Project Manager Senior
Resume:
DANA MAURICE SMITH
**** **** ****** ***** ******, AZ 85741
********.*****@*****.***
Over 11 years’ Project Management experience in delivering high visibility, quality complex wireless and mobile business solutions for all the major carriers; managing scope of works, cost, schedules, contractual deliverables, which includes applying techniques for planning tracking, change control, and risk management. Extensive technical background in wireless and mobile network infrastructures.
EXPERIENCE
FEB 2019 – DEC 2021
PROJECT MANGER VERIZON, TEKSYSTEMS, TEMPE AZ.
Responsible for project leadership across all designated projects with a focus on associated finances and project schedule which includes coordinating all deliverables and requirements across a broad cross-functional project team. Verify all projects are completed according to the underlying vendor contract and agreed upon timelines while complying with Verizon’s code of conduct, policies, and procedures. Identify and lead mitigation of project risk while keeping upper management informed. Managed dark fiber delivery for Verizon’s Southwestern markets.
Work hand and hand with real estate, construction to ensure telco fiber path is ready for LEC to deliver fiber.
Programs also include C-Band, bandwidth 10G backhaul to CRAN Hub, front haul to existing spoke sites (cell sites) to support 4g and 5g technologies expansion throughout the networks.
Coordinating with third-party providers (Cox, Zayo, Conterra, Time Warner, Century Link) and in-house services (ONE-FIBER/VZB).
JAN 2016 – OCT 2018
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER AT&T, J5 Infrastructure Partners, Irvine, CA.
Provided operation leadership, developing project scope handoff ensuring successful on time delivery managed a largescale telecommunications program delivering backhaul in a Radio Access Network (RAN) environment end to end, with products and services such as ETTCS, FTTCS, dark fiber, and IP based backhaul solutions to supporting 3G/4G LTE/5G technologies.
As the Senior Project Manager led a team of (4) project managers responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating large strategic programs from initiation through to implementation.
Collect physical asset data in an efficient and cost-effective manner and follow standards related to getting this data into the database. Review data associated with assigned sites on a regular basis and report errors or discrepancies to upper management.
Responsible for handling project/program costs, resources, risk, and issues to ensure that milestone is successfully achieved.
Ethernet to Cell Site Project Multi-Link Point-To-Point Protocol (MLPPP) can combine multiple links from different services onto one physical pipe, which can be made up of one or multiple MLPPP bundles.
San Francisco Bay Market MLPPP Conversion 110 sites - $135k
CISCO Aggregation Services, Router (ASR)901 Project Aggregation, transport of mixed generation RAN traffic, and increased bandwidth up to 10G.
Los Angeles market 595 sites – $1.4M
San Diego market 340 sites - $850K
San Francisco Bay market 903 site - $2.2M
Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) project combines unlicensed spectrum with the licensed band in LTE, using higher frequency bands on a small cell architecture, increasing capacity and data speeds on the pipe.
Optical to Optical (O2O) Project
San Francisco Bay market; O2O CIENA Backhaul 122 sites - $425K.
Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN) 102 sites - $357K.
Ethernet to Optical (E2O) Project
San Francisco Bay market; eNode B MLPPP to Optical conversion 87 sites - $300K.
JAN 2010 – JAN 2016
PROJECT MANAGER AT&T, CORTEL LLC, SAN DIEGO, CA.
Managed the coordination of multiple ETTCS SIAD projects simultaneously for AT&T Mobility’s markets in San Diego, Los Angeles, Arizona, and New Mexico.
San Diego market: 2941 router installation/network migration project 349 sites - 700K.
DSW market: 7705 router installation & migration project 687 sites -$2.4M.
Los Angeles market: 2941-901 router installation/network migration project 837 sites – $3.2M.
MAR 2008 – JAN 2010
FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER II AT&T, TMOBILE, VERIZON, MOBILE NET SERVICES, IRVINE, CA.
Responsible for voice and data network performance testing, validating handset performance in a live network environment for 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile network infrastructures throughout the U.S.
RF data collection (Baseline/Post).
Data and call performance testing.
E911/PSAP call testing.
Detected and resolved swapped sectors and resolved coverage issues including.
Over-shooters and interference.
BSC/RNC hand-over problems.
Call-drop issues.
FEB 2006 – MAR 2008
FIELD MANAGER TMOBILE, EXI-PARSONS, SEATTLE, WA.
Manage and scheduling field auditors to audit TMO, Flexi UMTS build out project. To audit work such as civil works, antenna, and feeder work, Flexi/FCOA cabinet installation, NODEB module installation for Perform periodic inspections in accordance with company policies, standards, and procedures. Identify and ensure that major inspection discrepancies are reported to TMO, corrected in a timely manner and that the field data they collect is entered into T-Mobile throughout the pacific northwest markets.
APR 2003 – FEB 2006
FIELD MANAGER AT&T, MYCOM NORTH AMERICAN, SALT LAKE CITY, UT.
My responsibilities include scheduling daily activities for market growth assignments and radio expansions in Cingular’s Ultra sites Utah & Idaho markets. Quality control, controlling field costs and assuring maximum productivity from field tech, the ability to be a team player and work well with our customer representatives (engineers, inspectors, and contracting officers) with whom I have also maintained good long-standing relationships.
Project in Salt Lake City, UT. 01/04 to 11/06
QA radio add, NSB, and Complex upgrades on GSM/EDGE Ultra sites. Field work Installation, Upgrade, Complex radio adds, and troubleshooting network.
Project in Phoenix, AZ 09/03 to 01/04
QA radio add, NSB, and Complex upgrades on GSM/EDGE Ultra sites. Field work Installation, Upgrade, Complex radio adds, and troubleshooting network such as; troubleshoot antenna line problem with a Site Master/Anritsu, T1 testing or circuit testing with a t-berd, checking power readings of the BTS using a wattmeter in Cingular’s AZ. and NM, NV, and El Paso TX. Markets.
Project in Los Angeles, CA 05/03
Collect physical asset data in an efficient and cost-effective manner and follow standards related to getting this data into the database. Review data associated with assigned sites on a regular basis and report errors or discrepancies to management. Night deployment of TRX upgrades, installation and integration crews and night support in the Nokia Ultra site GSM/EDGE 2G AWS in Cingular’s so. California Field work in Seattle markets.
SEP 1998 – APR 2003
FIELD MANAGER AT&T, TEKSYSTEM INC. LOS ANGELES, CA.
Field Lead
Testing, Commissioning, and troubleshooting new MFRM 5th. Carriers upgrade on Verizon’s BTS CDMA systems, comply with and perform quality assurance programs as required in the San Diego & Los Angeles markets.
Project in Bismarck, ND
Installation and Integration of Nortel’s TDMA 850 Miro cell systems in 40 BTS (Cell Site) for Verizon network systems in North Dakota market in four weeks. Troubleshooting integration for Nortel in Verizon’s DMS networking system with the upgraded to BTS digital networking system (Switch Cutover). Also included sweep testing the antenna line by using a Site Master/Anritsu and provide the data to the RF team.
Project in San Diego, CA
Supervised over 15 technicians, to survey and install 158 TDMA 2G BTS (Cell Sites) plus 58 sites
Expansions for Nortel in the AT&T San Diego market. Coordinate the installation of the NT800 Dual Mode Urban, NT850 Macro cells. BSS Alarms punch down & testing, Telco cross- connecting, T1’s wire wrapping to the DSX and testing it with a T-Berd. Commission Nortel equipment (utilizing ProComm Plus and Vortex software) and Spectrum Analyzers.
EDUCATION
MAY 1985
GRADUATED DIPLOMA, Mayfield HigH School, Las Cruces, NM.
Diploma – General education, GPA 3.5
SKILLED IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
CUSTOMER FOCUSED - BUILDING STRONG CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS AND DELIVERING CUSTOMER-CENTRIC SOLUTIONS.
PLANS & ALIGNS - PLANNING AND PRIORITIZING WORK TO MEET COMMITMENTS ALIGNED WITH ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS.
COMMUNICATES EFFECTIVELY - DEVELOPING AND DELIVERING MULTI-MODE COMMUNICATIONS THAT CONVEY A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF DIFFERENT AUDIENCES.
ENSURES ACCOUNTABILITY - HOLDING SELF AND OTHERS ACCOUNTABLE TO MEET COMMITMENTS.
DRIVES RESULTS - CONSISTENTLY ACHIEVING RESULTS, EVEN UNDER TOUGH CIRCUMSTANCES.
TRAINING
2016- CISCO SIAD 901 & 903 Router installation, Commission & Integration.
2010- CISCO SIAD 2941 Router installation, Commission & Integration.
2008- Nokia Flexi Node B Installation, Commission & Integration.
2008- Nokia 3G/UMTS Basic.
2003- Nokia Ultra site GSM/EDGE Installation, Commission & Integration.
2003- Hughes Satellites systems.
2000- Agilent Amplifiers Repeater Systems.
1999- Nortel Installation & Commissioning.
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