Gerald R. Thornley Jr.

Experience

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  Verizon Business

  Sept 1988 - Dec 2010

  • Managed Verizon Business’s Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) Production and Staging facility, CPE Supply Chain Procurement and physical inventory, CPE order management, CPE order processing, the Operations Resource Centers remote CPE coordinators, and providing CPE spares to over 180 Verizon Business-serving terminals.• Planned and managed a $2.1 million departmental budget and $40 million Network and CPE physical inventory budget with approximately $10 million outbound in equipment per month.• Managed two managers, two supervisors and 35-50 local and remote employees during this time. Prepared and updated employment records, hiring, benefits, schedules, working conditions, promoting, counseling and terminations. • Worked with Sales/Account teams, Program Management organizations, and Managed Services to develop, propose and provide project proposals, quotes, and schedules. Show less

  • Senior Manager

    Jun 2000 - Dec 2010

  • Various

    Sept 1988 - Jun 2000
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  Verizon Enterprise Solutions

  Dec 2010 - Dec 2015

  * Supported the U.S. Army Reserves Command (USARC) DS3 circuit upgrade project. Managed the supply chain process for equipment procurement, staging, implementation, shipment, and installation of over 600 USARC locations throughout the United States.* Managed the security and accountability of the USARC owned physical inventory stored in the Verizon Business Richardson, Texas warehouse.* Received in-bound equipment, updated, audited and maintained inventory records with internal systems and provided reporting to the customer as required per service level agreements. Show less * Supported the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) upgrade project including all functions of the supply chain process: equipment purchasing, physical inventory accountability, Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Staging, and shipment of equipment to over 900 MSSB branch locations globally.* Supported MSSB DS3 circuit upgrade project and the MSSB supply chain equipment recovery (Reverse Logistics) for over 200 domestic and international locations.* Assigned project lead for the equipment and provisioning portion of $1B project in 2Q11. Project completed on-time, avoiding contract cancellation as well as a monthly 1% late penalty. Show less

  • Technical Project Manager (Life Cycle Engineer)

    Sept 2013 - Dec 2015

  • Project Manager

    Dec 2010 - Sept 2013
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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  May 2016 - Mar 2017

  Project Manager (Contractor)

  * Support the U.S. Navy Marine Corp Intranet on a variety of IT-based project upgrades.* Secret security clearance.

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  Verizon Enterprise Solutions

  Jun 2017 - Sept 2018

  Project Manager (Contractor)

  * Support the Kaiser Permanente account on a variety of equipment-based site upgrades and decommissions.