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Responsible for all activities related to forecasting growth potential and strategic initiatives as well as managing current projects and programs.● Developed and managed strategic growth programs, expanding company from a single business offering to four distinct business units.● Created and maintained modeling tools used for developing long-term growth opportunities and short-term performance metrics.● Identified business risks and growth opportunities to stay ahead of the changing landscape during the COVID Pandemic and successfully implemented strategic changes.● Managed projects from inception through completion and conducted post-mortem reviews to identify success factors and areas for improvement.● Secured and supervised contract help as required by projects.

Conceptualized a startup business venture; conducted market research, built, and executed a business plan to create a thriving company with both brick and mortar and ecommerce revenue streams. Hired, trained, and developed full and part time employees to successfully run daily operations, inventory management, and marketing campaigns.● Grew annual revenue in each consecutive year with an average year over year growth of nearly 50% and total growth of 250% over the past five years.● Maintained inventory management and supplier purchase orders based on market projections and sales growth using proprietary modelling tool created in Microsoft Excel.● Maintained P&L statements and balance sheets to measure growth and ensure fiscal responsibility.● Leveraged partner relationships with other businesses and entities to maximize growth potential.● Navigated difficulties of COVID pandemic and supply chain issues by adapting business model to account for changes in industry behaviors.

Implemented strategies and programs to facilitate knowledge and information sharing across enterprise teams in a post-merger environment. Spearheaded complex technical integration projects by leveraging support for multiple teams simultaneously. Created a collaborative work environment to facilitate cross-functional programs.● Managed the development, maintenance, and presentation of integration dashboards and program status scorecards to Engineering and Operations Executives.● Established CAPEX budget objectives with Engineering and Finance Executives to integrate two separate wireless networks resulting from the merger of Clearwire and Sprint.● Acted as transitional lead for network capacity planning and integration in post-merger environment.● Managed equipment and capital forecasting for Rural Telecommunications Expansion Program.● Led asset management integration required post-merger.

Managed a team of engineers and planners responsible for the technology rollout of a national wireless data network. Organized and hosted quarterly summit meetings between planning, engineering, development, and finance teams to share information across functional groups and unify planning and budget processes. ● Created and maintained modeling tool utilized for forecasting equipment requirements for a multi-million-dollar technology rollout leveraging both internal and external data sources.● Forecast and maintained CAPEX budget plan within 5% variance annually.● Led a group of network engineers and planners for strategic and tactical capacity planning of 75+ individual markets, consisting of 250+ distinct core facilities.● Managed supply chain process for national network build & augmentations, including manufacturer ordering, warehousing, inventory, asset management and deployment.● Prepared and presented OKRs, network capacity dashboards, CAPEX budget forecasts and scorecards as well as equipment deployment plans to Engineering VP and C-Level Executives. ● Managed performance reviews and development plans for a staff of planners and engineers.

Planner/Engineer III, Network Planning & Optimization at Sprint-Nextel CorporationTeam Lead, Regional Network Planning & Design Engineering at Nextel CommunicationsDesign Engineer, Network Design & Performance at Nextel CommunicationsTranslations Engineer at Nextel CommunicationsCapacity Analyst at Nextel CommunicationsTechnical Support Specialist at Nextel Communications