Ronald J. Sholtis

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Career Overview

Project Manager effective in leading and directing Wireless projects from inception to launch.

More than 10 years of progressive management experience and repeated success in developing

project initiatives, directing project plans and achieving revenue performance targets.

Professional Experience

Goodman Networks Inc. North and SE regions 2005 - April 2014

SR Manager, Customer Programs/Project Manager Business as Usual (BAU):

Managed and deployed Self-Performance teams of over 100 people: Tower, civil and technical

crews for FTTC and ETTC installs and programming for UMTS and LTE support (3G/4G),

NSB, LTE, UMTS, Site Mods, DC power plants, HVAC, Generators, DAS systems and Small

Cell. Carrier adds and more. Responsible for the Financials and GM of the department utilizing

MS office, Sharepoint, Oracle, Norad, Pace and worked with PMO to update current and develop

new processes.

• Managed Ericsson UMTS projects for T-Mobile in Los Angeles, CA

• Manage all North Region (east coast) E911 projects, Samsung 4G projects, TDMA

decommissioning projects

• Responsible for the E911 build outs of South Florida, North Florida, Georgia, and the

Carolina's, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Chicago, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Dallas, TX

• Responsible for Site Mods, New builds and construction of cell sites, both PCS and UMTS for

Cingular/AT&T Wireless

• Responsible for budgetary concerns on Projects, Personnel, logistic and other

expenses relating to the market

• Responsible for Installations and decommissioning of Andrews E911 system, upkeep of the

Trueposition LMU system, market safety training and procedures,various daily trackers/records

• Work with customers on Change orders in SOW

• Manage the E911 drive testing with PSAP

• Provide quality and installation training to the work force

• Maintain good working relations with customer

Kineticom, Mid-West region 2003 - 2005

Field Supervisor

• Supervise multiple markets and crews, on installations, upgrades of True position LMU’s

integrated into Cingular Wireless TDMA and GSM BTS’s, also T-Mobile PCS BTS’s

• Coordinate supplies and schedule for field installation crews on a daily basis

• Quality audits, sweeps and gains using Anritsu Wiltron, Data collection and provide various

daily reports, to management

• Provide new Supervisors and field crews training for Mid-West region

• Technical Manual documentation review committee

T-Mobile Detroit, MI 2000 - 2003

Sr. Field Technician, Supervisor and Quality Control Coordinator

• Assist as Operations Manager and the supervision of 23 RF technicians

• Coordinate commissioning & training on Nortel LMU, S2000, S4000, S8000 and S1200 GSM

systems for the Michigan market

• Coordinate system build out, Quality Control and Site commissioning

• Design and Coordinate Microwave path analysis and installations using Proxim/Lynx

microwave radio systems

• Design and installations of repeater systems

• Trained company in troubleshooting and commissioning of S2000, S4000 S8000

Nortel equipment, and Microwave Radio system and installations

• Technical support and Training Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region fields operations

departments but is not limited to Microwave systems, Nortel Equipment and GSM repeaters

and Nortel LMU/E911

• Analyze Daily traffic, checking daily traffic levels, blocking, dropped calls and other various

possible problems via metrica system, and acting accordingly to correct any issues

• Coordinate systems integration, expansion, and channel upgrades based on traffic volumes and

Optimization needs

• Work closely with Site Acc. RF Engineering, Optimization team, Construction, and Network

Engineering using OMC-R, Remedy, and Insight on a daily basis to enhance system

performance

Omni point Communications Detroit, MI 1998 - 2000

Senior Field Operations Technician

• Certified in installation and commissioning Nortel BTS equipment, S2000, S8000 and S4000

Systems

• Maintain and troubleshoot T1, copper and Fiber

• Troubleshooting the GSM PCS system on a 24hr. basis

• Maintenance of Nortel BTS utilizing the TML software

• Utilization of the OMC-R on the Nortel Switch

• Installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of Digital Microwave systems

• Interim Shipping and Receiving Warehouse Manager

Sprint PCS Detroit, MI 1996 - 1998

Senior digital PCS Cellular Systems Technician

• Lucent Technologies CDMA BTS certification

• Optimization, drive testing, turn up new market

• Troubleshooting the PCS system on a 24hr. basis

• Maintaining PCS system utilizing the above daily

• Troubleshoot and Maintain T1 (copper and Fiber)

• Installation of Microwave Radio equipment

Allen Telecom Group Cleveland, OH 1989 - 1996

Senior Cellular Repeater Systems Technician

• Programming, testing, tuning, optimizing AMPS, ETAC, CDMA, TDMA, GSM, JTAC and

cellular repeaters, Border protectors, Prism Plus systems

• Active role in Team Leadership Program on production line as supervisor of 14

• Certified ISO 9000 internal auditor

• R and D of multi couplers, signal combiners, self-tuning combiners, isolators Tower Top

antennas and mobile antennas using, but not limited to, RF Communications Test Sets,

Network Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscope, Signal Generators and Power meters

Milcom Systems Corp. Virginia Beach, VA 1986 - 1989

RF Field Engineer

• System Optimization

• RF installations and upgrade of U.S. Navy communications and Microwave systems

• Technical training and support for the new and upgraded systems

Unites States Navy various duty stations 1982 - 1986

RF Communications

• RF communications, Radio Wave Provocations, and Electronics training

• Various RF communications systems, both maintenance and operations

• Antenna Systems Petty Officer

• Two-time Sailor of the Quarter and Command advancement nominee

Education

2004 trained on the Nokia GSM systems, Ericson GSM systems

2003 True position LMU installation, operations and troubleshooting certification

2003 Nortel commissioning of S4000, S8000 and S12000

1999 Nortel commissioning certification GSM, S2000, S4000, S8000 and OMC-R

1998 Lucent Technology system commissioning certification CDMA

1990 - 1993 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH

• Various Business classes

• Graduate of St. Edward’s High School

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