SUMMARY:

• Face to Face negotiations with Senior Technical and Management, for major Carriers in the Virginia Markets.
• I was on the ground floor Installation of new Technologies for Confidential &T, Sprint and Confidential . Installation of a completely new Backhaul Alternative, using Fiber and Ericsson Mini Link configurations previously only used in European Markets. Giving major Carriers in the Richmond and Norfolk Virginia markets an alternative to existing Backhaul systems. That resulted in savings up to 45% on circuit cost. This included T1 and Ethernet options. This system was built out to 50% within 11 months. I was the Operations Manager for Norfolk VA. When the system went EBITA Positive within 14 months. This helped TTM to receive additional funding to continue to grow. This project required some outside the box ideas and team building to complete.
• I was part of Confidential &Ts upgrade to LTE/AWS for the Norfolk VA. And the outer Confidential . For the 2014 Confidential &T 4G roll out.
• I am now working with Crown Castle International as a Construction Manager with the DAS and SCN N/E Division, Working in the Colonial Williamsburg VA. Area.
• I am part of the Confidential upgrades for Confidential &T and Confidential . This is the upgrading of the existing DAS system from a passive to an Active Configuration. That took a considerable amount of planning form the engineering staff. And additional work from the acting PM and CM to arrange access and, the coordination of the entire team. To have the older previous Scope of work reevaluated, and enlist several approved general contractors. To re walk and rebid the project. To bring the total cost down, to an acceptable bottom line, for this project. Up grades were then completed while complying with the constraints of working within the Historic District of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundations preservation requirements. And staying in compliance with the College of William and Mary’s judicial board. For the two sites on their campus.
• I would like to continue to be part of a company with vision and the passion to compete, in the changing and challenging Wireless industry. To be able to provide a quality service to the end user, for new and existing technologies. No matter what the size of the project, Bottom line and complete customer satisfaction is key.
• As a full time productive team member, I will bring experience and problem resolution to any project. As I have as I have done in previous positions in the Wireless industry.
• Construction Manager. Crown Castle International. Contractor through HNM Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Construction Manager

Confidential, Crown Castle. VA

Responsibilities:

• Local Construction Manager for Crown Castle. Up Grade the IDAS and Confidential sites in Colonial Williamsburg. For Confidential and Confidential &T. As per engineering designs. This project was to upgrade the existing configuration from passive to an active configuration. And to ensure all work was completed per the SOWs and accurately PIM Tested. This was then cut over by the Crown Castle RF and integration team.
• I was part of the review the SOW Confidential the site. To ensure scoping is up to date. And accurate information is available to all parties. To ensure all the materials and work to be performed is included in any bid. For the end client. This reduces any surprise Change orders and schedule delays. Due to inaccurate scoping. The Program manager and PM arranged, and conducted the initial site walks. And also conducted needed additional bid walks with the GCs bidding on this project. To ensure all SOWs and Construction drawings were covered.
• Go over all Construction Documents with the General contractors and PM, during the bid walks. Ensure that the GC has a firm grasp on the work to be performed. To reduce the need for Change Orders, or Schedule delays. Ensure that any special equipment needed is included, and cost obligations for the equipment is put in writing and included in the final bid proposal. To be approved by the project manager. Along with engineering, RF and the PM. Project to be separated out for site builds, electrical and fiber optical work.
• I work with the GC during the construction phase. Making frequent site visits to ensure, Crown procedures for installation and safety are being followed. Go over any issues that were discovered during the site build. Work with the GC to provide the PM with pictures of the issue. And resolution ideas. So the PM has the needed information, to produce or approve a resolution. In a timely manner.
• If the project is not a Crown Castle owned property, I work with the landlord to ensure all access, or any other issues are resolved. And represent Crown Castle while on site. I also am responsible to report all work done on site to the CCI SCN NOCC. And open and close tickets as needed during the project. Regardless of site ownership.
• Produce a daily and weekly report to the PM and the Program Manager, on a regular basis. During the project. And insure if any alarms are present, that they are reported, and if possible resolved. And make sure Operations is aware of any work to be performed on any site.

Confidential

FIELD CONSTRUCTION MANAGER FOR

Responsibilities:

• Manage GCs for assigned sites, for adding the Ericsson 6601 LTE buildout for Confidential &T in the Norfolk VA. And the Outer Confidential in Currituck and Dare counties,
• Conduct pre construction walks with all contractors. For tower and civil portions of my assigned sites.
• Review all RFDS sheets and CDs with the installation crews per site. Inventory all issued equipment. And confirmed that the Notice to proceed was completed for the carrier and the site owner.
• Supervised all phases of construction, during site visits. Ensured that all daily safety meeting were completed and signed by all workers that were on site for the day. Made sure that all daily field reports from the crews Confidential each site were turned in as required. And that all tower climbers had the proper s on file either on site or Confidential their home office. I also conducted safety equipment checks. To insure all the required gear was on site. And if applicable all gear had up to date calibration s.
• Manage all parts and equipment issues for assigned sites. That came from the main office or from the crew on site during the build.
• I managed the tower and civil crew’s progress, by conducting in progress site inspections Confidential each build. To insure CDs and RFDS are being followed. And go over any items that would result in having to Redline existing CDs, after getting approval by the Carrier by submitting the changes needed.
• Resolve and report any change orders or part shortages that would arise. This was reduced by 50% from the initial start of the project. By regulating the start of a site construction, by not issuing any NTPs unless the site had Confidential least 90% of all materials.
• Inspect all work prior to final inspection walk by Confidential &T for site acceptance. Go over completed sites with the installation crews to reduce any final punch list items. By inspecting site with the crew with a checklist developed in house Confidential Velocitel. Then conduct final LTE site acceptance walks with Confidential &T. This reduced the punch items that had to be corrected by 60%
• I was responsible for the Confidential &T closeout packages for sites I supervised. I was able to reduce the time for completed close out packages by 40% over a 2 year period. For the sites I was the FCM on.
• I supervised portions of the L700 Project. For Confidential in the Confidential . .I was involved in 45 Ericsson S1200 cabinet Removals and replaced them with Comscope BTS cabinets to upgrade UMTS and add LTE.

Confidential

Owner

Responsibilities:

• This was a family owned collectable shop that specializes in Vintage Bicycles toys and other collectable items. Which consisted of a store front located in Moyock North Carolina, We also offered on line sales. This business is now ran as a home based company,

Confidential

OPERATIONS MANAGER NORFOLK VA / FILED SUPERVISOR

Responsibilities:

• I was a major part of the installation and turn up of Fiber hubs to Ericsson 6P and 20P TN to 158 sites in Norfolk/Hampton Virginia Area.
• The Norfolk market went EBITA positive in 14 months. Resulting in an additional round of funding. To allow TTM to continue to grow during the early phases of the market build outs.
• I scheduled and assigned technicians for site visits to verify existing site equipment against site CDs prior to any equipment being pulled from inventory for a site build, to reduce any unneeded equipment ordered for the site.
• I was a major part of the development of the distribution of site materials to Field technicians, from our central warehouse to the cell sites. I was part of the team that started the pre cabinet assembly. That was implemented to build each cabinet that was site specific. In the warehouse, then shipped to the site. This reduced the site build time by over 50%. The process was developed in The Norfolk and Richmond markets, and then implemented company wide.
• I was the main Interface with Project Management and engineering, to provide each customer updates on a daily basis for site progress reports. For the Norfolk market.
• I assigned the TTM and the General contractor personnel for installation of all Fiber optic and copper cable runs from TTM site equipment, to inside shelter DMARC.
• Testing of circuits prior to delivery of all T1 and Ethernet circuits from customer DMARC to customer CO.
• I was part of the resolution for all dish field alignments and checking azimuths and mechanical and electrical down tilts for each microwave path. I worked with TTM engineers to help select and procure path alignment test sets. We then provided from the manufacturer. To both our general contractors and tower crews. This reduce alignment time form Confidential times days down to about 1.5 hours. This saved TTM thousands of dollars per alignment. This was an early major issue that had to be resolved if TTM was going to be able to continue build outs in all markets.
• I provided the weekly work schedule for the technicians. And approved all time sheets.
• I reviewed all information from the field. Then produce daily and weekly field reports. Required by Project Management and the SVP of operations.
• Prepared site documents for closeout reports per site build, For the landowner, carrier and TTM Site acquisition
• I managed all Technicians working in the Norfolk market which varied from 4 TTM techs and 4 to 6 contractors. And several general contractor companies. This varied as the work load and build schedule required.
• I was in charge of the build for our main fiber HUB. This was built in Level3’s switch in Norfolk VA. This included all fiber. And termination into DACS from Force 10. Between the carriers switch and all fiber HUBS.

Confidential

CELL SITE FIELD TECHNICIAN AND LEAD MICROWAVE TECHNICIAN

Responsibilities:

• Lead Microwave system field tech.
• I was the Point of Contact for the Build out and maintain Microwave backbone system to cell sites.
• Manage GCs for assigned cell sites for build out of system from 19 to 405 cell sites with Confidential BTS equipment.
• Implemented course for new recruits.
• Resolve problems as needed to convert from analog to digital transformation.
• 12 years of technical support for all after hour’s issues on a 24/7 on call team.
• Respond to all Alltel disaster related issues on a national level. As part of the Emergency recovery team
• I was the SPOC or single point of contact for 3 years for construction of new cell site deployment.
• All routine cell site maintenance and implementations duties on a regular basis for 50+ sites that I was assigned to. I was always proactive, and monitored my sites. This enabled me to excel in keeping one of the lowest trouble tickets per site. For all cell technicians.
• I spent personal and company time to Cross train to be able to support switch technicians.
• I was very efficient with the T - Bird Test sets. And often trained other in proper troubleshooting of circuits. That were provided by landline, and by our internal microwave backhaul system.
• I was the lead tech for microwave circuit installation and maintenance. And I was the single point of contact for all new microwave hops. I
• I worked with RF dept. to resolve any issues effecting performance on Confidential BTS Equipment. This included azimuth and down tilt issues.
• I was part of the team for location of RF interference that effected cell site operation. Once the source was discovered. A resolution was presented to our RF Department. This also involved notifying the FCC of all interference issues that affected the new 911 system.

Confidential

SENIOR RF TECHNICIAN

Responsibilities:

• Work with the SCADA department to provide RF solutions for substation monitoring and remote capabilities.
• This was a new system just being installed. Used for System and Control Data. Allowing Power and equipment to be configured and monitored remotely. To efficiency control each substation during peak and low power consumption on the power grid.
• I was the lead technician that Installed and maintained all fleet vehicle 2 way Confidential radios
• I was the lead technician to maintain of the Confidential . 2 way control consoles. For each district buildings.
• I would assist in Locating and correct all interference to customer homes that was created by EMF by the CO-OP.
• Assist with electronic hot water heater controls. That was used to switch off heaters that participated in this program.
• Installation and maintain existing paging systems. For all of the Districts.
• Maintain the 2 way repeater system. For the 4 repeater sites. These were all 500W Confidential repeaters.

Confidential, Springfield VA

FIELD and Bench TECHNICIAN

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of all agency equipment that held Confidential service contracts.
• I was one of the Technicians selected to do conduct all field repairs. This included contract repair of systems used by DEA. USSS. WHCA, and US Customs. And also included several systems Confidential the Pentagon.
• I was one of the technicians who developed our policy of a triple check system that reduced our repair return rate by over 75%. This consisted of the initial repair of any equipment sent to the shop for repair, by the initial technician. The Unit was then tested by an automatic test developed for a system analyzer. And the final test was completed by another Technician. This resulted in 3+ years of less than 1% recall rate on any unit repaired by our shop.
• Our shop received rewards for 3 years convectively. As one of the top 1% of all facilities for outstanding customer satisfaction, and the lowest recall rate after repair.
• The Shop was selected to do the majority of stealth installations on Government agency vehicles. And was ed several bids to produce surveillance vehicles for different agencies.
• I was one of 4 technicians selected for the US Customs and US Border Patrol communications upgrade, this consisted of setting up 3 identical test rigs. To test over 5000 new mobile radio packages. The project was scheduled as an 18 month time frame. We were able to complete the project in 8 months. And we were able to reduce out of the box failures from 11% to less than 2%. By establishing this testing procedure. Several modifications that were made by the team, was later adopted by the production facilities.

Confidential, Texas

Avionic Communications and Navigations Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Siemens and alcatel DACS Commissioning
• OSHA 30
• Roof top Safety
• RF Awareness
• Andrews Coaxial Cables / Connectors course
• Wiltron / Anritsu Site master
• American Red Cross First Aid course and CPR. CPR
• Andrews Coaxial Cables / Connectors course
• Cellular Antenna Alignment / RF Installation and Maintenance
• Fiber levels and cleaning course.
• Fire Fighting including 2 years professional with city of Petersburg VA. EMT and Cardio Tech s.
• Harris Microwave Links course
• Ericsson BTS
• Tektronix TDR
• Confidential BTS
• Harris Microwave back haul concepts through Alltel.
• Force 10 MUX
• Accedian NID
• OC192,,OC48, OC12and OC3 and installation.
• Ceragon 1500P and 1500R .
• US Air Force Egress .
• USAF IFF
• USAF Secure voice Avionic communications Have Quick
• Confidential DES and DVP Secure Voice
• Force 10 MUX.
• 48v and 24v Battery configuration and cell coder.
• CAD welding on ground rings
• Ground ring installation.
• RF Interference
• MOP, EDP, NTP, and site planning.
• Grounding theory through Alltel.
• Site master line sweeps.
• Collins Have quick coded transmissions
• Confidential DES and DVP coded transmission .
• Confidential Syntor-X . (DES)
• Confidential DES Encoder .
• US Air Force small weapons .
• STUIII Secure voice land line system. Through Confidential .
• Surveillance vehicle installation and maintenance.
• Tellabs 7345 Fiber MUX.
• Ericsson 6601
• Confidential L700 Project. In the PA. Market. Cabinet swaps and LTE Upgrades.
• Confidential L700 Site walks with Ericsson and Ericsson Sub Contractors. For the upcoming 2015 schedule.
• DAS
• Active and passive repeaters, Digital Antenna Systems.
• Fiber Testing / Acceptance.