Thomas Grabowski Email & Phone Number

Linden, NJ, US

Hopelawn, NJ

I coordinate with local governments and state/federal agencies to effect cost effective solutions to bridge replacements and road widenings where Verizon facilities are impacted. Always pushing support-in-place schemes for existing cabling on bridge replacement projects to eliminate costly and time-consuming cable throws and outages. FiOS migration is.

Hopelawn, NJ

• Single point-of-contact for all NJ non-FTTP project reconciliation and posting; ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements through formal and informal audits.
• Managing a team of drafters and multiple vendors to accurately post upwards of 14K engineering work orders per year into Verizon GIS systems

Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

• Responsibilities included overseeing design efforts of 4 engineers to locate underutilized underground copper cables for removal and retirement.
• Managing contractors and field technicians to identify, prepare and schedule cables for removal.
• Netted $2M in scrap value for cabling removed.

North Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

• Coordinating backbone and distribution construction crews to complete FiOS build in the Bound Brook and New Brunswick Central Offices
• Resolving customer complaints
• Maintaining budget discipline during build
• Coordinating construction activities with local and county governments and managing all necessary permitting
• Created blueprint for future FIOS builds being implemented statewide
• Provided feedback on “Big Rules” white-paper governing FiOS overall build parameters and interoffice connections and drove implementation of new methods and standards for improving the FiOS design process

North Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

• End-to-end managing the process of providing data services by acting as a liaison between Sales and Engineering
• Mentored associate engineers to provide an outside plant cable design that meets customer’s current and future anticipated design requirements
• Worked with provisioning groups to ensure proper circuit design
• Coordinated with construction forces to ensure customer desired due dates for service were met

North Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

• Responsible for outside plant cable engineering
• Worked with customers to address complaints and service issues
• Assist field technicians with service and cable maintenance issues
• Designed and constructed network modifications to provide new and existing communications services

Rahway, NJ

• Assisting staff engineers with investigations, project research, and recommendations to design, testing, and implementation
• Preparing comprehensive engineering and testing reports
• Coordinating the daily field assignments of forty technicians
• Hiring and training new employees as well as conducting performance evaluations

Parsippany, NJ

• Supervised field construction operations to ensure compliance with job specifications
• Managed geotechnical investigations
• Assisted staff engineers with design and job estimating
• Worked closely with all construction personnel to develop cost-effective solutions
• Appointed as site engineering representative for the construction of Jersey Gardens Mall. Responsible for inspecting all soil-related work for compliance with engineering specifications.

Worked various jobs within construction industry, including carpentry, plumbing, and site work. Operated excavators, backhoes and other heavy site construction equipment.

Master Of Science (Msc), Mechanical Engineering, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Society of Automotive Engineers American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Automotive Engineers American Society of Mechanical EngineersDesigned a retrofit-able dual control.