Director - West Region Site Development Resume Example

Responsible for National Site Development Initiatives, Rent budgeting & management, Supply Chain and Logistics as well as Vision / IDEN Decommission site development management.

• Managed diverse group of over 80 employees including 15 Managers, Supervisors and Subject Matter Experts in supporting regional and national objectives.
• Established national process and guidelines for Site Development activities and reporting.
• Managed the site acquisition process for deployment, setting goals for leasing and NTPs for over 38K sites, including NTP and excluded fee processing, rent approval and MLA escalations.
• Managed the site acquisition process for IDEN Decommission of all sites.
• Established, forecasted and tracked an operating budget of over $100M and a capital budget in excess of $1B. This includes tracking costs against the budget, establishing cost metrics for forecasting and formulating cost strategies.
• Managed the inventory and material budgeting for the field engineering and operations group, including the tracking of all assets in system and value analysis with inventory levels. This includes managing 2 warehouses, transportation and Sox controls around value and use.
• DAS Implementation and Support including lease negotiations.
• Managed over 8000 4G Clearwire collocations on Sprint sites.
• Switch and cell site rent budget forecasting and tracking.
• Implementation of rent reduction initiative.
• Utility budget forecasting and tracking, including reporting on green initiative projects.
• Master Lease Agreement negotiations and management for all Tower Companies.

Directed a team in the strategic planning for RF engineering, Operations and Site Development for the West region buildout.

• Developed plans and budgets for the region and ensured implementation and standardization across all markets.
• Developed recommendations and processes for the field to follow and measured success by developing scorecards to report on national goals.
• Managed the logistics of all material as well as telco, E911 and equipment ordering.
• Developed processes to effectively manage all the inventory and ensured levels are up to standard.
• Supported the VP in sales meetings, presentations and overall regional strategy.

Directed diverse teams responsible for site acquisition, zoning and construction of cell sites and carriers in the West Region.

• Fiscal scope includes an expense budget of over $20 million and a capital budget of over $400 million.
• Led a team of 7 Site Development Managers and a staff of 50 employees and 30 contractors, with local and remote management of teams in Irvine, Walnut Creek, San Diego, Phoenix and Las Vegas, Dallas, Kansas and Chicago.
• Provided management and operations forecasting and performance reporting to senior executives and Sales and Marketing.
• Coached managers in professional leadership skills. Ensure that resources are balanced with workload. Methods employed include monthly reviews, skip level meetings and detailed development plans.
• Spearheaded the Project Management Initiative to ensure that 200 individual contributors will be certified Project Management Professionals in 2005.
• Managed rapid EVDO deployment for West/Central Regions, adding high speed data equipment to over 7000 sites.
• Accomplished the addition of 500 Qwest sites to the Sprint Network in 2004, including the acquisition and equipment conversion. These sites were delivered in 7 months and $3 million under budget.
• Developed cost control standards for the Architects and Engineers in the West Region resulting in uniform pricing and overall cost savings.
• Built and launched over 6000 cell sites from 2000-2007 in Central, South and West regions.
• Able to exceed volume budget each year for my regions as well as deliver cell sites at a competitive cost structure.