SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in the telecommunications field (including military)
• Wire line (LAN and WAN)
• Wireless (Wifi, Macro, DAS)
• Voice over IP
• Leadership
• Circuit design and delivery project teams
• Field maintenance and implementation teams
• Telecommunications center management
• Client Relations:
• Coordinating and resolving technical and circuit delivery project issues with clients, vendors, and internal teams
• Issue negotiation skills
• Focus:
• Circuit delivery management
• Provisioning/implementation of deployment plans/processes and post - install operational support.
• (Recent) Training
• Project Management Professional
• Fiber Optics
• Security Surveillance and Alarm planning and implementation
• Audio and Video Systems planning and implementation

KNOWLEDGE BASE:

• Telecom Project management
• Telecom circuit provisioning, installation and maintenance
• Troubleshooting technological issues
• Voice over IP
• Fiber and copper ISP/OSP design, ODN implementation and inspecting
• RF/Wireless implementation and integration
• Low voltage planning, implementation and inspecting
• Service delivery process development
• Business writing / reporting
• Microsoft Suite including Microsoft Project and Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Outside Plant (OSP) Fiber Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Allocate and activate ODN fiber when applicable.
• Plans network splicing for coax and ODN fiber optic networks.
• Obtain access and right-of-way agreements where applicable.
• Coordinate permitting and pole applications, joint-trenching, and make-ready for utility poles.
• Repair and inspect buried plant Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) networks and ensure backbone is available for launch or deployment of products.
• Perform ODN field engineering of proposed projects and ensures alternative routing to deliver the most cost effective design for construction.
• Coordinate all customer implementation buried plant activities including site walks, node placements and subcontract labor.
• Coordinate contractor work, coordinate and/or obtain permits, access, or ROW agreements where applicable, distributes design prints and other necessary working documents.
• Negotiate and approve design or construction changes. Research and review plans, gathers necessary data and listing material requirements for project.
• Coordinate with public works personnel, developers, commercial customers, building owners, and utilities on joint trench projects.
• Maintain work flow databases and updates schedules. Participate in managing and estimating cost forecasts, material planning, and capital/expense budgets.
• Estimate construction costs, prepare budgets, and track expenses.

Confidential, Universal City, CA

TEMPORARY DAS CONSTRUCTION MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of construction of iDAS projects including on-site management including coordination of installation subcontractors, hardware, OEM installers and customer representatives.
• Ensured all assigned projects are completed according to mutually agreed upon timeline and budget. Inspected all work to ensure accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Implementation and integration, coax PIM testing, fiber fusion, Corning fiber circuits, floor plans, head-end, splitters and antenna equipment, just-in-time equipment delivery, inspection.

Confidential, Alhambra, CA

OSP ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Interpreted data based on design intent by applying ODN engineering design standards to underground and aerial pole line cable plant.
• Resolved anticipated construction problems through drawings.
• Executed work orders for outside plant facilities while meeting quality, time and budget constraints.
• Responsible for coordinating work with CAD design engineers, substructure engineers, network planners and quality control department for delivering fiber and copper facilities.
• Inspected and validated field audits of existing outside buried plant activities. Worked with designers and drafters to devise optimal infrastructure solutions.

Confidential, Cerritos, CA

TELECOM PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the single point of contact to oversee the implementation and integration of iDAS projects.
• Push the resolution of roadblock issues in the following project stages:
• Contract negotiation
• Pre-construction
• Construction and Engineering
• RF Engineering
• On air activation

Confidential, San Diego, CA

TELECOM CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Served as single-point of contact: established, maintaining and managing expectations of customer, sub-contractor and joint venture partner within federally mandated ISP/OSP (underground) guidelines.
• Resolved circuit delivery issues, managed resources, interfaced with client representatives.
• Managed internal customer relationships, set up business processes and procured network equipment.
• Managed budget discussions and roll-out plans.
• Provided project status reports and performance data to management and stakeholders via MS Project.
• Validated engineering documentation and implemented new switches, collocations, transport facilities and related equipment.
• Perform final inspection for buried plant quality control per DOD standards.
• Supplemental projects:
• Performed audit of base-wide WAN and LAN networks.
• Installed Ethernet 100/1000 switch and subordinate 10/100 switches using single mode and multimode fiber optics.
• Replaced old class 5 telephone poles with new class 4s across the base using GIS database.
• Installed trial DAS.
• Created project milestones for Cisco VOIP system installations.

Tools: Peoplesoft, MS Suite including MS Project and Visio.

Confidential, Melbourne, FL

WESTERN REGIONAL OPERATIONS MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Managed WAN telecommunications maintenance and new circuit installations to meet or exceed SLAs.
• Managed 59 field personnel located throughout the western United States.
• Developed policies and procedures for installing, troubleshooting and maintaining equipment.
• Worked with members of FAA and Confidential IS staff to ensure telecommunications solutions met client's needs.
• Traveled the western U.S. to FAA field offices for SLA reviews.
• Oversaw vehicle use, test gear distribution, and training.
• Wrote performance reviews and performed oversight on time sheets.
• Kept the program operation within pre-established budget
• Provided staff to FEMA call centers during national disasters.

Tools: Peoplesoft, MS Suite including MS Project and Visio

Confidential, West Los Angeles, CA

TELECOM PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Managed delivery of inside plant (ISP) VOIP roll outs to jails and prisons across the country
• Researched, planned, designed, implementations.
• Attended Request for Proposal (RFP) meetings, collaborating with sales team to determine feasibility of providing and servicing the system as mandated by the RFP.
• Supervised technicians during on-site preparation and installation.
• Implementation of Cisco routers, proprietary VOIP system/phones, ISP and telco circuits.
• Ensured VOIP projects were completed on time, within budget and to specification.
• Inspected completed job to meet Confidential quality control standards

Tools: MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Explorer, VISIO.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

WIRELESS PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Researched, designed, ordered, tested and implemented telco OC-12, DS3, DS1 to support new network build.
• Set up standard operations procedures (SOP) for the network operations team to troubleshoot, escalate and resolve network trouble and performance issues.
• Worked with RF engineering to ensure the best possible network performance.
• Performed quality control / inspections of network circuitry for cell site activations.
• Installed Gigabit Ethernet switch to inside plant (ISP) Confidential &T fiber ring and maintained port assignments.

Tools: Implementation and integration, MS Project, Excel, Visio, MS Word, MS Outlook, Alcatel digital cross connect system, network switches, Unix command line interface (CLI).