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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Directed operations and maintenance activities throughout Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas for T-Mobile Outside Plant (OSP) engineering and operations team.
• Consistently met goals in operations, quality, productivity and finance year after year.
• Remained under budget and throughout tenure while preserving cost-per-head below plan.
• Led teams to routinely remain 100% compliant during customers’ inspections for safety and security matters at customers’ premises.
• Managed national multi-million dollar vendor labor support contract for the Outside Plant Engineering and Operation organization. Support includes budget and headcount forecasts and management.

Greater Chicago Area

• Key member of Management Team following transition of entire Core engineering and operations organization from Ericsson to Sprint, ensuring seamless transition into Sprint culture and daily operations.
• Directed operations and maintenance activities throughout North Central United States for Sprint's Outside Plant (OSP) engineering and operations team.
• Consistently met goals in operations, quality, productivity and finance year after year.
• Remained under budget and throughout tenure while preserving cost-per-head below plan despite acquisition and change.
• Led teams to routinely remain 100% compliant during customers’ inspections for safety and security matters at customers’ premises.
• Managed national multi-million dollar vendor labor support contract for the Outside Plant Engineering and Operation organization. Support includes budget and headcount forecasts and management. Consistently met and.

North Central United States

• Key member of Management Team following transition of entire engineering and operations organization from Sprint to Ericcson, ensuring seamless transition into Ericsson culture and daily operations.
• Directed operations and maintenance activities throughout Illinois and Wisconsin for multiple telecommunications customers while overseeing seven switch facilities and four geographically-dispersed operations groups.
• Consistently met goals in operations, quality, productivity and finance year after year.
• Reduced overtime by 50% and trimmed “long-duration” tickets greater then half in six month period.
• Remained under budget and throughout tenure while preserving cost-per-head below plan despite acquisition and change.
• Helped drive greater efficiency of the North American National Coordination and Dispatch Center (NCDC).

Chicago, IL

• Assumed senior management role over operations in newly-formed region following merger of Sprint and Nextel. Led 10 direct report managers and up to 150 indirect reports throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and.
• Accountable for wireline switches, wireless switches (iden & CDMA), RF Operations (iden and CDMA), OSP operations and Customer Premise Equipment (CPE).
• Instrumental in guiding team to achieve “best ever’ network performance in areas of drops and blocks, minutes of use, EVDO connection rates and network reliability. Recognized by PC Magazine for “delivering on its.
• Gained $10M in assets redistributed to save Sprint valuable capital by directing project designed to identify and redistribute unused and underutilized assets in several regions.
• Played key role in necessary cost reduction initiatives including workforce reductions and offshoring of engineering/operations staff to Ericsson.

Westland, MI

• Directed Network Engineering and Operations for third-largest market in Nextel – the Michigan and Upper Ohio Market and team responsible for variety of Network Engineering activities including network design (location.

Southfield, MI

Southfield, MI

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Business Management

Mba, Finance

Associate Of Applied Science In Electronic Technology, Cryptographic Communications