Project Management
ATS
Total years of experience :15 years, 11 Months
• Manage end to end project life cycle from initiation, planning, design, development, testing, and deployment of Verizon & Ericsson telecom network.
• Facilitate the ordering, PO approval process and installation of the telecom network equipment.
• Create new business opportunities; engaged senior level executives in identifying client need.
• Develop and review procedures with cross functional colleagues to cultivate customer focus solution that address client needs in a profitable manner.
• Lead client and internal project execution including tracking project activities to ensure delivery; compile required documents; monitor change requests; analyze risks to resolve issues, conflicts and escalations.
• Implement new production methodologies that resulted in optimizing employee's time to finish the tasks, thus enhancing employee efficiency.
• Provide single point of contact for all program related communications with internal/external steak-holder.
• Develop clear and concise weekly/monthly reports detailing forecast across schedule, budget and technical issues.
• Manage and track the design change and request for information processes.
• Implement and maintain weekly program manager meeting with stakeholder focus to identify and resolve technical, risk and budget issues that might have negative impact on the progress.
• Manage multiple sides of the business including carrier, OEM, national deployment, cellular builds, and vendor management.
• Plan, control and manage the projects to successfully achieve the objectives in all phases from pre-scoping to close out packages.
• Lead, coach, and mentor personnel within a technical team environment.
• Handle periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities, and client issues.
• Provided End to End Project Management includes Planning, Budget Control, Resource Management, Project Scheduling Monitoring and Controlling as well as Financial Management and Closing.
• Designed scope of work and work breakdown structures; developed and tracked budgets and schedules; tracked individual project tasks; provided risk analysis; tracked and resolved issues and action items.
• Produced control measures and reports as needed and communicated to project team and stakeholders.
• Planned and approved bid proposals from service providers for accuracy and proper Bill of Materials (BOM) needed by definition of project scope; as well as clearly defined time frame for completion and funding limitations. End to End Project Management includes Planning, Budget Control, Resource Management, Project Scheduling Monitoring and Controlling as well as Financial Management and Closing.
• Led multiple projects over 5M within budget and deadlines.
• Responsible for the management of Sprint Network Vision rollout for Micro, Macro NSB, DAS, carrier aggregation, Small Cell, Wi-Fi projects across major US markets.
• Accomplished professional services revenue and profit quotas while managing regional P&L.
• Implemented Scope of work, work breakdown structures, developed and tracked budget and schedule, tracked individual project tasks, provided risk analysis, tracked and resolved issues and action items.
• Coordinated & conducted daily and weekly meetings with project sponsors, equipment vendors, general contractors, and project management team to provide feedback on status of construction and provider delivery schedule.
• Led cross-functional project components of large programs, and full programs through full delivery life-cycle.
• Coordinated with the internal teams and customers to identify, validate and close locations for DAS network coverage including sports
• Led Supply Chain functions and completed 3G expansion and 4G LTE turnkey deployment for Sprint Network Vision project over 13, 000 thousand sites including Macro, Micro, DAS, 2.5, Microwave, COW and small cell sites across major US markets.
• Improved and facilitated demand plan, revenue forecast, PO fulfillment, procurement and hardware materials and logistics for over $1billion + projects in the Samsung network supply chain and network infrastructure deployment organization..
• Managed diverse functional teams, including customer, pre-sales, RF, leadership team, supply chain logistics, procurement and sub-contractors.
• Established and strengthened effective communication deployment tool; and Bill of Materials for vendors, customer and the engineering team.
• Achieved over $40 million in cost reduction - 15% total cost reduction with key suppliers in the region.
• Directed and trained team of 13 to 15 material planners across different region.
• Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Managed cross-functionally to design and build scalable construction, installation, and support processes to meet aggressive deadlines.
• Established effective communication deployment tool, Bill of Materials, vendors, clients, and the engineering team.
• Identified risks and prepared risk mitigation solutions to improve processes and inefficiencies for overcoming project challenges.
• Implemented effective logistics process for service providers, 3PLs, carriers, and vendors.
• Initiated a pre-shipment process for materials and delivery requirements.
• Planned shipment alignment with Bill of Materials (BOM) and construction forecast.
• Compiled and presented on hand inventory report for HQ (Samsung Korea) and 3rd party local vendors.
• Managed IP backhaul, ATM, DS3c, Ethernet to the Cell Site (ETTCS), UMTS, 3Gand 4G LTE growth projects for over 10, 000 sites throughout the Midwest region.
• Conducted ETTCS (Ethernet to the Cell site) project from end to end deployment for the central regional markets.
• Directed Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Infrastructure, Multi-family Dwelling Unit (MDU) design and materials.
• Analyzed equipment upgrades, Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployment and migrated sites to ETTCS.
• Led construction, RF engineering, compliance, circuit provisioning ordering, implementation and capacity management teams to ensure all deliverables are met within project deadlines.
• Managed 3G/UMTS deployment and compliance programs for the central region markets.
• Managed implementation, integration and scheduling task for each NLP phases for all the sites in central region markets.
• Prepared daily progress reports to executive team with itemized site/market launches and forecast integrations schedule for the central region markets.
• Provided high level of synergy and accuracy while co-coordinating with vendors and internal teams; in order to analyze, document and communicate technical issues and review the system &business requirements.
• Collaborated with Ericsson & Nokia leadership team to develop subject matter expertise during the initial 3G and 4G deployments; and mentored my team to build internal competence to support Ericsson / NSN UTRAN platform.
• Managed, implemented, scheduled, and tracked Ericsson derived turnkey projects supporting key customer deliverables to the highest customer satisfaction, while driving Cost, Quality, and Timeliness.
• Led RF engineers (local and remote) in tuning and optimizing UMTS and LTE launching of 2, 000+ multi carrier UMTS and 1, 500+ LTE sites.
• Improved project documentation tracker, identify project goals and tasks generating assignments to meet deadlines.
• Directed RNDCIQ, ECR, Scripts and RFDS preparation and delivery of 2000+ multi carrier sites for Midwest region.