Experience

I joined Dish Wireless in 2020 as the Market General Manager of the Denver Market. My responsibility was to build out their stand-alone green-field 5G Open-RAN network across Colorado and Wyoming. Denver is their headquarter market, so my team supported a number of initiatives and trials as part of that deployment. In 2023 I moved to the national Finance FP&A team as a Finance Manager. It is a great opportunity to finally put my MS Finance degree to use and further broaden my exposure to functions outside of building and operating the network.

I joined MetroPCS in 2005 as a Director of Network Operations. I helped them build their cellular network in Dallas, TX and launch the brand in that market. I hired all of the cell site technicians and their managers, trained and equipped them, and set up our warehouse operations. I later became Director of RF Engineering, in charge of maintaining network performance and design. In this role, I worked closely with the CTO team on LTE trials and its deployment (4G). We were the first carrier to launch commercial LTE service in the U.S., and that was due to the testing we did with vendors such as Ericsson and Samsung. Eventually I became the Regional Vice President of Network Engineering and Operations, overseeing every aspect of the network in North Texas and Louisiana, including the development of Voice over LTE (VOLTE) and small cell deployments.

When T-Mobile acquired MetroPCS in 2013, I took on the role of Director of Network Engineering and Operations for North and West Texas, as well as Shreveport, LA. I was responsible for every part of the cellular network used by T-Mobile and MetroPCS. I also had the responsibility of “right-sizing” the combined network and our staff. While no one enjoys having to do that job, it is necessary at times. In the end I succeeded in bringing the two teams together into one unified group. It is important to treat people fairly and with dignity in tough times like mergers, especially in industries like telecommunications where you continue to see the same people again and again, but in different roles.

I joined McCaw in 1992. I installed car phones in vehicles when that was relatively new. I also repaired cell phones, and became Motorola Certified to make circuit board level repairs and replace components. I drove the effort to get our store certified, so we could turn repairs around faster by doing them in-house instead of sending them to other repair centers. Customers really appreciated that.

AT&T acquired McCaw and changed the name to AT&T Wireless Services. I moved into an Inventory Coordinator position in 1995, and oversaw the purchasing, invoicing, and inventory movements of all phones and accessories in the store. I later transitioned into engineering as an Engineering Assistant in 1996, and helped with the project to overlay the analog network (1G) with TDMA digital (2G). I became a System Test Analyst for central Texas in 1997, collecting and analyzing drive test data for network improvement initiatives. I then was promoted to RF Performance Engineer for Austin in 1998, concentrating on optimizing the network to reduce dropped calls and other call quality problems. I became the Manager of RF Engineering in 2001, and oversaw the network overlay of GPRS, GSM, EDGE, and UMTS technologies (3G).

Some of the places I have worked