Sam Nichol Email & Phone Number

Airdrie, AB, CA

Airdrie, Alberta, Canada

Airdrie, Alberta, Canada

Alberta, Canada

• Foundational member of ambitious GPON fibre optic upgrade program across 16 communities in Alberta and Lower Mainland British Columbia. Steered vendor management with $10M+ in deliverables year over year. Led planning.
• Developed and implemented process improvements, driving a 50% decrease in network activity application times.
• Defined strategies that reduced winter construction costs 30% and minimized ramping down of workforces.
• Consulted on buried activity rate cards, providing a holistic view of vendor rates for accurate data analysis.
• Collaborated with project management office in defining homogenized quote templates for build vendors. This enabled an all-inclusive analysis of vendor rates on a level playing field.
• Orchestrated a pilot program for reducing buried construction costs and increasing market penetration.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Implementation prime with Regional Planning offices on strategic commercial GPON fibre builds across Western Canada. Collaboration with Business and Engineering streams to identify and initiate strategic fibre builds.
• Developed processes and workflows to synergize relationships between Sales and Engineering streams
• Standardized quote tracking and reporting
• Centralized financial tracking and progress updates for quick executive roll-up view

Calgary, Canada Area

• Prime for design and implementation of HFC networks throughout B C Interior. Departmental design and budgetary requirement review prior to requesting capital funding and issuing for construction.
• Coordination with Developer, Utilities, and Municipalities to seamlessly implement networks with minimal disruption to existing customers while expanding network footprint for new customers
• Prime on ADSS fibre relocates from Vernon BC to Grand Forks BC along FortisBC Transmission lines
• Lead on departmental capital funding requests
• Standardized and implemented regional project tracking

Responsible for generating, and finalizing various figures for geotechnical, hydrogeological, and environmental reports within British Columbia, and Alberta. GIS mapping of current and past projects for corporate database. Information Technology technician for Kelowna office. Maintaining daily, weekly, and monthly back-ups for network, troubleshooting..