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Atlanta, Ga, Us

United States And Mexico

United States And Mexico

Greater Atlanta Area

Monitored and reduced Outside Plant network Code 4 outages, NHAO Quality Improvement, Financial Capital Project Forecasting Analysis and Project Rehab Development. • Identified and issued $2.1M of Capital Expenditure Projects to maintain the health of the Outside Plant infrastructure and to meet cost objectives with internal rate of return standards.• Increased Network reliability, reduced repair visits and customer outages in Alabama, Mississippi and Northern Florida territories by 25%.

Greater Chicago Area

Delivered Midwest Regional OSP Network Planning Staff Support for quality improvement training of network initiatives, process design, methods and controls, vendor relations|equipment deployment. Wrote 21 State policies and procedures to support Planning, Design|LEC principles for teams to ensure regulatory compliance.• Directed technical support for regional planning team of 146 Planners and Planning Assistants.• Led process analysis and implemented process improvements on the FTTx platform monitoring tools, IPDSLAM, Ethernet and reporting initiatives.• Contributed on a Six Sigma team on Cycle Time Reduction initiative for ASE orders reducing the service delivery time from 59 days to 39 days.• Subject matter expert for OSP Planning.

Greater Chicago Area

Coordinator for the Network CCU Process and ensured compliance with company and regulatory policies. Single Point of Contact and Subject Matter Expert, Liaison between Network Outside Plant (OSP) Planning and AT&T Connected Communities (ACC). • Successfully sold 691 CCU contracts, resulting in 13,377 LUs ($4.4M).• Reduced Network liability by $1.02M of Capital Expense and reduced average CCU Process Service Level Agreement response time between Network Planning and the ACC Sales team.

Greater Chicago Area

Planned, designed and analyzed OSP copper and fiber facilities|network including forecasting and managing budgets for Feeder growth projects. Managed annual budget of $1.75M - $4M of Capital Infrastructure Investment.• Led and Planned OSP buildout for 2008 incoming Presidential Election Night Rally in Grant Park for Barack Obama and completed Grant Park Annual Festivals OSP fiber and equipment reinforcement project.• Developed and planned equipment roll out strategies deploying SONET, PON, TDM and Ethernet platforms for growth needs working with equipment vendors to deploy Fujitsu, Cisco, Tellabs, ADTRAN and CIENA equipment.• Coordinated, supervised and approved the installation and provisioning of network services.

Masters Degree, Management Information Systems And Services

Coursework in: -Informatics -Information Systems Development Methods and Technologies -Database Application Design and Implementation.

Bachelor Of Science - Network And Communications Management, Telecommunications Engineering