Working with cellular companies and cell tower site owners to upgrade services with newer technologies. Perform site walks for bid requests, pre construction meetings, obtain permits and make sure equipment is onsite and ready for installation. Perform the closeouts when work is complete for the cellular and tower owner companies. - Led construction teams for Sprint project to upgrade fiber services for additional bandwidth across central and northern Florida and southern Georgia. - Led construction teams in Fort Myers/Cape Coral on FTTH deployment for major telecommunications company.- Project Manager for T-Mobile, Ericsson and DISH Wireless builds in Florida and Georgia markets. Coordination of materials and crews to build new wireless sites as well as upgrading existing technologies to 5G.

Led a team of 16 Network/Maintenance, Broadband and Headend Technicians as well as 1 RF Engineer and 1 Data Engineer in the daily operation of all network activities in a 1,300+ mile HFC plant and data fiber network. • Oversee the daily operations from the Headend to the tap and all fiber activities for Click! Business customers as well as the connectivity of all power substations and hydro dams in the Tacoma Power footprint. • Responsible for all new technology research, testing and implementation. • Designed and implemented Calix FTTH network for Greenfield deployments with an RF overlay for traditional video service offering.• Researched and implemented the Effigis CPAT CLI system and oversee the resolution of forward and return leakage in the HFC Network.• Responsible for FCC reporting and making sure the testing is done on a routine basis to meet FCC requirements.• Work closely with Installation/Service, Marketing/Sales, Customer Care, Business Systems and Construction on all ongoing and future projects.• Lead the training and development programs for all technicians as well as assisting the other departments with training on new technologies.• Lead the Product Evaluation Team for all new products being researched and tested and the results shared with the Senior Leadership Team.• Championed our technicians to have a team participate in our local SCTE Chapter Cable Games yearly competition.

Nation-wide management of new activation of data, voice, and hosted voice for WoW's Commercial Services. Responsible for hiring and training a new department within WoW Business for a national team who oversees the remote configuration and testing of WoW Business Ethernet and voice products.

Summit Broadband delivers video, voice and internet service via FTTH, HFC architecture, traditional copper voice/DSL internet service systems, fiber internet/voice commercial node deployments and RFoG commercial video. The company’s customer base is primarily hotel/resort properties, the medical community and large residential subdivisions. • Responsible for managing a team of 15-20 installer/technicians, maintenance technicians, commercial service technicians, warehouse personnel, and construction/locator technicians. Additionally, managed contractor teams of 30+.• Responsible for Managed Services deployments and ongoing maintenance. • Developed and implemented QC, safety and training programs.• Additional responsibilities include management of the Summit Broadband/Dais Communications partnership. Dais Communications provides FTTH video, phone and symmetrical 1 GHz download and upload internet in the Medical City area of Lake Nona, FL. Responsible for the team that performs the fiber installation, splicing of the fiber and ONT installation and turn-up.

Hired to manage a new department over HSI, VoIP, Charter Business installation and support for all Charter systems within Texas. Hired, developed and trained Network Engineering team. Tasked with standardizing all network equipment throughout the state of Texas including building network Visio diagram from scratch. Responsible for a $3 million budget.• Directed the deployment of new CRS routers and the Charter national backbone connectivity.• Oversaw multiple circuit upgrades for Internet bandwidth drains.• Built regional ONS crossponder ring for major Charter Business initiative.• Oversaw the deployment of new 10K UBRs with RF switch redundancy.• Managed the deployment of 7609 routers and completed Fort Worth regional 10 Gig Ring.• Oversaw all Charter Business fiber installations as well as any break/fix issues.• Managed M-CMTS (Cisco RWGW-10) deployments.• Turned up 27 cell backhaul towers.• Complete control of all decongestion work for Charter Texas including:o Ordering of parts and materialso Working alongside headend department for wiring, racking and powering of equipmento Coordinating contractors for RF wiringo Tasking what interfaces to target for decongestion work

Network Engineer, Desert Cities Systems, Palm Desert, CA March 2006 – March 2008 Hired to oversee the day-to-day network activities, including the integration of three former Adelphia systems into the Time Warner network. Responsible for the backbone network between the Desert Cities and the Orange, California RDC. On call 24/7 for the Desert Cities systems as well as backup for San Diego and Bakersfield systems. Responsible for Road Runner residential, Road Runner commercial, AOL, Earthlink and Voice IPs for the Desert Cities. Worked with Big Band Cuda CMTSs during the Adelphia migration into Time Warner. Efficient in troubleshooting networking issues and often called upon to assist the local cable division in troubleshooting plant issues. • Launched multiple Cisco 7246 VXRs and 10K UBRs including IOS and hardware upgrades. • Migrated Gigabit Ethernet and SRP connections to local Time Warner DWDM ring.• Upgraded all upstream ports on the UBRs from QPSK to 16 QAM modulation.Network Engineer, Cape Coral and Naples, FL March 2001 – March 2006Hired to launch the Cape Coral and Naples high speed Internet networks. System grew rapidly to approximately 35,000 subscribers. Responsible for the local network, Cisco 7246 VXRs and 10K UBRs including IOS and hardware upgrades. Responsible for the backbone network between Cape Coral/Naples and Tampa, four Cisco 12008 GSRs in Cape Coral/Naples. On-call rotation continually for Cape Coral/Naples, Orlando and Birmingham, Alabama systems and was the sole point contact for Cape Coral/Naples. Responsible for Road Runner residential and Road Runner commercial IP management in Cape Coral/Naples and Voice IPs for Orlando. Efficient in troubleshooting networking issues and often called upon to assist the local cable division in troubleshooting plant issues. • Launched three additional hub sites including two 10K UBRs. • Migrated Local Network from POS OC3 to Gigabit Ethernet.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, had sole responsibility in the Southern Region for the installation, upgrade and maintenance of Internet equipment. This region was compromised of 21 systems across 10 states and the island of Puerto Rico (approximately 75% travel). Responsible for integration of ISP equipment into cable television headends to provide high-speed Internet service to cable customers via cable modems. Worked primarily with Cisco routers and switches as well as SUN System servers. Position involved frequent customer contact and supported the ISP Channel sales/marketing area with technical issues. Additionally, provided 24-hour on-call for Southern Region as well as backup support for all other regions in the U.S. Voted “Most Valuable Employee” by superiors and peers within first three months of employment.