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Denver, Colorado, United States

Provider of knowledge and products for small form factor lithium-ion polymer batteries and solar panels. Portable power as well as pole camera recharging, drop car, covert, etc

Denver, Colorado

Greater Denver Area

• Managed the delivery of network products/services procured from third-party vendors for Google’s Backbone Transport Network in North America. Products include long haul dark fiber, metro dark fiber, leased waves.
• Optimized from quote to delivery bulk fiber delivery between Google POP's and MMR's globally. Then led the team to off shore this program between our Dublin, IRE and Manilla, PH teams.
• Delivering on the Google Cloud capacity, adding capacity globally
• Manage project status with global vendors such as Level 3, Zayo, Coresite, Equinix, Databank, Sify, Tata, etc
• Managed equipment line card capacity upgrades globally

Greater Denver Area

• Brought in as a contractor to primarily manage the vendor delivery of space, power and fiber services for the Google network infrastructure.
• Managed Space, Power and Fiber additions within new and existing data centers / POPS, acceptance of new POP builds
• Created and maintained drawings of Google POP layouts
• Attended stakeholder meetings to assist other teams as a resource representing the space/power and fiber infrastructure
• Managed project status with vendors such as Level 3, Zayo, Coresite, Equinix, Databank, etc
• Contributed to deliver an Asia to USA transpacific submarine cable and specific POP's on west coast of USA

• Brought in as a short term consultant to collaborate with customer and procure a vendor and all material needed for a microwave hop from an existing microwave network to connect Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to.
• In charge of completing a private low latency microwave spur for large financial services company
• Bid out, awarded and managed construction contractor for Microwave equipment installation
• Finished project under budget and ahead of schedule

Denver, Colorado

• Managed complete project team for microwave and ethernet upgrades for AT&T
• Bid out and award microwave hops for construction and network integration
• Lead meetings with project personnel, issue resolution, guidance for team members

Evergreen, Colorado

• Responsibilities include delivering and increasing the efficiency and performance of (6) proprietary microwave network projects: (Chicago to Washington DC, Toronto to NYC, Chicago to NYC and NJ/ NYC Metro)
• Worked daily with Construction, Site Acquisition, Engineering and customer in developing regional network designs and equipment configurations based on established microwave engineering principles and customer.
• Lead daily meetings between project team members and customer for status updates
• Managed all project financials: Quoting/Client POs, Invoicing, Vendor Purchase Orders
• Led company initiative for deployment of hydrogen fuel cell as a backup power system

Evergreen, Colorado

• Managed 7 state Mountain West Region for cell site integration
• Worked with 10+ LEC’s to deliver T1/DS3 to OC12 to cell sites for network integration
• Managed circuit up speed and re balancing in nationwide markets in support of 4G LTE
• Responsible for various project management activities associated with the EVC Upspeed of cell sites and UNI Port Upgrade on cell sites nationwide as a part of the AT&T Wireless LTE Project
• Scope of work includes interfacing with various Wireline and Wireless groups for the coordination of Engineering, Design & Installation of new circuits and the hot cut from old circuits scheduled during maintenance.

San Diego And Baltimore/Washington DC

• Sr. Project Manager on the integration of a wireless company acquisition
• Lead weekly project status meetings with all stakeholders in the organization
• Developed a master project plan to monitor project status
• Lead Network Engineering Project Manager for 650+ cell site market launch
• Managed daily activities of network engineering project team
• Daily management of vendors and project personnel for successful project launch

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Lead Project Manager for 7 successfully implemented new market wireless launches
• Lead Project Manager for the construction and technology implementation of a new call center facility and new Sales and Marketing facility
• Led weekly meetings attended by the CEO, CFO, CTO, VPs, and directors/managers, ensuring all officers and stakeholders were consistently informed
• Developed RFP along with Chief Technology Officer for $20 million company expansion
• Created and implemented company-wide project plans utilizing cross-departmental and external resources to successful completion
• Bid out, negotiated, and awarded contracts to vendors on multiple projects

Bachelor Of Science In Applied Science (Bs)

Activities and Societies: Cross County, Track, Intramural Clubs Founder and President of YSU Triathlon and Road Race clubVarsity letters.

Pmp, Project Management

Activities and Societies: Project managment studies to obtain PMP certification. Taught by Harold Kerzner.