Project Manager Senior

WAYNE COHEN

HONORABLY DISCHARGED USAF

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SUMMARY

A construction professional with wide experience as Owner Represenative, Director, VP, and Senior Project Manager. Willing to move. Built High Rises in NY, Nuclear Power Plants throughout the US, Strip Centers in Wisconsin, Tilt-Ups in Arizona, Residential Housing, and Major Wireless Networks across the United States. Maintained existing customers while growing new customers. Taught teams to work together to embrace ownership and be accountable. Always being cognizant of the budget and schedule. Watch the projects from 50,000 feet fixing issues before they become problems.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Financial Management

• Budget Building

• Identifying Margin Fade

• Increasing Margin by Managing Project Cost

• Maintaining Existing Customer Base

• Obtain New Customers

• Project Review with Entire Team

• Managing Construction of Major Facilities

• Managers Accountability

• Project Ownership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VANDELAY CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNICATIONS LLC, Phoenix Arizona 04/2017 - present Director, VP, Senior Project Manager, Telecommunications

• My Teams managed the entire construction process from Land Development, Zoning, Permitting, A&E, and Construction. We built over 20,000 Towers on time, on or below budget. Examples include: o Dish

o AT&T

o T-Mobile

o Verizon

o Vertical Bridge

o SBA

o American Tower

• Performed Commercial and Residential Construction, EV Charging Stations and Power Plants. provided Project Managers, Directors, and Program Managers on a contract basis. WIRELESS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION LLC, San Antonio Texas 04/2014 – 4/2016 Executive Vice President of Operations (Owner) – This is a startup company. Through my relationships in just a short year, we completed over a $1M in business with 35%-40% gross margins. Our Prime Business is Turnkey Site Acquisition and Construction. Clients I have brought to the company:

• SBA Communications

• ANSCO

• Goodman

• Nexius

• MyCom

• Verizon

• AT&T & Crown Castle

We hired strategic people, trained them to our philosophy of business, held people accountable, held deep dive meetings weekly to avoid surprises and fix issues in real time. We self-performed:

• Site Acquisition

• Construction

• A&E

• Site Audit

WAYNE COHEN

HONORABLY DISCHARGED USAF

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EARLIER APPOINTMENTS

General Dynamics – Needham MA 09/2013 – 04/2014

Director National PMO – Led teams of Market Managers, Project Managers, and Construction Managers on how to be successful in AT&T Turfing and Sprint Vision Markets. $300M in projects Broken Arrow Communication – Mesa AZ 02/2012 – 09/15/2013 NOTE: this company was losing money every year, in 12 months I turned this into a profit center General Manager (Consultant) – Leading a team of project managers, field leads, electricians, Civil and L&A crews to successfully build cell sites for all the major carriers and turf venders. This company was in the Red for three solid years in the Arizona Market, at the time of my exit sales were increased by 50%, gross margins 40% profits in excess of $1M. Kinecticom Consulting: Contracted to AT&T Turfing Project, Atlanta GA 7/2011 – 02/2012 Contract Complete Sr. Project Manager – Managing a project of $180M+ for the Upgrade of AT&T’s Wireless Network in the State of Georgia.

Rose International – Contracted to Ericsson – Working on the AT&T Turfing Project, Northern CA 6/2010 – 7/2011 CPM – Manage 16+ construction managers (0ver three programs) to ensure timely completion of the 3C/4C UMTS Upgrade/Overlay & LTE role out in Northern CA.

Rose International – Contracted to Ericsson – Working on the Clearwire South Florida Project 1/2010 – 6/2010 Construction Project Manager – Managed the construction of new sites for the launch of a new WISP network using WIMAX technology 4G: (10 Construction Managers, 5 Site Acquisition Agents) SCP Construction - Phoenix Arizona 3/2005 – 12/2009 Vice President – Ran the entire commercial division for large commercial concrete projects BBP Companies - Glendale AZ 3/2002 – 3/2005 (company sold) Vice President Commercial Division (Concrete)– Managed the entire construction process, successfully grew a division losing over $1M yearly to gross sales over $45M with gross margins in excess of 40%. NORTH/SOUTH CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN, INC., Cary NC, Phoenix, AZ 12/1999 – 3/2002 Midsize Construction Management Company

President/Owner

Spectrsite, Cary, NC, National Director of Construction/Operations 6/1995 – 12/1999 WAYNE COHEN

HONORABLY DISCHARGED USAF

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Project List of Wayne Cohen

POWER:

Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant - New Strawn Kansas Callaway Nuclear Power Plant - Fulton MS

Clinton Nuclear Power Plant - Clinton ILL

Seabrook Nuclear Power - Seabrook NH

Shoreham Nuclear Power - Shoreham NY

Bath County Pump Storage (Largest Pump Storage Facility in the World) Bath County VA STANDARD CONSTRUCTION:

Owner Representative for First Citizen Bank - Raleigh NC Reported Directly to the Bank President and CEO - Frank Holding and his brother Lewis (Snow) Holding First Citizen Building Downtown Charlotte NC:

320’ 23 Story Building. At the time the tallest building in Charlotte First Citizens Data Center - Raleigh NC:

125,000 SF Building, 20,000 SF Clean Room with a raised floor and Halon Fire System, UPS System consisting of over 500 batteries to include a diesel backup generator. Branch Building:

15 Free Standing Building in SC and NC

Car washes (ground up and modifications)

Tilt-Up Mix Use 50,000SF - 1M SF

High Rises -

NYC Hospitals -

NC Strip Centers

Charging

Stations

GOVERNMENT: To include Ground UP and JOC’s

Camp

Lejeune Fort

Bragg Pope

AFB

New River Air Station

Luke AFB

Seymour Johnson AFB

MULTI FAMILY:

TOUSA HOMES - TECHNICAL OPERATIONS USA

Owners Representative for Brands that TOUSA bought in the United State. Trophy Homes of Las Vegas was one of the Brands acquired. Also Engle Homes out of Florida

TELECOMMUNICATIONS:

Launched major networks in the top 50 Markets for: 1. Bell Atlantic

2. Pac Bell

3. Bell South

4. AT&T

5. Verizon

6. Sprint

7. T-Mobile

My Teams managed the entire process from Land Development, Zoning, Permitting, A&E, and Construction. We built over 20,000 Towers on

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