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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, planning, technology development, and key stake holders to identify application and database impacts caused by unprecedented work. Develop a process improvement strategy to automate data collection and visualization in a geospatial web environment. Enhance new toolset to mechanize and automate the downstream work processes for retirement implementation and asset retirement. Analyze the potential cost impacts to the network organization such as corporate property tax, maintenance costs, capital costs, and operational expenses. Have leadership role on team to train new employees in a fast changing and growth environment. Track and report success to leadership in monthly intervals.• 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.• Track application features and user stories over the course of 7 Agile PIs.• YTD Aug. 2023 processed 94k sq. mi. of network analysis for a network cost avoidance of $84M.• Assess data quality for integration in new applications and migration off legacy systems.

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 interns including on-boarding, work assignments, employee reviews, and development. Developed the direction of national wireline engineering through leadership presentations and demonstrations. This role was a primary influencer to leadership and field personnel alike to gain support and funding to develop and execute on the proposed vision. Further developed remote engineering capabilities and introduce automation/mechanization processes to field engineers.• 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.• 3 times nominated to showcase cutting edge engineering software products for annual executive leadership conference.• Collaborate with top industry leaders on the forefront of network automation over a GIS structure. Forged relationships with external GIS vendors to pursue best in class field engagements for telco engineers.

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, change management, leadership presentations, and business case development for processes and applications. Led introduction of lidar on a national scale as well as proof of concept with augmented reality design. Expanded wireline engineering into a more defined and accurate geospatial platform.• 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.• Improve network response times by 25% by adopting new network monitoring technology.

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 job aids and training materials for new electronics engineers. Identified and led process improvement with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. Performed organizational change management for readiness and drove adoption of new processes. Contributed to national application development and user acceptance testing of purchasing and design applications. Led effort to adopt GIS use for remote asset management.• 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.

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 electronic site builds including power coordination for 150-200 sites annually. Engineer network electronic solutions to meet customer requirements for on-premises and right-of-way placements. Manage contracts, budget, and deliverables for on-time performance.• 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.• Resolved complex network interruptions and failures.

• 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