiated 2197 legally binding Site Acquisition Access Agreements between 2008 and 2010 and enabled the exceeded budget for added serviceable addresses passed by 111% within the same time period.

-           Initiated and successfully managed the creation of a multi-departmental database that tracked commercial customer capital projects from sale to connect.  Eliminated the need for project coordination and 2 FTE’s.

-           Created, presented, budgeted, implemented and tracked innovative strategic marketing initiatives and subsequent infrastructure builds.  Designed a program to increase completion rates on phone installs. 

-           Created the concept and build of a market penetration database that enabled the sales force to focus their efforts. 

 

 

Senior Project Engineer 1996 - 2002

Time Warner Cable

-          Served as a resource for the Upgrade Department with solutions to problematic construction situations.

-          Negotiated access and leveraged relationships for 24 miles of fiber optic deployment throughout the core of downtown Minneapolis. 

-           Acted as a liaison with the company and external agencies such as building managers and owners, government engineers and officials, power and telephone company engineers and officials. 

-           Negotiated mutually favorable arrangements on right-of-way permits, pole rental, duct leases and Site Acquisition Access Agreements.

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Services Supervisor                1992–1996

Paragon Business Systems

-           Managed the build-out and negotiated Site Acquisition Access Agreements for the placement of 45 miles of the downtown Minneapolis cable television plant.  This included project processes, such as fiber optic and coaxial cable design, contractor bidding, project approval, estimating and bidding with adherence to FCC and NEC standards.

-           Managed the daily work duties of in-house and contract installation personnel that ensured timely and quality installation of services.

-           Managed professional relationships between the company and external contacts to the benefit of the company, bringing cost effective and collaborative arrangements to construction projects.

 

Education

University of St. Thomas - Center for Business Excellence

Project Management, Mini Master of Project Management

2012 – 2012

Kaplan

Real Estate, Minnesota Realtor Licensee

2009 – 2010

Index Computers

Microsoft Project I & II

2012 – 2012

Normandale Community College

1980 – 1981

 

External

Involvement

Board of Directors, Gopher State One Call, representing the MN Cable Communications Association, 1985 – Present

City Council Member, Elected, City of Jordan, 2010 – Present

Scott County Association for Leadership and Efficiency, 2013 Chair, 2010 – Present

Scott County Watershed Planning Commission, 2009 Chair, 2008 - Present

Appointed Member, 1998 Advisory Task Force MS216D (Gopher State One-Call Law) legislative rule making

Member, 2001 Review Committee for state law MS216D review and Best Practices

Charter Member (past), Metropolitan Utility Coordinating Committee, 18 yrs.

North Central Electrical League (past), Datacomm Council

Associate Member (past), Minneapolis Building Owners and Managers Association

Associate Member (past), St. Paul Building Owners and Managers Association

Jordan Lions General Member, 3rd Year Director

Commercial Club Member, Jordan

 

 

 

 

 



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Current Career Level:

Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

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Citizenship:

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Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-MN-Minneapolis

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