Senior Manager Engineering / Sales Engineer
Tennessee
• Engineering and Senior Management experience overseeing projects up to $3.5 million.• Engineering Design, Project Management, Implementation, and Documentation of fiber builds and provisioning of transport services ranging from 10 GB Ethernet, OTN, DWDM, ROADM, SONET to POTS.• Lead RFPs and customer sales negotiations, generate and review service contracts and dark fiber lease contracts with a focus on service level agreements (SLA) and collocation agreements.• Negotiate and evaluate performance of hardware and software maintenance and support contracts with vendors including Ciena (Cyan), Cisco, Juniper, Calix, Adtran, Tellabs and Metaswitch.• Design procedures, implement and lead change management with a focus on minimum impact to services and end user.• Negotiate, submit Access Service Requests (ASR) and oversee implementation of data, voice, mobile and long distance carrier services.• Negotiate Digital Realty Space contracts, service orders and request remote hands with Carrier Hotels such as 56 Marietta, 350 Cermak, 365 Data Centers, Digital Crossings. • Managed compliance standards initiated by FERC, NERC, SERC, ITU-T, TIA/EIA and IEEE 802.3u as applied to telecommunications and power control systems. • Organize and coordinate 24/7 support for an entire network infrastructure.• Generate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) including corrective plan of action to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) standards are met or exceeded reducing service impact• Network asset management and forecast growth needs for outside plant fiber builds, and network capacity overbuild projects.• Manage emergency response plans to Central Operations and Field Organizations during crises.• Maintain a personal rapport with multiple company leaders.• Utilization of vendor proprietary applications Cyan (Ciena) Blue Planet SDN, Juniper JUNOS, Cisco CTC and CTM, and Fujitsu NetSmart.