• Drive culture and provide leadership for network engineering team to achieve superior business results.

• Responsible for leading network design and traffic engineering for the MTSO facilities and PSTN interconnectivity and Least Cost Routing.

• Lead capacity planning and engineering of switch equipment, power systems and cell site equipment to ensure capacity service margins are maintained.

• Manage microwave engineering and capacity planning to ensure adequate capacity and reliability standards are maintained.

• Ensure regulatory compliance and engineering standards are met at the regional level.

• Develop and manage the capital budget for cellular switching needs, microwave radio systems to support new cell sites or replace existing systems, voicemail systems, and ancillary network infrastructure. Develop and manage the customer usage operating expense budgets.

• Manage equipment providers, outside vendors including long distance and local exchange carriers used within region.

• Ensure network engineering project milestones are met and serve as primary driver for escalation resolution.

• Support contract negotiations working in conjunction with regional support office (RSO).

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, abilities, and skills required of associates so classified. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.