Project Manager Engineer

Michael L. Timmer

*** ** **** **** ******, Missouri 64040-9425, USA

Phone: 816-***-**** E-mail: ***********@*****.***

Skills Profile:

With nearly thirty-eight years of broad based Telecommunications and Utility Industry experience complemented by a wide range of college and industry training. Experience encompasses Executive Management, Project Management, OSP Engineering, Civil Engineering, Permitting, Construction, Equipment Engineering, Specification Preparation, Contract Negotiations, Budgeting, Forecasting, Sales, Marketing, Scheduling, Community Relations, Administration, and Supervision. Flexible, adaptive to change and creative within a practical framework.

Work History:

April 11-May 28, Lead Supervisor, Verizon, Inc. New Jersey

•Assisted Tesinc Inc. as supervisor over 45 Copper and Fiber Optic Splicers as well as 15 Line Construction Crews in the New Jersey serving area in support of the recent Verizon strike.

May 15-November 15, Lead Inspector, CenturyLink, Inc. Lenexa, KS

•Provided Inspection and Project Management services to CenturyLink for several fiber optic cable replacement projects in and around the Kansas City area on BNSF Railway (Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway) ROW.

March 14-March 15, Project Manager, ITC Services Group, Inc. Kansas City, KS/Tesinc Inc. Tampa, FL

•Assisted Google Fiber in analyzing pole attachment violations with KCPL (Kansas City Power & Light)

•Assisted Tesinc as I & M supervisor over 30 field technicians in the Fair Point serving area throughout Maine, New Hampshire & Vermont through a recent strike.

November 11-March 14, Project Manager, Pinpoint Services Group, LLC, Cambridge, NE. •Responsible for the design, engineering and implementation of a project which constructed a fiber optic system to approximately 80 hospitals throughout the state of Nevada.

March 11-November 11, Facilities Engineer, The Kenton Group, Clearwater, FL.

•Provided design and engineering services for the construction of aerial and buried fiber optic cable facilities to a variety of customers in the Eastern and Midwest United States.

July 10-March 11, Project Manager, Automated Engineering Services, Naperville, IL.

•Primary interface between design, engineering, implementation and procurement for the Security Modification at Entergy’s Palisades Nuclear Facility in Covert, Michigan and at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island facility in Red Wing, MN.

• Holding a current Nuclear Facility Access Clearance and Safeguards Information (SGI) Document Certification.

September 08 July 10, Senior V.P., Engineering & Operations, Fiber Fusion, Inc., Lead, SD

• Managed company-wide, the engineering, design and implementation of automation & control systems for several power utilities in Western U.S.

February 08-September 08, Project Manager, Black & Veatch, Overland Park, KS

• Network Design, OSP Engineering, Project Management.

June 07-February 08, Demand Engineer, AT&T, Independence, MO

• Managed new fiber optic and copper facilities engineering.

April 06-May 07, Implementation Director, Verizon, DE, MD, PA, USA

• As President and Owner of Optimus International Inc., managed plant construction in the deployment of Verizon’s FIOS service offering in the three state area.

November 05-April 06, Project Manager, BellSouth Telecommunications, Belle Glade, Florida

• Working as an OSP Project Manager, managing crews in the replacement of facilities damaged by Hurricane Wilma.

August 05-November 05, OSP Engineer, BellSouth Telecommunications, New Orleans, Louisiana • Working as an outside-plant facilities engineer, gathering field notes for the preparation of engineering/construction documentation for network construction due to Hurricane Katrina storm damage.

• Responsible for the planning, design and engineering of all underground & aerial copper and fiber optic cable facilities within various distribution areas in and around the New Orleans area.

March 05-August 05, Senior FTTP Engineer, Verizon, Upland, California

• Worked as a senior engineer in the deployment of Verizon’s FIOS service offering which will provide fiber optic connectivity to Verizon’s entire customer base in Southern California.

• Responsible for the OSP planning, design and engineering of all underground & aerial fiber optic cable facilities and all passive outside plant equipment.

Nov. 94-Current Owner/President, Optimus International, Inc., Holden, Missouri

• Consulted Fortune 100 corporations in the development of Domestic and International CLEC operations.

• Feasibility study preparation, market analysis, system design, and operational plans, interconnect agreements, equipment purchasing agreements, real estate acquisition, and key personnel recruitment.

• Managed the design and construction of eight local fiber rings including the main switching facility, over 100 POPs and all co-locations.

• Network equipment included, Siemens switching equipment, Nortel Optical, Tellabs DACS, ADC Fiber Distribution, DC power, OAMP and all digital x-connect panels.

July 01-July 03 Director of New Business Development, Looking Glass Networks, Omaha, Nebraska

• Coordinated network development, real estate, OSP engineering, ISP engineering materials management, civil construction, tenant improvements and contract administration for all new customers.

• Established and maintained timelines for all Engineering and Construction Project Management. (ISP & OSP)

• Compiled and distributed weekly Executive Summary Reports.

• Project lead in several domestic and international business opportunities.

Feb. 99 - July 01, Director of Operations and Engineering, Black Hills FiberCom, LLC, Rapid City, South Dakota

• Responsible for all network capital expenditures, program implementation, network design, real estate acquisition/development, vendor selection and budget compliance.

• Implementation of an independent HFC network, lifeline communications (911), high speed SONET/ATM, ISP co-location, VOIP, and SATCOM.

• Established process and procedures for work-flow between sales, provisioning, network & CPE installation, billing, customer care, and the NOC.

• End result was the development and maintenance of approximately 1200 miles of fiber optic backbone and HFC network providing residential and commercial voice, data and video services throughout Western South Dakota capable of providing services to approximately 135,000 subscribers.

April 93-Nov. 94, Program Manager of New Business Development, Andrew Telecom Networks, Richardson, Texas

• Qualified all new business opportunities, performed market analysis and preparation of all financial summaries.

• Managed all equipment analysis, system design and engineering for several international microwave radio, cellular, satellite, wide area and long distance network ventures in Russia and the FSU.

April 92-April 93, Systems Engineer, Metropolitan Fiber Systems Network Technologies, Omaha, Nebraska

• Responsible for fiber optic network design, engineering and budgets for systems requiring SONET, digital switches, multiplexers, microwave radio, UHF/VHF radio, trunked radio, cellular, power distribution and digital cross connect equipment in the preparation of RFP/RFQ responses.

Oct. 90-April 92, Project Manager, C.D.I. Telecommunications (MCI), Richardson, Texas

• Managed the design, engineering, and installation of all network overbuilds, new builds, and interconnect projects on a regional basis.

• Prepared planning and feasibility studies for switch expansions, transmission equipment expansions, and network restoration and survivability projects.

Oct. 88-Oct. 90, Project Manager, Garrett & West (Sprint), Kansas City, Missouri

• Managed the ISP & OSP design, engineering, and installation of all fiber optic systems, associated multiplex, digital switches, digital cross connects, power distribution, surveillance systems.

May 84-Oct. 88, Senior Project Manager, PacTel Infosystems, Los Alamitos, California

• Managed the design, engineering, and installation of all major PBX, local area networks, stock trading floors and regional cellular telephone networks.

Nov. 78-May 84, Project Manager, Burnup & Simms of California, Pomona, California

• Contracted to Southern Pacific Communications (Sprint), MCI, American Satellite, GTE, Army Corp of Engineers, PacTel, Digital Switch Corp., U.S. Tel, and Contel.

• Installation of microwave radio sites, satellite earth stations, central office switching equipment, PBXs, cellular telephone networks, and large local area networks.

Education:

76-78 Undergraduate studies in Business Administration, Jackson State Community College, Jackson, TN

78-Current Formal courses offered through employers and vendors in program/project management, fiber optic equipment, telecommunications, broadband microwave, LAN, WAN, graphics and associated applications software.

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