Career Overview

Project Manager effective in leading and directing Wireless projects from inception to launch. More than 10 years of progressive management experience and repeated success in developing project initiatives, directing project plans and achieving revenue performance targets.

Professional Experience

Goodman Networks Inc. North and SE regions 2005 - April 2014
SR Manager, Customer Programs/Project Manager Business as Usual (BAU):

Managed and deployed Self-Performance teams of over 100 people: Tower, civil and technical crews for FTTC and ETTC installs and programming for UMTS and LTE support (3G/4G), NSB, LTE, UMTS, Site Mods, DC power plants, HVAC, Generators, DAS systems and Small Cell. Carrier adds and more. Responsible for the Financials and GM of the department utilizing MS office, Sharepoint, Oracle, Norad, Pace and worked with PMO to update current and develop new processes.
Managed Ericsson UMTS projects for T-Mobile in Los Angeles, CA
Manage all North Region (east coast) E911 projects, Samsung 4G projects, TDMA

decommissioning projects
Responsible for the E911 build outs of South Florida, North Florida, Georgia, and the

Carolina's, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Chicago, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Dallas, TX

Responsible for Site Mods, New builds and construction of cell sites, both PCS and UMTS for

Cingular/AT&T Wireless
Responsible for budgetary concerns on Projects, Personnel, logistic and other

expenses relating to the market
Responsible for Installations and decommissioning of Andrews E911 system, upkeep of the

Trueposition LMU system, market safety training and procedures,various daily trackers/records
Work with customers on Change orders in SOW
Manage the E911 drive testing with PSAP
Provide quality and installation training to the work force
Maintain good working relations with customer

Kineticom, Mid-West region 2003 - 2005
Field Supervisor
Supervise multiple markets and crews, on installations, upgrades of True position LMU’s integrated into Cingular Wireless TDMA and GSM BTS’s, also T-Mobile PCS BTS’s
Coordinate supplies and schedule for field installation crews on a daily basis
Quality audits, sweeps and gains using Anritsu Wiltron, Data collection and provide various

daily reports, to management
Provide new Supervisors and field crews training for Mid-West region
Technical Manual documentation review committee

T-Mobile Detroit, MI 1998 - 2003
Sr. Field Technician, Supervisor and Quality Control Coordinator
Assist as Operations Manager and the supervision of 23 RF technicians
Coordinate commissioning & training on Nortel LMU, S2000, S4000, S8000 and S1200 GSM

systems for the Michigan market
Coordinate system build out, Quality Control and Site commissioning

Design and Coordinate Microwave path analysis and installations using Proxim/Lynx

microwave radio systems
Design and installations of repeater systems
Trained company in troubleshooting and commissioning of S2000, S4000 S8000

Nortel equipment, and Microwave Radio system and installations
Technical support and Training Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region fields operations

departments but is not limited to Microwave systems, Nortel Equipment and GSM repeaters

and Nortel LMU/E911
Analyze Daily traffic, checking daily traffic levels, blocking, dropped calls and other various

possible problems via metrica system, and acting accordingly to correct any issues
Coordinate systems integration, expansion, and channel upgrades based on traffic volumes and

Optimization needs
Work closely with Site Acc. RF Engineering, Optimization team, Construction, and Network

Engineering using OMC-R, Remedy, and Insight on a daily basis to enhance system

performance

Sprint PCS Detroit, MI 1996 - 1998
Senior digital PCS Cellular Systems Technician
Lucent Technologies CDMA BTS certification

Optimization, drive testing, turn up new market
Troubleshooting the PCS system on a 24hr. basis

Maintaining PCS system utilizing the above daily

Troubleshoot and Maintain T1 (copper and Fiber)
Installation of Microwave Radio equipment

Allen Telecom Group Cleveland, OH 1989 - 1996
Senior Cellular Repeater Systems Technician
Programming, testing, tuning, optimizing AMPS, ETAC, CDMA, TDMA, GSM, JTAC and

cellular repeaters, Border protectors, Prism Plus systems
Active role in Team Leadership Program on production line as supervisor of 14
Certified ISO 9000 internal auditor
R and D of multi couplers, signal combiners, self-tuning combiners, isolators Tower Top

antennas and mobile antennas using, but not limited to, RF Communications Test Sets,

Network Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscope, Signal Generators and Power meters

Milcom Systems Corp. Virginia Beach, VA 1986 - 1989
RF Field Engineer
System Optimization
RF installations and upgrade of U.S. Navy communications and Microwave systems
Technical training and support for the new and upgraded systems

Unites States Navy various duty stations 1982 - 1986
RF Communications
RF communications, Radio Wave Provocations, and Electronics training
Various RF communications systems, both maintenance and operations
Antenna Systems Petty Officer
Two-time Sailor of the Quarter and Command advancement nominee

Education
2004 trained on the Nokia GSM systems, Ericson GSM systems
2003 True position LMU installation, operations and troubleshooting certification
2003 Nortel commissioning of S4000, S8000 and S12000
1999 Nortel commissioning certification GSM, S2000, S4000, S8000 and OMC-R
1998 Lucent Technology system commissioning certification CDMA

Various US Navy Communications courses and trainingxxx-xxx-xxxx
Graduate of St. Edward’s High School 1981

Last Resume Update October 28, 2014
Address Lawrenceville, Georgia
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Spanish Speaking? No
Willing to Relocate? No

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