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Virginia, United States

Virginia, United States

Senior project manager at a Federal agency managing facility/telecom infrastructure projects (cabling for network/VoIP/facilities support and distributed antenna systems (DAS)) for research/admin functions on agency-owned and leased facilities supporting over 40,000 end users. • Developed SOWs for installation work, reviewed contractor bids & recommended award;• Inspected work-in-progress against requirements and agency technical construction/operational standards.

Leesburg, Virginia, United States

Principal Consultant on telecom operations, project, and business cost-control activities primarily targeting SMEs looking to optimize telecom/network costs, implement new projects or audit operating expenses for POTs/VOIP/networks.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Joined ETS group at Abilita.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Established in October 2011, Sadara Chemical Company is a joint venture developed by the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and The Dow Chemical Company (Dow). It is an unprecedented undertaking – the largest chemical complex ever built in the world in a single phase, with 26 integrated world-scale manufacturing plants, over 3 million metric tons of capacity per year, and a total investment of about US$20 billion.

Usa (Northern Virginia)

Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

KAUST is a graduate-only science & engineering research university which opened September 2009 in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (about 90 km north of Jeddah on the west coast on the Red Sea). It is open to students from all over the world, attracting the best minds for teaching and research from all over the world. Facilities provided to faculty, staff and students for collaborative research will enable them to tackle many of the region's and world's thorniest problems.

Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

KAUST is a graduate-only science & engineering research university which opened September 2009 in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (about 90 km north of Jeddah on the west coast on the Red Sea). It is open to students from all over the world, attracting the best minds for teaching and research from all over the world. Facilities provided to faculty, staff and students for collaborative research will enable them to tackle many of the region's and world's thorniest problems.

RadiconGulf is a privately-held Saudi engineering services firm providing design and consulting services for industry and government clients.

Directed engineering & operations staff to implement radio and UPS/DC system projects for industrial clients (Saudi Aramco, Saudi Electricity Company).

Led engineering team providing direct pre- and post-sales support to $105M/year revenue international sales organization with geographic responsibility for Middle East, Africa, India, Pakistan, Russia and former Soviet countries. Following corporate reorganization, assigned greater responsibilities to manage sales engineers supporting Asia, Latin America, Europe and Rest of World sales organizations. Supervised engineering group work assignments and validation of high-level network solutions/designs for services offered by Teleglobe.• Wrote/reviewed technical sections of major bid responses including bandwidth sales up to wavelengths, worldwide VSAT procurement and installation/initial operations for major foreign ministry. Earned special recognition during VSAT post-bid analysis for “most technically complete solution.”• Served as liaison between field sales and network engineering, investigating network deployment requirements and reducing friction between sales and network functions.• Key member of steering committee, analyzing disaster recovery/prevention for internal network. Identified major network vulnerabilities including HVAC, non-diverse routing and single-threaded network connections. Recommended implementation actions to reduce risk and potential for economic loss due to service interruption.• Streamlined process workflows, established strong working relationships with regional sales and business managers and negotiated internal service level agreements, enabling design group to meet deliverables for standard and non-standard requests.• Coordinated internal training to keep sales engineers current on network technologies. Contracted external vendor to provide courses in basic TCP/IP and custom Internet Protocol (IP) systems design• Network Technical Representative on due diligence team for potential acquisition of IP content delivery network provider, analyzing candidate network for overlap/gaps if integrated.

Resolve IT/telecommunications engineering/operations issues and manage telecom projects.

Mba, General

co-terminal MS program with School of Engineering

Ms, Telecommunications

co-terminal degree program with Cox School of Business / MBA

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: W6YX

Secondary School

Activities and Societies: K1CTQ amateur radio club, computer club

Education record