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Houston, TX, US

• Led a group of analysts and managed resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. Initiated, planned, and executed project efforts that utilize technological solutions.
• Designed and created Business Intelligence reports to track internal KPI’s using Microsoft Power BI.
• Used Alation to catalog the metrics and Asana to project manage the development effort.
• Monitored and reported on the small cell network performance.
• Managed a $29M budget – including costing, tracking of status & resolving cost issues.
• Served as the technical liaison and support for the implementation team on the Crown Castle internal tools, CCISites, Project Management Tools (PMT).

• Led the greenfield RF design of Mototrbo 900 MHz, 2-way push to talk network for Atlanta, Williamsburg Virginia, Denver Colorado, The Outer banks, North Carolina.
• Established design criteria, determine material requirements, operational capabilities, and limitations. Generated test procedures and schematic diagrams.
• Fully implemented the Atlanta market from design to extensive drive testing to validation of system performance.

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• Led the process from proposal/pricing the effort for the RF response to requests for changes to the underlying Sprint Network Vision and post Network Vision contracts.
• Managed a $4 Million budget of test equipment distributed to Drive Test vendors.
• Responsible for project management of designs including the proper workflow hand-offs within the company and vendors.RF Engineer, NYC, Long Island, & Central NJ Sprint Network Vision Project (Aug. 2011 – Aug..
• Led drive test teams to validate design and performance after site activation.
• Led the review and approve of site level drive using SPO and eDAT

• Sr. RF Consultant, MetroPCS, LTE Project (Dec 2010 to June 2011)RF Engineering support for Phase I and Phase II of the MetroPCS Las Vegas LTE expansion. Responsibilities included:
• Review and approval of site placement.
• Creation, review, and approval of site and system level drive tests using Accuver’s XCAP and XCAL programs. Creation of Coverage plots using Mentum Planet 5.2
• Verification of accuracy of PCID plan.
• Creation of post-review reports for MetroPCS engineering team. Troubleshooting of hand off issuesSr. RF Consultant, Clearwire, WiMAX Project (May 2010 to Dec. 2010)Responsible for supporting 12 WiMax markets.
• Implemented neighbor list changes via the Samsung WSM.

• Led the transition of the team from manual frequency planning to automated frequency planning.
• Led the adoption of ComOpt’s Automated Frequency Planning (AFP) tool - developed the process to facilitate the process, tools, techniques, databases and Project Plans
• Integrated the WaveCall’s wavesight ray tracing tool into the automated planning process.
• Implemented the first known large scale (over a thousand cells) automated retune of the Manhattan micro/macro cell network.
• Successfully managed the Rebanding of the NY Tri-State area iDEN network which involved the loss of over 12% of the 850 MHz channels and relocation of the operation from the lower portion of the 800 MHz band to upper.
• Served as a mentor and SME on the AFP tool for the New England, Mid Atlantic, Philadelphia, Florida and other markets, freely sharing tools, techniques and practices to enhance the quality of their retunes.

• Managed the roll out of The Atlas cell site inventory program.
• Managed a team of 30 temporary employees to scan all the equipment in each of 1500+ cell sites.
• Cleaned up centralized database and removed over $2.5M of bogus inventory.
• Led the effort to schedule delivery of 70+ tons of RF equipment for the New York market.
• Negotiated for and procured $2+ Million of test equipment for the RF and FTE’s teams.

• Managed a team of system performance engineers charged with optimizing the NYC iDEN network. Worked with drive test equipment (RSAT & Agilent E6474) and post processing software.
• Reviewed and approved site selection and design.
• Provided expert engineering testimony before zoning and planning boards.

Responsible for the initial design of the New York and New Jersey Nextel network. Responsibilities included: search ring design, site selection and approval, expert engineering testimony before zoning and planning boards, site design and optimization.

Responsible for search ring design, site selection and approval and expert engineering testimony before municipal boards. As a result of my success before zoning and planning boards, assigned all the challenging zoning cases.