LARRY D. LEWIS SR.

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PROFILE: Telecommunications professional with 40+ years of Telecom industry knowledge and experience working as a results-oriented achiever with excellent interpersonal skills. OBJECTIVE: Adding value by enhancing the “customers experience” utilizing industry best practice skills acquired working in the ever-changing telecom industry. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

01/21 - present RLP name change to Greenwood Construction LLC 04/21 – 12/21 Pinnacle/ AT&T Data Analyst (contractor) Supporting Federal Government Civilian Sales Teams and providing technical expertise regarding the design, customization, implementation and account management of complex technical products and services. 01/20 to 12/20 RLP Investment Group LLC- Upper Marlboro, MD Investment Project Manager / Construction Development

Lead PM providing oversight of the following trades: o Building Demolition

o Excavation

o In-ground and Building Plumbing

o Building framing

o MEP’s (mechanical/electrical/plumbing)

o Roofing

o Carpenters

o Interior finishes

o Building communications

(Verizon/AT&T/Comcast/etc.)

Soliciting and approving quotation for trades

Contract negotiations/Activity Based Project Budgeting

All associated dealings with construction development 02/19 to 08/19 Broadband Connect LLC – Clinton, MD Program Manager

Lead for program setup and overseeing the implementation of local services for the Verizon awarded Virginia State VITA contract.

Scheduling/ordering/tracking various carrier installations of DS-0 and DS-1 services

(1400+ sites).

Demarcation extensions, modem installations in support of the Statewide UCaaS implementation.

03/17 to 12/18 Retired. Verizon Enterprise Solutions (VES) – Silver Spring, MD Program Manager / GSA Connections II (Infrastructure Contract)

Managing Lead for day-to-day program management and operations/oversight to internal Verizon customers (pricing, contract management, sales account teams, service management, legal and general counsel and project management teams.)

Monitored government ITSS portal for RFP/I/Qs and subsequent dissemination to account teams.

Hosted internal and external team meetings in support of the entire RFP/I/Q life cycle.

Engaged internal sales account, engineering, service management and project management teams accordingly.

Assured customer billing protocols are met and adhered to. Interfaced and developed partnerships with external vendors seeking subcontractor work, vendor partnerships and teaming agreements to support a wide variety of CLIN skilled labor categories supporting WAN/LAN, voice/data/video CPE, cable / wiring, collaboration services, Distributed Antenna Systems, Wi-Fi, VoIP and conferencing services. Secret Clearance

06/15 to 03/17 Verizon Enterprise Solutions (VES) – Silver Spring, MD Deputy Program Manager/ Sr. Service Client Lead

Supported the GSA WITS 3 contract Program Management Office (PMO). 08/12 to 6/15 Verizon Enterprise Solutions (VES) – Silver Spring, MD WITS-3 PMO Sr. Service Client Lead/ PMO Service Manager

Lead supporting the GSA WITS 3 contract Program Management Office (PMO).

Provided Program Service Management oversight for all WITS 3 contract products and service offerings.

Lead interacting with internal/external teams to assure contract compliance related to service offerings, RFP/I/Q response input and customer service delivery support.

Provided Technical Service support to the Project Management team, sales/account team, engineering, pricing and other internal teams as it related to the WITS 3 contract.

Produced and provided input for program team process documentation to ensure contract compliance.

Secret Clearance

Professional Experience (Cont’d)

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08/10 to 08/12 Verizon Communication FNS (Federal Network Systems LLC) – Arlington, VA Sr. Solutions Engineer

Supported the DoD IMOD and NETCENTS contracts.

RFP/I/Q responses, pricing validation, engineering technical compliance, project management, project engineering lead, vendor/subcontractor management. TS Security Clearance

04/06 to 08/10 Verizon Business - Federal Markets – Washington, DC Program Manager

Lead for Local Service MAA (metropolitan area acquisition), LSA (local service acquisition) and LSC (local services contract) GSA Fed Gov’t contract vehicles.

Assisted internal billing, order management and service/repair teams to ensure GSA contract compliance.

Constant interfacing with government contracting officers, contracting officer technical representatives.

Designated agency/government representatives to ensure expected contract requirements and technologies are delivered to the GSA end users. Secret Clearance

10/03 to 04/06 Verizon Communications/Verizon Business - Federal Markets – Washington, DC Senior Project Manager

Managed implementations of small to large complex technical solutions for Civilian and DoD Government agencies.

Trade applications included Project Tracker, ELI, TIRKS, WFA-C, WFA-DO, Request-Net, Visio, MS Project and MS office suite.

Project technologies included POTS, TLS, DS-1, PRI, T-1, T- 3, access/transport, dedicated/carrier access SONET Ring (OC-3 to 48) implementation, SONET multiplexer OEM (Lucent, Fujitsu, Nortel, Cisco) support and Tandberg/Polycom video equipment.

Voice implementations included ISDN BRI/PRI, Centrex, T-1, ISDN PRI, Nortel and AVAYA PBX’s.

Secret Clearance

03/04 to 10/04 Verizon Communications ESG-Verizon Federal Markets - Arlington, VA. Sales Engineer III - Relationship Systems Engineer - Civilian Accounts

Provided Technical Engineering Support to the integrated account team.

Worked closely with the Strategic Account Manager (SAM) the systems engineer supports.

Technical Lead supporting various Carrier based and CPE technology solutions.

Responsible for pre-sales technical solution pricing for Verizon Network Services products.

Secret Clearance

Professional Experience (Cont’d)

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SBC (Southwestern Bell Communications) Federal Solutions. Sterling, VA. Convergent Solutions Manager-

Voice CPE Sales Specialist responsible for identifying, closing and growing Federal accounts within the Eastern region.

Sales support for complex/telecommunications products and CPE solutions.

Lead for SBC Managed Services, networking solutions, and systems integration sales with a focused customer interaction on the delivery of SBC’s value-added products and services.

Secret Clearance

Nortel Networks Transport Long Haul Networks, McLean, VA Optical Applications Network Engineer

Design and implementation of OPTera LH 1600 DWDM equipment supporting the Cable & Wireless US network build.

Provided customers with detailed “link budget” designs via simulated optical network

(OPTnet) reports in conjunction with standard NTP documents.

Worked with detailed network drawings using AutoCAD and Visio applications to include As-Built, Fiber type, Amplifier direction, Lambda count (frequency), site type

(amplifier, regenerator, OADM and terminal), OPC locations, Order Wire schemes, BITS locations and NE (network element) schemes.

Northern Telecom, Nortel Networks. Atlanta, Georgia Senior Customer Engineer, Carrier Packet/Access Networks

Provided the GTE/IOC (independent operating carriers) customer base with engineering services for the entire AccessNode product line of equipment.

Product line included AccessNode 800A, Outside Mod Cabinet’s, MBP’s, Bay’s, ANX Modules / Mini Cabinets, 1MM, and HDSL.

Assisted customers with network planning (via drawings) for Fiber Optic (OC- 1/3/12) and DS-1 fed Voice/Data AccessNode systems with the use of Genesis/BaaN Transmission tools.

Provided technical support to field installation, sales, marketing and the AccessNode customer on all aspects of engineering.

Northern Telecom, (Nortel) Atlanta, Georgia

Senior System Applications Engineer (DMS-100/200

Managed Customer Projects from early planning using job specs until completion.

Engineering Prime in planning and evaluation of customer projects for DMS 100/200 equipment installations.

Key liaison for installation team in laying out job milestones and subsequent project related activities, using of NT-ACCESS as a provisioning and quotation tool. Professional Experience (Cont’d)

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Northern Telecom/Bell Atlantic Meridian Systems, McLean, VA Service Manager

Managed 48,000 PBX/Norstar, and voice mail ports in the Washington, D.C. Metro area including the D.C. local government.

Supervised 8 installation and maintenance technicians, performance reviews, maintenance and installation contract negotiations, customer meetings and site surveys for calculation of maintenance agreements.

Northern Telecom, Inc./Bell Atlantic Meridian Systems, Washington, D.C. Senior Communications Technician

Resolved complex vendor telecommunications troubles such as T1 circuits, DID’s, COT’s, WATS, Tie Lines, OPX, Modem and Data Circuits.

Complex issue resolutions involved customer EAPBX circuit pack and software/data troubleshooting.

Served as lead (on site) technician for at The American University.

Was responsible for administrative and maintenance support of their multiple Voice Mail System nodes.

Performed CPU upgrades on Meridian 1 Option 11-71 switches and Meridian Voice Mail platforms.

Northern Telecom, Inc., New York City, New York

Senior Telecommunications Technician

Repaired on the Northern Telecom systems: SL-1 A, LE, L, VL, VLE, XL, XN, M, N, RT, S, ST, NT and XT.

Preformed (MACs) moves, additions, and changes (1 to 500 sets) as well as system software/hardware CPU upgrades.

Data products included: MCDS (Multiple Channel Data Systems), AILU's

(Asynchronous Interface Line Unit), ADM's (Add on Data Module), and PCI

(Personnel Computer Interface) units.

RCA Corporation, Parkchester, Bronx, New York

Telephone Repair Technician

Installed various PBX and Key systems, such as: OK1 Discovery 1,2&3, Hitachi EX- 1 crossbar, Spartan crossbar, Plessy crossbar and Hitachi EX - 10 PBX.

Provided on site tech at Darcy McManis law firm, in support of 3000-line Hitachi EX

- 10 PBX switching system.

U.S. Army-Signal Corps, (Basic training and AIT) Fort Dix, New Jersey Telephone Lineman (MOS-36K/C).

Worked closely with the installation and repair of 1A2, SB-86 and SB-22 switching equipment.

Promoted to Communications Specialist/chief where I completed the setup and teardown of headquarters field operations telephone communication systems.

Supervised a 6- man crew for 1-1/2 years.

Secret Clearance

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EDUCATION

High School Diploma, Long Island City High School Long Island City, New York. University of Maryland (Electrical Engineering). University of Texas (U.S Army- Germany).

U.S. Army Electronic Correspondence Courses.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

University of Maryland Computer Networking Certification, April 2014

Cisco ICND-2 November 2011 (40 hours)

Cisco ICND-1 November 2011 (40 hours)

PMP Certification Training Omnikron University October 2011 (35 hours)

ITIL 3 Certification December 29, 2010

AVAYA/ Nortel Communication Server (CS) 1000E Installation and Commissioning December 13- 17, 2010 (40 hours)

AVAYA/ Nortel Communication Server (CS) 1000 7.0 System Administration and Management November 15 -19 2010 (40 hours)

Awarded “Master’s Certificate” Program Management from George Washington University October 14

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2009

High Impact Communications - George Washington University October 12- 14 2009 (24 hours)

Unlocking the Power of Earned Value Management - George Washington University September 2-3, 2009 (16 hours)

Leading Project Managers - Washington University August 6-7, 2009 (16 hours)

Taking Charge of Organizational Change - Washington University July 13-15, 2009 (24 hours)

Program Management, George Washington University May 20-22, 2009 (24 hours)

Awarded “Master’s Certificate” Project Management from George Washington University August 16, 2006

Network and Telecom Principles for Project Managers - George Washington University August 14- 16, 2006 (24 hours)

Scheduling and Cost Control - George Washington University March 27-30, 2006 (32 hours)

Risk Management, George Washington University March 8-10, 2006 (24 hours)

Project Leadership, Management and Communication Skills - George Washington University Dec 7- 9, 2005 (24 hours)

Awarded “Associate’s Certificate” Project Management from George Washington University March 25, 2005

Contracting for Project Managers - George Washington University March 23-25, 2005 (24 hours)

Quality for Project Managers - George Washington University Feb 23-25, 2005 (24 hours)

Managing Projects - George Washington University Jan 24-26, 2005 (24 hours)

Alpha III - Trends in Telecommunications (Verizon) Dec 2004 (40 hours)

Emerging Technologies (New Trends in Technology) Nov 2004 (24 hours).

Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies, July 13-16, 2004 (32 hours).

Verizon New Employee Sales Training (NEO2) June 2004 (40 hours).

Verizon New Employee Sales Training (NEO1) April 2004 (40 hours).

Succession 3.0 Boot Camp, November 2003 (16 hours). 6

Professional Certifications (Cont’d)

Nortel Networks Enterprise Applications Engineering, October 2003 (40 hours).

Meridian VOIP: Voice over IP Gateway ITG Line 2.0/i2004 Internet Telephone, October 2001

Succession CSE1000 Installation, Maintenance and Configuration, October 2001 (40 hours)

OPTera LH Advanced Optics OAM&P October 2000 (24 hours)

OPTrea LH Ordering and Planning, June 2000 (24 hours)

TransportNode OC-192/MOR Engineering, April 2000 (32 hours)

TransportNode OC-12/OC-48 Engineering, February 2000 (32 hours)

AccessNode Commissioning, Oct. 1998 (32 hours)

S/DMS AccessNode OAM&P, June 1997 (32 hours)

S/DMS AccessNode BLSR/VTBM OAM&P, June 1997 (32 hours)

Fundamentals of SONET networks, CBT, April 1997

DMS-100 Traffic Engineering/Provisioning, October 1996 (40 hours)

Interpersonal Effectiveness and Listening, September 1996 (24 hours)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, June 1996 (24 hours)

DMS-100 Provisioning Course 7309, February 1996 (40 hours)

DMS-100 Method of Operation, November 1995 (32 hours)

Management Leadership Forum (MLF-1), Toronto, Canada. July 1994 (64 hours)

Octel Advanced Aspen /Maxum Maintenance, January 1994 (24 hours)

Octel System Installation and Maintenance, November 1993 (32 hours)

Newbridge Intelligent Channel Bank (3624/3630/4601) Network Manager, August 1992 (24 hours)

Meridian Operation an Installation, August 1992 (40 hours)

Northern Telecom Option 11 Install and Maint., June 1992 (24 hours)

Norstar Installation and Maint. (DS 5) Star Talk Voice Mail, May 1992 (16 hours)

Norstar Installation and Maint. (DS 3 - DS 4), March 1992 (16 hours)

Meridian 1 Option 21, 51, 61 and 71 Installation, February 1991 (16 hours)

Meridian 1 Option 21, 51, 61 and 71 Maintenance, February 1991 (16 hours)

Meridian Voice Mail, SP Installation Operations and Maint., August 1990 (24 hours)

Meridian 1 Maintenance, May 1990 (24 hours)

Meridian SL-1 Trunks and Transmissions, May 1988 (40 hours)

Digital Interface Equipment (Including Coax Eliminators.) 306, August 1986 (32 hours)

Introduction of Data Communications, May 1986 (40 hours)

Integrated Voice & Data Systems Installation & Maintenance, July 1985 (40 hours)

SL-1 X 11 Data Base, May 1984 (40 hours)

SL-1M Installation & Maintenance, September 1983 (80 hours)

SL-1 Installation and Repair, August-September 1982 (80 hours)

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