Construction Manager Combat Engineer

THOMAS R. SZCZESNIAK, PMP, CSSGB

Professional Summary

Technical Project Manager with over 20 years of experience in wireless (DAS) and Wireline technologies in the telecommunications industry. Extensive experience in Operations,, Business Development, Project/Program Management, Technical Support and managing high-performance teams.

Accomplishments include the successful deployment of numerous large scale Wireless projects in Northeast and Southwest.

Work History

Senior Technical Project/DAS Construction Manager – Mobility Business Unit – Southeast Region 01/02/2020 to Current

Vision Technologies

Responsible for providing end-to-end Technical Project Management and Construction support for deployments of large scale Wireless Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) for venues in the Southeast Region. This includes Planning, implementing, and managing budget & resources, including Project Coordinators, Construction Managers, General Contractors, and Vendors in accordance with PMP standards for Project Excellence.

Responsibilities include the provisioning of Back-Haul and Ethernet requirements to the Cell Site. This includes the submission of Transport requirements to the Carrier, scheduling, tracking and implementation.

Notable projects include serving as the Program Manager for the U.S. Senate DAS Multi-Carrier DAS upgrade from 01/20 thru 09/21.

Senior Technical Project/DAS Construction Manager – CRAN Deployment Team 06/01/2018 to 12/30/2019

AT&T

Planning, implementing, and managing all resources and an effective team of Project Coordinators, Construction Managers, General Contractors, and Vendors in accordance with the established schedule, while maintaining a strong relationship in good standing with each project.

Successfully executing the end-to-end Technical Project Management for Centralized Radio Access Network( CRAN) node installations throughout Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Virginia geographical areas providing the latest advanced wireless technology for our Customer base. This included Site Acquisition and Leasing, Provisioning of Transport & Ethernet requirements and deployment as per the build plan for each geographical area.

Area Manager Technical Project/DAS Construction Management - Antenna Solutions Group 06/2014 to 05/2018

AT&T

Managed 14 Project Managers throughout the AT&T Northeast Region including Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia and W. Virginia Markets deploying indoor and outdoor Distributed Antenna Systems in major Venues

Managed P&L / Budget with an annual average of $40M, responsible for maintaining variance threshold of +/- 5% annually

Performed risk management to minimize associated project risks, and reported and escalated to management as needed, as well as prepared detailed reports for upper management regarding the status of projects,

Specific responsibilities included oversight management of RF Design, Procurement, Transport & Ethernet delivery to the Cell Site including submission of Transport/Ethernet requirements to Carriers, Site Readiness including facilities planning, power delivery and environmental requirements.

Senior Technical Project/DAS Construction Manager – (DAS) Antenna Solutions Group 05/2011 to 06/2014

AT&T

Managed major DAS projects with a cumulative budget of $50M through planning, budgeting, overseeing, and documenting all metrics during the entire project lifecycle while communicating with upper management to ensure scope, direction, costs, and timelines are on track.

Provided project management for multiple 4G and LTE initiatives to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of Indoor Distributed Antenna Solutions projects.

Specific responsibilities included RF Design Management, Procurement, Transport & Ethernet delivery to the Cell Site including submission of Transport/Ethernet requirements to Carriers, Site Readiness including facilities planning, power delivery and environmental requirements.

Project Manager

NetCom Technologies 03/2010 to 02/2011

Responsible for the deployment of IT infrastructure projects including Coax, Cat 6 & Fiber. Responsible for scheduling Resources, material procurement and budget management.

Successful projects include National Guard HQ in Arlington, Va, (included fiber to the desktop) and Rockville Courthouse which included Telecom and Security / Surveillance

Military Service

Combat Engineer – United States Army Reserve – 14 Years, Honorable Discharge

Technical Skills

AT&T University: Wireless Technology Equipment Architecture; Hubs; Routers; RF Bandwidth; Transport; Antennas; 3G; 4G; LTE; 5G

Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio & MS Project

AT&T internal systems including PACE, Mobius, Filenet, CSS, LMC, CTS & Autoforms NORAD

Education & Certifications

Anne Arundel Community College – Computer Technology AAS Degree Program

PMP Certification 2011 (ID 1448245)

AT&T – Six Sigma Green Belt Certification 2014

SCM Scrum Master Certification – Current - Forecast completion date – 07/21

Corning: Corning One DAS Certification 12/20

JMA - JMA DAS Certification 02/20

ZinWave DAS Certification 02/21

AT&T / Lucent System 75 & System 85 PBX Certification

Nortel Networks – Meridian PBX Certification

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