Manager Construction

Telecom Professional

Accomplished telecom professional experienced in vast areas of the wired and wireless industry, from scoping, installation, design, site surveys and walk downs. Looking to leverage my over 18 years of knowledge and relationships for continuous improvement for myself, team and organization. Excellent interpersonal skills, great written and verbal communicator, with strong management and supervisory skills of both in house and contracted personnel.

Professional Experience

Operations Manager - Launch3 Fairfield, NJ June 2015 - October 2015

Manage and development of new projects - Operation & Maintenance of access network

Coordination with the Engineering and Construction teams to ensure a seamless installation and construction of the fiber routes within FTTH network.

Train in house technicians with the light brigade syllabus on the professional standards and care of G-PON cable management.

Using a combination of notes from site survey, Construction Drawings, and make ready teams to augment cable pulling, lashing, splicing, coordinate assigned work to meet the project schedules.

Manage all RFQ, (Request for Quote and Pricing), procurement, bids, pricing, and change orders.

Using 3 week look ahead matrix and customer feedback manage force accountability.

Construction Manager II –Ericsson, Atlanta GA February, 2012 – April 2015

Responsibilities including but not limited to daily reporting, scoping, approving change orders, quality and safety audits updating and maintaining trackers for construction milestones.

Primary point of contact for project for all parties: contractor, project managers, program managers, customer and crews.

Act as a conduit and consultant for Service Providers in areas such as logistics, technical know-how, quality and billable scopes and change orders. As well as managing customer relationships.

Punch sites, coordinate site walks, landlord notifications, tracking and scheduling dates and various project milestones, conflict resolutions and personality management.

Construction Manager–Mastec Wireless Services, Charlotte NC February 2010– January 2012

Responsibilities including all faucets of launching technology from scoping to final acceptance.

Co-ordinate with civil, RF, construction, and telco while simultaneously maintaining all safety and zoning compliance.

Help maintain trackers and all related documentation for financial and quality audits.

Site walks and site bids, with subs and GC on issues from transport to equipment placement.

Upload sites on an individual basis with all documentation such as permitting and CDs to varying intranet such as Siterra, Site handler SRM and CRM.

Help write scope and instrumental in design for LTE.

Train employees and subs to PIM and fiber test antennas lines and12 pair trunk.

Prepare OOM and sub POs, report earnings from project and qualify sub-contractors to be a vendor.

Construction Manager– Mastec Wireless Services – Cont’d

Quality and safety audits on site with daily site visits.

Help crews identify ND51 deficiencies and the way forward.

Manage man hours per project to ensure margins are met.

Review close out packages, punch sites.

Hands on help on site teaching crews how to resolve alarms.

Special Projects Coordinator–General Dynamics, New York/New Jersey and Georgia 2008-2010

Coordinate special projects for AT&T such as TDMA decommissioning.

Responsibilities include but not limited to making sure our RF teams successfully decommission power, RF, alarms, and all other connections from cabinets. Then integrate them seamlessly into existing GSM technology to ensure no generated alarms at completion. Then have our T-1 teams electronically rewire GSM cabinets to have the ability to call emergency services (E911). Finally through our procurement services find a vendor with the necessary license to legally and acceptable recycling practices pick up and dispose of our clients proprietary assets.

QA/QC 2007 UMTS sites top to bottom from tower to cabinet through pictures, turn over packages, CAD drawings, RFDS and tower climbers in preparation for third party audits.

Assistant General Foreman (Project Coordinator)–Bechtel Construction, Miami FL 2006-2007

Completed site audits. To include taking pictures, verifying existing equipment as well as the placement and integration of new equipment.

Responsible for budget and site walk on each site. As well as keeping up with the competing matrixes on the daily tracker, materials used vs time vs man hours’ vs progress minus projected end date and budget.

Responsible for ordering materials and tools shopping for best price and quality. Coordinating with the warehouse, to make sure shipments do not exceed capacity also with client to make sure any final changes are red line before the BOM is ordered.

Responsible for finding Eco friendly ways to dispose of refuse or excesses, as well as managing our recycle contracts with Waste Management.

Responsible for integration of new RBS/ LSC equipment (Lucent, Nokia, Ericsson models).

Design drawing verification and As-Built drawing generation. Interface with design engineering to correct design base problems and implement corrective action.

Completed installation inspections and QA/QC verification, scheduling and on-time reporting, safety training and monitoring.

Reviewed sweeps and verified sweeps meet the Cingular UMTS and current market and Bechtel standards.

One of key team members to launch the Fiber Tower infrastructure in the Tampa market, which included installing microwave hops tuning and setting drums setting and interfacing cabinet

Programming and Software Skills

Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Adobe, CAD and Solid Works

Education

B.S Telecommunications Engineering Technology – Southern Polytechnic University, Marietta GA. 2 semesters to go (2016)

Industry certifications

Light Brigade CFHP certification FTTH Professional

Osha 30 hour

Telkore professional standards

Fijitsu Fiber testing and imaging.

Pim certified

PMP candidate

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