Hernando D.

Experience

• Project Supervisor Quanta Services · Full-time Jul 2025 – Present 10 mos Philippines Supervise two project umbrellas covering Texas and multi-state U.S. fiber optic projects, overseeing teams responsible for permit determination, utility coordination and other scope of works.
  • Oversee 15+ scopes of work per project umbrella, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and schedule adherence across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring quality, consistency, and on-time delivery.
  • Drafted telecom permit plans for various jurisdictions, including DOT, city, county, and railroad agencies, ensuring plans met jurisdictional standards, permitting requirements, and submission guidelines.
  • Serve as the technical and procedural point of contact for permitting strategy, jurisdictional requirements, and utility research.
  • Coach, mentor, and develop team members on DP procedures, documentation standards, and jurisdictional research methods.
  • Monitor workload, balance resources, remove blockers, and drive continuous process improvement.
  • Lead permit determination, jurisdiction research, and utility map acquisition.
  • Lead cross-functional coordination with drafting, engineering counterparts, utilities, permitting authorities, and clients to ensure outputs are constructible, compliant, and accurate.
  • Act as the escalation point for complex jurisdiction, permitting, utility coordination and other complex issues.
  • Lead a 12-member team handling high-volume permit determination, utility acquisition, and multiple scopes of work, achieving rapid turnaround and high accuracy.
  • Oversee 2,000+ jobs per month, meeting urgent turnover requirements while maintaining high accuracy and minimal errors.
  • Drive the Permit Determination process, identifying all required jurisdictions, agencies, and utility owners for each fiber optic project.
  • Conduct weekly team designations and daily/weekly huddles to assign workload, align priorities, and maintain team accountability.
  • Coach, mentor, and develop team members, improving speed, accuracy, and adherence to PD processes.
  • Implement process improvements and workflow enhancements to increase team efficiency, accuracy, and timely delivery.
  • Develop and implement team procedures and best practices for permit determination, utility acquisition, and multi-scope project execution.
  • Introduce tools, standards, and processes to streamline high-volume work and support team performance.
  • Support permit drafting coordination and review of telecom/fiber permit plan packages for jurisdictional compliance and project submission requirements.
  • Conducted trainings for team members and for our US counterparts.
• Senior Designer 1 Quanta Services · Full-time May 2025 – Jul 2025 2 mos Philippines Create documents that are required for permits of fiber optic projects.
  • Lead coordination with drafting, engineering counterparts, utilities, permitting teams, and local jurisdictions to ensure fully aligned, constructible, and compliant designs.
  • Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements through diligent monitoring and reporting of telecommunications activities.
  • Utilized GIS maps like ArcGIS and GeoCortex as an aid in working Determine Permit jobs.
  • Using GIS maps as reference when searching utilities needed for permit plans, determining City/County/DOT boundaries and as reference for rivers and flood controls.
  • Creating maps in that include multiple layers showing different jurisdictions which is used as a tool for working new areas or projects.
  • Served as a lead resource who leads a team that helps our counterpart from the US in the coordination of jobs.
  • Served as a lead resource that leads the team, guides and helps team members regarding working their jobs, and ensures the standards are met.
  • Conducted trainings for team members and for counterparts.
  • Being part of the bidding process by determining permits needed for special jobs or BID projects of our counterpart.
  • Coordinated permit projects with clients, jurisdictions, and other third parties.
  • Being part of the other permit process for a specific job, from determining what jurisdictions needed to apply for permits to the submission process.
  • Sending requests for utilities, plats, etc., which are needed for permits.
  • Having direct communication with our counterparts, other third parties, and outside the organization as part of our work as project coordinators.
  • Being part of the critical thinking process and solving complex problems for complex jobs results in completion.
• Telecommunications engineer Quanta Services · Full-time Apr 2023 – May 2025 2 yrs 1 mos Philippines Create documents that are required for permits of fiber optic projects.
  • Lead coordination with drafting, engineering counterparts, utilities, permitting teams, and local jurisdictions to ensure fully aligned, constructible, and compliant designs.
  • Utilized GIS maps like ArcGIS and GeoCortex as an aid in working Determine Permit jobs.
  • Using GIS maps as reference when searching utilities needed for permit plans, determining City/County/DOT boundaries and as reference for rivers and flood controls.
  • Being part of the bidding process by determining permits needed for special jobs or BID projects of our counterpart.
  • Sending requests for utilities, plats, etc., which are needed for permits.
  • Drafted whole permit plans, which are approved and submitted to jurisdictions.
  • Improved overall design quality by implementing industry-standard drafting techniques and best practices.
• CAD DRAFTSMAN Quanta Services · Full-time Nov 2020 – Apr 2023 2 yrs 5 mos Philippines Assisted clients with as-built telecommunications design using MicroStation.
  • Drafted whole permit plans, which are approved and submitted to jurisdictions.
  • Increased client satisfaction by being part of a team of drafters that revises permit plans promptly for jurisdictions that require a revision or correction of the design of a certain project.
  • Improved overall design quality by implementing industry-standard drafting techniques and best practices.
  • Mentored junior draftsmen, sharing technical knowledge and providing constructive feedback.