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Bend, Oregon, United States

• Led all facets of Field Operations in geographic territory consisting of multiple markets
• Managed inside/outside field installation and maintenance including oversight of supervisors, contractors, and trade workers, to effectively monitor and manage quality and completion of work
• Supervised and managed remote and distributed teams, communicating via phone and video conferencing
• Handled escalations, resolve specific issues, and accurately report progress
• Managed construction, operations, and maintenance at locations across Eastern Oregon.
• Oversaw customer installations, troubleshooting, inspections, tower lighting and site maintenance.

United States

• Managed small to large projects from inception to closeout while working closely with internal and external project stakeholders
• Developed project plan and budget for all assigned projects using Waterfall project management model and tools; tracked all close-out requirements and verified the receipt of required documentation
• Led internal and external deployment meetings with other managers and team members to review the status of each job and implement changes as necessary to ensure timely project completion
• Managed project overseeing site development for new build and wireless capacity upgrades including bidding, selection, and managing external vendors, tower construction, equipment installation, microwave backhaul, and.
• Customized data processing and project reporting; used Power Query and simple VBA scripts to consolidate multiple client Excel spreadsheets and build spreadsheet models, dashboards, and automated templates

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Managed annual $65M project budget, achieving construction and project targets safely and within budget
• Managed construction, operations, and maintenance at owned tower sites including.
• Oversaw customer installations, troubleshooting, inspections, tower lighting and site maintenance.
• Managed onsite vendors, installers, and customer representatives. project managers and administrators in wireless site development activities from site acquisition to construction complete
• Managed colocation agreements, equipment installations, microwave and fiber transport system upgrades
• Managed critical vendor relationships; identified and implemented best practices in all operations phases

Eureka, California, United States

• Managed team of 10 technicians in the diverse terrain of Northern California to brave snow laden mountains, and clear downed forests to maintain microwave backhaul and 3G\4G wireless network
• Led efforts to automate collection and reporting of cell site performance data for Field Operations.
• For generator only sites, led the automation of generator handling to optimize fuel consumption and implemented as national process
• Certified in winter survival techniques and Snow CAT operator as technician’s backup safety buddy
• Collaborated with peer managers and site development to install and commission 4G LTE equipment, providing on-site training for Sr. Field Engineers
• Provided structured OJT and support to adjacent teams, achieving 150% cost avoidance goal for the region

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

• Led 120 Managers and technicians responsible for installation and maintenance, provisioning, dispatch and testing activities for switch and cell sites, CPE, Fiber Network, long distance switches and STP Pair.
• Developed and implemented “Remote Workforce Sharing” between New England switch offices. This model became the company standard during workforce reduction (multiple layoffs).
• Evaluated customer trouble ticket trends and coordinated with Sales, Site Development, and RF Engineering to define new site build priorities.
• Negotiated with Verizon fiber to prioritize their build-out plan to include Sprint’s chronic problem sites along Cape Cod and Rhode Island coastal areas, reducing associated site outage time.
• Represented Sprint at Florida State Emergency Operations Center in 2004, coordinating hurricane restoration priorities; volunteer on-site leader for hurricane disaster restoration activities in FL and LA.

Lenexa, Kansas, United States

• Supervised five supervisors and 120 NOC Analysts for 24x7 Network Operations Control Center providing surveillance.
• Developed KPI and performance metrics for new wireless NOC
• I developed the requirements to integrate multiple surveillance platforms and owned the FRP process.
• Provided Tier 2 maintenance of Sprints wireless network including 29,000 Cell sites, 60 Wireless MSCs, ATM backbone, HLRs and SS7 network.

Richardson, Texas, United States

Introduced the TDMA cellular product to North America and Pacific Rim countries. Managed five product engineers and scientists, responsible for total cellular radio product line including product requirements development, technical sales support, product line problem resolution. I was process owner for Ericsson’s customer project model (PROPS) for North.

Richardson, Texas, United States

Supervised instructors and developers. Primary instructor for four-week cellular RF engineering curriculum. Developed and delivered training for Ericsson’s IS-41 implementation and SS7 protocol analyzers. Lead developer and trainer for rollout of TDMA cellular product and engineering standards. Team instructor for Producing Results with Others (PRO) team.

Stationed in Europe and Middle-East performed installation operations and maintenance on Line-of-site radio, analog and digital multiplex, signaling and termination equipment. Supervised wideband communications equipment maintenance activities. Honorably discharged at rank E-5.

Bs, Bachelor Of Science - Business Management

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