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• Market Planner for Sprint Nextel’s CDMA, IDEN and Wireline Networks in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. • Develop plans to leverage the combined networks to deliver transport cost savings, increased margins and improved reliability.• Access facility forecasting to support the budgeting of Wireless and Wireline Network facilities and equipment.

• Manage the CDMA, iDEN and Wireline Telco Access Operations Planning, Capacity Management and forecasting of Telco Facilities for the Ameritech five-state region. The annual OPEX budget for the region is over $250M. • Successfully managed the completion and approval of three Dark Fiber business cases to connect IDEN MSOs to the existing Sprint Wireline Networks• Exceeded objectives for Ring disconnects by disconnecting 6 times the number of rings disconnected in 2005. • Reduced 2006 Fixed Facility OPEX expense by $11M.

Managed Telco Interconnection Engineering for Nextel’s Midwest Region. This involved the planning, forecasting, optimization and capacity management of Telco circuits and the related equipment. LEC Carrier Management to improve service delivery and maintenance restoration (MTTR) intervals. Managed trunk traffic engineering team to Grade of Service (GOS) standards. 911/E911 Deployments from initial request to implementation complete. Regional dial-plan translations, call routing tickets and NXX Code Management. Drove numerous Trunking projects to eliminate Switched MOU operating expense. TBS Network Configuration Management Tool Planning and Implementation. Represented Nextel’s Telco Engineering Group during merger integration planning with Sprint to determine Day 0 processes.

• Managed Access Service Request (ASR) Provisioning for Trunks, DS1, DS3 and SONET Rings• Extensive project management of issues such as Interconnection planning, equipment planning, vendor management, outage escalations and NXX Code Management

• Hired and managed Network Engineers, Facilities Coordinators and 911 Coordinator • Directed network routing analysis for cost and reliability, budgetary planning, financial analysis, and procurement of transmission facilities (trunking, DS1, DS3, SONET Rings) for new cell sites, switching facilities, and DS3 hubs• Oversaw the capacity planning and upgrades for the Tellabs DACS and Echo Canceller equipment in the Chicago Market.

• Analyzed network capacity and financial issues in support of network routing, budgetary planning, and procurement of transmission facilities for new cell sites, switching facilities, and DS3 hubs• Trunk Traffic Engineering• Call Routing translations troubleshooting and resolution• Defined call routing translations and trunking requirements for new Mobile Switches • Represented Nextel at various Industry Areacode relief planning proceedings• NXX Code requests for customer growth and new rate centers• First level approval for Carrier bill auditing for the Trunks, DS1s, DS3s and SONET Facilities in the Chicago Market.

• Responsible for placing Access Service Requests (ASRs) with LECs, IXC and CLECs to install Trunks, DS1s, DS3s and SONET Facilities. • Created process with internal customers to follow orders through to completion.• Audited Carrier bills for Trunks, DS1s, DS3s and SONET Facilities ($250K / MTH).

• Analyzed goods and services vendors to identify opportunities to reduce CAPEX and OPEX spend for Cell Site Construction activities. • Track EBTS inventory and allocations to meet cell site build objectives

• Procured materials and services used in the construction of new cell sites.

Demonstration and installation of Statistical Process Control (SPC) software, and integration of SPC software into manufacturing processes.

Mba, Operations Managment

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Associate Of Science - As