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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Lead a technical organization of 140 employees through all aspects of maintaining, growing and managing wireless networks covering a multi-region area including Louisville, Ky, Nashville, TN, Knoxville, TN, Cleveland, OH, Pittsburgh, PA and West Virginia.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

Lead a technical organization of 50 employees and contractors through all aspects of maintaining, growing and managing wireless networks covering a multi-state area including Kentucky and Tennessee.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Oversee an engineering, operations and development organization consisting of 43 employees and outside contractors including direct supervision of functional department leads.
• Manage multi-state wireless networks and organizations across the Indianapolis and Cincinnati market area.
• Responsible for operating and capital budgets in excess of $40M each.
• Orchestrated roll out of 700Mhz LTE to over 570 cell sites throughout the market area by maximizing OEM partnership providing enhanced in building coverage in core urban areas and expanded rural coverage.
• Successfully led T-Mobile’s first 1900 MHz LTE technology core upgrade and launch in Cincinnati market involving the upgrade of 188 cell sites over an accelerated 10 week period enabling T-Mobile’s last major market.
• Delivered LTE to 1065 sites throughout market area as part of the No Site Left Behind initiative bringing T-Mobile into competitive parity and allowing customers access to high speed data connections throughout the area.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Following merger with larger firm was promoted to the Indianapolis and Cincinnati market area top leadership position overseeing wireless network engineering, operations and development responsibilities.
• Led an organization of 48 employees and contractors through the evolution of multi-state market area from the network launch phase to the upgrade, maintain and grow phase all in support of market subscriber growth.
• Network build, expansion and upgrade leadership efforts over 9 years led to the building of 640 cell sites and supported subscriber growth from 25K to over 500K subscribers across the combined market area.
• Grew Indianapolis network size from 140 cell site launch footprint to 580 cell site network resulting in substantial coverage expansion throughout the state of Indiana complimenting T-Mobile’s national coverage offering.
• Completed 36 site Indianapolis ROB project resulting in a cost savings of over $600K/mth in roaming charges.
• Expanded Cincinnati network from 210 converted cell site footprint to 410 cell site footprint more than doubling coverage and providing contiguous coverage between neighboring states.

Recruited to join entrepreneurial Management team leading the startup of all network development and organization building activities needed for the construction of GSM PCS wireless phone networks. This included leading strategic planning initiatives, project management, vendor relationship building, contract negotiation and administration, hiring of.

Selected to join Telecommunications Division to help take advantage of new business opportunities being created in the wireless phone industry. Developed proposal documents for complete buildout of PCS networks, paging system installations, and other telecommunications projects.Lead Project Engineer on 47 site buildout of 800 MHz SMR system. Project was.

Managed electrical engineering project design efforts including the supervision of junior staff engineers in a variety of large scale power generation plant projects.Developed electrical system conceptual design proposal documentation that led to the award of several multi-million dollar international power plant design-build contracts in Thailand and.

Designed electrical power systems for power plants and manufacturing facilities.

B.S, Electrical Engineering

Obtained a BSEE

M.B.A

Obtained an MBA