Lee Higbee, Pmp Email & Phone Number

United States

Ncal

Responsible for the successful delivery, ongoing business development and customer relationship for TMOB NCAL programs. Qualtek were recognized as the leading Site Dev. turn key vendor in market. As a member of the Qualtek West Region Senior Leadership team I was responsible for for P&L and team recruitment and development.

Concord, California, United States

Hired on a short term consulting basis as a SME into the West Regional 5G War room.- As a key team member I played an integral role in developing and rolling out to all West markets a Power BI dashboard to forecasting Vs Target, Gap analysis. logic errors, red-flag items and duration analysis. - Chaired governance weekly calls with OEMs

Responsible for the successful delivery of high volume small cell networks to Tier 1 operators. Scope included fiber planning and deployment, A&E ,site acquisition, permitting and zoning, power co-ordination and build tasks.

Pleasanton California

• Managed 27 PMs in 5 locations. 140+ active projects delivering revenue of $330M+ per year.• Directly responsible for performance management, training and operating budgets.• Customers included AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Facebook and Google.• Accountable and subject matter expert for project governance methodology to ensure predictable budgets and margins, change control, pro-active risk mitigation, effective issue resolution, best practices adoption and communication, accurate reporting via Global PMO MIS databases and full stakeholder engagement at all times.• Responsible for staff dimensioning and recruitment strategy to meet constantly changing internal and external customer business requirements, forecasts, business analysis and industry trends.• Between 2016 and 2017 project governance KPIs were increased by 11% (to 95%) and margins increased over 3% in West region.

Pleasanton California

• Managed all operational staff and vendors in West region aligned to T-Mobile programs. Cross functional team size varied between 50 and 90 depending on project cycles. 9 customer markets and staff included PMs, CMs, PCs and PAs.• Team successfully delivered 40 projects and $110M+ revenue per year. • Dashboard status reporting to Executive level on delivery, financial, risk and mitigation.• Accountability for budget and general business administration to ensure full compliance to all corporate policies• Strategic staffing dimensioning to meet the dynamic changes driven by the external customer’s business plans and forecasts and the internal customers (Customer Unit) strategy roadmap.• Key driver and sponsor for change management and innovation of processes within the delivery business to reduce cycle times, increase quality and customer satisfaction whilst always ensuring safety and an alignment to the longer-term business strategy and corporate policies.• Team achieved cycle times, margins and quality KPIs that were acknowledged as world leading within Ericsson globally.

Pleasanton California

• Line manager for a team of 16 PMs based in 2 separate locations• Team managed 80+ active network roll-out projects bringing in revenue of $150M+ per year.

Pleasanton California

• Program Manager T-Mobile Account - May 2012 to April 2013 o Project scope was to upgrade existing 3G network and overlay with 4G (LTE) technology - 800 sites completed within budget and schedule in San Francisco and 100 sites in Hawaii• Senior PM T-Mobile Account - September 2011 to April 2012 o 3G (UMTS) upgrades, Pure IP deployment, Router upgrades, New Site Build, DAS and power upgrades.• Senior PM ATT Account - January 2011 to August 2011 o Responsible for the successful transition of the first phase of the ATT San Francisco LTE network (1400 cell sites in total) from planning and site acquisition phase into build, integration and customer acceptance

Reading, United Kingdom

• Program Management responsibilities for all capacity related projects on the MBNL network (14,000 live sites). Team of 6 assigned PMs• Ensure pro-active upgrades were identified as per customer requirements and the completed to avoid potential capacity issues which could lead to call blocking or slow performance

Reading, United Kingdom

• Built and integrated 65 new Radio Network Controllers (RNCs) across 5 separate data center locations and upgraded 120 existing RNC software and hardware builds to enable the T-Mobile and 3UK cell network consolidation (MBNL Joint venture).• Key project dependency that enabled the subsequent dell site program to proceed.• Acceptance timelines were reduced by 60% during the project lifecycle and I was awarded official recognition by both Ericsson and the customer for the success of this key project. Delivered ahead of schedule and on budget.

Reading, United Kingdom

o S2 zone (South East of UK). Cross functional team of 25 responsible for planning, site acquisition and lease negotiation, construction, integration, RF handover and decommissioning of any sites not required for new network. 1500 sites

Dublin Ireland

o Project scope was the deployment of 21 BSCs and swap out of 1700 radio base stations (RBS) from Nortel to Ericsson HW across o2’s 2G network covering Ireland. o Project was delivered successfully and all targets were exceeded. The project was recognized as the o2 Ireland project of the year for 2007

Reading, United Kingdom

o Accountable for Central London area of 3UK’s network – approx. 1000 siteso Cross functional team of 20 tasked for end to end delivery of new sites and maintenance of existing sites. Tasks included planning, zoning and site acquisition, construction, integration and RF tuning. Specialist sites included: Wembley Stadium DAS, Downing Street and Parliament Square micro-sites and initial planning for London Olympics.

Reading, United Kingdom

o Accountable for new site builds and ongoing maintenance in South East England – 1500 siteso Cross functional team of approx. 25 covering end to end scope.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Education record

Civil Engineering