Senior Project Manager / Execution Engineer - BOLDYN NETWORKS - New York, NY
(2022-01 - 2024-12)
Oversaw fiber and wireless projects with the responsibility for the construction and engineering phases of commercial construction projects. Responsible for providing leading support on the planning, controlling, and monitoring of all projects and oversaw aspects of the deployment process, worked closely with engineers to develop plans, established timetables, and helped forecast labor and material costs to ensure the project completed on budget, within scope and timeframe.
- Planned, controlled, and monitored the execution of all construction related work of the project including scope, schedule, cost, quality, reporting, and communications.
- Ensured projects were performed in accordance with all contract documents, specifications, and all applicable standards.
- Assessed and mitigated risk factors.
- Supported projects per all safety guidelines.
- Supported Engineering and Operations to monitor the daily work activities by contractors and complete accurate and timely logs for projects based upon scope and schedule.
- Supported to resolve field-related issues and Requests for Information as they arose.
- Created and reviewed Change Directives and Change Orders for approval.
- Reviewed financial reports to verify and monitor project tracking.
- Attended and coordinated pre-bid, kickoff, project, and closeout meetings
- Attended field visits with project stakeholders, including but not limited to contractors, subcontractors, customers, and any other form of project coordination.
- Cultivated correspondence with Owner, Engineers, Subcontractors, Suppliers, etc. including, but not limited to Schedule of Values, project schedule, memos, requests for information, meeting agendas and minutes, transmittals and submittals.
- Prepared necessary documentation for Progress Meetings, including but not limited to Project Status, Job Completion Stage, and other issues.
- Supported in the review of as-built drawings and acceptance tests.
Construction Manager - ALTICE USA - Brooklyn & Bronx, NY
(2019-01 - 2020-12)
Managed day to day operations of utility technicians and mark-out contractors, with primary focus on protecting outside plant facilities. Monitored jobs and identified training and development needs. Provided construction and project management of Altice's Fiber to the Home (FTTH) in New York City.
- Acted as Liaison between Altice and various local utility operators, municipalities, government agencies, and construction companies and oversaw coordination.
- Attended all NYC DDC/DOT project planning / alignment meetings that ensured Altice facilities were represented and protected during municipal project planning.
- Attended field meetings with municipal contractors on planned and emergency projects to negotiate Cable Electric and Telephone (CET) utility interference items and associated costs within set Altice fiduciary guidelines that ensured Altice plant was protected.
- Managed 811 One Call mark-out process. Worked with mark-out vendor ensuring all facilities were marked out and complied with all state and local laws.
- Managed contracted watchmen that ensured facilities were protected from various excavators, conducted field visits making contact with excavators and establishing working relationships.
- Managed 3rd party damage claim process ensuring maximum recovery. Conducted field investigations, worked with inside / outside legal counsel and attended legal depositions resulting in recovering thousands of dollars in damages.
- Received corrective action / environmental control board violations from NYC DOT and managed the collection of information to protest or defend Altice at hearings.
Director / Site Leader - AMERICAN TRAFFIC SOLUTIONS - Staten Island, NY
(2017-01 - 2018-12)
Directed installation and maintenance of photo enforcement camera equipment and Staten Island street lights for NYC.
Managed International Brotherhood Electrical
Workers (IBEW) union staff members. Provided break / fix maintenance, upgrade, and new project work. Union employees were foundation and electrical experts with small contingency of computer techs that maintain photo enforcement equipment. Managed oversight over purchasing, billing, invoicing, time sheets, etc. Provided budgeting, business planning, sales, business development, P&L, and strategic planning. Strong negotiation skills and techniques.
- Interfaced with account management leadership and customer to understand priorities and set expectations for delivery.
- Used customer priorities to make decisions on staffing for photo enforcement and street light maintenance programs resulting in customer satisfaction and meeting customer priorities.
- Saved $150,000 in 2017 by reducing costs for overtime, material purchases and supplies by negotiating with vendors and strategically allocating project resources.
- Lead creation and managed execution of all necessary processes and controls resulting in delivering exemplary performance to contracted objectives.
- Directly managed superintendent and foremen for decisions ensuring client priorities and contractual needs were met.
- Managed relationship with the International Brotherhood Electrical Workers (IBEW) union.
- Worked in and fostered a continuous process improvement environment.
- Team building and managing a culturally-diverse employee base resulting in a better working environment.
Project Manager - DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DOITT) - NYC / Brooklyn, NY
(2015-01 - 2017-12)
Delivered new Logging & Recording (L&R) system for NYPD and FDNY. Oversaw project requirements, design, development, testing, transition and deployment, managed activities and communication across multiple project teams, business owners, and multiple ECTP stakeholder organizations.
- Maintained detailed work plans and project schedules, provided project analyses and recommendations, and prepared project status reports.
- Ensured Logging & Recording project was delivered on time, within budget, and complied with the system / software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Worked collaboratively with key business owners and stakeholders within Police, Fire and EMS operations ensuring business requirements were met.
- Provided systems and integration testing, facilitated user acceptance testing, and managed transition of new L&R system across user community.
- Supervised project's execution, budget, schedule, and resource utilization, as well as identified project risks and issues, implemented mitigation / resolution actions, and escalated to program management as appropriate.
Program Manager - NORTHROP GRUMMAN - Brooklyn, NY
(2014-01 - 2015-12)
Managed project from requirements validation, design development, implementation, testing, training, planning and execution of multi-agency legal Voice and Data Logging and Recording (L&R) system in support of Public Safety Answering Center supporting Police, Fire and EMS Emergency Call taking and Dispatch Operations and ancillary systems. Developed meeting agendas and schedules. Conducted and documented all needed meetings and published meeting reports and action items.
- Coordinated efforts of subcontractor design team and cross project design activities which kept project moving forward without any issues.
- Worked with project sponsor and end user agencies to review design, gain acceptance of design, schedule implementation and transition activities in conjunction with Program's PMO organization ensuring project moved forward.
- Developed and tracked project schedules, project technical and non-technical deliveries, inter-project dependencies, and milestones throughout the project lifecycle.
- Coordinated development of requirements matrix in facilities needs such as rack and floor space, power, HVAC, cabling and wiring, network connectivity, network capacity and security and console layout space allocations.
Manager PMO Commercial Engineering - TIME WARNER CABLE - New York, NY
(2013-01 - 2013-12)
Created and led team of Project Managers and Coordinators that delivered on variety of goals through all aspects of project's lifecycle.
- Actively managed multiple engineering projects, drove project teams through formal project management process that ensured project goals, timelines and budgets were met.
- Used strong leadership skills to effectively manage, without direct authority, project team members to meet goals and expectations. Provided technical and analytical guidance to project team and developed project plans that ensured requirements were met.
- Interacted with cross-functional teams that spanned organization. Resolved issues via proper communication channels. Proactively identified key barriers to project's success and worked with project teams to define and manage activities to mitigate those barriers.
- Established, owned, and lead project communication forums both vertically and horizontally across regional engineering teams.
- Worked toward continuous improvements of Engineering organization's project management methods, templates, and tools. Partnered with PMO leadership in development and implementation of project management processes, operations and best practices.
- Created a culture of teamwork by leading and demonstrating value of teamwork.
Manager Network Engineering Corporate Technology - VERIZON - BELL ATLANTIC - NYNEX - NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY - New York, NY
(1990-01 - 2012-12)
Engineering and Program Manager for design, build and network creation of Fiber to the Premise (FTTP - FiOS) to Multiple Dwelling Units and Multiple Tenant Units in New York City.
- Held positions in rotation under an executive management program including construction foreman, business office supervisor, outside plant planning manager, and design engineering manager.
- Served as single point of contact for engineering, design and pathway creation for Fiber to the Premise (FTTP - FiOS) to Multiple Dwelling Units (MDUs) and Multiple Tenant Units (MTUs) in New York City.
- Managed Outside Plant Engineers on design and network creation of Fiber to the Premise architecture in Multiple Dwelling Units and Multiple Tenant Units.
- Managed vendors for pathway construction, electrical builds of overlay and Greenfield properties.
- Coordinated walkthroughs of properties with construction and installation to establish ownership.
- Established, lead and participated in meetings that addressed all phases of project planning, control, implementation and budget.
- Provided status reports to FTTP Executive Management that kept them apprised of current situations.
- Served as single point of contact for various projects for Design Build Teams including introduction of major systems and technologies, new products and services and other marketing regulatory initiatives.
- Designed and built Plain Old Telephone (POTS) and hi-capacity circuits - T1, DS3 and SONET services for New York City residential and commercial.
- Directed critical issues, problems, opportunity identification and resolutions which ensured compliance with newly accepted standards of performance.
- Provided status reports to project sponsors and all levels of Project Management and core teams on periodic and ad hoc basis that kept them apprised of current situations.
- Analyzed projected versus actual budgeting and other statistical data for accuracy and anomalies.
- Developed, prepared and implemented Area Network Plans and statement documentation recommending and supporting new technologies, services, architectures and capacity relief to economically direct network toward strategic corporate objectives.
- Analyzed deliverables with quantifiable data and economic considerations by providing support to the Strategic Business Unit.
- Formulated requests for proposals and gave presentations to Executive Management which kept everyone apprised of statuses of jobs, costs, timelines.
- Additional experience included Design Engineering Manager, Outside Plant Planning Manager, Senior Outside Plant Planner, Business Office Supervisor and Construction/Maintenance Foreman.
