Project Manager Management

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Kourosh Jahangiri MBA, MIS, EE 310-***-**** ********@*****.***

Project Manager with strong self-learning skills and over 20 years of experience in cross-functional roles including field application engineering, network operations, telecom site construction, project management and process improvement in a wide variety of telecom projects with extensive background in radio access, RF backhaul and optical transport networks.

EXPERIENCE

Project Engineering Director June 2022 - Present

Key Wireless Solutions Los Angeles, CA

Partner with cross-functional teams and collaborate with customers to understand, organize, and plan business requirements.

Provide technical leadership and support for solution design, test and troubleshooting, performance analysis in infrastructure projects to ensure successful product/technology/service implementation and deployment in customer’s network: Ericsson, Nokia, Crown Castle, Verizon T-Mobile and AT&T.

Plan, execute and maintain project plans, milestones, action item registers, presentations, risks mitigation plans, EF&I and close-out packages.

Backhaul Development Project Manager May 2021 - May 2022 T-Mobile Concord, CA

Provided leadership, expertise, quality control, guidance and support for market site development activities related to 10G optical transport and E-band microwave backhaul upgrades, RAN construction, transport site design, site acquisition, zoning, compliance, and external affairs.

Ensured quality, consistency, and timelines of delivery, collaborating with all active vendors: Ciena, Infinera, Cisco, Ceragon, AT&T, Spectrum, Frontier, COX, and Lumen.

Led development and construction initiatives for planning, coordination, sourcing, and execution through managing processes, solutions, reports, forecasts, data integrity, vendor qualification, contract management, and pricing.

Site Development Project Manager July 2020 - Apr 2021 3S Network Tustin, CA

Managed and oversaw client project activities throughout site acquisition, bidding, construction design, architectural and engineering services, permitting, client deployments, utility coordination, material procurement, construction management and closeout.

Established and maintained strong client relations with T-Mobile, Verizon, Ericsson, Crown Castle, and executed project plans, SoW and revisions to meet evolving needs and customer requirements. Global Field Application Engineering Manager May 2018 - June 2020 Collinear Networks Santa Clara, CA

Effectively led international FAE teams by developing strategic relationships with stakeholders to achieve business objectives and establishing operational processes and KPIs.

Arranged and managed global field operations, lab demos, trials and deployments for free-space optical transport and E-band backhaul products in 10 countries for T-Mobile, Verizon, Optus, Spark, H3I, Airtel, Tata, and BSNL.

Achieved up to 80% of savings and 8% of availability improvement by developing and implementing financial plans and standard procedures for site acquisition, vendor management, contractor training, QA, troubleshooting, asset management and logistics.

Accelerated professional services from concept to deployment by working cross-functionally with customers, product development (HW/SW/Test/Manufacturing), pre-sales, customer support, marketing, and suppliers to adhere to schedule, performance, budget, and business requirements. 2

Construction Project Manager Sep 2016 - May 2018

Zenisco Inc Seattle, WA

Organized customer requirements, analyzed problems, conducted bid walks, designed large-scale telecom solutions, refined configurations, created documentation, produced RFP responses, progress reports and close-out packages.

Senior Project Engineer Mar 2016 - Sep 2017

AT&T San Ramon, CA

Optimized trouble ticketing software and network operation procedures as the team lead for 8 RAN engineers in the TAC and TSG performing 24/7 monitoring and handling of all network operation and construction activities within the AT&T NorCal network. Mobility & Asset Management Engineer Apr 2015 - Mar 2016 Salesforce San Francisco, CA

Managed the IT/mobile products throughout the lifecycle to drive new business initiatives from sourcing, to provisioning, HW testing, health and performance monitoring, maintenance software updates, to decommissioning.

Network Operations & Quality Assurance Manager Jan 2014 - Aug 2014 MCI Tehran, Iran

Established an award-winning network operations organization with 35+ job profiles and saved more than 66% of annual OPEX of the first and largest 3G/4G project with 10,000+ nodes. Senior Network Operations QA & HSE Manager Jun 2012 - Jan 2014 MTC Tehran, Iran

Improved core and access network availability and KPIs by 6.5% through designing new site build specifications, enforcing maintenance policies and quality acceptance procedures, and managing vendors, acceptance test engineers, First-Line Maintenance and Managed Service partners. Network QA & HSE Team Leader Jul 2009 - Jun 2012

MTN Tehran, Iran

Managed and supervised network operation activities, network elements, network issues, security, HSE, carbon footprint, and regulatory compliance in 2500+ network sites to adhere to acceptance criteria, specifications, and requirements.

Telecom Implementation Engineer - Regional Project Manager Jun 2004 - Jul 2009 NOKIA Tehran, Iran

Successfully delivered a 250-node project by managing and monitoring all stages of telecom network implementation including site acquisition, construction, configuration, integration, QA and optimization.

EDUCATION

MBA, MIS Dec 2016

Lincoln University Oakland, CA

BS in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Aug 2006 KNT University of Technology Tehran, Iran

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