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Greater Atlanta Area

Executive responsible for day-to-day operations directly accountable for P&L requirements with additional responsibilities to address RFPs and new lines of business development.►Performed business development to supplement engineering services across major customers►Managed preparation of RPFs by providing input on competencies, scope, P&L, and resource forecasts►Provided a project gate review to ensure accuracy, quality of customer deliverables customers►Provided internal and external escalation support to mitigate team, customer concerns►Performed SOW review of professional services and balanced it against target pricing and profit►Analyzed and Recommended cost comparison adjustments among clients to ensure profit alignment►Established and developed client relationships and new business opportunities►Leveraged market experience to make strategic recommendations for suppliers and clients►Recommended process improvements and tracking tools to maintain proper financial true-ups►Developed multiple business proposals each with strategic services and targeted profit requirements

Roswell, Ga

Program Manager for the GA LTE Market consisting of 1000 concurrent sites and a capital budget of $15M. ►Responsible for the day-to-day activities and delegation of a team of ten project managers, coordinators, and tower mod & structural PMs. ►PMO interface responsible for weekly metric review and reporting against schedule and budget►Approved change control requests measured against plan of execution and forecast►Provided escalation support to address project issues, program risks, & vendor management issues►Implemented top-down requirements from leadership to ensure timely customer handoffs►Presented regular direct and specific key recommendations to address vendor service issues to executive leadership addressing engineering, resources, processes, and quality control for immediate short term project crash and long term project success.►Single-Point-of-Contact SPOC for onboarding, team development, and mentoring, across various functional matrixes to ensure proper program cohesion.

Roswell, Ga

Regional Program Manager for the southeast Small Cell trial initiative for scoping, testing and launch. Worked with National PMO, Engineering, Alcatel-Lucent, and vendors. ►End-to-end program manager of wireless small cell technology deployment from site acquisition, RF Design, construction & vendor management, optimization, and launch within the southeast region including the company's FOA trial.►Market interface between major functional groups including PMO, scoping, site acquisition, engineering, regulatory, construction, Supply Chain Management, and vendors. ►Led multiple regional market review meetings on program progress►Provided risk management, issue resolution, and championed escalation support as required►Published regular cross-functional updates per established Communications Plan►Modified initial SharePoint national tracker versions to meet local requirements that were later adopted back into the national tracker.

Alpharetta, Ga

Project Manager on a closely monitored $52M initiative for end-to-end work on 400 concurrent projects to expand LTE wireless technology across Atlanta. Additional work on a similar $27M, 200 initiative project from scoping, site acquisition, design, construction, integration, drive testing, resulting in an early launch.►Built key cross matrix relationships among PMO, Site Acquisition, Regulatory, RF (Planning, Design, & Performance), Transport Backhaul, Finance, Ericsson (OEM), and external vendors. ►Implemented Supply Chain Management (SCM) strategies to ensure equipment delivery, asset transfer►Forecasted variable budgets using unit cost modeling and exception criteria. ►Developed processes for requirements, capital/expense budget, metric reporting, issues and schedule►Approved pay-point milestone and payments on $27M of financial reports via Oracle and NORAD►Approved pay-point milestone and payments on $27M of financial reports via Oracle and NORAD►Managed alignment of key milestones with market objectives including change control, forecasting, and proper actualization of dates.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

A progressively iterated project to deploy 4.5 million Advanced Metering Infrastructure/ Smart Grid network devices statewide from 2009 through 2013 including infrastructure, testing, optimization, and final quality certification.►Geographically distributed project manager using formal Project Management Inst. (PMI) methodology►Worked within the ESF PMO responsible for (9) concurrent AMI Programs►Authored each of the PMI project documents: ●project charter ●project management plan ●integrated project plan ●communication plan ●risk management plan ►Maintained project performance and tracking via MS Project Server and SharePoint. ►Provided guidance on planning, installation, optimization, and quality certification of nodes►Maintained KPIs metrics with reasoning and corrective action for variance issues including SPI and CPI for week/month to date, project to date, and percent complete values►Utilized analysis tools such as Gantt, PERT, waterfall, & Pareto charts, as well as Critical Path Method (CPM) analysis.►Collaborated with Change Management on corporate and business impact including customer service, distribution, marketing, and operations.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Lead wireless equipment and project engineer focused on ATT, Verizon, Sprint and Alltel carriers using UMTS, CDMA and LTE networks particularly in Manhattan and western United States markets and various projects over 10 years.Project : Verizon Wireless -- 4G / LTE OH eNodeB Greenfield Deployment►Led a phased, greenfield Verizon Wireless LTE deployment network into OH market►Exercised careful consideration and analysis to balancing customer expectations and requirements against a newly developed Lucent Technologies product portfolio. ►Engineered the proper network configuration & integration in 3 cities & several hundred sites ►Developed extensive reporting and data mining details using advanced, custom queries from MS Access and Excel analytics enabling functional groups to quickly identify site information, engineering configuration, and status for various phases of the project.►Developed a technique to upgrade site-by-site engineering configuration to custom models resulting in an impressive 84% time reduction and savings►Travel to various markets presenting detailed project status updates to various stakeholders►Facilitated meetings among Product Engineering for needed design changes ►Managed multiple vendors providing professional services

Greater New York City Area

Lead wireless equipment and project engineer focused on ATT, Verizon, Sprint and Alltel carriers using UMTS, CDMA and LTE networks particularly in Manhattan and western United States markets and various projects over 10 years. Project: AT&T Wireless 3G Trident Project►Multi-Year / Phase project performing complete vendor swap from Nortel to Lucent Technologies wireless equipment consisting of 12 MSCs and approximately 3000 cellular bases stations across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. ►Direct engineering support and lead for Phase 1 Swap, Phase 2 – New Build, Phase 3 – Growth, and Phase 4 – Harvest & Reuse.►Engaged in weekly war room meetings among multiple functional stakeholders to analyze projectprogress, milestones and jeopardy items.►Negotiated an approved compromise with MTA, Port Authority, & stakeholders meeting rigid government and transit requirements for underground equipment deployment.►Reduced scheduled installation interval by converting “slam” deployments to “co-location” using AutoCAD drafting on-site in real-time to evaluate alternative options, strategic material analysis & swapping, and out-of-the-box tenant coordination.►Performed data analytics aggregating customer, vendor, and supplier information to create a comprehensive Cell Material Report Index enabling faster reaction and redeployment services►Developed a plan and coordination to extend Allview services to accommodate the New York market needs resulting in a successful $400k contract

Various

Lead wireless equipment and project engineer focused on ATT, Verizon, Sprint and Alltel carriers using UMTS, CDMA and LTE networks particularly in Manhattan and western United States markets and various projects over 10 years.Other Projects included:✔Alltel EVDO Growth (CO, FL, MT, GA, WY, OH, ND)✔Globalive WCV LTE/d2U Greenfield Deployment; (Canada)✔AT&T Distributed LTE Trial, (TX )✔Cricket Next Generation (LTE) First Office Application, (PA)✔USCC HD to 4.0B Modcell Swap (VA,WV)✔USCC EVDO Growth Frame Add (VA,WV)

Marietta, Ga

Board member of the SPSU Alumni Association.

Summer Intern.

Summer Intern

Atlanta, Ga

Inroads Intern

Ms, Information Technology

Bs, Tcom

Activities and Societies: NSBE / SGA / Ambassadors / IEEE / German Foreign Exchange / Ghana International Engineering Conference /.