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Reginald Keith

McKinney,TX

Summary

Experienced Network Project Manager adept at overseeing the planning, implementation, and optimization of network infrastructure projects. Skilled in team leadership, vendor engagement, and ensuring project milestones are delivered on time and within budget. Proven track record of driving efficiency and enhancing network performance to meet organization objectives.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions
Richardson, TX
05.2024 - Current
  • Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones.
  • Identified risks associated with each project and developed strategies for mitigating those risks.
  • Coordinated resources across multiple departments and teams as needed for successful completion of projects.
  • Maintained records of all documents related to each project including specifications, change orders, invoices.
  • Implemented effective communication protocols between internal teams working on different aspects of a given project.
  • Managed multiple projects with competing deadlines simultaneously.
  • Monitored progress of each project to ensure timely delivery of deliverables in accordance with established quality standards.
  • Built and established strong partnerships with teams, vendors and contractors.
  • Created project plans with established timelines, assigned to appropriate teams and managed workflow throughout construction.
  • Made changes to project scope and cost and implemented most effective change management processes to keep project up-to-date.
  • Generated and tracked change orders and other contractual modifications affecting budget and schedule.

Network Project Manager Lead

Verizon (Contract)
Richardson, TX
10.2019 - 02.2024
  • Served as the first point of contact for team escalations and high-priority projects
  • Direct efforts focused on identifying, documenting, and communicating best practices for new processes and improvements
  • Held direct responsibility for managing medium to large-scale engineering revenue-based projects using tools such as CCP, COA, WRviewer, NSAP, Canvas, and MS Power BI to meet objectives and timelines
  • Key Achievements: Project managed 40-75 projects simultaneously and provided weekly reporting to ensure projects stayed on target and met required milestones and estimated budgets; closed 18 projects per month
  • Identify, monitor, report, and escalate project-related issues to keep schedules and projects on-track
  • Engage senior managers, leads, SMEs and directors to resolve escalated issues
  • Set and track appropriate dates and facilitate communication/coordination between cross functional teams to ensure successful, on-time completion
  • Develops project plans to set key milestones, timelines, and deliverables as well as identify resource needs and perform quality reviews
  • Coordinates communication with various stakeholder groups across multiple functions and business units that impacts the scope, budget, risk, and resources of a project
  • Drive and manage vendor and outsource teams to meet construction timelines
  • Responsible for leading all aspects of implementing and managing assigned Field Operations projects and serves as the main point of contact for those projects.

Infrastructure/Operations Project Manager

PepsiCo
Plano, TX
10.2015 - 10.2019
  • Interfaced with a diverse range of clients to complete the development of sophisticated projects within budget and ahead of schedule
  • Managed all voice and data MACD provisioning requests across PepsiCo (North America, Canada, and Global), managing (small, medium & large) projects, bandwidth upgrades, and vendor relationships
  • Provided project turn-around expertise with the site contacts and coordinated site survey appointments with the customer, provided logistics support for ordering and circuit order installations and sent updates to customers and BIS project stakeholders
  • Key Achievements: Preserved financial objectives by communicating construction cost, equipment, and voice/data circuits monthly recurring and non-recurring charges to the project team and senior leadership
  • Managed conversions, upgrades, and circuit move requests to upgrade the internal network from TDM to Ethernet
  • Key Projects: Verizon Conversion Project: Spearhead 3-year project converting MPLS data circuits from Sprint and AT&T to Verizon for approximately 1100 circuits at more than 950 warehouses, plants, and distribution locations
  • Initiated creation of purchase orders, goods receipts, validated pricing, and invoices to generate billing at accurate rates
  • Reviewed and corroborated construction completion close-out documents to verify that the construction was completed successfully
  • Partnered with BT (British Telecom) to obtain downtime from the customer, so implementation and activations were scheduled accordingly
  • FLNA 2020 Project: Implemented strategies to upgrade division infrastructure, MPLS data circuits, and Cisco routers for a $5.8M projected cost
  • Project change resulted in infrastructure site builds to improve network efficiency by upgrading switches and UPS power supplies, allowing faster network speeds, and enhanced flexible security using MS Skype for business
  • The first project phase was completed in May 2017
  • The second phase was completed in January 2018
  • Tasked with managing 122 demarc extensions related to extending circuits for connected buildings
  • Created documentation, gathered research for historical data, and tracked and escalated MPLS circuit milestones.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration / Marketing -

University of North Texas

Associate of Arts & Science -

Mountain View College

Skills

  • Problem Management
  • Escalation Management
  • Corporate Financial Analysis
  • Leadership & Team Building
  • Planning & Procurement
  • Construction Management
  • Telecom Provisioning
  • Risk Management
  • Vendor Engagement
  • Datacenter Infrastructure
  • Time Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Change Management
  • Quality Assurance & Control
  • Team Collaboration
  • Team Development
  • Strategic & Tactical Planning

Certification

  • Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Project Management Institute, 2640340
  • ITIL v4 Foundation Certification, Axelos, GR671072739RK
  • Scrum Master Certified (SCRUMstudy), Credential ID: 860850
  • Scrum Developer Certified (SDC) (SCRUMstudy), Credential ID: 774052
  • Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC) (SCRUMstudy), Credential ID: 739141

Timeline

Project Manager

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions
05.2024 - Current

Network Project Manager Lead

Verizon (Contract)
10.2019 - 02.2024

Infrastructure/Operations Project Manager

PepsiCo
10.2015 - 10.2019

Bachelor of Business Administration / Marketing -

University of North Texas

Associate of Arts & Science -

Mountain View College
  • Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Project Management Institute, 2640340
  • ITIL v4 Foundation Certification, Axelos, GR671072739RK
  • Scrum Master Certified (SCRUMstudy), Credential ID: 860850
  • Scrum Developer Certified (SDC) (SCRUMstudy), Credential ID: 774052
  • Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC) (SCRUMstudy), Credential ID: 739141

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