Worked as a contractor setting up the new Tallahassee office for Sprint's state of Florida contract administration.

Construction management and field engineering services for the telecommunications and maritime industry. Retired from Sprint/Ericsson and have been working as a construction manager for Metro PCS on a contract basis in the Ethernet to cell site modifications, and with the National Hurricane Center as a volunteer communications technician for their hurricane network in Miami, working with HF-VHF-UHF, and VoIP systems for live weather reporting from the Caribbean and Latin America.

Supervised a staff of 20 engineers to oversee all network aspects of the following technologies: CDMA and iDEN . Deployed large scale Distributed Antenna Systems and maintained all the In-Building Solutions for the market.

Contractor for Telecommunication site owners building new cellular radio facilities, managing the expenses to stay on budget, interfaced with the power companies, the local Telco's, the government officials and all other aspects of project management in Puerto Rico.

General Manager responsible for the Florida and Puerto Rico offices based out; Managed high level relationships with the customers, effective negotiating skills, managed all contracts/bids, and managed a full-service department with a staff of 45 that included, project managers, construction managers and coordinators.

Managed the deployment of CDMA cellular and PCS systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Managed the network engineering and operational support teams responsible for designing, implementing and supporting the network infrastructure. Worked with the services and solutions teams to plan system design and capital and expense budgets, and plan hardware and software deployments and upgrades. Oversee network technology design, production for converged data networks including performance, availability, capacity planning, recoverability, root cause determination and problem resolution. Provide senior-most technical expertise in the discipline of network engineering, implementation, operations and support. Direct the development, implementation and administration of processes and procedures to ensure the reliability, recoverability, and optimum performance of network infrastructure systems and solutions. Refine and/or redefine existing 24x7 monitoring metrics and response criteria. Provide leadership, coaching, and counseling in technical areas to the Network Services Team. I worked closely with and managed strategic outsource and vendor partners for the license holders.

Operations and Engineering Manager for 800 MHz cellular system spanning New England. First non wireline cellular build out in the area competing with Nynex. Hired the technical staff, specified tools and test equipment for the operations engineers and developed the data interface levels for the original cell site to switch links. Included intersystem interfacing across LATA and MTSO boundaries, Telco and microwave design.

Installed, managed and maintained UHF and 800 MHz trunking systems for government and commercial interests. Solar and thermal site construction in the Northern Rockies using off road vehicles and helicopters for access. Managed shop technicians and installation of complete radio systems. Interfaced several radio systems to have a contiguously handoff network with LMR Systems.