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Denver, Colorado, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Manage a team local market OSP, Field, Long-Haul Operations activities throughout the West region including Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Long-Haul Operations and Maintenance: Leased Service Provider Management, OSP Cable Maintenance and Restoration, Facility Critical Infrastructure and Telemetry. Festoon Subsea Route: North America Zone Subsea Cable Maintenance Agreement Representative, Board of Directors: Central California Joint Cable and Fisheries Liaison Committee, South Bay Cable Fisheries Liaison Committee, North American Sub-Sea Cable Association. Regulatory Permitting Compliance.

Denver, Colorado, Us

 Manage a team of 6 Directors and Mangers responsible for local market OSP and Field Operations activities throughout the Southwest region including Southern California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.  Long-Haul Operations and Maintenance: Leased Service Provider Management, OSP Cable Maintenance and Restoration, Facility Critical Infrastructure and Telemetry.  Festoon Subsea Route: North America Zone Subsea Cable Maintenance Agreement Representative, Board of Directors: Central California Joint Cable and Fisheries Liaison Committee, South Bay Cable Fisheries Liaison Committee, North American Sub-Sea Cable Association. Regulatory Permitting Compliance.

Denver, Colorado, Us

 Manage a team of 20-25 Project Managers, Engineering, Construction, and Splicing vendors to design, engineer, permit, construct, and deliver a 440 mile fiber network expansion throughout Northern California connecting 12 data-centers and 300 remote building locations. Face-to-Face interaction with 80 + local Municipalities and permitting entities.  Manage financial and operational functions for a national telecom network . Develop and forecast +50M Capitol budget and provide monthly variance explanations and budget reforecast.  Manage vendor project service agreements (Fixed Cost and Fixed Unit Cost) from initial Request for Proposal, Negotiations, Vendor Selection, and Execution. Perform field audits, review and approval of invoicing, as-built, and test completion packages to ensure quality assurance.

Denver, Colorado, Us

 Manage a team of 5 Project Managers, Engineering, Construction, and Splicing vendors to design, engineer, permit, construct, and deliver a 120 mile fiber network expansion throughout the Las Vegas Metro Area 2 data-centers and 110 remote building locations. Face-to-Face interaction with 5 + local Municipalities and permitting entities.  Manage financial and operational functions for a national telecom network . Develop and forecast +10M Capitol budget and provide monthly variance explanations and budget reforecast.  Manage vendor project service agreements (Fixed Cost and Fixed Unit Cost) from initial Request for Proposal, Negotiations, Vendor Selection, and Execution. Perform field audits, review and approval of invoicing, as-built, and test completion packages to ensure quality assurance.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

 Manage and team of 29 employee consisting of Field Managers, Engineers, and Technicians to ensure adherence of metrics, processes, and procedures as well as resolving escalations and eliminating roadblocks while providing timely delivery of service in the Arizona, Southern Nevada, New Mexico, and Western Texas markets.  Establish monthly and quarterly employee training in technical, safety and corporate policies. As management team member, participate in intra-department analyses of utility costs, safety and environmental policies, planned network maintenance procedures, and field service ticketing processes. Manage financial and operational functions for a national telecom network . Develop and forecast +3M annual budget including salaries, real estate, utilities, facility maintenance, operational, and travel expenditures. Provide monthly variance explanations and monthly budget re-forecast.  Maintain facility critical infrastructure including timing, telemetry, generators, HVAC, fire suppression, AC and DC power plants. Successfully integrated the network infrastructure, facilities and personnel for the Level 3 and former Global Crossing Networks throughout the Southwest region. Demonstrated success in building cross-functional teams that posses Management, Leadership, Inside Plant, Outside Plant and Engineering skill sets across multiple legacy networks.  Ability to structure and manage complex projects such as splicing augmentations, multi-mile Metro build and emergency restorations. Administered performance management appraisals.  Champion Initiatives: o Western Region Service Delivery Representative o West Region Metric Assurance- Metric reporting and Service Improvement Plans (SIPs)o West Region Outside Plant Engineering Alignment Committee Executive Sponsor

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

- Management of the Inside/outside plant teams to ensure adherence of metrics, processes and procedures as well as resolving jeopardy and roadblocks, securing timely delivery of service. Lead, motivate, and manage teams of technicians to construct and maintain a World class fiber optic network in the Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada and Northern California markets.- Hire, supervise and evaluate 15+ field technicians in Washington and Oregon. Establish monthly and quarterly employee training in technical, safety and corporate policies. As management team member, participate in intra-department analysis of utility costs, safety and environmental policies, planned network maintenance procedures, and field service ticket processes.- Manage financial and operational functions for a national telecom network in the Northwestern Region. Develop and forecast +3M annual budget including salaries, real estate, utilities, facility maintenance, operational supplies, and travel and entertainment expenditures. Provide monthly variance explanations and monthly budget forecast for upper management and accounting teams.- Trained ISP and OSP in advanced OSP emergency restoration activities to include, OTDR Operation and trace data analysis, cable locating, single and mass fusion splicing.- Maintain facility critical infrastructure including timing, telemetry, generators, HVAC, fire suppression, AC and DC power plant.- Successfully integrated the network infrastructure and facilities for the Level 3, Legacy WilTel, Legacy Broadwing, and Legacy Looking Glass within the Northern California / Nevada markets.- Demonstrated success in building cross-functional teams that posses ISP, OSP and FE skill sets across multiple legacy networks. - Ability to structure and manage complex projects such as splicing augmentations, multi-mile Metro build and emergency restorations. Administered performance management appraisals.

Monroe, La, Us

FIELD OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR 1995 – 2000QWEST / US WEST COMMUNICATIONS  Trained and supervised Twenty-two union technicians in cable installation, repair, and maintenance, design services, and service assurance for outside plant operations. Served as contract manager and inspector for placement and restoration of cable infrastructure.  Project management point-of-contact for major pedestal and cross-box rehabilitation project. Co-chaired Southwest Washington Environmental Health and Safety Committee. Key role establishing standard for fiber-optic emergency and disaster preparedness.

 Active duty overseas service in the United States Army and reservist in the Washington Army National Guard.  Supervised enlisted communications technicians installing and repairing analog/digital telephone lines, frequency-hopping secure FM radio, high-frequency AM radio, AM/FM satellite radio, local-area networks, mobile radiotelephone systems, equipment, cables, and wire lines.  Managed and maintained a diverse fleet of tactical vehicles. Developed and delivered communications equipment training to operational technicians and end users.  Administered performance management appraisals, Individual and team discipline.

Mba, Masters Business Administration

Bachelors, Business Management

Certifcation, Ccna-Cisco Certified Networking Associate

Associate Of Applied Science, Telecommunications Engineering Technology