PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Riverside, CA

Director of Business Development

Responsibilities:

• Serving as a key member of the executive team charged with formulating strategic direction and devising business development initiatives consistent with overall strategy in Telecommunication and IT field.
• Traveled nationally to identify new business opportunities and effectively managed a territory spanning across the West and Central Region.
• Planned and executed marketing strategies and events including conferences with multiple participants.
• Cultivated business partnerships, built a successful pipeline and created new sales opportunities including new large - scale Clients projects with bidding, creating RFPs and completing the sales cycle to close with Job complete report to executive team.
• Managed new and existing client projects including complex contract negotiations and liaising with legal counsel as needed. Strategically managed revenue generation endeavors, including the development of forecasts, divisional pipeline strategies and quarterly VP/CEO reports.
• Built and managed a business development team to enhance and refine customer relationships and satisfaction.
• Collaborated with advertising company with marketing materials and sales strategy resulting in increased brand awareness and sales.

Confidential, Riverside, CA

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided flawless support with customer service to IT field techs with IT installations for new and remodel stores nationwide, weekly video conferencing training with new upcoming stores updates.
• Developed strong mutual relationship with ADT team, T1 installation team, construction team, security team and IT team with remote support to meet company goal to meet company deadlines.
• Maintain established communication schedule to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project
• Review the quality of the work completed with the project team with the Project Lead on a regular basis to ensure that IT meets the project standards.
• Ensure project deliverables are on time and Confidential desired quality.
• Worked with vendors and internal partners to resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Produce regular reports on the project to be shared with product teams and leadership that identify areas for improvement and make appropriate recommendations.
• Facilitate productive working relationships and effective communication with all internal and external partners.
• Conduct regular weekly meetings with team; communicate daily via email or conduct stand-ups, conference calls, or 1:1 with all contributors as necessary

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Market Triband Optimization Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of diverse, medium to moderately complex technical projects, including Resource Managements, Project Scheduling, Project status reporting, and Risk Management to stay within budget and stay within given time guidelines.
• Provide project management support involving multi carrier LTE optimization, DAS, capacity growth, 3G offload plans, and integrating alternative solutions across the market.
• Project Management support for creating Market Forecasts, scheduling and tracking Project Milestones/Tasks and manage project plans with deliverables.
• Manage large-scale engineering projects using Project Management tools (PMO Website, Web source, and Excel Tracker) to ensure objectives are met in a timely manner.
• Input, update, and manage project timelines, document hurdles / risks, and implement associated solutions to achieve completion of tasks.
• Coordinates any governance related activities, and ensures that identified systems; tools, databases, and data repository are updated accurately and timely, in accordance with the Contract Documents.
• Support NEPA compliance team with propagation atoll maps for zoning needs to meet site launch schedule.
• Provides leadership and direction to the engineering team, and develop detailed work plans, bidding, RFPs, schedules, and Job complete report status.
• Work with Solution Architect and Optimization engineers to implement processes for network optimization, and provide status update to management/client on the status of the project.
• Lead program meetings and is responsible for program tracking and analysis.
• Manage all stages of post launch optimization from site turn up, Performance Management/ Reporting, Cluster Acceptance (CLA), and multi-band tuning/optimization.
• Lead in the issue and management of change orders for system growth and optimization.
• Manage and implement system modifications to improve network performance, diagnose work flow problems, critical paths and institute remedies.
• Support the continued development of PMO practices, processes and procedures.

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

Project Manager and Market Lead Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead 17 LTE Design Engineer and 5 LTE RFDS group for LA and Orange County, California with planning to implement stage on assigned LTE launch project.
• Manage all aspects of diverse, medium to moderately complex technical projects, including Resource Managements, Project Scheduling, Project status reporting, and Risk Management to stay within budget and given time guidelines.
• Hiring, training and schedule team for DRM to review blue print, Site pre and post walk, equipment order for new install or site modification, Verify BOM ordered before construction starts with a team meeting, C&E Turf Vendor Training, BDM schedule to assist C&E Turf Vender with LTE Project including fiber, coax cabling, T1 installation, JCR review to approval.
• Get proper access permit from local and government for property access for Engineers and Construction team to complete their task.
• Project Completed in Planning and Implemented Phase listed below:
• Establish, review, and maintain product/project development timelines in conjunction with Senior Management and working with cross-functional teams to set clearly delineated goals and agreed upon critical dates to meet project needs and revising the schedule as required.
• Create a detailed work plan that identifies and sequences activities required to successfully complete projects.
• Establish a communication schedule to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project.
• Participate in project planning and strategy kickoff meetings.
• Identify areas for improved efficiency in the project development process and champion continuous improvement initiatives relating to process and workflows.
• Implement project management best practices to optimize existing processes and/or develop new processes to improve efficiency in project development.
• Create and maintain budgets
• Track external agency burn reports and manage internal team’s time/work against budgets
• Be hands-on with the daily task-tracking and team capacity planning
• Execute the project according to the project plan.
• Manage adherence to naming convention, records, and archival filing protocols to document project activities.
• Monitor the progress of the project and make adjustments as necessary to ensure the successful completion of the project.
• Maintain established communication schedule to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project.
• Review the quality of the work completed with the project team with the Project Lead on a regular basis to ensure that it meets the project standards.
• Ensure project deliverables are on time and Confidential desired quality.
• Evaluate the outcomes of the project as established during the planning phase.
• Produce regular reports on the project to be shared with product teams and leadership that identify areas for improvement and make appropriate recommendations.
• Facilitate productive working relationships and effective communication with all internal and external partners.
• Conduct regular weekly meetings with team; communicate daily via email or conduct stand-ups, conference calls, or 1:1 with all contributors as necessary.
• Ensure clarity of objectives, timelines, resources, and references and enforce accountability among all partners in development of products.
• Negotiate and manage general contractors and/or vendors
• Launched LTE switch upgrades and modifications to existing towers including adding, modifying, and implementation to towers for new LTE launch.
• Support Optimization department with internal projects to speed up site launch with site monitoring tracker.
• Assisted with oDAS ROW project of 125 sites with a proposal fiber and cabling re-design and implementation plan within budget guidelines.
• Assisted with 80 NSB Sites project from Search ring design till site implementation to on Air status.
• Travel 20% on site visits.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve real estate and lease-related issues as needed to meet timely deadlines.
• Successfully negotiate and work with all types of Landlords and their agents to meet the clients contractual and regulatory obligations with experience in retail leasing, strong retail Lease negotiation, contract negotiation, and strong client strategic communication.
• Identify and resolve network critical or site critical issues requiring immediate escalation to the Network leadership team with status and proposal to stay on track. Insured all fiber were PIM tested before installed.
• Work with 12 Turf vendors with Negotiate and manage general contractors and/or vendors weekly for Design Review Meeting to insure Design Guidelines are met up to implementation.
• Hands on experience and work knowledge on Site Acquisition, Zoning, and Construction from design, pre-check construction details with site visit moving to final approval for construction. Go to zone site hearing with vendors for any city zoning hearing needed.
• Support NEPA compliance team with propagation atoll maps for zoning needs to meet site launch schedule.
• Review environmental due diligence and Phase I reports and work with outside legal counsel and regional real estate Teams to resolve environmental issues.
• Field experience on site walk for Construction and PICD Design review.
• LTE Design experience for 1st,2nd and future expansion carrier.
• Hands on experience with RFDS, Atoll, JCRs, NTD/CTS Remedy, Siterra & CASPR.
• Extensive use of Excel and Word to create reports and requests for RAN and C&E Team
• Assist Company with sales in Increasing projects with Client and Risk Management.

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

RF Engineering Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Managed 160 Overlay/MOD sites, responsibility included:
• Worked with multiple turfing vendors to support market deployment of UMTS 1st & 2nd carrier
• Reviewed and approved Project scope
• Worked with RF on design modifications
• Hands on experience on RFDS preparation.
• Working with Visio and preparing RFDS based on the plumbing diagram.
• Hands on experience on MapInfo
• Integration & Commissioning and Operation &Maintenance of Nortel GSM & GPRS Network
• Integration & Commissioning and Operation &Maintenance of Various M/W Systems
• Work on Trouble tickets from BMC Remedy related to customer issues with call drops, no service.

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

RF Planning and optimization Engineering Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Tracked 5 Clusters(200 sites) across the entire South TX region for RF Planning and Site Selection for CDMA 2000 (1x Rtt) and Evdo technology, RF Planning based on analysis and predictions on Planet EV with Rapid Planning/Monte Carlo simulations displaying different plots to counter coverage, capacity and Site Location issues. Site selection for Cricket and Pocket sites across the San Antonio market and South TX region using Planet Ev to come up with optimal selection. Constant updates and strong presentations to upper management teams throughout the span of the project. Proposed and implemented Optimization changes for the Clusters handled.
• Recommended Cell Parameters changes-Antenna Tilt, Antenna Azimuth, Antenna Type, Sectorization, Carrier add, etc for optimization purpose to come up with a better coverage and capacity network.
• CW data collection for propagation tool tuning.
• Process CW data and integrate into Planet propagation tool. Generates search ring and work with Site Acquisition and run propagation simulation for candidate selection.
• Perform site visits to lock down sites and execute construction drawing reviews.
• For network optimization: Collect over the air CDMA 1XRTT data (forward link data) and execute real time troubleshoot issues.
• Perform monitoring for troubled areas and execute site audits periodically and execute data collection for areas with issues for constant improvements. Analysis of forward link data to identify the root cause of failure for dropped calls or access failures.
• Perform Customer trouble tickets and communicate with customer to resolve the network issue.
• Perform parameter audits to determine be case scenario for capacity and coverage improvements. Involved in daily review meetings for troubled ticket analysis and closure.
• Work with the NOC for reverse link logging and site or sector trouble shooting.
• Worked with multiple Contracting vendors to support Corpus Christi market deployment of EVDO from Ground up.
• Participated in Zoning Hearing, Construction meetings, and supported Market with RF propagation maps.
• Reviewed Construction drawing to insure accuracy for final Construction direction.
• Worked with different Cities/Jurisdictions to secure Construction Building Permits (San Antonio, Corpus Christie, Laredo and RGV)

Confidential, Farmers Branch, Texas

Device Testing Engineering Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Test Mobile phone and Data cards in 2g and 3g state.
• This includes all voice features testing, data upload and download, internet stress testing, Bluetooth connecting, push to talk, use mobile phone as modem testing, SMS, MMS, and every feature test on the phone.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Project Manager for Bench Marking Data Collection for Confidential Project, Hired and Supervised 42 independent drive testers nationwide from start to end. Assisted the Confidential project with Nationwide hiring, training, replacing team member, terminating based on their deliveries, project assigning and coordinating the data collection engineers’ nationwide in selected cities requested by client.
• Generated the drive test schedule and ensured that engineers complete the scheduled drive tests and followed thru with the collected data submission to the analysis team.
• Provided Pre-Preplanning, budget control, hiring, train RF Engineers with equipment setup and maintain for the duration of project, train engineer with both Andrew & ZK Units for collection of multi-communications companies network comparison in cost effective process.
• Resolve Network Trouble tickets with customer and RF engineer departs, Once all unites and engineer were ready I moved the project to Operation department to deploy the Drive testing teams for Bench marking data collection project.
• Remotely monitor the project as senior project manager for any assistance to Operation Project manager to maintain quality of ongoing project.
• Assisted Coordinators and drive tester teams with New York and New Jersey project in UMTS upgrade project which included site Certification and Optimization of all assigned sites.
• This Included Hiring, training, assigning engineering for the project. Tools utilized in the market were TEMS 8.2. Process drive data in TEMS & ACTIX, processed drive data check for RF Engineer job completion and submit to the Clients RF Lead Engineers.
• Responsible for assisting Optimization Engineering with the end to end execution of Accuracy Drive Testing, analyze and evaluate customer networks to design test plans, monitor the drive to assure the Drive Tester is executing against the Test Plan.
• Assisted teams with troubleshooting, training, Site Audit, kit setup, assign site assignments to individual drive testers, and compare data for any correction before submitting to Ericsson Lead RF Engineer.