Matthew Spindler

Experience

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  CVS Caremark Corporation

  May 2005 - Aug 2009

  Pharmacy Intern

  • Interacted with customers by running cash registers, entering prescriptions, and answering phone calls.• Counseled patients on proper use of their medication and transcribed new prescriptions from doctors.• Networked with sales representatives from pharmaceutical companies. Worked with third party insurances.• Prepared and presented on a large project given at the end of summer to district managers.• Traveled to multiple pharmacies and evaluated each store on a list of criteria such as work flow management and Pharmacy Service Initiative (PSI) compliance.• Selected as one of three interns in the region to participate in a program designed to emphasize the business aspect of the profession and be a potential Pharmacist-in-Charge (PIC) out of school. Show less

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  AT&T (Contracted by Progressive Communication Services, Inc.)

  May 2011 - Jun 2012

  Project Manager / Scheduler - Construction and Engineering Wireline

  • Scheduled and tracked the work for over thirty drafting employees. This process included communication with more than fifty engineers plus various area managers to establish priority on projects and streamline their progression. It also included management roles, such as performance evaluations and sitting in on meetings.• Developed and implemented a new scheduling process at the Indianapolis design center to make it paperless.• Used Excel to do data analysis on thousands of lines of information to create a variety of reports. Examples include determining the number of full time equivalent employees needed to finish projects by certain dates and calculating remaining budget capital. Occasionally used results in a PowerPoint presentation.• Other reports included tracking U-verse helper tickets, overtime percentages, and improper time coding. Show less

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  Perception Strategies, Inc.

  Oct 2012 - Mar 2013

  Project Manager

  • Recruit, train, and provide daily support to independent contractors.• Schedule work assignments for independent contractors to align with project deadlines.• Review, edit, and approve independent contractor work assignments.• Serve as main point of contact for clients: set and manage client expectations, keep clients up to date on project status, communicate difficult and sensitive information tactfully.• Assist with the creation of project work plans, revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.• Provide project management insight to superiors during RFP process. Show less

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  AT&T

  Mar 2013 - now

  • Manage and facilitate the drafting, negotiation, interpretation, and enforcement of pole contact agreements between AT&T and other pole owners across Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Act as the single point of contact for electric companies and internally for our legal and risk teams, overseeing over 120 unique contracts.•Develop an annual pole rental budget and process pole rental invoices for AT&T contacts on foreign-owned poles. Negotiate rate amendments when necessary and strive to find cost-saving opportunities.•Work closely with our inventory team to negotiate pole ownership dispute resolution. Partner with our C&E operations team to establish regular communications with electric companies and resolve joint ownership concerns that might arise.•Negotiate commercial agreements with entities that do not have legal pole space rights. Show less • Manage the purchase orders, invoicing, and scheduling for 3rd party outside plant engineering vendors. Helped develop a process for a centralized 3-state vendor management team and implementing of the transition.• Serve as primary point of contact for INDOT and other engineering firms to schedule utility coordination with our Indiana legal mandate teams. Monitor legal mandate capital and expense projections for Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio to align with the overall Midwest budget.• Oversee Indiana’s portfolio project builds for design engineering, including FTTN, FTTP, FTTCS, FTB, brownfield/greenfield connected community developments, and ASE. Establish expectations and deadlines between over fifty engineers and project management teams. Schedule workloads for employees, contractors, and offsite contracting companies.• Analyze, summarize, and create reports from large amounts of data for my director. Projects include overtime run rates, breakdowns of workload amount per region, proper headcount distribution amongst the team, and categorization of employee survey results. Brainstorm action items to take from the results. Orchestrate data gathering from across the entire team for time-sensitive demands. Show less

  • Lead Sourcing Manager - National Joint-Use Team

    Jan 2022 - now

  • Manager OSP Design Engineer

    Mar 2013 - Jan 2022