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Cumming, Ga, Us

Lawrenceville, Ga, Us

Hyatt Pipeline is an underground utility contracting company specializing in all facets of underground utilities installation, rehabilitation, and repair.⌨ Learn more about our services at: www.hyattpipeline.com As Project Management Leader, I am accountable for leading teams of up to 15 staff (including superintendents, construction workers, and subcontractors) to manage a suite of utility installation and rehabilitation projects with budgets up to $10MM.I orchestrate key aspects of each project lifecycle – from planning and budgeting to scheduling, procurement, bid estimation, vendor management, and quality control. Some of my additional contributions include:➥ Ensure strict compliance with scope, schedule, and budgetary constraints for each project. ➥ Manage change orders; lead client/subcontractor negotiations to minimize project disruptions and cost overruns.➥ Conduct site inspections to uphold safety regulations, quality standards, and operational best practices.➥ Train on-site staff to upskill and elevate team performance.➥ Optimized operational processes and created efficiencies within the team.➥ Provided team members with all the tools, knowledge, and resources to excel in their roles.➥ Won multiple new projects and doubled the workforce, enabling the company to grow by 175% in 3 years.➥ Transitioned from a reactionary to a proactive business model to streamline project cycles.➥ Employed Six Sigma processes to reduce cycle times by up to 3 months.➥ Implemented state-of-the-art tools and technologies to standardize and streamline key processes.

Dallas, Tx, Us

As Principal Network Planning Engineer, I was tasked with leading multiple teams of 25+ employees to manage national network multi-year deployment projects (each with budgets exceeding $100MM). I guided staff in the areas of strategic planning, principal network design, integration, and problem solving.Here are some of the ways I’ve made positive contributions to business performance:➥ Led the migration of a national core wireless network into a cloud-based infrastructure using Nokia Cloudband on a $200MM+ annual budget.➥ Designed infrastructure for servers, routers, switches, and fiber distribution to support next-generation regional and national Voice over LTE (VoLTE) deployments. Reduced annual costs by $50MM+ and saved 16 engineering jobs from termination. ➥ Orchestrated and supported the deployment of AT&T VoLTE MGCF (including planning, integration, and traffic migration to IPv6 Gateways).➥ Led cross-functional teams of lab, technology owners, PMO staff, finance, design, and planning personnel; aligned around project goals.➥ Scheduled training sessions for 12 employees to close knowledge/skill gaps. ➥ Supported NDA projects by performing leadership reviews, determining network impact, creating forecasts, and aligning budgets.➥ Negotiated with vendors to secure competitive pricing, terms, and conditions for national deployments.➥ Served as principal network engineering designer, leading a 12-member team to restore connectivity for a Baton Rouge-based mobile facility after a catastrophic flood; successfully migrated all traffic in 1 week.➥ Worked closely with the lab organization to eliminate barriers to successful project completion, evolve operational processes, and streamline implementation cycles by 6 months for each network function.➥ Facilitated an industry-first network cloud migration as key member of the company-wide cloud computing initiative.

Fort Mill, South Carolina, Us

Between 2009 and 2011, I designed and presented technical solutions (encompassing speech recognition technologies used in Alexa products) for global customers. Some of my contributions include:➥ Achieved the first-ever "Founders Award" for ensuring customer success. ➥ Prepared operating and capital budgets.➥ Determined resources, hours, and equipment requirements to support the product launch and TCO.➥ Served as chief technical liaison for engineering, operations, research, and development teams; defined customer requirements and analyzed industry research/use cases to drive product development efforts.➥ Prepared technical solutions for executive leadership, partners, prospective clients, and existing accounts. ➥ Developed forecast projections based on historical and projected customer activities.

I joined SpinVox in 2007, where I led a global team of sales engineers to oversee technical presales efforts for a voice recognition provider that delivers Siri services to Apple. Some of my key contributions include:➥ Built productive relationships with internal teams and external customers to support systems architecture and ensure successful product launches.➥ Provided a highly differentiated customer experience throughout the presales and solution deployment process.