WORK EXPERIENCE
Director of Technical Operations: STRATIS IoT - Philadelphia, PA 2020-present
- Manage and train a team of technical Project managers
- Coordinate tasks with engineering, QA, subcontractors and clients
- Meet with stakeholders to capture project requirements and scope
- Run regularly scheduled team meetings, providing transparency for stakeholders
- Hire and manage field technicians for IoT and access system integration
- Mark up plan sets for IoT network design, including Z-Wave and Wifi
- Bid labor for for installation including LV, access and device commissioning
- Effectively manage project communication across remote teams
- Track project progress: (Schedule, Cost and Quality) in TaskRay
- Work with Engineering, Support and Dev teams to resolve technical issues
- Identify and respond to issues related to project plan (scope, resources and schedule)
- Ensure proper system/solution and key data documentation maintained in SalesForce
Purchasing Manager: WSP USA, INC - Lancaster, PA 2013-2020
- Served as Interim Director 2019/2020
- Manage purchasing for MRO/Facilities, Furniture, IT, Telco and A/V categories
- Responsible for over $11 million dollars of annual spending
- Perform and compile research for RFP/RFQ evaluation
- Procurement support for core business units (Transportation, Finance, IT)
- Manage logistics for IT and e-waste recycling and re-marketing program
- Negotiate terms and pricing for vendor contracts: MSA, FFP, CPFF
- Coordinate with suppliers to expedite deliveries and resolve discrepancies
- Provide hands-on technical support to Purchasing department
- IT Administrator for Epicor eProcurement platform
- Write and maintain user documentation for applications
- Online and phone support for 1,500+ users
- Maintain and update intranet sites on the Sharepoint platform.
IT Procurement Engineer: Mobile Research Labs - King of Prussia, PA 2012-2013
- Project Manager for national network deployment
- Negotiate and execute colocation and vendor contracts: MSA, FFP, FPIF, CPFF
- Perform and compile research for RFP/RFQ bids
- Meet with stakeholders and collate project requirements
- Budget analysis for national hardware deployments
- Hired and instructed contracted field technicians for remote site installations
- Hardware specifications and procurement
- Field installation of servers, antennas and components
- Responsible for hardware inventory and availability
- Assist operations team with technical support
Technology Consultant: Monitor Latino - Los Angles, CA 2012
- Assist hardware and software deployment logistics
- Maintain chain of custody for hardware transfers
- Instruct and troubleshoot with contracted field technicians
- Generate field hardware inventory reports
- Write specifications for software and hardware configuration
Sr. Field Engineer: Mediaguide - King of Prussia, PA 2006-2012
- PM for the deployment of 100+ remote network sites, nationally
- Negotiate and execute colocation and vendor contracts: MSA, FFP, FPIF, CPFF
- Perform and compile research for RFP/RFQ bids
- Administrate Hardware purchasing, inventory and deployment
- Budget analysis for national hardware deployments and infrastructure
- Maintain a database of radio metadata
- QA/QC new software applications
- Project management for ongoing network deployments
- Field installation of servers, antennas and components
- Responsible for 100 remote sites in a national network
- Represented company at conferences and events
- Decommission colocated network sites and closed projects
- Negotiated favorable early termination arrangements from vendors and colocations
- Recovered field hardware for final liquidation
Detection Analyst: Mediaguide - Berwyn, PA 2003-206
- Manage metadata and key fields for all content providers (Radio, TV Web etc.)
- User QA testing for both internal and customer-facing applications
- SME for development of customer-facing broadcast tracking applications
- Developed criteria for statistical quality testing of automated data matching
- Introduce and implement digital archiving policy for documents
- Install servers, routers and antennas and RF hardware at remote sites
- User QA for new software applications
- Represented company at conferences and events
- Promoted to Sr. Field Engineer May 2006
Manager Of Station Relations: Frequency Media - Atlanta, GA 2002-2003
- Leveraged music industry contacts to develop start up company
- Perform user QA testing for new applications
- Served as the main contact for all radio stations
- Lead development on proprietary radio station ranking methodology
- Facilitated music acquisition through business contacts
- Represented company at conferences and events
Co-Manager College Radio Dept: Music Syndicate - Weehawken, NJ 2000-2002
- Promoted music clients product to radio
- Contact for music industry clients (record labels, artist management)
- Acquired new accounts, wrote proposals and contracts
- Represented company at conferences and events
Program Director: WECS-FM - Willimantic, CT 1998-2000
- Managed staff of 60+ volunteers
- Organized fundraisers, and remote broadcast events
- Represented company at conferences and events
- Repair of elecronic parts and components
- Scheduled staff airtime
Producer: Inertia Concerts - Windham, CT 1998-2000
- Booked artists for a biannual festival
- Arranged facilities and equipment for events
- Planned and designed print and broadcast marketing
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
Applications: Epicor eProcurement, Sharepoint, AutoCAD, MS Project, Photoshop, GiMP, Moviemaker and the MS Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.)
Audio Editing: Sound Forge, Cool Edit, Audacity
Operating Systems: MS Windows (7, XP, Vista) Linux: (Ubuntu, Centos, Debian)
Web Development: HTML5/CSS3
EDUCATION
Eastern Connecticut State University, Windham, CT May 2000
Bachelor of Science in Communications
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Project Management Institute (PMI) - 2012
Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) - 2009
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) - 2008
American Purchasing Society (APS) - 2015
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