Garry M. Critchlow

4702 Cashel Cir

Houston TX 77069

281-793-1666

gmcritch@yahoo.com

Summary:

·   Supervisory manager with more than 15 years’ experience centered on organizational leadership and relationship building with Verizon Wireless, Sprint, At&t and T-Mobile, senior executives and team members

·   Dynamic leader able to bring energy, enthusiasm, and humor to motivate team members to achieve potential and meet objectives

·   Detail-oriented, accurate, and dependable, with an uncompromising work ethic.

·   Active listener with strong interpersonal skills able to understand client needs and provide exceptional results

·   Superior performer in a broad variety of management and leadership positions with resource/fiscal management responsibilities

·   Skilled orator before senior leadership and groups of any size

 

Personal Skills:

·   Project Management  

·   Program Management  

·   Customer service

·   Field Engineering Management RF Engineering and Optimization   

·   Technology Planning Construction Engineering Data Base (EDB), Bill Of Material (BOM

·   Designing and Implementation of Fiber Channel Solutions

·   T1, DS0, DS3

·   Microwave

·   Change Management

·   FIOS order processing

·   Leadership training

·   Permitting

·   Zoning and zoning hearing

·   Construction review

·   Landlord review

 

 

Technical Skills:

·   Hardware / Software

§    Fiber, Ethernet, and Gigabit channels.

§    Designing and implementing Fiber channel solutions.

§    Quality Commitment Training.

§    RF design tools

§    PeopleSoft

§    XNG, EMIS, Oracle, Siterra

 

Education:

·   Computer Information Systems University of Houston

·   Licensed Texas Real Estate agent

·   Licensed Notary

 

Professional Experience:

 

GMC& Associates consulting Houston TX

10/31/2014 to Jul 2015

Project Manager

 

Responsibilities:

·   Responsible for the interrupting designs and construction needs pertaining to the f RFDS

·   Red line construction drawing as needed

·   Managed the installation process for vendors and client

·   Work closely with construction personnel and upper management to meet client standards 

·   Consult for five different companies 

·   Work with construction to Procure material ordering, and deliverable to sites

·   Estimated projects and performed bids; organized job sites and ordered and coordinated the delivery of materials and equipment

·   Record keeping of all documents including but not limited to budgets, materials, FAA, FCC

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·   Maintained site development goals, conducted design walks, bid walks, facilitated permitting issues, provided problem solving, effectively managed general contractors.

·   Prepared RFQ’s, RFP’s, proposals, bids, submittals, schedules and necessary construction documents & contracts. Generated, updated and maintained a sub - contractor bid list. Managed, assisted, advised and consulted site superintendents.

·   Review RFDS for accuracy before submitting for leasing and zoning

·   Reported progress to upper Management

·   Preparing and completion of all necessary zoning applications and supporting documentation.

·   Managed and scheduled progress in associated databases

·   Monitored progress of the work for the assigned cell sites and reported daily status.
Engineering Support.

·   Assigned work to crews for construction, Real Estate and Transport

·   Work with local jurisdictions on required permits

·   Lesion between construction, Real Estate and upper management for reporting projects

 

US Cellular Urbandale IA- Contract       6/9/2014 to10/31/14

Project Manager / Construction Manager

 

Responsibilities:

·   Responsible for the Central IA, WI LTE upgrade on wave 4 with numerous vendors to meet installation time limits as dictated by Management

·   Managed the installation process antennas and all related equipment related to wave 4 upgrades

·   Worked closely with other market PM to ensure all goals are met

·   Managed 5 plus contractors and met schedule

·   Worked with Procurement on material ordering, and deliverable to site location to meet installation goals

·   Contacted landlords and tower owners to mitigate issues associated with wave 4 LTE installation

·   Reported progress to upper Management

·   Responsible for overseeing engineered drawings for mistakes, omissions and to make revisions to the contract design documents

·   Assist the Regulatory Team with filing, tracking, and submitting FAA & FCC regulatory documents through the company’s filing process.

·   Managed and scheduled progress in associated databases

·   Managed site costs, requested proposals, awarded bids and managed construction process.

·   Updated all data bases internal to US Cellular to meet teams time lines

·   Liaison for NSN and Ericsson RAN vendors

·   Siterra support, updates forecasting and reporting

·   Tracked compiled and analyzed data

 

MasTec Florida/ Texas         4/ 2010 to  3/ 2014

Project Manager/Construction / Site Acquisition 

 

Responsibilities:

·   Performing all aspects of the Site Acquisition process from site identification and qualification through the completion of construction.

·   Build and foster strategic relationship with the client

·   Responsible for over 10 million in revenue for Texas

·   Managed the build out of NSN 3G and LTE project in Houston and Dallas

·   Managed the Build out of Ericsson Minilink and LTE in Texas, NM and AZ

·   Manager the cell-One build out of 3G and LTE in Arizona and New Mexico

·   Create yearly budgets and forecasting to achieve company results

·   Manage Real Estate team to achieve leasing, permitting and Zoning goals

·   Manage groups expense and capital budgets

Managed all bids, contract negotiations and budgets.

·   Managed construction build out for 3000 projects, UMTS, NSB, LTE and MODS in SFL

·   Managed the team to a 536 LTE site build in 6 months from Real Estate and Construction

·   Managed 47 employees in various positions - UMTS, NSB and Real Estate.

·   Teams includes over 20 + outside vendors for Zoning, permitting, Real Estate and construction

·   Manage transport group T1/microwaves and Ethernet on 500 plus sites

·   Review RFDS for accuracy before submitting for leasing and zoning

·   Review SCIP candidates and choose best candidates for new site builds.

·   Meet with landowners and negotiation lease terms that are cost effective to the client.

·   Use siterra to upload documents after completion.

·   Attend zoning hearings and use applicable designs to discuss with jurisdiction the need for cell towers in their area.

·   Adhere to strict compliance of documentation related to all projects.

·   Communicate all plans to upper management.

·   Organizing and conducting presentations for neighborhood meetings or public hearings as required by local jurisdictions or as requested by respective property owner(s).

·   Build and foster strategic relationship with the client

·   Managed the Build out of Ericsson Minilink and LTE in Texas

·   Manager the cell-One build out of 3G and LTE in Arizona and New Mexico

·   Create yearly budgets and forecasting to achieve company results

·   Manage Real Estate team to achieve leasing, permitting and Zoning goals

·   Manage groups expense and capital budgets

·   Managed construction build out for 3000 projects, UMTS, NSB, LTE and MODS in SFL

·   Siterra support related to reporting updates and point of contact

 

Verizon Wireless Houston, TX     2007 to March 2010

Project manager/Real Estate Manager

 

Responsibilities:

·   Responsible for the Gulf Coast West Region Real Estate and construction team.

·   Preparing and completion of all necessary zoning applications and supporting documentation.

·   Worked on license and unlicensed MW hops

·   Maintaining complete documentation related to all planning, communications, and actions on sites.

·   Managed construction build out of 300 cell sites in Alltel Verizon wireless and Verizon merger

·   Spear headed the addition of over 500 cell sites adding EVDO high speed data to the network

·   Key role in the construction of LTE as it merged into the Verizon wireless network to support the 700 MHz spectrums.

·   Negotiation of Lease, Amendment, License, Right-of-Way and/or Easement Agreements with property owners

·   Managed 21 employees in various positions - construction, BTS engineers and Real Estate team

·   Teams included over 30 outside construction vendors that build and install various hardware and software into the network

·   Managed teams that installed T1 DS3 dark fiber and microwaves to multiple locations to support backhaul requirements for VZW cell sites

·   Hardware included Alcatel Lucent, Emerson, CSS Andrew and other large distributors of wireless equipment.

·   Worked closely with microwave and transport team to secure regulatory, lease and hardware installation. 

·   Manage budget and resources for microwave projects

·   Generate and drive teams to reports scope of work for internal and external customers.

·   Define system design and generate equipment list from engineering and manufacture 

 

BECHTEL New Orleans Louisiana   2001 To 2007

Project Manager / Construction Manager

 

Responsibilities:

·   Responsible for the Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana build out of 450 UMTS sites

·   Worked with a 10 million budget plan directed for the southern region for new cell sites and overlay

·   Managed the installation process for E911 using Tru Positioning for 450 cell sites

·   Worked closely with contracted personnel to accomplish installation time lines

·   Conducted concrete break test and guide wire tension test on cell towers    

·   Managed over ten different contractors and met schedule

·   Worked with Procurement on material ordering, including generators and HVAC units for the Gulf coast

·   Met with landlords and tower owners and worked out locations and lease agreements

·   Reported progress to upper Management

·   Extensive scheduling and coordination of the engineered drawing documents and revisions

·   Conduct bidding phase, negotiated and wrote contracts for subcontractors/suppliers, processed RFI documents, subcontractor change orders, approve payment applications.

·   Managed the schedule and progress database used for statusing project execution and reporting.

·   Engineering Support of over 20 markets throughout the United States

·   Trained Bechtel new employees on processes and procedures

·   Conducted training and certified Bechtel employees to interpret sweep test procedures

·   Supported the construction process as required in preparation of materials requisitions

 

COMPAQ Houston Texas               June 1998- April 2001

Manager of Reliability Engineering

 

Responsibilities:

·   Managed twenty lab technicians in support of the communication products group

·   Liaison between the new product design teams and manufacturing

·   Performed root cause analysis and provided feedback on possible customer impact

·   Worked with divisional organizations to compute ROIC evaluations for design choices

·   Developed budget plans for OEM products flow

·   Worked with budget analyst on cost factors in developing warranty reserve 

·   Provided timely written and oral presentations to upper management with resolutions

·   Managed assembly line in manufacturing to deliver products on schedule

 

Nextel   Houston Texas June 1997- June 1998

Field Engineer

 

Responsibilities:

·   Designed wireless network for Texas market  

·   Supported Real Estate at zoning hearings in Texas and Louisiana.

·   Supervised ongoing coordination and support of Motorola equipment vendor.

·   Met with landowners to determine best location for cell site installation.

·   Drove test and optimized network using R Sat equipment

·   Reported to Director of Engineering progress of network

·   Worked with team to complete build-out of San Antonio, Dallas and new Orleans 

 

Houston cellular Houston Texas      July 1995- May1997

RF Engineer

 

Responsibilities:

·   Designed, installed and optimized CDMA, TDMA and CDPD wireless network.

·   Installed Microwave systems using link budget to calculate line loss.

·   Supervised ongoing coordination and support of vendor relations.

·   Developed business plans for the strategic direction of joint-development activities.

·   Accurately forecasted and distributed project equipment needed to accomplish job

·   Extensive knowledge in Ericsson and Siemens 850 and 1900 GSM

·   Extensive knowledge on Ericsson UMTS systems