Thomas Edwin Godwin Jr.

6191 Plank Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22407

Mobile Phone: 540-907-7271

tgodwin129@yahoo.com

 

 

OBJECTIVE

 

Secure an opportunity in Wireless Project Management or Site Acquisition Management that utilizes my years of experience in the areas experienced, educated, and qualified.

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS

 

17 Years – Wireless Industry: 

Positions:

·              Projection Manager 6 years

·              Zoning Manager 2 years

·              Site Acquisition Manager 5 years

·              Senior Site Acquisition Consultant, Zoning Specialist and Collocation Specialist 4 years

·              Right a Way Agent and Consultant.

 

3 Years - General Constructor, Estimator, and Property and Leasing Manager

 

15 Years –Upper Level Marketing and Sales Management

 

SKILLS

 

Sprint Siterra, AT&T Siterra (7 yrs), Oracle, CASPR, WFI Siterra, and etc.

 

A+ Qualified for Computer Repair and Configuration

 

Microsoft Office 2007, and Microsoft Outlook, and etc

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

August 2013 to April 2014:  Smart Link LLC, MD.

 

                Position: Project Manager for American Tower Corp

                Customer:  Sprint 2.5 project

               Duties:  Supervised 3 Site Acquisition Vendors and three A&E Vendors in the

                Baltimore/DC Markets, Richmond Market and Norfolk Market, also meeting in

                site by site with all the Site Acquisition and A&E Vendors in weekly meetings.

                Kept weekly score on the progress that the vendors were making, kept Sprint

                Siterra and ATC management systems updated on weekly progress of

                Deliverables on 120 Spirit sites.

 

June 2013 to August 2013:  SCE Engineering, Columbia, MD.

 

              Position: Site Develop Manager

              Customer:  Verizon Wireless

              Duties:  Managed Verizon New Build Sites. Scrub new site locations. Supervise Site

              Visits, Compile Candidate Packages for Colocation and raw land sites, Complete

              Collocation Applications and Leases with Landlords.

 

June 2012 to June 2013: Powder River Development, Boise Idaho

 

               Position:  Project Manager/Site Acquisition Manager

               Customer:  AT&T MW Project and AT&T LTE Project, 2C 4C AT&T Project.

               Duties:  As Site Acquisition Manager supervised the acquisition of deliverables on

               the AT& T Micro Wave project, and then supervised vendors on the AT&T LTE

               Project, and etc., As Project Manager over the 2C & 4C AT&T project, I supervised

               two  Site Acquisition firms and two A&E firms on 200 plus sites.

 

 

February 2012 to June 2012:  Faulk and Foster, Louisiana

 

              Position: Right of Way Consultant

              Customer: Wingstream and Verizon

              Duties:  Research Sites in West Virginia and pulled parcel deeds.  Negotiated letters of

              Intent and Easement with landowners.

 

 

October 2011 to Feb 2012:  Atwell LLC

 

             Position: Site Acquisition Consultant

            Customer:  Global Tower Partners

             Duties:  Working 15 sites for New Tower Builds in South Carolina, Georgia, and

             Long Island, NY. Responsible for locating 3 candidates per site, and submitting

             SCIP packages per site with all the Leasing, Zoning, and Permitting Information

             Supervisor: John Lateulete, Project Manager

 

 

03/2011 to October 2011 – Pintouri-Godwin Enterprises LLC

        

             Position: Site Acquisition Project Manager

             Customer: Alcatel-Lucent and Sprint, Columbia, MD. BAWA Market

             Duties:  Supervised Site Acquisition and A&E Vendors with over 355 assigned

             sites.. The Site Acquisition Vendor was responsible for all the Site Acquisition

             deliverables for the Sprint 4G Net Vision Project. Other responsibilities as follows:

 

· Supervised and coordinated all construction activities with the Project Construction Managers

· Conduct weekly meetings with the Site Acquisition Vendor PM.

· Insured that the A&E vendors promptly scheduled Site Walks with the Construction managers and Site Acquisition Vendors

· Reviewed A&E drawings with CM’s to insure the Sprint Vision Design was correct

· Submitted Purchase Orders from the vendors to Alcatel-Lucent for approval

· Conducted a weekly deployment meeting with the Site Acquisition vendor and reviewed the progress on each site and updated the progress on a weekly deployment tracker.

· And recorded the progress on each site in the Alcatel-Lucent Management Program and also in Sprint Siterra

· Attended weekly Sprint deployment meeting to report progress on each site

 

             Location: Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC.

             Supervisor:  Paul Patel, Regional Marketing Manager

 

02/2009 to 03/2011 – BCI Communication, Maryland and Texas Regional Offices

            

             Positions:  Site Acquisition Manager / Project Manager

              Customer: Clear Wireless, LLC, Comcast (DC Area)                                              

               Locations:  San Antonio, Corpus Christi, TX, and BAWA market

               Supervisors: Bill Bales, Ray Corley (BCI PMs’), Ron Mattis (BCI GM), and

              John Moore and Deborah Heisler (T-Mobile Project Managers)

              Duties: 

·                       Site Acquisition Manager in San Antonio Texas, and then Project

Manager

·                       Phase one of the project was completed on time and Clearwire launched the

San Antonio on schedule

·                       Helped PM supervised five Site Acquisition Specialist

·                       Completed with PM the initial scrub of 110 sites

·                       Coordinated all A&E activities

·                       Completed due diligence on 30 sites from leasing to NTP

·                       Meet weekly with Site Acquisition Specialist in a deployment meeting

·                       Updated and maintain a project tracker

·                       Phase Two: Promoted to Project Manager and supervised the Site Acquisition due diligence over 60 additional fill in sites.

·                       Responsibilities included, conducting site walks with the Site Acquisition Specialists, Construction Managers, and A&E Vendors.

·                       Insured that the drawings meet the customers design

·                       Insured Site Acquisition Specialist filed Construction drawings with the local jurisdictions for zoning and permitting approval.

·                       Attended weekly Clearwire deployment meetings to update the progress on each site

·                       Submitted PO’s for approval with Clearwire.

·                       Acquired NTP when a site was completed with zoning and permitting

·                       Furnish closeout documents to Clearwire

 

·                       BCI, Jessup Maryland, Site Acquisition Manager, Comcast/T-Mobile Project in Baltimore, Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. This project consisted of running Comcast Fiber to 700 T-Mobile sites.   

·                       Assigned 150 sites

·                       Major duties: Access, leasing, right of way, and easement issues.

·                       Interfaced with landlords for access approval and leasing concerns.

·                       Scheduled and supervised site walks with CM’s from Comcast and BCI.

·                       Supervised all A&E activities and completion of drawings

·                       Completed all the due diligence and requested and attained a NTP from Comcast and T-Mobile, and the landlords.       

 

04/2008 to 2/2009 - Ejaad Telecom LLC, Alexandra, VA

            

              Positions: Site Acquisition and A&E Manager, Senior Site Acquisition, Zoning, and

                                Collocation Specialist

              Customers: Sprint/Nextel 4G Backhaul, & WiMax, and Fiber Tower LLC. (Backhaul)

             Locations: Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania.

              Supervisors: Nader Nawab

               Duties: Work on several Projects for Ejaad.

1.      Sprint/Nextel: Sr. Site Acquisition and Zoning Consultant  

·            Completed all the due diligence on 30 plus sites 

·            Responsibilities included: leasing, collocation MLA leasing

·            Conducted and supervised site walks with A&E and Construction and landlords

·            Secured Construction drawings from A&E and filed for Zoning and Permitting

·            Attain from landlords and Nextel/Sprint a NTP (Notice of Proceed).

 

2.      Fiber Tower: Site Acquisition Manager

·          Supervised a Fiber Tower/AT&T Project with 60 sites

·          Secured leasing area to place Fiber Tower Cabinets from Customer or landlord

·          Supervised all site walks with construction and A&E, and landlord.

·          Help in negotiating leases with the landlords.

·          Reviewed all Construction drawing for accuracy

·          Attended weekly deployment meeting with Fiber Tower

·          Secured Zoning and Permitting approval when needed

·          Secured a NTP from Customer and landlord

 

01/2006 to 02/2007– Ejaad Telecom LLC, Alexandra

 

               Positions: Senior Site Acquisition, Collocation, and Zoning Specialist

               Customers:  AT&T, Nextel.

               Locations: Pennsylvania. Maryland. Washington DC Virginia West Virginia

               Supervisor: Nader Nawab

               Duties:

1.   AT&T:  Worked on 30 new build sites in the BAWA area and Pennsylvania

 

·                        Completed all the assigned duties: finding, leasing, A&E drawings, site walks,

                           zoning and permitting, and weekly deployment meetings thru and to NTP

 

2.   Nextel: Worked 30 Nextel sites in the BAWA market to include Virginia and West Virginia.

·                        Duties included: Finding, leasing, zoning and permitting on new build locations

·                        Working with other carriers for collocation on an existing site

·                        Completing all due diligence from leasing to NTP.

                           

02/2007 to 05/2008   - Wireless Facilities Inc. Reston Va.

      

               Positions:  Site Acquisition Manager, Senior Site Acquisition II and Zoning Consultant,

     Customers:  Clear Wire, (Collocations) and Sprint/Nextel 4G

Locations: Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, North Carolina, Missouri, Illinois

Supervisors: David Waldeck, Greg Warren, John McGlynn

               Duties: Clearwire in the BAWA as a Senior Site Acquisition Consultant

1.    Clearwire:  Worked 30 sites in BAWA consisting of new build and collocations

·                      Completed scrubbing with RF and selecting candidates

·                      Contacted landlords for leasing interest, and lease terms

·                      Set up site walks with A&E, construction, RF and Landlords

·                      Negotiated lease terms with landlord and submitted lease package to Clearwire

·                      Project was cut short because Clearwire was having spectrum problems

·                      Helped WFI Project Manage with final billing for services and completed deliverables

 

2.    Promoted Site Acquisition Manager sent to Clearwire Project in Charlotte N.C for

three months

·                        Worked and secured SLA’s for Clearwire execution from the collocation sites with other carriers.

·                        Developed a tracker for BP submittal that tract the expiration of issued permits

·                        Attended weekly deployment meetings with Clearwire with progress reports

·                        Helped Project Manager with billing Clearwire for completed deliverables

·                        Tracked and secured NTPs’ from landlord on completed sites

 

3.    Transfer as Site Acquisition Manager to St. Louis Mo for 14 month on a Sprint 4G Project.

·                    Supervised 3 site Acquisition Specialist.

·                    Worked 25 existing Nextel sites in St Louis, Mo to complete the due diligent

·                    Scheduled and supervise site walks with Construction, A&E, and landlords

·                    Negotiated leases with landlords, and review the other Site Acquisition lease packages for accuracy

·                    Submitted all lease packages to the Regional WFI office in Chicago

·                    Maintain a weekly tracker and updated tracker during weekly deployment meeting.

·                    Supervised the zoning and permitting processes.

·                    Attained NTP’s from the landlord and Sprint to submit to WFI

                 

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2/2005 to 1/2006 - GBC Services, Reston, VA

 

Position:     Project Manager

  Customer: T-Mobile. Orange County, California.

  Locations:  Los Angeles (Inland Empire), San Diego, Ventura, Santa Barbara,

                      San Luis Obispo.

             Supervisor:  T-Mobile’s RF Department supervised the Special Project Team consisting

               of; Site Acquisition PM (Myself), 2 Construction PM’s, and one Zoning PM.

 

·                     The Special Project Team was responsible for upgrading and modernization of 5400 existing PAC Bell Wireless Sites that T-Mobile acquired from Cingular. Most of the sites were in LA California (the Inland Empire), and other areas from San Diego south to San Luis Obispo north

              Duties:

·                     Meet weekly with the RF Team and attain a list of sites that RF needed to be review and upgraded with new or additional BTS equipment and other modification

·                     Complete a record review of all the leases on all site lists on the RF Tracker and determine any leasing or landlord issues that needs to be considered.

·                     Contact the landlord and attain access to the sites for site walks with the Special Project’s Team.

·                     Develop a scope of work and budget for the upgrade and modification of each site listed on the tracker

·                     Hire A&E vendors and other Site Acquisition Consultants and Vendors to interface with the landlord on amendments to the existing leases, and negotiating the terms and new lease amounts. Developing a scope of work and contract with all the vendors

·                     Meeting with the Vendors in a weekly deployment meeting on progress of each site, and then meeting with the RF Team on the progress on each site

·                     Meeting with T-Mobile legal department and attorney over landlord disputes and also the possible negotiation of expired leases to new lease contracts

·                     Record the progress of each site in T-Mobile’s online Management System.

·                     Attain NTP’s when zoning and permitting was completed on each site.

·                     Request the needed PO’s and checks needed to complete the budget requirements for each site.

 

11/2004 to 3/2005  - Godwin Enterprises, LLC, Arroyo Grande, CA and Velocitel LLC

 

Positions:    Senior Site Acquisition consultant, Collocation and Zoning Specialist.

Customers: Clearwire Inc. (35 Sites) and Verizon (60 Sites EVDO)

Locations:  California Counties (Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo)

Supervisor:  Clearwire (Velocitel), and Verizon (Self)

Duties:  Clearwire: 

·   Completed the due diligence on 30 sites in the areas of; Monterey, Santa Clara, San Benito, and San Luis Obispo California.

·   Responsibilities included; Finding, leasing, zoning and permitting thru NTP of the assigned sites and completing all the due diligence to include A&E drawings, site walks with construction, access and leases issues with landlords.

            Verizon:

· Exchange and replace existing antennas with EDVO antennas on 60 sites for Verizon

· Duties: Complete a record review of leasing, zoning, and permitting determination of each site.

· Visit with zoning jurisdictions and present the project as routine maintenance for immediate approval.

· Set up site walks with A&E and Construction and landlords.

· Attain Construction Drawing for permitting.  59 of the sites did not need new zoning.

· Address any leasing concerning with the landlords.

· Meet weekly with Verizon and discuss progress on each site.

· Attain a NTP from landlords and turn site over to construction.

 

5/2004 to 10/2004   - Tectonic Engineering, and Consulting, New York                                

 

Positions:    Senior Site Acquisition and Zoning Specialist

Customers: Nextel Communications (New Build and Collocations)

Locations:  Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC

Supervisor:  Alex Magyar

Duties: Assigned 30 sites to complete the site acquisition due diligence to include:

Finding lease area both for new build, and collocation, negotiating leases with landlords,

Conducting site walks with construction and A&E vendors, and submit drawings for zoning and

permitting approval and then attaining an NTP (Notice to Proceed) from the landlord and Nextel.

 

5/2002 to 2/2003 - TMI Towers Services Inc.  Pauls Valley, Oklahoma

           

             Positions:     Project Manager and Collocation Marketing Manager

Customers: American Tower, Cricket, XM Radio, Pinnacle Towers.

Locations: 105 Sites in Montana, and 4 Sites in Minnesota.

Supervisor: Terry Matthews (Owner and President of TMI) 

Duties: 

·                       Supervised the process of contacting carriers and promoting the development of sites that were already secured from landlords and landowners for the purpose of building new towers

·                       Report weekly to the Construction Project Manager on progress made on each site and provide the Construction Project Manager on other tower services needed by a specific customer.

·                       Secured a contract for the Construction Manager decommissioned sites for XM Radio

·                       Completed the due diligence on 4 sites in Minnesota

·                       Completed the zoning and permitting for customers needing a particular site and then attain a NTP for construction to take over the site.

 

11/1999 to 1/2002 - Alpha Omega Communications, Inc. Palm Desert, CA and Crown Castle

                                     International, Louisville Kentucky Region                                       

 

Positions:    Project Manager, Collocation and Zoning Director, (Cricket) and Site

                     Acquisition Manager (South Bell, American Cellular, and Nextel)                 

Customers: South Bell Wireless, American Cellular, Nextel, and Cricket

Locations:   Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, and Ohio

Supervisor:  Regional VP for Crown Castle International, and Mike Stephens, Ron Corley.

Duties: 

· Started and completed the due diligence on 20 South Bell Wireless new site builds

· Promoted to Site acquisition Manager for American Cellular and Nextel

· Supervised and helped completed site acquisition due diligence 25 American Cellular sites and 56 Nextel sites

· Promoted by Crow Castle to Site Acquisition Project Manager

· Supervised and directed all site acquisition activities on 77 sites for Cricket Wireless in Dayton Ohio, 60 sites were collocation and 17 new tower builds

· Hired and designed the scope of work for a Site Acquisition Vendor out of Columbus OH.

· Helped staffed and managed a Crown Castle office in Dayton, OH.

· Supervised a project coordinator, Site Acquisition Manager and two Site Acquisition Specialist

· Coordinated all activities with the Project Manager over construction activities

· Meet weekly with Cricket in a weekly deployment meeting.

· Develop a budget and scope of work for each site and kept track of expenses.

· Begin and completed binders for close out documents

· Updated weekly tracker and reported often with Crown Castle with progress updates.

 

 

11/1997 to 10/1999 - Godwin Enterprises LLC, Moore, Oklahoma

 

Positions:    Project Manager, General Contractor, Property/Leasing Manager, and

                                  Site Acquisition Consultant

            Customers: Crown Castle, Voice Stream, and Sprint, Jim Stewart Construction Co.

            Locations:  Texas and Oklahoma

             Supervisor:  Self Employed (Owner and President)

             Duties:  Over two years, our Company completed the finding, leasing, zoning, and

             permitting, due diligence on over a 100 sites that we attained from all the customers

             listed above.

 

 

*** Before Wireless Telecom, I held positions as an Area Vice President of Marketing and

Sales for Design Benefit Plans (3 years), Regional Marketing and Sales Directors for National Group Market (5 years), and Regional Manager for Penn Mutual Life Insurance (8 years).

 

 

EDUCATION

 

9/2001 to 01/2002 – Devry Institute of Technology, Dallas, Texas

 

                                           Completed courses in:

·   Project Management (4 hours Senior Class) Grade A+

·   PC Repair

·   Microsoft Software Programs

·   Computer Hardware

                                            

09/1973 to 9/1978 – Brigham Young University, Prove Utah

 

   Bachelor of Arts, Social Work and Family Development

               

            2005               Completed online the California Real Estate Course.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REFERENCES:

 

Nader Nawab, Project Director, Ejaad Telecom

Nextel/Sprint, AT&T, Fiber Tower571-384-1515

 

Bill Bales, Project Manager, San Antonio, TX   BCI Communications512-413-0836

 

John Underwood, VP for BCI Communications, Dallas Texas817-261-3600

 

Nicole Thomas, Regional Marketing Director, Clearwire210-413-2159

 

Ray Corley, Project Manager, BCI Communication405-609-4253

 

Ron Corley, Site Acquisition Manager, Crown Castle                                  469-667-9584

 

Deb Christensen, Project Manager, Clearwire,                                              208-794-8899