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Grantsville, Ut, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

CM for DAS and outdoor DAS (small cell) builds in Utah for Crown Castle. Temp Contract role

CM for T-Mobile in Utah

Frisco, Texas, Us

Construction PM on the VZW small cell project for Extenet

Irvine, Ca, Us

Site acquisition services for T-Mobile Eastern Montana project.

Bristol, England, Gb

T-Mobile project for Ericsson. Temporary CM position for Air32 and NSB project.

Project Manager and site acquisition for T-Mobile network deployment in Western Montana.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Strategic Sourcing Manager and Data Analyst for Ericsson in Plano Texas. Negotiator and DPP Desk lead. Data Analyst for network build spend for North America Region. Designated as subject matter expert in network builds. Manage, approve and negotiate supply chain and vendor pricing and purchase order approvals for national telecom projects including T-Mobile, Sprint, Clearwire, AT&T, Verizon, etc. Analyze spending trends for all carriers in effort to control costs and lower spend for the customer units, and improve profitability for Ericsson. Have identified and saved multi-millions of dollars each year both through individual efforts and efforts of the team.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Primary project was in the San Francisco Bay area for the Verizon fiber to cell project with Comcast, and also worked on the Comcast Metro E project. Former project was the Open Range Project- Midwest Region-Illinois and Wisconsin

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Clearwire Construction Manager on network launch in Utah. CM from network design to construction complete. Performed all CM duties from feasibility site walks through turn-up and close out documentation.

Wireless consulting company specializing in wireless network deployment for both cellular and wireless internet. Experienced with wireless and fiber backhaul as well as network planning and construction. Former Skypilot reseller, installed test networks in Reno, NV and Jamestown, NY. Purchased Metricom's Ricochet Network for Utah from Aerie Networks in 2004. Vendor and Equipment training includes: Motorola (iDen, Canopy and WiMax products), Huawei WiMax, Lucent, Alvarion, Marconi, Dragonwave, Redline, Proxim, Skypilot, Ricochet, PPC, Commscope, Andrew, Ciena and fiber-optics. Understand mesh, microcell, DAS, P2P, transport rings, NIUs, site design and upgrades. Know RF, permitting and zoning, site acquisition, leasing, supply chain and vendor management as well as full project and construction management. Current with WiMax and LTE products and standards. Contractor in the wireless industry.

Regional Construction Manager on the Lucent project for Leap Wireless in the Michigan Great Lakes Region that included 396 sites in 5 markets for the Cricket Communications network launch.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Market Manager for General Dynamics on Metricom's Ricochet wireless broadband internet network launch in Utah. Network included 55 WAP (cell) sites and several hundred microcell radios on muncipal power poles through negotiated ROW agreements. This market rose from 2nd worst performer to top performer in nationwide build-out after taking over the project.

Construction Manager on Lucent's Leap Wireless project in Utah. This was the network deployment for Cricket Wireless in Utah comprised of 119 launch sites.

Construction Project Manager for Nextel on the launch network in Utah. Constructed original network plus additional phase 2 sites ahead of schedule and on budget.