Broadband Department Manager with 12+ years of experience in telecommunications managing successful projects, with a proven track record of success in leading team members, with strong organizational and effective communication skills. Always looking to leverage my knowledge, leadership, and experience into a role as a Manager/Director on an effective and successful team.Current roles and responsibilities include:• Managing project functions of design, production coordination, planning, organizing, directing, controlling, financial management and marketing assistance.• Responsible for strategic long-term goals.• Making final decisions on administrative or operations matters and ensures effective achievement of objectives. • Managing strict adherence to Capital and Operating budgets.• Collaborates, partners, and supports all departments within the region and national staff in the operations of the area to achieve established objectives.• Manages and supervises staff by appraising performance, training, administering salaries, and communicating department objectives.• Works daily to evolve the workforce by continuously enabling a team that is ready to serve the digital world and implement initiatives that retain people in the right roles and foster high performance and employee engagement while improving productivity for each of CobbFendley’s clients.• Applies technical expertise and project management and design experience to manage project teams on conventional and unconventional projects.• Functions as a mentor to project engineers and technical professionals to assist in their technical training and development.• Performs quality control review of completed designs and other project tasks, including preliminary engineering reports (PER), layouts/schematics, plans and specifications, and cost estimates.• Creates feasibility studies and bid packages to assist states, counties, and municipalities as well as new ISPs looking to expand their network.• Represents CobbFendley at client meetings and performs client coordination.• Business Development/Acquire new clients as well as build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships across the company and with higher leadership.• Coordinates project builds in aerial or underground facility design: pole layout, pole-loading, copper and fiber self-supporting cables, direct buried and bored pathways, cable vault/manhole/handhole design, ductbank/innerduct layout, duct proofing.