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Verizon Wireless, Bridgeville Pa

Equipment EngineerInventory management and logistics for Verizon Wireless 5G projects. Verify the materials needed for 2020 projects are reserved and available for deployment for Small Cell and Macro sites. Confirm assigned equipment lists are accurate and complete. Create BOM’s and ship materials to General Contractors.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Manage the construction of the Nokia National Carrier Add project at Verizon Wireless sites from the start of construction to the commissioning of the base stations. Review, RFDS, BOM, CD, structural and mount analysis reports. Create construction packages for GC’s and oversee their work. Schedule pre-construction meetings and integration. Ensure work is high quality and safety guidelines are followed. Provide supervision, and technical support to construction crews. Recommend solutions to improve project efficiency and productivity. Provide daily construction status and progress reports. Reviewed deliverables submitted by contractors and create punch lists.

King Of Prussia, Pa

Managed the construction of small cell sites for the Sprint 2.5GHz project for Crown Castle. Completed building and electrical permits for small cell sites construction in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Created bill of materials (BOM) for assigned small cell nodes. Created tickets to inform wireless customers of construction schedule. Provided construction status and progress reports. Provided technical support and guidance to construction crews. Verified deliverables submitted by General Contractors and created punch lists.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

Manage the installation and migration of 836 Nokia AirScale upgrades for Verizon Wireless. Create the project schedule and manage 6 installation/migration contractors. Manage the equipment inventory and coordinate the project schedule. Provide construction and migration status reports. Provide supervision, technical support, and quality control to construction and migration teams. Recommend solutions to improve project efficiency and productivity.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania Area

Manage the installation of underground and aerial fiber optic cable equipment to increase the capacity of the Comcast Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Network at 336 sites in 1 year. Manage the equipment inventory and coordinate the project schedule. Distribute final designs to construction contractors and schedule site walks. Create, manage, and control the construction schedule. Provide construction status and project progress reports. Provide supervision, technical support, and quality control to construction crews. Recommend solutions to improve project efficiency and productivity.

Lewis Center, Oh

Construction Engineer, Artech Info Systems, Columbus, OH August 2014 to PresentManage the design, construction, integration and optimization of Verizon Wireless DAS projects. Create Scope of Work, review bid and scrutinize project cost, review construction drawings, coverage predictions, and link budgets. Create project schedule, coordinate with regulatory, engineering, transport, fiber service provider, and operations departments. Integrate ALU eNodeB equipment and commission DAS. Monitor project progress, process Siterra tasks, provide regular status updates, and resolve issues. Establish quality assurance methods, efficiencies, procedures, and standards related to site design and construction. Create punch list and confirm the punch list items were corrected. Evaluate new products, services, and vendors. Weigh the pros and cons, including impact to the system, costs, compatibility, ease of use, and reliability. Provide the necessary direction for individual/team growth and development, providing updates, maintaining records, working with other departments, and understanding the impact of their job to the overall business.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

Review construction drawings, backup power electrical load schedules, and structural analysis reports. Verify construction materials and inventory lists. Audit towers and verify lease applications. Obtain permits, NTP’s and schedule construction. Familiarize contractors with the construction plan, R56 construction standards and closing document requirements. Monitor construction progress and attend project status meetings. Provide daily and weekly status reports. Provide supervision, technical support and quality control to construction crews. Create load schedules and as-built construction drawings. Review and approve closing documentation.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Manage the construction of 95 cell sites for the Sprint Network Vision project as a MPI Industries contractor. Review construction drawings, perform bid walks, evaluate site conditions, review structural analysis reports, review RFDS documents, prepare site action plans (SAP) and procure materials. Select General Contractors (GC) and familiarize them with the construction and safety standards, construction plan for each site and closing document requirements. Schedule and monitor construction progress. Provide daily status reports. Schedule and coordinate the activities of numerous general contractors. Provide supervision, technical support and quality control to construction crews during tower construction. Review and approve closing documentation.

Manage the construction of Alcatel microwave systems (inside and outside plant equipment). Perform pre-installation site walks, select construction materials, create statement of work and prepare bid packages for contractor distribution. Monitor and control tower construction. Track equipment inventory, create project schedules, track project progress and create status reports. Perform site audits. Create tower, shelter and circuit drawings. Provide technical support and quality control to construction crews during tower construction. Test and analyze the performance of antennas and transmission lines. Generate graphs depicting the return loss, distance to fault, insertion loss and VSWR. Search for potential cell sites within search rings. Survey sites and submit candidates to RF Engineering. Create propagation and coverage predictions. Audited over 250 communication sites in preparation for asset assessment and construction. Negotiate leasing terms and prepare contracts for execution. Manage and implement the frequency reconfiguration (rebanding) of public safety radio systems. Audit the fixed transmit and receive equipment for frequency reconfiguration assessment. Create frequency reconfiguration procedures for combiners and tower top amplifiers. Measure, document and assess the performance of the fixed radio infrastructure in preparation for 800MHz rebanding. The measurements include RF power, combiner loss; receive system gain and SINAD of the radio base stations. RF optimization. Evaluate the generator and UPS power backup system for the additional loading. Plan, coordinate and implement the rebanding of DAS and BDA Bidirectional Amplifiers (BDA). Perform link budget analysis and create coverage predictions.Record and analyze interference and coverage issues. Identify interference source and mitigate interference. Create and analyze intermodulation, PIM and RF exposure (MPE) reports. Perform drive testing in preparation for system acceptance.

Responsible for repair, maintenance, construction, upgrades, expansion and performance of a statewide radio paging network consisting of 5 mobile switching centers, 200 radio base stations, 10 satellite receiver systems, 5 fleet vehicles and a billing network. Prepared and managed the network operations and capital budget. Procured and maintained telco services and the spare parts inventory. Plan, coordinate, organize, prioritize, assign and supervise the daily activities of four network technicians. Developed and managed multiple projects simultaneously. On-call 24/7. Selected Achievements• Planned, managed, and implemented the construction of multiple Mobile Switching Centers, Base Transceiver Sites and branch offices. • Significantly reduced operating cost by auditing and consolidating telecommunications services, frequency usage and site leases. • Consistently maintained the network availability statistics above 98%.• Commended for the successful completion of the said projects that achieved a 20% operating cost reduction and contributed to subscriber growth of 120% from 1991 to 1996.

Diploma, Electrical, Electronic And Communications Engineering Technology, 4.0

Electronic Engineering Technology with a focus on wireless, audio and computer technologies. Course Description: Analog and digital.

Pmp Training Certificate, Project Management, A