Jessica Quintero
Pomona,USA
Summary
Telecom Project Manager with expertise in project coordination and team leadership. Proven ability to manage timelines, budgets, and cross-functional collaboration for optimal project execution. Strong communication skills enhance problem-solving and customer relations. Bilingual in English and Spanish, with a solid background in project tracking and telecom infrastructure.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate/Project Manager
Ridgeline Telecom
Brea, CA
11.2023 - Current
- Work closely with clients, including but not limited to: Pauley Construction, Extenet Systems, and Ripple Fiber.
- Manage fiber project schedules, ensuring on-time completion of engineering, design, and permitting phases.
- Forecast and track project progress by analyzing footage, weekly production rates, and resource allocation; ensuring projects stay on schedule, within budget, and profitable.
- Coordinate with designers, engineers, fielding, and admin teams to track project progress, resolve bottlenecks, and ensure work aligns with project requirements and timelines.
- Process invoices at project milestones, and revise invoices when necessary to maintain accurate financial records.
- Evaluate vendor proposals for outsourced services to optimize cost efficiency, while ensuring vendors meet quality standards and project deadlines.
- Lead internal, client, and jurisdictional meetings to provide project updates, align with forecasted deliverables, proactively identify and resolve issues, and ensure all deadlines and client commitments are met.
- Identify process inefficiencies and implement workflow improvements to boost profitability.
Project Coordinator
Ridgeline Telecom
Brea, CA
07.2022 - 11.2023
- Assisted the Project Manager in overseeing fiber projects, ensuring smooth execution from design to construction.
- Supported project setup, tracking deliverables, and maintaining schedules to ensure timely completion using internal tracking systems.
- Coordinated across multiple departments (Aerial, Drafting, Fielding, Engineering) to facilitate workflow and resolve project roadblocks.
- Conducted quality checks on high-level engineering designs, ensuring compliance with project standards.
- Processed and revised invoices at project milestones, ensuring accurate financial documentation.
- Assisted in monitoring resource allocation and production rates to support project forecasting and scheduling.
- Scheduled and supported project meetings, documented action items, and followed up to ensure alignment with project milestones.
- Managed document control, ensuring accurate retention, transmission, and compliance of all project-related files.
- Assisted with permit applications, ensuring timely approvals for construction.
- Conducted research on plat maps, easements, utility data, and right-of-way information to determine construction feasibility.
- Audited project data, monitored application requests, and updated records to maintain accuracy and accountability.
Fielding Department Lead
Ridgeline Telecom
Brea, CA
09.2020 - 07.2022
- Assisted the project managers in managing fielding and aerial requirements.
- Managed Fielding and Aerial Departments production schedules and work assignments, ensuring timely completion of tasks and efficient resource allocation.
- Oversaw the Aerial Team, ensuring timely completion of make-ready engineering, pole loading analysis, and utility pole applications.
- Oversaw the Fielding Team, ensuring timely completion of underground utility surveys, and utility pole surveys, to support project planning and design.
- Ensured internal and external project tracking mechanisms were consistently updated and accurate.
- Scheduled, coordinated, and attended meetings with internal teams and clients as required.
- Conducted comprehensive records research, analyzing utility maps, plat maps, tract maps, substructure maps, as-built plans, construction plans, and right-of-way maps to support project planning.
- Identified relevant jurisdictions to support the permitting, design, and overall project teams, ensuring accurate planning.
Permit Specialist
Ridgeline Telecom
Brea, CA
05.2018 - 09.2020
- Prepare, submit, and track permits for Railroads, DOT, Cities, Counties and Utilities, ensuring timely permit approval.
- Attend conference calls and meetings to report on current permit status.
- Utilize several different online resources to ensure quality and accuracy of designs and permit submittals.
- Work with different permitting agencies to understand each agency's standards and requirements to ensure accuracy.
- Work with local officials to further permit applications and secure government approval.
- Work with Designers and Drafters to review the scope of work and prepare all necessary documents for permit submittal.
- Perform general administrative duties in support of the permits department, such as filing, answering phones, shipping, scanning, and data entry.
- Maintain permit tracker with accurate and up to date information for pending permits.
- Perform monetary tasks, such as requesting checks for permit fees and submitting payment to jurisdictions.
- Train new hires on the tasks and responsibilities of a Permit Technician.
Data Entry Admin
Ridgeline Telecom
Brea, CA
03.2018 - 05.2018
- Assist the Aerial Department with organizing data from the Fielding Department.
- Provide and prepare pole data research for the Aerial Department.
- Organize photos, rename files, organize and update Google Earth kmz files.
- Prepare reports, manage company database and organize and review work order packages.
Education
Bachelor's Degree of Science - Business Administration
University of California-Riverside
Riverside, CA06.2017
Finance
Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
Milano, LombardiaSkills
- Project management: project scheduling, tracking, coordination, quality control, supervising experience, project management software
- Administrative and office management: clerical support, records and document management, filing, time management, organizational skills, and data entry
- Technical and software skills: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Adobe Acrobat, Google Earth Pro, general computer operation and skills
- Communication and interpersonal: written and verbal communication, customer support, multilingual, leadership
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Timeline
Associate/Project Manager
Ridgeline Telecom
11.2023 - Current
Project Coordinator
Ridgeline Telecom
07.2022 - 11.2023
Fielding Department Lead
Ridgeline Telecom
09.2020 - 07.2022
Permit Specialist
Ridgeline Telecom
05.2018 - 09.2020
Data Entry Admin
Ridgeline Telecom
03.2018 - 05.2018
Bachelor's Degree of Science - Business Administration
University of California-Riverside
Finance
Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi