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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Injected into the $3.4 Billion Dry Dock 5 project at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard as Senior Project Engineer for Cybersecurity, Telecommunications, System Control and Data Acquisition.

United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Upper Midwest Fiber Engineering

Construction & Engineering, Bloomington, Minnesota

Assigned to the Construction & Engineering organization as Implementation Project Manager. Responsible for the overall planning and deployment of DAS, CRAN Hubs, Small Cell, RF Optimizations, DUS Upgrades, 4WAYRX, Generator, Hvac, OPS Capital type projects in the Great Plains Sub-market. North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa. Expert in Customer tools: SITERRA, PROCORE, SAP-Peoplesoft, SITETRACKER.

Construction & Engineering, Southeast

Project based technical project management consultant role responsible for the successful build, deployment thru on air milestones of 175 cell sites (with UMTS, LTE, VoLTE type technologies) throughout the Carolinas. Responsible for planning, coordinating and managing large scale network cell site deployment projects (including Market Integrations, New Technologies and Core / RAN Integrations) within a multi-vendor infrastructure. • Manage all external OE&M and turf vendors to meet targeted network milestones and integration dates.• Support corporate initiatives for engineering and ensure adherence to network engineering standards.• Maintain high performance level under varying degrees of pressure and uncertainty.• Coordinate and Lead regular project meetings to keep the team abreast of (as well as track) overall status, changes, risks and major milestones.• Escalate issues and crash project plans when necessary to keep schedules on-track.• Establish contingency plans as needed throughout the duration of all projects.• Provide regular status reports for all managed projects.• Coordinate Lessons Learned post-mortem discussions to document and improve efficiencies of similar projects going forward.

Core Planning & Engineering Greater Atlanta Area

Specifically assigned to the Core Planning and Engineering department. Responsible for developing, designing, planning and building AT&T’s wireless networks, including the nation’s fastest 3G, 4G, LTE and VoLTE wireless networks.Project Lead “CIQ Transition Project” – Manage the phased transition of the CIQ documentation process from present day vendor ownership to Third Party ownership to AT&T in house ownership.Current Planning & Engineering Prime for Media Gateway Control Function (MGCF), supporting NA VoLTE rolloutEngineered IuCS to IP RNC Conversions for Ojus, Lake Mary, Polk City, Jacksonville, Tampa, Perrine and Margate Florida. Engineered MME adds for Raleigh, Columbia, Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Fla.Engineered RNC additions for Ojus, Fla., Mobile and Birmingham, Al.Engineered SGSN pooling for Ojus RNC 16,17, Birmingham RNC 4 and Mobile RNC 7 (Corporate tools: AT&T IWOS, AOTS; iPLAN, Share point, Shared Drive, Meet me Conferencing, PMATT)

Mobility Provisioning Center Plano, Texas

Implementation Project Manager II; AT&T Mobility Provisioning Center (MPC) Program; Ericsson, Local Delivery Organization - Plano, Texas Regional customer facing Project Management role. Providing single point of contact to AT&T regional senior project managers and local project management teams for all AT&T MPC Radio Network Controller (RNC) & Voice Core overflowed program services (ATCA/VSE, WCDMA, GSM/UMTS, and LTE). Project Manager for RNC Services responsible for AT&T MPC program; Wisconsin/ Illinois (WISL), Ohio/ Pennsylvania (OHPA), Arkansas/ Oklahoma (AROK) and North Texas Regions. Leading internal Ericsson engineering team through the completion of major milestones of acceptance, planning, tracking, management, execution. Resulting in the closure of over 5400 Internal Work Order System (IWOS) RNC service tickets (Services: Node B Re-homes, RNC Re-homes, Various Circuit Switch and Packet Switch link additions, expansion, migration, etc) Project Manager for Voice Core Services responsible for AT&T MPC VCORE program North America Region. Assemble project teams, lead internal Ericsson teams through the completion of major milestones; work breakdown structure, plan, track, coordinate and execution of all overflowed ATT MPC Voice Core services. (Corporate tools: IWOS, MORE, SRM, Site Handler)(Services: IuCS / IP Conversions IuCS / IP Conversion & RNC Re-homes, IuCS work, MGW STS Data-fill services)Key Events – Managed ATM to IP Voice Core RNC conversions and re-homes including Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Dallas Fort Worth, San Antonio, San Francisco and Chicago.(Corporate tools: AT&T IWOS, AOTS; Ericsson Site Handler, CSB, MORE, SRM)

Wireless Migration Engineering Irvine, Ca

Customer facing project management role, teaming with lead project engineer responsible for over-all management, detailed planning and execution of large scale wireless network cutovers, removal and replacements (RIP), network and node re-homes, migration and upgrades projects. KEY PROJECTS >Verizon Wireless Removal, Replacement and Re-home Projects: Las Vegas, NV. (2 Switches, 200 Cell sites), Helena MT. (1 Switch, 150 Cell sites), Sioux Falls, SD. (1 Switch, 95 Cell sites), Carbondale, IL. (1 Switch 125 Cell sites), Los Angeles MTX 50 (1 Switch, 100 Cell sites), Los Angeles MTX 51 (1 Switch, 90 Cell sites), Cleveland MTX 2 Re-home (1 MTX, 2 Consolidated Backhaul Routing Systems (CBRS’s) and 117 Cell sites) >Verizon Wireless - Alltel IOS Nationwide ATCA-PMSC Re-homes, Re-home of Motorola CBSC on to Nortel ATCA - Packet MSC>AT&T WIRELESS - “Project Trident”: Motorola RIP, Western half of the United States, 15 cities over 1000 Cell sites>AT&T WIRELESS - Cingular VSP4 MGW Migration Nationwide Network Upgrade to NSS 18. >AT&T WIRELESS – RNC Re-homes United States, Nationwide>RCC Wireless - Minnesota RIP Project: Nortel Largest CDMA RIP (220 cell sites in one night)>Edge Wireless - Medford Oregon GSM / UMTS Trials and Re-home of 150 Cell sites.>Cricket – LAN to Dual LAN Conversions(Corporate tools: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office, Visio Pro)

Technical Assistance Center Richardson, Tx

Position provides Tier II Global technical support for Nortel data and voice installation and commissioners. Including WCDMA, CDMA, TDMA, GSM/UMTS cellular networks. As well as Meridian 1 -111 PBX’s, DMS MTX 100/250/500 product lines, SONET, and Access-node. Use troubleshooting tools to correct Digital Subscriber Loop (DSL), SS7, ANSI ISUP, 1 Meg modem, UE 9000 problems, and integrating transmission equipment. Investigate and resolve hardware, software and procedural issues. Provide emergency recovery support for system degradations and/or outages if required. Provide root cause analysis on complex degradations and/or outages. Support the introduction of new products and /or services.