Skills & Capabilities:
A California licensed General Contractor since 1993 (Lic# 678213 & 850759)
A keen understanding of all aspects of construction
Budget, schedule and result driven
An ability to manage large projects and the teams responsible for those projects
Excellent communicator & leader
An ability to adapt to new processes and people

Career Experience:

1/14 – Present
Construction Manager for Verizon Wireless in Southern California. I have been responsible for all new site construction in San Diego & Imperial Counties. This has been a very challenging position with as many as 30 plus sites under construction at one time. Along with my day to day construction management tasks I have also been responsible for attending all feasibility, design, bid, pre-construction and punch walks. All the while reviewing all the documents these walks create.

8/12 – 1/14
Lead Construction Manager for Alcatel-Lucent. I was responsible for the construction portion of all FTTCS (fiber to the cell site) mod/upgrade work for the Sprint Vision Project in the San Diego Market. My team includes 4 field CM’s and six to twelve GC’s depending on what day of the week it was. This project includes over 750 sites in the 4G footprint. As I did at Cricket Communication I wrote the “Scope of Work” and “Method of Procedure” documents for this work. I have also been responsible for training all of ALU’s field construction managers as well as all the training of the contractors working on this portion of the project.

1/12 – 6/12
Construction Manager (contractor) for Cricket Communications, Inc in the San Diego Market. In the six months I was with Cricket Communications I was responsible for the swapping out of PCS antennas for AWS technology capable antennas at over 100 sites. I was also responsible for the necessary fiber upgrades of all 176 sites in Crickets LTE footprint. I managed the LTE site prep mod work at 85 sites. I put together all SOW, MOP and punch list’s for Cricket’s LTE 4G site mod work.

9/06 – 9/11
Construction Manager (contractor) for Metro PCS in the LA market. I was responsible for 200 plus CDMA new builds as well as 120 plus LTE 4G site mods and the necessary fiber upgrades. I also managed the microwave backhaul along the I15 corridor between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

10/03 – 9/06
Started Spellbound Homes, L.L.C. For 3 years my wife and I built and sold homes on a speculative basis.

3/02 – 10/03
Started Advanced Network Services and built Sprint PCS communication facilities in the San Diego Market. The company sold in the fall of 2003.

10/01 – 3/02
Director of Implementation for Rapid Broadband Technologies
Rapid was a start up company when I arrived. I was responsible for setting up all office procedures necessary to support and track projects large and small, including but not limited to: Job estimating, real time job costing, project scheduling and staffing, as well as subcontractor selection and management.

3/00 – 10/01
General Manager & R.M.E. for Eagle TCS
Eagle was also a start up company when I was hired. My duties were similar to those at Rapid with respect to development of office and field procedures. At the same time I was putting together teams to manage architecture, engineering and construction for Sprint PCS sites as well as constantly maintaining customer relations and project budgets. Within six months I was using these procedures and teams to manage more than a hundred jobs on a daily basis. These projects were in different stages of development ranging from zoning drawings through to actual construction of the facility. When I left Eagle my teams consisted of nearly 50 employees.

8/97 - 1/00
Projects Manager & R.M.E. for J&M Telecommunications
I was directly responsible for field based crews and customer relations. While at J&M we stood over 60 Roan Towers and built the supporting sites for ATC. These sites were located in the Central Valley of California and across Arizona.
We also built microwave systems for PATH NET. These paths included numerous hops from Detroit Michigan to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania as well as throughout Missouri and Arkansas. Our PCS customers included Nextel and Sprint PCS in California.

10/93 - 8/97
Owner of Far-West General Building Contractor
In the beginning Far-West was strictly a framing contractor building sub-divisions for Midland Pacific Corporation. After several years we started doing off site work as more of a “Paper Contractor “ these endeavors included but were not limited to: road construction, underground utility placement and the construction of a privately owned mutual water company.

References available upon request.