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Plainwell, Michigan, United States

Marine electronics consultation, installation, training, and repair. Customer sales and service.

Plainwell, Michigan, United States

Midwest Outdoors MagazineOutdoor educational articles in national and regional publications. Public speaking on marine electronics and walleye fishing.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

• Project manage a national program to analyze and shutdown legacy wireline assets. Create processes to address all aspects of legacy retirements and service discontinuance. Lead cross-functional teams with operations.
• Reduced manual network boundary updates by 85% through new mechanized process.
• Improved legacy network analysis by 65% with Agile application development.
• Produce application to ingest over 700M customer locations and network facilities for automation.
• Increased data reporting by 80% through automated report generation with Palantir Foundry.
• Managed $1.2M annual development budget, timeline, and Agile project in LeanKit for an annual savings of $15M.

Home Based Flex Worker

• Responsible for the national processes and toolsets for network field engineering. Led requirements, client impacts, budget acquisition, business case development, and implementation of new technology. Supervise summer.
• Co-inventor of the “Mobile Design Tool” that produced an annual savings of $1.5M in engineering rework costs.
• Improve ethernet installation readiness by 30% by standardizing design criteria with new application.
• Assess operations change readiness for new applications.
• Create and implement 5-year GIS plan to introduce geospatial accuracy and automated logical assignment processes following network demands for lower cost structures.
• Client Agile product manager for engineering application features and requirements. Support application launch with testing, training, and document writing for network engineers resulting in annual savings of $15M.

Home Based Flex Worker

• National role focusing on the standardization and process improvement of ethernet electronics solutions, electronic remote site monitoring, and new design technologies. Led proof of concepts, software requirements.
• Authored 25 technical support documents on equipment engineering.
• Create national standards for equipment engineering to control capital spending.
• Developed a GIS proof of concept with HERE Reality Lens and ESRI web-app for telco engineering in 10 major markets.
• Delivered town hall and board room presentations live and broadcasted to audiences as large as 5,000 employees.
• Implemented a new alarm hardware and software monitoring network for over 2,500 remote electronic locations nationwide.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

• This role was newly created to address the expanded responsibilities of the field electronics engineering group. Responsible for aligning the 5 state Midwest regional processes for electronics engineering. Developed.
• Led Six Sigma and Lean project teams as a Green Belt to deliver over $2M network savings.
• Coordinated user acceptance testing for multi-state engineering tools.
• Defined regional requirements for equipment ordering and engineering drawing tools.
• Trained 500 regional field personnel on use of new toolsets.
• Created leadership presentations reporting on development milestones.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

• Lead electronics engineer for the Southwest Michigan wireline footprint. This was a new organizational role in a fast paced, high profile, and undefined environment. Manage contractor teams to deliver full remote.
• Southwest Michigan wireline electronics engineer and project manager.
• Manage annual capital budget of $4M for network expansion.
• Coordinate site acquisition and build for 150 network nodes annually.
• Led electronic testing and turn-up procedures for the West Michigan area.
• Negotiated customer network requirements for equipment installation.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

• Troubleshoot complex network problems to resolve customer data transmission errors
• Daily customer engagement to sell products and services
• Responsible for customer service resolutions and network upgrades
• Volunteered as manager replacement and led day to day operations for work group of 10 – 15 techs
• Union Lead Steward for CWA Local Grand Rapids 4034, Steward for CWA Local Kalamazoo 4039
• Investigated and Diagnosed Telecom Network trouble in outside and inside plant environments

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Cis

Emphasis in Computer Information System Management.

Bachelor Of Science, Geography

Activities and Societies: Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Course work in GIS, Cartography.