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Mount Pleasant, Mi, Us

Voorhees, New Jersey, Us

Lead a Telecommunications Region aggressively supporting the company’s growth driving increased engineering and construction activity. Provide a world-class turnkey solution to companies building FTTH networks across the country.Direct all outside plant functions, including budgeting, engineering, permitting, construction, and materials. Manage a team of Operations Program Managers, Construction Coordinators, and Contract E&P and Construction Crews ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery of multiple FTTH construction projects in 3 states.• Develop and implement our end-to-end construction model to standardize processes, systems and tracking.• Oversee field operations with supervision and oversight of in-house crews, subcontractors, and inspection activities.• Recruit, manage, and grow our OSP Construction team to support multiple projects across the region.• Identify additional subcontractors/resources to support various projects and oversee their quality and schedule.• Improve Construction Processes, Program Management, Operational Support Practices, and Financial Performance.

Boulder, Co, Us

Recruited by the CEO to stand up an Outside Plant Team to support scaling the business and driving increased engineering and construction activity. Lead outside plant functions, including budgeting, engineering, permitting, construction, maintenance, and materials. Manage a team of Directors, Project Managers, Construction Managers, Splicing Managers, Fiber Engineers, Community Relations Managers/Permitting Specialist and Contract E&P and Construction Crews ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery of multiple FTTH construction projects in 3 states.• Utilize knowledge of utility engineering, permitting and construction process driving effective network builds.• Oversee high-level design function to support financial evaluation and selection of new markets.• Lead efforts to develop relationships with 90 permitting authorities to obtain permits for 6 projects in 3 states. • Rapidly ramped up construction capacity increasing monthly production by 300% in a 4-month period.• Negotiate and administer contracts with multiple engineering & construction vendors across 3 regions.• Recruited 4 additional engineering & construction partners to support expansion efforts in 3 states.• Ensure accurate fiber engineering and network documentation records in Vero’s proprietary geospatial project management platform, including in-flight design changes and final as-built routes.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Directed activities for the Northwest Region Construction teams, providing guidance to the largest geographical region in the company covering eight states. Work with Corporate Construction to identify opportunities to streamline construction workflow, improve construction SLAs, and institute construction standards. Support area teams to efficiently engineer, design, permit and build residential, commercial and SMB, fiber and HFC networks. • Provided guidance and construction expertise to the region, maintaining Top Rank Status in the company.• Utilized thorough understanding of fiber engineering and documentation standards and principles.• Provided build cost estimates/modeling of new markets, expansion projects and grant opportunities.• Directed all activities for the small states RDOF project in Oregon & Washington, for 3,205 miles of rural FTTH.• Oversaw activities for the Montana Connect project consisting of 17 projects for a total of 1,650 miles of FTTH.• Completed all walkouts for the RDOF project in 5 months utilizing 5 contract partners in 5 diverse clusters.• Provided new and existing reporting to enable the area teams to maintain 1st overall ranking consistently.

Lawrence, Ks, Us

Direct the implementation of a large Fiber to the Business project for a major telecommunications provider spanning the entire Birmingham Metro with 900 miles of fiber including core, backhaul, and front haul, ODN and drops serving 650 sites, with responsibility for entire project contract, planning and implementation. Lead 4 direct reports, 20 employees and 100 Engineering & Design and Construction Contractors.• Directed efforts to develop relationships with 46 permitting authorities to obtain permits for a multi-year build. • Implemented a rock approval process to ensure that crews were paid accurately, reducing losses by 30%.• Developed a partner mobilization incentive to aid in recruiting, increasing crew capacity by 50% in 3 months.• Revised processes for close out/as built GDB creation and billing, reducing under billing by 60% in 45 days.

Provided Contract Consulting to telecommunications companies providing advanced services in competitive markets in Texas, Arkansas, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Support the implementation of large Fiber to the Business projects for major telecommunications providers. Establish best practices for engineering and design, project management, construction, quality, health, and safety, commercial, and project controls.• Constructed 800-mile fiber network, with 9 rings, 250 towers, & 175 small cell sites in a compressed schedule.• Collaborated with 10 contract and in-house groups to ensure timely completion of 3 projects simultaneously.• Constructed 3600 miles of fiber in Chicago including backhaul, front haul, ODN and drops serving 2500 sites.• Implemented use of paperless tools in the field, increasing data capture effectiveness by 50% for the project.• Directed operations in 4 states and maintained positive community relationships with 33 franchise authorities.• Directed the shutdown and wreck out activities of 6 legacy systems in 3 states experiencing negative cash flow.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Directed all operations activities for TWC Business Class for Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, supporting territories experiencing explosive growth. Directed Project Management, Installation & Repair of fiber and coaxial delivered services for Mid-Market & Enterprise customers, and Cell Tower Back Haul for major wireless carriers.• Collaborated with Planning & Design, CEN, and Construction Teams for commercial fiber builds in four states.• Negotiated SOW and pricing for Contract Fiber Technicians performing DAS, CTBH installations, and migrations.• Increased fiber installations & upgrades and the associated revenue by 50% over a 4-month period.• Improved tracking of fiber construction for Cell Tower Backhaul projects, reducing go backs and build time.

Associates Degree, Telecommunications

Business Administration, Human Resources