Wesley Payne Email & Phone Number

United States

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Oversee fiber engineering, construction, and field operations teams across western PA, WV, OH, IN, KY, and MI, including 4 manager-level direct reports and an organization of up to 34 total staff handling a $MM project portfolio.➩ Track operational KPIs and quality metrics.➩ Provide an infrastructure that ensures stable service delivery and optimal customer experience.➩ Gather and analyze production, on-time performance, and quality data and prepare reports for the Regional Vice… Show more Oversee fiber engineering, construction, and field operations teams across western PA, WV, OH, IN, KY, and MI, including 4 manager-level direct reports and an organization of up to 34 total staff handling a $MM project portfolio.➩ Track operational KPIs and quality metrics.➩ Provide an infrastructure that ensures stable service delivery and optimal customer experience.➩ Gather and analyze production, on-time performance, and quality data and prepare reports for the Regional Vice President.➩ Collaborate across engineering, sales, utilities, permitting, project management, safety, and supply chain teams.➩ Hire and develop new team members and conduct performance reviews. ​KEY ACHIEVEMENTS➠ Direct the deployment of 2,400 small cells (a 4-year project involving a manager and 8 construction managers) and a dark fiber project (a 2-year project with 3 construction managers) for the City of Pittsburgh. Interface with city representatives to understand requirements; both projects are on track to deliver in 2025.➠ Completed an 18-month fiber construction project for Detroit Public Schools, an 18-month project for Mt. Nitty Health System, and a 12-month project for State College Area School District on time and on budget.➠ Maintained networks for Google, Port Authority, UPMC, and Cleveland City School District with less than 5% downtime.➠ Evolved on-call practices to increase productivity and time off; improved both employee retention and employee satisfaction based on team members’ feedback.➠ Reduced permitting and utility-related delays 25% by involving outside firms.➠ Maintained a <10-hour mean time to repair outages over 3 years and 95% on-time performance for 5 years.➠ Partnered with the safety team to implement a pre-dig checklist that decreased market hits by 15%. Show less

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Managing Fiber, Small Cell and Enterprise deployment, activation and operation Michigan and Pittsburgh DistrictResponsible for directing the overall performance of DAS, small cell and/or fiber deployment projects within the Michigan and Pittsburgh District and venues and Right of Way(ROW) projects. Responsible for overseeing the budgets and ensuring the timely and effective completion of multiple projects of varying scope and ensuring that all of the construction managers are doing the… Show more Managing Fiber, Small Cell and Enterprise deployment, activation and operation Michigan and Pittsburgh DistrictResponsible for directing the overall performance of DAS, small cell and/or fiber deployment projects within the Michigan and Pittsburgh District and venues and Right of Way(ROW) projects. Responsible for overseeing the budgets and ensuring the timely and effective completion of multiple projects of varying scope and ensuring that all of the construction managers are doing the same for their specific projects, while also effectively coordinating with all of the functions (e.g., Implementation, RF Engineering, Network Real Estate, Operations, Sales, and Finance) on the assigned projects. Responsible for ensuring that Crown’s financial objectives are met and that Crown Castle’s execution relative to external customer expectations and internal key performance metrics are achieved. Show less

Pittsburgh, Pa

Manage and drive the overall daily planning and execution of Landis+Gyr service contracts, to include customer interface processes, sub-contracts, new business expansion build-outs, and operations and maintenance of the network, while managing an $1.5M annual operations budget and supervising an on-site team of 15 personnel.• Coordinate all activities of the sub-contractor and customer personnel assigned to the contract.• Effectively interact with all levels of the customer organization… Show more Manage and drive the overall daily planning and execution of Landis+Gyr service contracts, to include customer interface processes, sub-contracts, new business expansion build-outs, and operations and maintenance of the network, while managing an $1.5M annual operations budget and supervising an on-site team of 15 personnel.• Coordinate all activities of the sub-contractor and customer personnel assigned to the contract.• Effectively interact with all levels of the customer organization that receive services or obtain utility subcontracted services in support of that contract. • Maintain network, endpoints, and file delivery to meet or exceed data delivery metrics and incur no performance penalties.• Work across all business units, while managing third party vendors that are key to successful contract implementation.• Work directly with the Directory of Product Manager and Master Meter to ensure the proper installation, support, and troubleshooting of the beta site, and with Master Meter and other 2-way water customers.Select Recent Accomplishmentso Maintained a 99% zero non-conformities on internal module audits in 2014.o Met all EHS, Customer Service/Quality goals for 2014 with zero LTA or vehicle accidents.o Worked with the PMO team to bridge the transition and close out of final middle market account.o Led the 2014 decommissioning of the PWSA network; closed all facilities and physical assets in Pittsburgh.o Centralize warehouse and inventory operations along with supply chain; supported the centralization plan for the RF team and the deployment of data analysis centralization.o Drive the achievement of an established $123.4M target for operational expenses via the reduction in manual reads, sub-contractor costs, facility costs, fleet management, and insurance.o Completed presentation with Director of Products to outline the advantages and demonstration of 2-way product to the JEA utility and L+G local management. Show less

Greater Pittsburgh Area

*Performed in addition to the role of Project ManagerProvided all aspects of project leadership, guidance and coaching to members of the project team, while coordinating all project activities and indirect support resources to produce deliverables on-time and within budget. Served as the single point of contact for customers during midsize or larger project deployments that typically range between 50K and 300K planned endpoints, while managing accountability for the execution of customer… Show more *Performed in addition to the role of Project ManagerProvided all aspects of project leadership, guidance and coaching to members of the project team, while coordinating all project activities and indirect support resources to produce deliverables on-time and within budget. Served as the single point of contact for customers during midsize or larger project deployments that typically range between 50K and 300K planned endpoints, while managing accountability for the execution of customer contracts. • Analyzed the financial performance of each project, conducted weekly internal status reporting, and managed the efforts of the project team to meet the contractual technical and support requirements. • Partnered with customers to develop project schedules, appropriate PMO documentation, deployment plans, materials forecasting and support processes. • Developed and maintained project plans for multiple customer projects simultaneously.• Partnered with teams to define objectives, scope, and schedules; identified and communicated requirements including work standards, project plans, reporting and customer needs.• Led the identification of resources, assigned individual responsibilities, and provided ongoing support of processes to ensure successful implementation; coordinated internal and external resources.• Prepared and delivered project status reports and attended related meetings.• Ensured all internal stakeholders were apprised of status, KPIs, issues and risks. Show less

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Served as the technical lead responsible for establishment, operation, maintenance and optimization of Cellnet’s installed Radio Frequency and dedicated communications network. • Oversaw system dimensioning for coverage and capacity, including traffic analysis, initial system design and dimensioning, coverage planning, site identification, evaluation and zoning support, frequency planning, interference analysis and optimization.• Successfully managed site surveys, installation and… Show more Served as the technical lead responsible for establishment, operation, maintenance and optimization of Cellnet’s installed Radio Frequency and dedicated communications network. • Oversaw system dimensioning for coverage and capacity, including traffic analysis, initial system design and dimensioning, coverage planning, site identification, evaluation and zoning support, frequency planning, interference analysis and optimization.• Successfully managed site surveys, installation and maintenance of Microcell Controllers, Cell Maters and repeaters. Represented the company in a positive, professional manner at all times.• Performed various optimization techniques for optimal site/cluster performance; proper antenna selection for optimal horizontal/vertical performance, mechanical/electrical tilting, appropriate transmit power setting, antenna clearance, neighbor list analysis, etc. Show less

operate submarine combat control systems; test submarine combat control systems; operate and maintain combat control systems associated systems; participate in weapons handling functions and operate and maintain non-tactical computer systems and peripherals maintain ballistic missiles and their launching systems; maintain related launching systems including high-pressure air and hydraulic systems; operate and maintain digital computers; maintain operating… Show more operate submarine combat control systems; test submarine combat control systems; operate and maintain combat control systems associated systems; participate in weapons handling functions and operate and maintain non-tactical computer systems and peripherals maintain ballistic missiles and their launching systems; maintain related launching systems including high-pressure air and hydraulic systems; operate and maintain digital computers; maintain operating efficiency of electrical distribution panels, switches, switchboards, controllers, voltage regulators, current transformers, rectifiers and voltage transformers within the fleet ballistic missile weapons systems; test and repair ballistic guidance systems; operate, maintain and adjust optical measuring equipment; testing, align and adjust missiles and components repair missiles and components; test, align, adjust, calibrate and repair support handling equipment; stow missiles and components; maintain logs; prepare reports; provide security in missile launch spaces aboard submarines; maintain and operate ballistic missile fire control systems and equipment for Trident submarines; maintain control of weapon classified material; make sensitive adjustment to magnetic disk file memory units; monitor and ensure security of weapons system components and material. I served on board the USS John C Calhoun SSBN 630 Gold, USS Stonewall Jackson SSBN 634 Gold, POMFLANT and Weapon Station Charleston, SC. Show less