Sr. Project Manager, Operation Management and Accounting

Gadiel Melendez

***** ***** *** ****. *** **** San Antonio, TX 78258 • 412-***-**** • **********@*******.***

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

** ***** ** ********** ****************** experience in Project Management, Construction Management, PMO, DAS, TDMA, CDMA, GSM, UMTS and LTE. Possesses a diverse background including personnel, logistics and inventory management. Endowed with a strong aptitude for creativity and critical thinking, as well as, having excellent verbal and written communication skills. Capable of enhancing productivity in high pace, cross-functional and stressful atmospheres while maintaining a positive working environment. Experienced in conflict resolution and maintaining employee relations while maximizing overall productivity. Maintain excellent interpersonal relations with upper management, peers and clients. High work ethic, bi-lingual in Spanish, established reputation as a person of high integrity, high quality work, multi-tasking and detailed oriented. Many projects completed prior to established timeframes.

WORK EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

DAS Project Manager 2015 – Present Longent, LLC.

Nashville, Tennessee

• Manage all designated projects from Start to completion, including Bid walks, Blue prints and RF Design review and Audit with recommendations, Bill of Materials preparations and ordering, bids estimations and contracting, budget allocation, Project Plan and schedules, Permitting, Resources and Assets plan and modify the project plan and budget as needed

• Managing and monitoring the budgets and financial aspects of multiple projects from start to completion with profit & loss, job cost, cash flow and contract deliverables reporting to the management

• Ensuring the timely and effective completion of multiple projects of varying scope as per contracts, and ensuring that all of their teams are performing the work as per the approved specifications, national codes and approved method of procedures with no accidents or injuries

• Managing the logistics aspects of the project such as equipment and materials availability and warehousing

• Setting goals and priorities for the project team to facilitate achievement of organizational objectives and monitoring the project progress to assure the timely completion

• Ensure that all the required close outs documentations and reports are properly and correctly maintained and submitted to the customer for approval

• Manage all external vendors necessary for timely completion with high quality within the allocated budget

• Customer interaction and communicate all deliverables and project status and resolve any conflicts or issues that may arise

• Develop and maintain working knowledge of customer contracts and customer expectations and forecasts

• Manage teams of Construction Managers, Project Coordinators, DAS Techs and Civil Techs including hiring, terminations, performance reviews, training, rewards, and recognition

• Managed various projects in multiple markets building and installing +80 oDAS and Small Cell sites, and +20 HUBs and DAS Headends installation in timely and quality manner

Implementation Manager/ Ericsson Contractor 2013 – 2015 BCI Wireless

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Manage Installation & Integrations of RBS for the AT&T Pittsburgh Market.

• Direct interface to AT&T Project Management and Market Support Teams.

• Multiple Projects: UMTS, LTE 1, 2 and 3 carriers, NSB, Special Projects Special Project “Hot Swaps” & COW deployment, Sector Swaps and War Room RF Tunning and Optimization.

• Work all EF&I duties. Manage all aspects of AT&T Network equipment deployment from: Customer Relationship, Project plan of record, Project Schedule, forecast, maintain IM tracker relate with market and Gather CIQ information from customer inputs for data translation team to generate scripts, license key etc.

• Conducted nominal site planning including Scheduling, Budgeting, Sites Selection, Coverage maps preparation, Parameters Planning, Sites Integration, Sites Acceptance verification and reporting, KPIs monitoring and Optimization and Troubleshooting as well as customer interface for verification and approvals.

• Coordinated and interfaced with the project team for strategies, planning, maintaining, and improving the project processes generally and specially

• Coordinated and planned the deployment activities with the project team (Site Acquisition, CW, TI) in deploying the sites through various stages from the sites location verification to integration and commercial launch

• Managed and coordinated the site integration process

• Led Network Auditing, Network dimensioning and expansion and frequency and parameter planning

• Performed oversight and pre/post launch optimization to ensure the optimum operational conditions of the site to achieve the agreed KPIs. This involved hardware, parameters discrepancies check, frequency tuning, and cell neighbor relation design and definition...etc

• Planned, coordinated and supervised the activities and deliverables team of RF Engineers and Field Engineers to be organized and well performing

• Managed and supervised the subcontractors performance, activities and reports

• Supervised, Prepared and submitted the team presentations and reports

Project Manager/ Ericsson Contractor 2012 –2013 The Marquis Group

San Antonio, Texas

• Manage Rollout of Installation & Integrations of RNC & RBS for the SFL AT&T Market.

• Managed UMTS Carrier/Sector Add Project (2C, 3C & 4C), LTE Carrier Add Project (1C, 2C & 3C), NSB UMTS/LTE (1C, 2C, 3C & 4C) & Special Projects (ETMFX11, CBU to DUW, DUL to DUS & DAS, COW, COLT & site relocations).

• Ensure document data complete before requesting scripting from Plano.

• SRM management, Site Handler & More Request.

• Scheduled work to for the Field Engineer.

• In addition, I managed personnel, finances (vendor PO coordination, change order coordination and close out process), asset control, logistics, customer/vendor relations, project/market reporting, training and milestone tracking.

Project Manager/ Ericsson Contractor 2005 - 2012 CSI Telecomm, Inc.

Florida

• Ericsson Lead PM directing 3 IM to deploy 2-SGSN, 5 New RNC, 5 Expansion RNC, 310 New RBS, 36 NSB, 192 2nd Carrier Installation & Integrations. Special Project 274 Re-homes, 675 Sites T1 & IMA Growth. Project value exceeding 23M.

• Developed scope & Statement of work for new add-on sales opportunities.

• Ensured SRM & MORE Request for ASP & Plano Dept. (RNDCIQ, TND, TCM & NIC support).

• Provided weekly detailed status reports to AT&T upper management & project teams.

• Logistics and installation management of UMTS mobile communications for the South Florida Cingular project.

• Responsibilities included network analysis, preparation and installation for cell site target completions.

• FOA for UMTS networks, deliveries of product and services, installation of the RNC and Node B.

• MTSO and cell site survey’s done for engineering deployment.

• Manage contractors to keep project under budget

• Knowledge of the NB580 Commissioning, Integration, Database Management and final installation acceptance.

Field Service /Contractor 1998 - 2005 Siemens Communication Inc.

Puerto Rico

• Management of all EWSD Siemens installations for the Southeast region and the Caribbean Islands.

• These included some of the largest Siemens accounts such as Bellsouth, AT&T, Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Kennedy Space Center, MCI and the University of Tenn.

• Responsibilities included new installations, growth additions, CP replacements, SN upgrades and Software upgrades.

• Schedule installation teams & contractors to meet are target dates to exceed customer’s expectations. Order values in excess of two million dollars annually.

• Work closely with sales teams to provide the most cost effective solutions to win new business.

EDUCATION & SPECIALIZED TRAINING

MBA; Mayor in Project Management

Keller Graduate School of Management

2011-2014

PMP Certification

2011-2012

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; Accounting

Turabo University, Puerto Rico

* Project Management * Certified by Ericsson on IM Training

* Microsoft Project 2010 * BSC / TRAU Operation & Maintenance

* EWSD Switching Overview, etc. * Team Building

* Customer Services Strategies * Communications Module

* Quality Fundamental Concepts * EAMS

* TCP/ IP Concepts * 2 Yrs. Experience with Agile/scrum development

* Basic SQL * Customer Service, Safety and Procedure Standers

* LDO * Ericsson tools expertise

* Corning ONE Platform Certification * IBwave

* GSM, CDMA, UMTS, LTE

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