Project Manager Engineer
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Name JOSÉ MANUEL CASTAÑO
Address(es) Paseo Alameda 54, 10-3, 46.023, Valencia (Spain)
c/ Mosquera de Figueroa, 18, Gate 3, 2nd A, Seville (Spain)
Telephone(s) +34-627******
E-mail **********.*******@*****.***
Nationality Spanish
Date of birth 22.09.1976
Desired employment Project Manager
Work experience Since 2004, I have been working as a freelance manager leading local operations ad processes for
rollout projects in the mobile telecommunication sector. Although I had started in different phases in
each project, briefly my responsibilities in those positions have run since the economical proposal,
regarding a desired margin, until final acceptance with customers.
As a sample, I list below the projects for the last seven years. For further information please refer to
annex I.
Dates August 2010 – September 2013
Carrier / Vendor TELEFONICA MOVISTAR / Nokia Solutions and Networks
Project 3G BAM900 – East Spain (Valencian community, Balearic Isles, Murcia) => 100 B-nodes
3G BAM900 – South Spain (Andalusia) => 750 B-nodes
SWAP 2G Motorola - South Spain (Andalusia) => 1.000 bts swaps
Dates October 2008 – June 2009
Carrier / Vendor TELEFONICA MOVISTAR (Latam) / Ericsson
Project 2G/3G Rollout Network (Mexico D.F.)
Dates June 2006 – March 2008
Carrier / Vendor YOIGO / Ericsson
Project 3G Rollout Network - South Spain (Andalusia)
Education and training
Dates 1994 – 1999
Title of qualification awarded BACHELORS DEGREE IN TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEER (Seville University)
Dates 2012 (on going)
Subject Project Manager Certification(Telecommunication Engineer Official Association)
Languages
Mother tongue
Spanish
Understanding Speaking Writing
Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English B2 Independent User B2 Independent User B2 Independent User B2 Independent User C1 Advanced User
Personal skills / competences
Personal skills Used to high work pressure, with proven successful projects under tight deadlines
Ready to assume 24x7 working days
Self motivated with high level of autonomy and independence
Team spirit
Excellent ability to adapt to new work environments
Good communication skills
Permanent focus on customer satisfaction
Organisational skills Leadership and special ability to improve the quality of daily processes
Always willing to run the extra mile on personal work responsabilities and goles
Looking for setting up dynamics and routines to improve productivity and efficiency
Technical skills Quick handling of disputes between quality and cost.
Available for “on site” reviewing to help focussing on the best solution for any trouble
Additional information LinkedIn public profile: http://es.linkedin.com/pub/jos%C3%A9-manuel-casta%C3%B1o/b/279/b6a
Annexes I. Work experience details
II. Last references
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Annex I: Work Experience details
Dates August 2010 – September 2013
Carrier / Vendor TELEFONICA MOVISTAR / Nokia Solutions and Networks
Role ZONE MANAGER
Project 3G BAM900 – East Spain (Valencian community, Balearic Isles, Murcia)
Main activities and responsibilities Coordinating and managing different teams involved in the roll out in order to achieve the desired
target of the project, in terms of quality, cost and time.
Control the invoicing against the recognized revenues.
Monitor the change request issues, evaluating their impact into the scope.
Daily Report of the milestones, deviations and action plans.
Daily and weekly working plans to the installation service provider.
Discussions with partners in order to achieve the cost target.
Meeting with the customer manager.
Manager of supervisors.
Defining solutions and budgets.
Managing maintenance troubles in the network due to our rollout.
Project 3G BAM900 – South Spain (Andalusia)
Main activities and responsibilities Coordinating and managing different teams involved in the roll out in order to achieve the desired
target of the project, in terms of quality, cost and time.
Control the invoicing against the recognized revenues.
Monitor the change request issues, evaluating their impact into the scope.
Daily Report of the milestones, deviations and action plans.
Daily and weekly working plans to the installation service provider.
Discussions with partners in order to achieve the cost target.
Meeting with the customer manager.
Manager of supervisors.
Defining solutions and budgets.
Managing maintenance troubles in the network due to our rollout.
Project SWAP 2G Motorola South Spain (Andalusia)
Main activities and responsibilities Coordinating and managing different teams involved in the roll out in order to achieve the desired
target of the project, in terms of quality, cost and time.
Control the invoicing against the recognized revenues.
Monitor the change request issues, evaluating their impact into the scope.
Daily Report of the milestones, deviations and action plans.
Daily and weekly working plans to the installation service provider.
Discussions with partners in order to achieve the cost target.
Meeting with the customer manager.
Manager of supervisors.
Defining solutions.
Managing maintenance troubles in the network due to our rollout.
Dates October 2008 – June 2009
Carrier / Vendor TELEFONICA MOVISTAR (Latam) / Ericsson
Project 2G/3G Rollout Network (Mexico D.F.)
Role PROJECT MANAGER
Main activities and responsibilities Following the project management directive (PROP-C) of vendor, studying, analyzing and identifying
milestones, and scheduling of the scope, creating the mandatory documentation: Budget and cost
structure, Time Plan, Responsibility Matrix, and Communication Plan.
Coordinating and managing different teams involved in the roll out in order to achieve the desired
target of the project.
Monitoring the objectives fulfillments, evaluating the impact into the scope.
Responsible for the Change Request Process of the project.
Scheduling the meetings and conference calls with the customer.
Weekly Report of the milestones, deviations and issues of them.
Final customer acceptance.
Responsible for the received customer quality level and expected margin.
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Annex I: Work Experience details
Dates January 2006 – March 2008
Carrier / Vendor YOIGO / Ericsson
Project 3G Rollout Network
Role LOCAL PROJECT MANAGER (East Andalusia)
Main activities and responsibilities Reporting to the Regional Project Manager.
Coordinating and managing different teams involved in the roll out in order to achieve the desired
target of the project.
Monitoring the objectives fulfillments, evaluating the impact into the scope.
Weekly Report of the milestones, deviations and issues of them.
Role CELL PLANNER / RADIOFREQUENCY MANAGER
Main activities and responsibilities Updating nominal plans made in 2001.
Visuals with site acquisition agents in order to propose candidates for each of the nominal codes.
Technical reviewing in order to specify the final configuration.
Since August 2006 Coordinating and managing all the RF Engineers, ensuring the target of quality to
the carrier.
Dates November 2004 – December 2005
Carrier VODAFONE
Project 2G/3G Shared Network inside Barcelona metro line 3
Role TELECOMMUNICATION PROJECT MANAGER
Main activities and responsibilities Designing of a shared network for 2G and 3G.
Technical responsible during the execution of the project: civil works, optic fiber, RF system.
Start up for the optic RF repeaters along line 3 at Barcelona subway.
Dates April 2003 – May 2004
Employer EMTE SISTEMAS
Role PRESALES ENGINEER
Location Madrid (Spain)
Main activities and responsibilities Creating, developing and maintaining key customer relationships
Searching for new RFQ in accounts like RENFE, AENA, VODAFONE, TELEFÓNICA, AMENA.
Developing economical and technical offers for RFQ like:
• Platform Direction system at Barajas airport
• Fiber Optic ring at Barajas Airport
• Video / audio recorders for military force
Technical support during implementation phase.
Dates January 2001 – September 2002
Carrier / Vendor XFERA / Nortel Networks
Role CELL PLANNER
Project 3G Start-up Network – Andalusia
Main activities and responsibilities Nominal design of Node-B’s network based on estimated traffic specifications.
Test and simulation of signal intensity using PLANET (CDMA).
Technical reviews in each of the nominal candidates in which the final configurations are specified.
Studies of interference between GSM equipments and UMTS equipments.
Technical analysis of the first Node-B functionality
Dates June 2000 – January2001
Carrier / Vendor AMENA / Siemens
Project 3G Network – Andalusia
Role CELL PLANNER
Main activities and responsibilities Nominal design of BTS network based on estimated traffic, population and area specifications.
Technical reviews in each of the nominal candidates in which the final configurations are specified.
Development of frequency plans thereby minimizing signal interferences between neighbor sites.
Development of “drive tests” in order to make a first tuning of the network.
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Annex II: Last references
TELEFONICA Spain
Sra. María Jesús Almanzor
Sr. Hernando Hernández (Engineering)
Sra. Marta Domínguez (Engineering)
Sr. Pedro Oliva (Andalusia)
Sr. Juan Gabriel Saiz (East Spain)
Sra. Inma Castellano (Andalusia quality analysis)
Sr. Adrián Navarrete (Andalusia rollout manager)
Sr. Rogelio Jiménez (Carontes Andalusia)
Sra. Inmaculada Gálvez (Valencia)
Sra. Aurora Morote (Murcia)
Sr. Jesús A. Gallego (Alicante)
Sr. Xavier Canals (Balearic Isles)
Nokia Solutions and Networks
Sr. Richard Leitao
Sr. Ignacio Granados
Sra. María Sánchez
Sr. Miguel Cifuentes
Sr. Octaviano Sánchez
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