About · Est. 1999
Solving Hijinx on the Net since 1999. Principal of NetHijinx — ISP, OSP, and project management out of Thousand Oaks, California. Operational excellence, people who own their work, and one owner from notice-to-proceed to as-built.
Paul came up through operations — fourteen years as a senior account PM at Aerioconnect in Los Angeles, then Director of Project Management at BAI Connect, then running a regional fiber provider in the Columbia River Gorge. That is what he brings to a job: workforce, fleet, budget, problem-solving in the field, and the people who have to own the weekly.
Before the plant, he ran a floor — GameStop in Thousand Oaks, Blockbuster in Malibu. The P&L, the labor, the weekly. Same muscle, different inventory. In 1997 he spent a month with a church crew helping a village in Mexico recover from storm damage. Show up. Fix what broke. Leave it better.
AI belongs on the reports, the as-builts, and the coordination layer — wherever it actually makes a PM faster. It does not replace an owner. The name is still the warning label. Hijinx happen on the net. The consulting is how you keep that off the critical path.
Operating roles
Selected work Paul did in the field and in the ops seat — the experience behind the practice.
2023–2026
Hood River, Oregon
Chief Operating Officer · Senior Director of Operations
COO in 2025–2026 after two years as Senior Director. Day-to-day for a regional fiber provider — construction, field installation, network support, fleet, sales, and service delivery. Workforce planning, P&L, and the leaders who had to own the weekly.
2021–2023
Los Angeles, California
Director of Project Management
Ran the PM department: principles, process, and the jobs themselves. Telecom infrastructure from planning through execution — stakeholders, schedule, risk, and closeout.
2007–2021
Los Angeles, California
Senior Account Project Manager
Fourteen years on the accounts and the plant. Aerial construction, installation, maintenance, and the clients attached to those jobs. Grew the book, kept the crews, and made the print real.
Project Management Certification · May 2026University of Oregon
Computer Systems Networking and TelecommunicationsMoorpark College
OSHA 10-Hour · Jan 2026OSHA Safety Training Institute
How the work gets done
Construction, install, and service delivery on one cadence. If they don’t share a weekly, you don’t have operations. You have motion.
Diagnose in the vault, on the pole, in the IDF. Treat the cause, not the slide that describes it.
Crews, leads, and PMs with names on the interfaces. Headcount is not a plan. Accountability is.
Use it to shorten reports, as-builts, and the coordination layer. An owner still signs the cutover.
Send the scope to Paul. If it’s a fit, you’ll hear back. If it isn’t, you’ll hear that too.