Manager Project
Resume:
JOHN K.BIDDLE
Greenville South Carolina 29615
SKYPE: jkbiddle
************@*****.***
SUMMARY
A goal oriented, dedicated engineering professional with over 25 years of
hands-on field experience in Outside Plant/Inside Plant/ Cellular
construction and project management.
Principle strengths are meeting budget and time-line constraints, providing
accurate cost estimations and providing sound leadership to turnkey
operations. Exceptional problem solving and communications skills with
expertise that includes CDMA, UMTS PCS, TDMA, Wi-Fi, E-911,ODAS,IDAS,
LMU's, RRU, RRH's standards. Analog Digital Technical Design, BSO, MSO,
CO's BTS/Design/Build outs, and Decom of old equipment.
Managed Site Acquisitions in addition to Documentations of Right- of - Way,
Quality Assurance, Tech Support, RF, Fiber Optics and Copper design,
turnkey build outs, along with International/Domestic Electrical and
building codes Right-of way, AT&T Generator installations
PROFFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
Zayo Construction Manager Minneapolis/ Saint Paul MN. September
2014 to present
Design DFTT Dark Fiber to the tower for Verizon and T-Mobile. Design the
actual back bone core and rings that included are lateral routes to provide
service to our client cell sites. Handled the permitting and QA/QC for the
fiber installation. Perform the cost aliases per site, for each small cell
site project. Managed daily field issue that came up on a daily bases.
Managed daily conference calls with are General Contractors and updated
tracker daily, perform and approved close out packages
AT&T CONSTRUCTION MANAGER BW/WA, SABER/MUTI OCTOBER 2013-September 2014
Managed the Generator install for the Baltimore/ Washington market for 200
cell site build out. Dealing
With A&E and Site Acquisition, on a daily bases designing sites for land
Lord Approval; approving location Generator size while tracking their
performance. Assistance with zoning and permitting issue at city and state
level. Surveyed DAS sites for generator requirements.
Installing and Decom a 495 foot sabre guyed tower for Tyndall AFB.
Relocating and adding a total of 31 lines and 30 antennas while the flying
squadron were still able to fly without interruption in flight.
AT&T CONSTRUCTION MANAGER WEST VIRIGNA FEBRUARY 2013-
OCTOBER 2013
Responsible for LTE new Build out for the WVA, KY, OH market for 250 cell
sites turn up. Managed the day to day constructions activities for the LTE
build out. Managed the Turf vendor QA/QC issues on a daily bases, along
with field changes that were required for approval. Assisted in the design
and rollout of iDAS/oDAS along with DE coming old Nokia and Ericsson
equipment for either salvage or relocating for another project.
GCI/EXXON DESIGN ENGINEERING ANCHORAGE ALASKA NOVEMBER 2012-
FEBURAY 2013
Designing of Fiber Optic for the Exxon project located on the North Slope.
Design and build 30 p modules buildings, which supports housing for the
assigned personal and office work space and the main communication center,
for the Exxon project for the North Slope oil fields. Detailing a LAN/WAN,
CCTV, P. A. SYSTEMS and Fiber Optic Back bone and a local POTs system to be
installed in all of the Mods.
ALCATEL-LUCENT/ PROJECT MANAGER; CHARLOTTE NC. NOVERMBER 2011-NOVERMBER
2012
Backhaul Project Manager,
Responsible for design and approval of the installations of 450 Sprint cell
site for the last mile back haul turn-up. Managed 5 Fiber Venders along
with 5 A&E firms to support the AAV install. Approved the BOM and scoping
from field manager prior to constructions.
ALCATEL-LUCENT/CELLULAR SOUTH; ALABAMA/MISSIPPISSI MARKET JULY 2011-OCT
2011
SR. CONSTRUCTION MANAGER.
Perform site surveys for the LTE build out for 429 cell site in the Alabama
market. Worked with Cellular South A&E firm on the site design, for power
and the equipment upgrade.
Drafted the BOM while on site, scoped and ordered required materials for
the LTE roll out.
The Lucent equipment was being used in the Alabama market. Nokia equipment
was being used in are sister build in Mississippi market.
At the times I was required to manage either market on Approved for all
field design and BOM's to be ordered prior to construction. Approved any
and all field design changes that were required. Field design and ordered
the RRU, RRH and the LMU to be installed at each cell site. Directed the
removal of existing equipment and or the new installation of the equipment
to be installed depending on the site requirements. Held weekly meeting
with client and internal team. Handled Land lord issue between clients to
resolved issue in a timely with a professional manner. Approved all Decomm
of old vendor equipment for being either scrapped or relocated to another
project.
HARRIS-CITY OF DADE COUNTY MIAMI FLORIDA DECEMBER 2010-JULY 2011
PROJECT MANAGER.
In charge of the rehoming of the Police/Fire department communication
towers and equipment upgrade. Swapping out the existing Nortel equipment
with new upgraded Harris equipment, Re-banning as we went. Responsible for
the selection of all general contractors, approving of the finale A&E
drawings. Prepared and submitted the BOM for ordering and warehousing of
all the equipment. Submitted the finale A&E drawing for permitting and
approval from the city. Holding weekly meet with the client and user for
their weekly updates. Performed bid walks and awarded the contract to are
general contractor, approved all changed orders in the field. Dealt with
Building and Land lord issue on a daily bases. Dealt with local and state
building codes and regulations.
CLEARWIRE/SMARTLINK; ROCHELL PARK NJ. AUGUST 2011-DECEMBER 2010
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER.
Performed the pathing Quality control for the New York, Long island 1800
cell site build out. Managed the day-today pathing crews, which included
the installation of the Dragon-wave and Bridge wave 1-2 foot dishes.
Performed Quality assurance on the installations of the dishes, while
handling access issue with land lords on a daily bases a long with problems
that may have occurred, resolving them quickly as possible, prior to the 4
G installations with the MSO upgrade build out going on at the same time.
DASNET/ROHN TOWER; KANADHA AFGHANISTAN-ROHN TOWERS -RYIHA SAUDI ARAABAI
DECEMBER 2009-NOVEMBER 2010
PROJECT MANAGER
While in Afghanistan, I design and over seen the installation of the
Outside Plant, for one of NATO bases. Utilizing local work force, I was
assigned to oversee the construction of housing that would house the
upcoming troop assignments for their living and working quarters.
While assigned to ROHN SAUDI INTERNATIONAL. I was directing the build out
of 184 cell site for the Terraria antenna systems for the SAUDI Government.
In detail there were 135 raw land builds, 49 modes, along 184 shelter that
were built in country which I performed Quality control to ROHN standards.
All 184 site required power and Telecom upgrade all site required either a
New Generator fuel cells install or we installed 29 site that require Solo
Panel in the Sahara Desert along with a MSO that needed to be design and
built.
T-MOBILE/SMARTLINK GREENVILLE SC. DECEMBER
2008-DECEMBER 2009
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER.
Managed a 250 plus UMTS site overlay. Performed scoping, material ordering
and managing material control. Dealing with day today construction issues
and approving all field changes long with the A&E drawings.
Performed Bid walks and award the contact to the General contractor.
Assuring the RRU, RRH and LMU were either installed or harvest to company
specifications. Assuring all red lines and close out package were performed
correctly and on time to be client. Holding meeting with are general
contractors on a daily assignment and any issue that may arise hold safety
meeting daily. Meeting with are client and end user on a Bi-weekly
appointment. Assisted COX communications with the fiber design to the cell
sites for turn up. Set up the schedule for the Ericsson and the Nokia
equipment for commissioning and testing. Managed the removal and relocating
or disposal of their outdated Ericsson and Nokia equipment.
T-MOBILE/NORTH STAR & AFL; JESSUP MARYLAND JUNE 2008-DECEMBER 2008
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER.
Performed the Quality Control of 220 UMTS site build. Directed the closed
out procedures for prompted delivery to are client in the TRI-states area,
assured that RRU RRH LMU, and the E-911 was installed or relocated to the
proper sites. Dealt with the local LEC to provide Fiber to the cell sites
for new T-1 ordering a long with assuring power was either ordered or
upgraded as required.
AT&T/NSORO ORLANDO FLORIDA GREENVILE NC. OCTOBER2007-JUNE 2008
Managed the AT&T UMTS New site build out in Florida and the Caroline's
market, this consist of 350 cell site all site included the managing of
A&E, site Acquisitions, selections of general contractor, the ordering of
power and T-1's and installations of all of the utilities. Performing bid
walks on all of the site including scoping and BOM ordering. Perform the
power upgrades where required. Material handling and warehousing of the
equipment to be installed, and scheduling the commissioning of the
equipment. Approved the closeout packaging for submitting to the client
equipment manufacture were Nokia, Ericsson, true positions. Held Bi-weekly
meeting with client, dealt with construction issue pertaining to clients
and customers' needs managed the Decom of the Nokia equipment to be
relocated to another market.
SPRINT/NEXTEL ATLANTA GEORGIA NOVERMBER 2006-OCTOBER
2007
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER
Responsible for the management of new construction and CO-locates for the
installation of iDEN and CDMA a long with UMTS for 600 cell sites build in
the Atlanta market. Responsible for the approval of site design and Quality
of the build and general contractor selections. Perform bid walks and
awarded contract to general contractors that I have selected. QA/QC finale
approval for site completions .Trained internal personal on wireless
constructions standards. Approved closeout package from general contractor.
Held bi-weekly construction meeting with are general contractors and client
for are tracking updates. Submitted and track the progress of the power,
Telco and permitting for are sites, schedule the removal and shipment of
Decom equipment when required to.
AT&T/ ERICSSON/ CH2MHILL/ Central California JANUARY 2005-
NOVERMBER 2006
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER.
Managed the UMTS upgrade of over 600 cell sites, re-design cell sites to
accommodate new lines and antennas, along with the new installations of the
UMTS power drops and battery and rectifier upgrades to support the Ericsson
equipment installations. A long with ordering new T-1 and power service for
site that require either an upgrade or new services. Conducted QA/QC for
the new installations, approved all sweep test and cable replacement when
required.approved close out packages to be submitted to the client, assured
all new technology was installed correctly, UMTS, RRU, RRH Electrical down
tilts, LMU E-911. Held Bi-weekly meeting with clients and end user. Took
care Land Lord issue when they arise settled and corrected problems they
may have. Submitted and tracked the progress of the electrical and building
permits. Managed the Decom and relocating of assigned equipment to
different markets
AT&T/GENERAL DYNAMICS CENTERAL CALIFORINA DECEMBER 2004 DECEMBER
2005
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER.
Managed the quality assurance for the installations of the NEW Ericsson
UMTS equipment for Cingular merging with AT&T Nokia equipment in the Bay
area, over 600 sites were affected by the merger/upgrade. I approved
everything from new design to site acceptance to the completed turn over
packages. Guided construction supervisor and general contractors and subs
on the recommended proper correction actions to be taken for a proper
installations of equipment in a timely manner. I was the middle person for
client/end user to field personal and Land lord, for any issues that need
to be solved prior to constructions or during constructions.
AT&T/HENKELS & McCoy MENTECA CALFORINA JANURAY 2004-
DECEMBER 2004
PROJECT MANAGER
Managed 100 cell site upgrade for E-911 equipment installations to
commissioning. Performed internal QA/QC close out and acceptance.
Performed a complete turnkey design and installations of 18 raw land
Microwave build out for the State of Nevada from setting the shelter to
tower and Microwave dish. All shelter required to have a complete equipment
package to be install with cable ladder, battery banks with batteries FIF
racks to equipment bays to assembling on site prior to the tower and
microwave dishes being installed, coordinate with state reps on design,
permitting delivery and turn up to close out, dealt with the state Rep on
all change orders that were required for approval.
FORT McCoy -VERIDIAN- SPARTA WISSCONSSAN 2002-2004
SENIOR INFORMATION TECHNOLGIST
Managed the Quality assurance for the I3PM/LAN/WAN/QUTEN project for the US
ARMY. Overseen 110 miles of outside plant conduit and of which 148 KLM of
fiber cable ranging from 6 strand to 288 strand [single and multimode
fiber]. Installed 3 New POPs a long with 38 miles cooper cable ranging from
25 pair, to 1800 pair cable in turn we installed 124 manholes and 4 Hand
holes, extended the existing MDF with 11 new vertical main frames which
serviced the 110 building, that included 150 communication rooms that house
the CISCO 4500-6500 router.
The 11 NEW vertical main frame we were able to in large the cable plant by
5,000 new copper cable pairs. I had to redesign Verizon as-built due to
they left off more than half of the building entry or in-proper running of
interior conduit to Army/Government standards, beside the interior redesign
I had add road crossing with proper steel sleeves and concrete cap to
protect the fiber Optics cable form Tank crossing.
Cost of this project was over 11 million dollars .Held Bi-weekly meeting
with senior Military member and high ranking DOD employees on progress or
installation an change that were required.
ASTAC/ BARROW ALASKA 2000-2002
OUTSIDE PLANT MANAGER
Managed the day to day Inside/outside plant actives in a rural telephone
plant in Alaska. Basically keep a rural telephone company a float with
install and repairs to the switch and outside plant. ASTAC took this plant
over from GTE, I spent over a years' time in the Outside Plant upgrade to
current standards and rebuilding the existing cable plant to code, when I
first arrived their back log in installs were over 200 behind, trouble
ticket were about the same in back logged installs. It took over 5 months
to get the numbers down to single numbers on both troubles and installs. We
maintained and install everything from POTS to T-1s to DS0- DS3 56k
circuits to the microwave tower. Weather is main challenged beside
location, ordering and receiving materials is a challagened, we all so
support the out laying villages and the slope for telephone service.
METRICOM-GENERAL DYNAMICS ATALANT GA 1999-2000
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Managed the day to day new construction for Metricom ISM build out. [Fore
father for DAS] managed the day to day construction active for 289 NEW cell
sites in the Atlanta area along with additional 278 cell site in the
Washington DC area. Hired all General Dynamic construction supervisor a
long with the selection of all general contractor for constructions and
A&E contractors, tracked the job from cradle to grave ordered all materials
and permits T-1's and power. Trained in house personal on construction
standards and procedures, approved all construction changes and drawing
prior to build hired my office staff. Approved on closeout package prior to
submitting to are client. Held construction calls with client and GD,
attended site acquisitions site by site meeting. Directed are PC on
updating with accurate data form the field to the tracker and approved the
up loads and change to the master tracker.
EDUCATIONS AND TRAINNING
Attend College of the Air Force, Montgomery, AL. Cable Splicing/Fiber
Splicing/Construction and Construction management (Outside Plant QA&QC
trained) Mass7/Field Engineer/Fiber
Restoration/Analog/Multiplex/Modem/Switching DS-O through DS-3 to OC-192,
ISDN, DSM 10,100,250,500, Cisco routers 4500-6500 series Installation and
Installation Practices turn up and testing/Advanced Test Equipment for
copper, fiber, cellular installations, cellular equipment and companies.
Qualcomm, Nextel, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, Nortel, AT&T, Sprint, Cricket
Leap T-Mobile. Construction Management and Personnel Management/Supervisory
Training. ISO. 9001 Registered, 10 hour OSHA safety course, Confined space-
training, manhole Rescue. Microsoft Project, Point, Excel, and Office
Suite., Scheduling testing and commission of new equipment. Sprint LTE
installations .FTTP design, ROW/ permitting, DAS installation
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