Led a woman-owned engineering start up through the early stages of company formation and launch,establishing operational processes and procedures for a firm foundation on which to grow. I lead all business development, engineering, and marketing operations for this rapidly growing business. We are focused on providing planning, engineering, permitting, utility coordination, construction management, and business consulting services for the telecommunications, gas, power, water and wastewater industries.

Successfully led LJA Telecom through a period of underperformed, cultural division, and accumulating losses returning the organization to profitability and revenue growth while also bridging cultural divides. Managed a 46-person team across the U.S.Grew annual revenue by 59% and profit by 33% organically by increasing operational flexibility and efficiency, reducing overhead, creating a vision of success, increasing buy-in and transparency, implementing financial accountability, and investing in expansion of service lines, client base, and territory.Recovered an underperforming acquisition. Retained and developed top talent, grew revenue of the acquisition by 21%, and dramatically improved the culture.Established and leveraged strategic partnerships to supplement existing organizational capabilities and pursue higher revenue, turn-key public projects.Negotiated more favorable contract terms with multiple clients to improve revenue and profitability. Spurred growth in all aspects of the business. Delivered successful projects 40% more geographies, increased client based by 80%, and created 4 new service lines including telecommunications construction.Championed cultural improvements through vision creation, leadership development, transparency, expectation setting, and growth opportunity creation. Reduced attrition to near-zero.Spearheaded and deployed a W2 contract labor model that provided low-overhead organizational scaling control to keep pace with the dynamic telecommunications industry.Achieved 25%+ profit margins thru Q1 2023. On track for 20%+ year over year revenue growth.

Led the planning, design, and permitting for the successful deployment of over 3,000 Miles of overhead and underground fiber optic network. Conceptualized, tested, and implemented the Google Fiber’s 1st microtrench installations in public right-of-way. Negotiated Google Fiber’s first approval to proceed with microtrenching full scale in public right-of-way. Google Fiber pivoted to 100% microtrenching deployment one year later. Delivered 1,000+ miles of complex fiber optic network engineering and permitting annually.Collaborated regularly with City of Austin leadership including the staff of 12 City departments.Deployed a $7M+ annual engineering budget and led a team of 40+ TVCs and FTEs.Reduced engineering costs by 8x, construction costs by 2x, and increased speed to market by 10x.Spearheaded the deployment of a DWDM sub-network to dramatically increase network capacity.Recognized as a nationwide expert on microtrench and innovative broadband deployments.Provided timely and critical support to the sales, construction, and post-construction operations teams.Successfully planned and deployed five central office facilities (aka hubs/huts).Championed and executed greenfield/brownfield single-family, multi-family, and multi-tenant deployments.

Successfully managed public infrastructure and telecommunications projects. Led a 14-person team. Created a highly profitable telecommunications engineering service line from the ground up. Achieved rapid diversification of services in support of stated company goals.Successfully managed several high-risk public projects to profitable completion while also eliminating liability induce from multiple errors made by the previous project manager.Recognized in the “Group of 8” next leaders of the company for achievements in organizational leadership and spurring high-performance across multiple metrics.