Joseph J. Laganelli

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Summary

Seasoned Professional Program/Construction Manager. Concentrating in overall project management, cell site construction and field supervision with extensive exposure to all the major telecom carriers. While maintaining the ability to exercise sound judgment, in a deadline-driven environment.

EXPERIENCE

Program Construction Manager (9/08-Present)

The Stowe Group, Wakefield, MA

Communications Program Manager: (100+sites)

Clearwire Maintenance and Consolidation Project

Manage overall site construction and operations services. New build and mod site work for Pocket, Verizon, T-Mobile, Cox, and Sprint.

Drive culture and provide leadership for engineering team to achieve superior business results.

• Manage cell site construction and connectivity, ensuring appropriate distribution of workload across the construction period.

• Lead the Site Acquisition activities within the region including lease negotiation, public relations and zoning and planning activities.

• Manage cross functional projects in the areas of new technology deployment, infrastructure upgrades and cell site conversions.

• Ensure that planned cell site modifications are completed to grow the network, improve network reliability and/or quality.

• Responsible for managing capital dollars associated with construction and cell site modification projects.

• Manage external vendors and resources including general contractors, site development firms and NEPA /SHPO vendors.

Construction Manager (8/07- 10/07, 5/08-7/08)

Ericsson, Boston, MA

T-Mobile UMTS Upgrade Project: (400+ sites)

Responsible for field supervision, and quality control for coordination of site construction. Work directly with subcontractors to facilitate installation of provided equipment. Responsible for coordination and order of power and telephone facilities along with overall installation of construction work, required to get the site on air in the month planned. Also responsible to ensure quality control measures are followed and site is completed per T-Mobile design standards.

Program Construction Manager (2/07-5/08)

Alcatel-Lucent, Greenville, SC (10/07-5/08)

Sprint M2M Alamosa, Project. North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia: (960 sites)

Alcatel-Lucent, Albany, NY (2/07-6/07)

Sprint ANM IWO Project. New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont: (490+) sites

Responsible for the management of project teams across multiple disciplines, providing contracted services to Sprint (e.g., site acquisition, A&E services, land use planning, zoning and permitting, tower modifications, collocations and cell site construction).

Managed project to completion ensuring that all activities, including site acquisition, regulatory, construction, and permitting were coordinated and completed on time and within budget.

Maintained accurate and complete project files, with appropriate closeout documents distributed in a timely manner. Maintained a project tracking system with complete accuracy.

UMTS Program Quality Manager (6/05- 2/07)

Alcatel-Lucent, Westford, MA

Cingular UMTS Project. Massachusetts and Rhode Island: (1000+ sites)

Created a quality program for all site development disciplines (e.g., site acquisition, A&E services, construction and site closeout documentation). Set quality assurance objectives and ensured that goals were achieved, while maintaining awareness of company profitability, including budgetary control issues.

Managed the site audit and inspection program to meet the client’s National Quality Standards

Monitored and tracked construction vendor’s quality performance and identified relevant quality-related training needs.

Construction Manager (7/00-6/05)

General Dynamics, Rocky Hill, CT/Lexington, MA

New England Regional Construction Manager for Devon Mobile and Nextel projects. (2000+ sites)

Directed the overall planning of construction activities, identify critical milestones and priorities.

Determined budget estimates, staffing requirements, for the defined scope and schedule.

Established assignments for Construction Superintendents for various work areas of construction, operations, monitoring progress and recommending corrective action as necessary.

Evaluated employee performance and made recommendations for promotions and salary actions.

Implemented construction processes and policies to achieve an aggressive annual build plan.

CERTIFICATIONS

ISO 9000 Certified Auditor

ISO 18000 and OSHA 1400

TL 9000 Certified

Communication Site Grounding Certified

Comscope Certified

RFS Certified

MD 2000 Operation Management Development Program

Loss Prevention Certification Seminar

National Home Builders Association Certified Insulation Contractor

ASHI Certified Home Inspector

EDUCATION

Bay Path Technical, Charlton, MA

Construction Management

University of Idaho

Communication Site Grounding

Certified 4/05

Mass Training Academy, Worcester, MA.

Certified Home Inspector

Certified: 4/96

Bay State Real Estate Academy, Auburn, MA.

Real Estate License

Certified: 5/88

Johnson & Wales College, Providence, R.I.

Business Management

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